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what happened in 1898?
Spanish American War; US becomes world power, gains control of Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
what happened 1914-1918?
WWI; begins with assassination of Archduke, ends with Treaty of Versailles
what happened in 1929?
Stock Market Crashes, start of great depression
what happened 1939-1945?
WWII; begins in Europe and ends with US use of nuclear weapons
what happened in 1957?
Russia launched Sputnik; start of space race
what happened in 1968?
assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
what happened in 1969?
Moon landing
what happened in 1991?
Berlin Wall falls; Cold War ends
what happened in 2001?
terrorist attacks on 9/11
what happened in 2008?
Barack Obama elected
1st amendment
personal freedom
2nd amendment
right to bear arms
3rd amendment
no quartering
4th amendment
search and seizure
5th amendment
life, liberty, property
6th amendment
criminal trial rights
7th amendment
civil trial rights
8th amendment
cruel and unusual punishment
9th amendment
other rights for individuals
10th amendment
other rights for states
13th amendment
abolish slavery
14th amendment
rights of citizenship and guaranteed due process of law for all citizens
15th amendment
vote; african american male suffrage
16th amendment
created federal income tax
17th amendment
direct election of US senators
18th amendment
no alcohol !
19th amendment
women’s right to vote
Reconstruction amendments?
13th, 14th, and 15th
Progressive amendments?
16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th
21st amendment
ends prohibition and overturns 18th amendment
24th amendment
outlawed poll tax
26th amendment
all US citizens 18 and older may vote
Theodore Roosevelt
progressive president, rough riders during Spanish American War, conservation, trust buster
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve, WWI president, 14 points peace plan
Warren Harding
Return to normalcy, Teapot Dome Scandal
Herbert Hoover
Rugged individualism, President during Stock Market Crash, blamed for great depression,
Franklin D Roosevelt
4 term president during great depression and WWII, new deal, court packing
Harry S Truman
President at end of WWII, Truman Doctrine
Dwight D Eisenhower
General and allied commander during & D-Day, cold war, starts space race
John F Kennedy
continues space race, cuban missile crisis
Lyndon B Johnson
president after JFK assassination, Vietnam and escalation, civil rights acts 1964, great society
Richard Nixon
Vietnamization, detente with China and Soviet Union, Environmental protection agency, war on drugs, watergate scandal
Jimmy Carter
stagflation due to oil crisis, Camp David Accords
Ronald Reagan
conservatism, economic policies, peace through strength, Iran-Contra affair
George H.W. Bush
Rust belt to sun belt migration, Americans with Disabilities Act, Persian Gulf War, official end of the Cold War
Bill Clinton
1992 election and Perot, NAFTA, impeachment and scandal
George W. Bush
2000 election and Gore, 9/11, War on terror, Katrina
Barack Obama
2008 election, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Westward Expansion (1826-1890s)
manifest destiny, california, alaska, gold, indian wars, transcontinental railroad, homestead act, populist party
Gilded Age (1870s-1910s)
electricity, assembly line, agriculture to factory work, urbanization, child labor, political machines, robber baron vs captains of industry, monopolies/trust, industrialization, immigration, quotas
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
labor unions, muckrakers, social & government reforms, suffrage, Sherman Antitrust Act, Social Gospel
Imperialism and Expansionism (1880s-1900s)
SPAM “remember the maine”, Panama Canal, Hawaii, Dollar Diplomacy, open door policy, yellow journalism
WWI (1914-1918)
LONG TERM CAUSES: assassination of Archduke, Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare, trenches, Zimmerman Telegraph, Wilson’s Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles
Jazz Age (1920s)
Harlem Renaissance, 1st Red Scare, Scope’s Trial, jazz, Prohibition, buying on credit, flappers and the changing role of women, radio creates national culture, Teapot Dome Scandal
Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1939)
Stock Market crashes, over production, buying on credit, bank failures, risky loans, business and bank closures, high unemployment, Dust Bowl, New Deal programs, fireside chats, court packing
WWII (1939-1945)
Rise of European dictators in Europe & Asia, end of US depression, Holocaust, Pearl Harbor attacked by Japan
Cold War (1950s-1960s)
G.I. bill, baby boom, Marshall Plan, Containment 2nd Red Scare → HUAC & McCarthyism, nuclear arms race, space race & Sputnik, Korean War, United Nations, NATO/Warsaw Pact
Civil Rights Movement ( 1950s- 1960s)
Organized movement of people and ideas for minority civil rights, civil disobedience, Chicano Mural Movement, Women’s Rights, Native American’s Rights, Title IX, affirmative action, Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965
Vietnam (1964-1975)
Military Action → Guerilla Warfare, Draft, US & South Vietnam against North Viet Cong, Communism and USSR, Counterculture, Student Movement Protests, Vietnamization, role of media
Nixon to Reagan (1969-1990)
Detente, watergate, OPEC, Camp David Accords, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Conservative resurgence, stagflation, Reaganomics, Peace Through Strength, Iran-Contra Affair
Modern America (1990-present)
USSR dissolves → end of Cold War, Persian Gulf War, NAFTA, Clinton impeachment, Bush V Gore, 9/11, War on Terror, entrepreneurs, globalization
Andrew Carnegie
monopoly in steel process, Bessemer Process
Susan B Anthony
Progressive reformer, women’s suffrage
Jane Addams
established settlement houses to assimilate immigrants
Upton Sinclair
MUCKRAKER; wrote “The Jungle” to show problems in meat industry
W.E.B DuBois
founder of NAACP, immediate equality
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Imperialist; favored strong U.S. navy
John J Pershing
led US troops AEF in Europe during WWI
Douglas MacArthur
army commander in Pacific during WWI
Chester Nimitz
navy commander in the pacific during WWI
MLK
Civil rights leader, civil disobedience/non-violent protest
Orval Faubus and George Wallace
southern democratic governors who supported segregation
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP lawyer for Brown vs. Board of Education, 1st African American Supreme Court Justice
Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta
leaders of the Chicano Movement to address discrimination of Latinos
Sandra Day O’Connor
1st female supreme court justice
Sonia Sotomayor
1st hispanic supreme court justice
Alvin York
congressional medal of honor recipient → WWI
Vernon Baker
congressional medal of honor recipient → WWII
Roy Benavidez
congressional medal of honor recipient → Vietnam War
Barbed Wire
metal fencing, easy to install, keeps animals in/out, ends open range/close the frontier
Transcontinental Railroad
railroad lines connecting east and west coasts making transportation of goods & people faster & easier, creates a national economy
Light Bulb
factories remain open at night= longer work day
Bessemer Process
faster process for making stronger steel
Henry Ford
auto manufacturer - assembly line=mass
WWI Military Technology
machine guns, poison gas, tanks, airplanes, submarines
Charles Lindberg
1st man to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean
Medical
vaccines, penicillin, antibiotics protect people from diseases such as polio
Communication and access to information
creates a national culture and includes: telephone, telegraph, radio, TV, computers, internet, satellites
Space technology
exploration, GPS, plastics, velcro
Monroe Doctrine
European countries cannot colonize the Americas
Open Door Policy
opened trade access to all nations with China
Dollar Diplomacy
US investment of money to gain power in Latin America
Containment
Us policy to stop the spread of communism
Truman Doctrine
US has responsibility to help people resist communism
Marshall Plan
recovery plan to help rebuild Europe’s economy after WWII
Domino Theory
fear that if one country fell to communism, others would too
Detente
relaxing of tension between democratic and communist governments at the end of the Cold War
SALT
agreement to stop making nuclear weapons and limit number in existence
Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregation and “separate but equal” facilities is constitutional (ok)
Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans cannot be systematically excluded from juries
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