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| Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877) |
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Outbreak between North and South United States. Caused by slavery, Nullification, Abraham Lincoln, Tarrifs, the Compromise of 1850, and other events.
Reconstruction was the period after the war for rebuilding the nation. |
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| Gilded Age (late 19th century) (1877-1898) |
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| Inidividualism, Social Darwinism, Realism in art and literature, and Ragtime music were among the many changes in American culture. |
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| Progressive Era (1898-1914) |
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| Industrialization, Compensation Laws Passed, new immigrants, bad working conditions, Pure food and drug Act passed, 17th Ammendment ratified, Women's suffrage (Susan B. Anthony) are a few of the reforms from this era that have impacts on Modern America. |
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1913-Woodrow Wilson begins Presidential Term.
1915- Lucitania sinks
1917-U.S. enter war
1918-COngress passes Sedition Act
1918-Battle of Argon Forest begins
1919-race riots and Red Scare
1919-End of War, Treaty of Versaille, ALLIES WIN!!! |
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| Jazz Age 1920s (1920-1929) |
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| New Ku Klux Klan founded, Emergency Qouta Act passds(limiting immigration), Clash of vlaues (like Nativiism, COntrolling immigration, and New Morality), the flappers,Fundamentalism Movement (evolution vs. creationism), Prohibition Laws |
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| Great Despression 1930s (1930-1941) |
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Definition
1928-Hoover elected as President
1929-Stock Marcket Crashes, Black Tuesday
Drought sweeps Great Plains
Long Bull Market
Stocks bought on Margin
Hoovervilles-hoboes
Dust Bowl
soup kitchens
Hoover Dams
Migrant Farmers
1933-1939-Roosevelt
New Deal
The Hundered Days
Debt Relief
Internationalism |
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Axis Powers- Germany, Japan, Italy
Allied powers- United States, France, Europe
Nuetral- USSR
Hitler
Naziis
Churchill (British)
Holocaust
Nazi-Soviet NonAgression Pact
1941-America enters War
Americans put Japanese into internment camps
Germany invaded Poland
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (The Atomic Bomb)
Roosevelt died
Truman becomes President
Peral Harbor attacked by Japan
Women joined Armed Forces
Normandy- D-Day
ALLIED POWERS WIN!!! |
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Verbal, nonviolent War
Nuclear Power threats between USSR and United States
Cuban Missile Crisis
North and South Korea
Space Race- Sputnik and America on the Moon
Fighting Communism |
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| Civil Rights Movement (1954-1969) |
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Affirmative Action
Rosa Parks
Malcom X
Martin Luther King Jr.
School Riots (students killed)
Segregation |
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