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President
Westernization, Industrialization,
Urbanization, & the Rise of Labor Unions
Gilded Age:
Era
Year
1862
1869
1891
 Homestead Act
 Transcontinental Railroad completed
 Joseph Glidden creates barbed wire, ending the open
frontier
 End of Reconstruction
 Edison invents light bulb
 Standard Oil Trust formed
 Chinese Exclusion Act
 Pendleton Service Act
 First Skyscraper built in Chicago
 Haymarket Square bombing
 AFL (American Federation of Labor) formed
 Dawes Act
 Jane Addams founds Hull House
 Sioux massacred at the Battle of Wounded Knee
 Sherman Anti-trust Act
 Populist Party Formed
1892
 Homestead Steel Strike
1894
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1874
1877
1879
1882
1883
1885
1886
1887
1889
1890
U.S. Imperialism/Emerge as World Power
Progressive Era
Spanish American
War
1896
1898
William
McKinley
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
Theodore
Roosevelt
Events
1904
1906
1908
1909
Pullman Strike
Plessey v Ferguson upholds separate but equal
William Jennings Bryan runs against McKinley
USS Maine sinks in Havana Harbor
Spanish-American War begins
Hawaii annexed by US
Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipinos against Americans
Treaty of Paris ends Spanish American War
Open Door Policy with China
Boxer Rebellion in China
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
 Platt Amendment
 U.S. recognizes Panama’s independence, Wright
Brothers fly first plane
 Roosevelt Corollary declared
 Upton Sinclair writes “The Jungle”
 Pure Food and Drug Act passed
 Muller v Oregon, Taft elected president
 NAACP formed by W.E.B. Dubois
Progressive
Era
William
Taft
1911
1912
1913
1914
World War I
1915
1916
Woodrow
Wilson
1917
1918
1919
1920
 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
 Roosevelt forms Progressive Party to challenge Taft,
splits republican vote &Wilson wins
 Federal Reserve Act
 16th Amendment – income taxes
 17th Amendment – establishes election US senators
 Underwood Tariff Act
 Clayton Antitrust Act
 Panama Canal Opens
 Franz Ferdinand is assassinated by the Serbian terrorist
group, the Black Hand
 World War I Begins, US not involved in war yet,
remains neutral
 Germans sink Lusitania
 General Pershing pursues Pancho Villa in Mexico
 Germans practice unrestricted submarine warfare
 Zimmerman Telegram intercepted on its way from
Germany to Mexico
 US enters the war and declares war on Germany
 War Industries Board established, Espionage Act
passed
 Espionage Act of 1917
 Battle of Argonne Forest – Pershing and the AEF defeat
the Germans
 Wilson proposes 14 points, Armistice ends
 Sedition Act of 1918
 Treaty of Versailles, Senate rejects US role in the
League of Nations
 Schenck v United States
 18th Amendment (prohibition) ratified
 Race riots and lynching throughout the US
 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage)
Roaring Twenties
Era
President Year
Woodrow
Wilson
1919
1920
Warren
Harding
1921
1923
1924
Calvin
Coolidge
1925
1927
1929
Great Depression & New Deal
Herbert
Hoover
1930
1932
1933
Franklin
Roosevelt
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
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Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Schenck v United States
20% of US labor force goes on strike
18th Amendment (prohibition) ratified
Race riots and lynching throughout the US
19th Amendment (women’s suffrage) ratified and Sacco &
Vanzetti arrested
Washington Naval Conference
Emergency Quota Act restricts immigration
Teapot Dome Scandal
Marcus Garvey claims 6 million followers
Ku Klux Klan claims 5 million members
National Origins Act sets 2 percent quotas for immigration
Harlem Renaissance begins
 Scopes Monkey Trial, T-Ford drops in cost
 Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic, Sacco
& Vanzetti executed
 Hoover elected president, Stock Market Crashes
 Stock Market Crashes on Tuesday, October 29, 1929
 Hawley Smoot Tariff raises taxes on farm products and
manufactured goods
 Bonus Army marches on Washington
 Franklin Roosevelt wins presidency
 Prohibition in repealed
 Hundred Days of legislation follows FDR’s inauguration
 Banks closed after over 6,000 fail
 FDIC establishes Glass-Steagall Act
 Agricultural Adjustment Act passed
 National Industrial Recovery Act passed
 Tennessee Valley Authority established
 Civilian Conservation Corps enrolls 250,00 mean
 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
 Securities and Exchange commission established
 Schecter v. United States rules NIRA unconstitutional
 Works Progress Administration established
 National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act protects workers’
rights
 Social Security Act passed
 Congress passes first of annual Neutrality Acts
 Germany occupies the Rhineland
 FDR proposes court-packing plan, which fails
 Japan invades China
 Appeasement at Munich by Chamberlain as Germany takes
Sudetenland
1939
1940
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World War II
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Franklin D.
Roosevelt
(4 terms)
1941
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1942
1943
1944
Roosevelt
with Wilson
taking over
after death
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1945
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Czechoslovakia falls to Germany
Austria votes to be annexed by Germany
Germany invades Poland
Neutrality Act allows cash-and-carry for military purchases
Germany and Soviet Union sign nonaggression pact
World War II Begins (US not involved)
Germany conquers Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands,
Belgium, and France
U.S. and Great Britain sign destroyers for bases deal
America First Committee established, urging U.S. neutrality
Italy, Germany, and Japan form the Axis Powers
FDR wins unprecedented third term for president
Lend-Lease Act allows U.S. to financially assist Allied
nations
FDR and Churchill sign Atlantic Charter, pledging selfdetermination for all nations
Germany invades Soviet Union
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, killing
2,323 U.S. servicemen
U.S. declares war on Japan on December 8
Axis Powers declare war on the US three days after Pearl
Harbor
War Production Board established
U.S. begins interning Japanese-American citizens
Germany sinks 400 American ships
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
U.S. attacks Vichy forces and Germans in North Africa
Manhattan Project begins
Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad, Allies invade Italy
Teheran Conference
Allies invade France at Normandy (D-Day) June 6
Roosevelt elected president for fourth term
Island-hopping campaign retakes Guam Island
Battle of the Bulge
Yalta Conference
Hitler commits suicide in Berlin bunker
V-E Day
Americans recapture the Philippine Islands
Potsdam Conference, Truman replaces Roosevelt
Bomb dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
V-J Day
President
Year
1946
1947
Early Cold War
The 50s
Post World War II
Era
Harry
Truman
1948
1949
1950
1952
1953
1954
Dwight
Eisenhower
1955
1956
1957
1959
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Cold War tensions begin
Churchill give “Iron Curtain” speech
George Kennan proposes containment
Truman doctrine aids nations resisting communism
Marshall plan provides economic aid to Europe
HUAC investigates Hollywood
Jack Robinson breaks color line in baseball
Taft-Hartley Act slows growth of labor unions
Soviets & Stalin set up Berlin Blockade
Alger Hiss case begins
Truman defeats Dewey in presidential election
NATO formed
Mao leads communist takeover in China
Korean War begins
US troops invade North Korea
Rosenberg trial begins – couple is later executed
McCarthy begins anti-communist campaign
Eisenhower elected president
Stalin dies
Korean War ended with truce and demilitarized zone
Brown v Topeka Board of Education
Army-McCarthy hearings
Senator McCarthy censured by Senate
Martin Luther King Jr. begins Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Suez Canal crisis
Soviet launch Sputnik
Little Rock Nine
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Castro takes over Cuba
Soviet Premier Khrushchev visits the U.S.
Era
President
Year
The 60s, Civil Rights Movement, Late Cold War
& the Vietnam War
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John F.
Kennedy
&
the New
Frontier
1960
1961
1962
1963
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1964
Lyndon B.
Johnson
&
The Great
Society
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Richard
Nixon
1970
1972
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Events
Kennedy and Nixon participate in first televised
debate, Kennedy defeats Nixon
Greensboro sit-in protests
Bay of Pigs invasion fails
Freedom Rides
Berlin Wall is built
Peace Corps established
Cuban Missile Crisis
MLK begin his efforts to desegregate Birmingham
University of Alabama admits first black student –
James Meredith
Civil Rights March on Washington
President Kennedy assassinated, Vice President
Johnson takes office
President Johnson announces war on Poverty
Freedom Summer voter registration campaign
begins in Mississippi
Civil Rights Act passed
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed
US begins bombing North Vietnam
Johnson elected president
Medicare funding begins
Race Riots in Watts
Malcolm X assassinated
American combat troops sent to Vietnam
National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
Stokley Carmichael leads black power movement
Massive anti-war protest in Washington, D.C.
Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive
Johnson withdraws from presidential race
Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Nixon elected president
Woodstock Festival
Apollo 11 crew lands on moon
Kent State Massacre
Nixon visits People’s Republic of China
Détente begins with Soviet Union
SALT I Treaty signed with Soviet Union
Era
President
Richard
Nixon
Gerald
Ford
Year
1972
1973
1974
Watergate Scandal, Late Cold War,
Rise of Conservatives, Modern Times
1975
1978
Jimmy
Carter
1979
1980
1981
Ronald
Reagan
1982
1985
1986
1989
1990
George
Bush Sr.
1991
1992
Bill Clinton
1993
1995
2000
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George W.
Bush
2001
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2004
2005
Barack
Obama
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2008
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Events
Watergate break-in occurs, Nixon wins second term
US and North Vietnam sign Paris Peace Accords
Roe v Wade expands abortion rights
Vice President Agnew resigns in disgrace
Impeachment proceedings begin against President Nixon
Nixon resigns, Ford succeeds him and takes office , Ford
pardons Nixon
US abandons South Vietnam as it falls to North Vietnam
Bakke vs University of California – affirmative action
case
Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt
US and China establish diplomatic relations
Iran militants capture U.S. embassy and takes hostages
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
Sandinistas overthrow Somoza in Nicaragua
US boycotts Moscow Olympics
Reagan elected President
Iran releases hostages, AIDS epidemic reaches U.S.
Sandra Day O’Connor named first female Supreme
Court justice
241 Marines killed in Lebanon
US invades Granada
Gorbachev takes power in Soviet Union
Iran-Contra affair , Challenger space shuttle explodes
after takeoff
Students begin pro-democracy demonstrations in China
Berlin Wall falls
Saddam Hussein of Iraq invades Kuwait
Operation Desert Storm ends Iraq’s occupation of
Kuwait
Soviet Union falls
Los Angeles riots follows Rodney King verdict
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
approved
US NATO forces enforce peace in Bosnia
George W. Bush defeats Gore in disputed election
(Florida recount)
Hijackers crash planes into World Trade Center towers
and Pentagon
US invades Afghanistan to overthrow Taliban
government
Patriot Act gives US broad powers to investigate
terrorism
George Bush reelected President
President Bush urges Congress to reauthorize the USA
Patriot Act
First African American president elected