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UNITED STATES HISTORY 11TH GRADE STUDY GUIDE
EVENTS, DOCUMENTS, TREATIES, LAWS, ACTS
YEAR
EVENTS, DOCUMENT,
ETC.
1866
Homestead Act
1867
Chisholm Trail
Tammany Hall
1869
SIGNIFICANCE
Gave land to American settlers moving west for small filing fee. This opened
the west for massive settlement and expansion.
Political machine that controlled New York City.
Found by Uriah Stephens, it became the first union of all workers.
1876
1882
Battle of Little Bighorn
Chinese Exclusion Act
Sioux and Cheyenne tribes defeated U.S. 7th Calvary.
1886
American Federation of
Labor
Haymarket Square Riot
Interstate Commerce
Commission
It is a collection of various labor organizations. By 1917, it had 2.5 million
members.
Over 100,000 workers rioted in Chicago.
A five-member board that monitors the business operation of carriers
transporting goods and people between states.
1887
1890
1892
1894
Battle of Wounded Knee
Sherman Antitrust Act
Pullman Strike
U.S.S. Maine
1898
Battle of San Juan Hill
1898
1899
Treaty of Paris
Open Door Policy
Early
1900s
Progressive Movement
1900
1900
1901
Foraker Act
Boxer Rebellion
Platt Amendment
1904-1914
Panama Canal
1904
Roosevelt Corollary
1905
1905
Industrial Workers of the
World
Niagara Movement
1906
1906
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
1907-1908
1912
Gentlemen’s Agreement
17th Amendment
Legislation that committed the federal government to opposing monopolies.
Political party resulting from the Populist Movement.
Started by enraged workers who were part of George Pullman’s “model
town.”
Battleship that exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898. Prompted the beginning
of the Spanish-American War b/w US and Spain.
Key battle fought during the Spanish-American war in the Caribbean. Rough
Riders were able to turn back the Spanish.
Treaty that ended the Spanish-American war.
Suggested that other imperialist nations share their trading rights with the
United States.
Period that attempted to return political control back to the people, restore
economic opportunities,
and correct injustices in American life.
Ended military rule in Puerto Rico and established a civil government.
Rebellion against Western influence in China.
Additions made to the Cuban constitution, allowing the U.S. to intervene if
necessary to protect their interests.
Channel constructed through Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
Suggested that the United States could intervene in Latin America in order to
protect U.S. interests.
First labor union to welcome African Americans.
Pushed by W.E.B. DuBois, it suggested that African Americans should seek a
liberal arts education.
Required stricter cleanliness requirements for meat processing.
Banned the sale of contaminated food and drugs and called for truth in
labeling products.
Agreement between U.S. and Japan to limit Japanese immigration.
Allowed for the direct election of senators.
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1914
Clayton Antitrust Act
1914
Federal Trade Commission
1915
1917-1918
Lusitania
Espionage/Sedition Acts
1917
Zimmerman Note
1917
Selective Service Act
1919
18th Amendment
1919
Treaty of Versailles
1919-1920
Red Scare
1920
1920’s
19th Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
1921-1922
Five Powers Treaty
1921-1922
Four Powers Treaty
1921-1922
1922
Nine Powers Treaty
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
1923
Teapot Dome Scandal
breaks
1924
Dawes Plan
1928
1929
1930’s
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Black Tuesday
The Great Depression
1930
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
1932
Bonus Army
1932
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, RFC
1932
Good Neighbor Policy
1933
Twentieth Amendment
1933
1933
Twenty-first Amendment
Hundred Days
1933
Emergency Banking Relief
Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by prohibiting corporations from
acquiring the stock of other companies.
Federal agency that policed and investigated possible violations of regulatory
legislation.
British ocean liner that was attacked and sank by German U-boats.
Legislation that protected U.S. war efforts by fining or jailing anyone who
spoke out against U.S. involvement.
Letter sent to Mexico from Germany suggesting that Germany would assist
Mexico in a war against the United States.
Legislation that required men to register with the government in order to be
randomly selected by the military.
Prohibited the manufacturing, sale, or distribution of alcohol within the
United States.
Treaties following World War I; created nine new nations and required
Germany to give up territory, accept full responsibility of the war, and pay
reparations.
Nationwide crusade against left-wing Americans whose patriotism was
suspect
Allowed for suffrage regardless of gender.
Spurred by post-war events, KKK membership boomed in the early 1920’s;
antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti pacifist, antiCommunist, anti-bootlegger. antigambling
Signed as part of the Washington Naval Conference. U.S., Great Britain,
Japan, France, Italy set a ten year suspension of construction of large ships
and set quotas for the number of ships each country could build.
U.S., Japan, Great Britain, and France agree to respect each others
possessions in the Pacific
Reaffirmed the Open Door Policy in China
Boosted tariffs from average of 27% to 38.5%; set off chain reaction; Europe
impoverished by war needed to sell product in order to pay off debts owed to
America
In 1921, Naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills,
California were signed to the Interior Department; Harding signed the order.
The Secretary of the Interior, Fall, then leased lands to oilmen after receiving
a bribe. Polluted the prestige of the Washington government.
U.S. VP Charles Dawes formulates a plan to allow Germany to make WWI
reparations payments in annual installments
Made war illegal as a tool of national policy, allowing only for defensive war
Stock market crash heralding the beginning of the Great Depression
Global economic depression caused by debt, overexpansion of credit,
overproduction and underconsumption, international depression due to World
War I
Raised duties on agricultural and manufactured imports; may have
contributed to international depression
Veterans converge on Washington to demand payment of their bonus; bonus
bill failed in Congress
Created to make loans to banks, insurance companies, and railroads; intended
to provide businesses with emergency funds in order to overcome effects of
the Depression
FDR’s policy, inspired by Hoover, towards the nations of Latin America;
U.S. took the lead in promoting goodwill
Changed presidential inauguration date from March 4 to January 20;
Congress must assembly once per year
Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition)
March 9, 1933: Congress began special session to review recovery and
reform laws submitted by FDR to Congress for approval
Provided government inspection to restore public confidence in banks
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1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
1934
1938
Act
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation FDIC
National Youth
Administration, NYA
National Labor Relations
Board, NLRB
Rural Electrification
Administration, REA
National , NRA
National Industrial
Recovery Act/National
Industrial Recovery
Administration, NIRA
Agricultural Adjustment
Act, AAA
Civilian Conservation
Corps
Federal Emergency Relief
Administration, FERA
Civil Works
Administration, CWA
Public Works
Administration, PWA
Tennessee Valley
Authority, TVA
Indian Reorganization Act
1935
1935
Congress of Industrial
Organizations, CIO
Securities and Exchange
Commission, SEC
Second New Deal
Social Security Act
1937
Court Packing Plan
1938
1939
Annexation of Austria
Invasion of Poland
1941
1940
Fall of France
Destroyer Deal
March
1941
Lend-Lease
August194
1
Atlantic Charter
Dec. 7,
1941
1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1934
Executive Order 9066
Created by Glass-Strengall Banking Reform Act; insures bank deposits
This organization was created to provide education, jobs, counseling, and
recreation for young people.
Organization established by the Wagner Act, its primary responsibility was to
be a mediator between employers and employees.
Provided affordable electricity to isolated rural areas.
Organization that established fair codes of competition between businesses.
NIRA set prices, wages, work hours, and production for each industry; chief
measure to promote recovery; belief that regulation of the economy would
allow industries to return to full production and return of prosperity
Offered contracts to farmers to reduce their output of designated products;
declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court; 2nd AAA in 1936 gave funds for
soil conservation to farmers who removed land from production
Provided employment for 3 million young men in “fresh-air” projects
including reforestation, fire fighting, and swamp drainage
Appropriated $500 million for aid to the poor to be distributed by state and
local governments
Hired unemployed to do makeshift work; small monthly payments to family
of worker
Distributed $3.3 billion to states and local governments to build highways,
schools, etc.
Public corporation which built 20 dams, conducted projects for farmers,
rehabilitated the area
Restored tribal ownership of lands, recognized tribal constitutions and
government, and provided loans for economic development
Created a coalition of 8 unions comprising the AFL and the United Mine
Workers of America; split in 1938 and CIO forms separate entity
Created to supervise stock exchanges and to punish fraud in securities trading
Second series of initiatives to stop the Great Depression
Established retirement for persons over 65 based on tax paid by employee and
employer
Upset by the Supreme Court striking down New Deal legislation, FDR
proposed a bill to allow the President to appoint a new justice for each who
did not retire by age 70; would have allowed FDR to appoint 6 new justices;
not approved by Congress
Anschluss united Germany and Austria
Hitler’s Germany invades Poland; Great Britain and France declare war on
Germany
Germany invades France and sets up the Vichy government; lasted until 1944
U.S. agrees to lend its older destroyers to Great Britain; signaled the end of
U.S. neutrality
Congress authorized the president to transfer, lend, or lease any article of
defense equipment to any government whose defense seemed vital to the
defense of the U.S.
Drawn between FDR and Churchill; renunciation of territorial aggression, no
territorial changes without consent of the peoples concerned, restoration of
sovereign government, access to raw material for all nations, world economic
cooperation, freedom from fear and want, freedom of the seas, disarmament
of the aggressors
Surprise attack by Japanese on U.S. Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor; in response,
U.S. declares war on Japan and Germany
Relocated all Japanese living on West Coast of the U.S. into internment
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1944
1944
D-Day
1945
Okinawa
Dec. 1944Jan. 1945
Battle of the Bulge
February
1945
Yalta Conference
July 1945
Potsdam Conference
August
1945
1945
1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945
V-J Day
1945
House Un-American
Activities Committee
1947
1947
Truman Doctrine
Taft-Hartley Act
1947
Marshall Plan
1948
Israel created
1948
Dixiecrats
April 1948
Berlin blockade
1949
Fair Deal
1949
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, NATO
Warsaw Pact
Chinese Communist
Revolution
1949
1949
GI Bill of Rights
Nuremberg Trials
V-E Day
1950-1953
Korean War
1951
Truman-MacArthur
camps in the interior of the U.S.
Led by Eisenhower; over 1,000,000 troops stormed the beaches at Normandy
and began the process of taking France; the turning point of World War II
Servicemen’s Bill of Rights: Granted $13 billion in aid for former
servicemen, ranging from educational grants to housing and other services to
assist with the readjustment to society after demobilization
Island hopping campaign leads to invasion of Okinawa; 300 miles south of
the Japanese home islands; high casualty rate
Allied advance stalled on German border; Massive German counterattack;
Allied stopped German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with
heavy losses
Stalin, Churchill, and FDR made final plans to defeat the Germans. Stalin
agreed on Polish government with free elections; plans for United Nations.
Stalin agreed to attack Japan after defeat of Germany; USSR granted joint
control over Manchurian railroads and promised part of Japan
Truman and Stalin meet; offer Japan unconditional surrender; plan for defeat
of Japan
First and second cities to be hit by atomic bombs, August 6 and August 9
respectively
19 out of 22 German leaders found guilty of war crimes
May 7, 1945: German government surrendered unconditionally; May 8
pronounced V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)
September 2, 1945: Official surrender ceremonies conducted by Gen.
MacArthur (Victory in Japan Day)
Temporary in 1938; made a standing committee in 1945; during WWII,
investigated pro-Fascist groups; 1947-1949, conducted a series of sensational
investigations into supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government
and Hollywood film industry
U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism
Passed over Truman’s veto; outlawed the all-union shop; made unions liable
for damages that resulted from disputes among themselves; required union
leaders to tae a noncommunist oath
Introduced by Secretary of State George C. Marshall; proposed massive and
systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize European
economies and help prevent spread of Communism
1947: UN approved the creation of a Jewish state; 1948: state of Israel
proclaimed and invaded by surrounding Arab nations
Southern Democrats disgruntled over the strong civil rights proposals of the
Democrats’ 1948 National Convention formed the States’ Rights Democratic
Party and nominated Strom Thurmond for President
Stalin’s Russia blockaded Berlin completely in hopes the West would give
the entire city to the Soviets to administer; U.S. and Great Britain mounted
airlifts to bring in food and supplies
Truman’s policy agenda; raised minimum wage from 65 to 75 cents per hour;
expanded Social Security benefits, provided for low-income public housing
units and urban renewal
The 11 member nations agreed to fight for each other if attacked; an
international military force
To counter NATO, the Soviets and Eastern Europe form military organization
Chiang Kai-Shek and Nationalists defeated by Mao Tse-tung and
Communists; U.S. refuses to recognize the Communists People’s Republic on
the mainland, supporting Chiang’s government on the island of Formosa
Korea partitioned along the 38th parallel after WWII with the south controlled
by the U.S. and the north controlled by USSR; in 1950, North Korea invaded
South Korea. UN raised an international army led by the U.S. to enforce
peace. Fighting limited to Korean peninsula
Truman removed MacArthur from command in Korea as punishment for
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Controversy
1951
1954
Twenty-second
Amendment
Geneva Conference
1955
AFL-CIO merger
1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1956
Suez Canal Crisis
1957
Little Rock, Arkansas
Crisis
1957
1958
Sputnik
National Defense
Education Act
Alaska and Hawaii
admitted to union
Castro’s Revolution
1959
1959
1960
1961
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee,
SNCC
Berlin Wall
1961
Bay of Pigs
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1963
1964
March on Washington and
I Have a Dream Speech
Twenty-fourth Amendment
1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964
The Great Society
1965
War on Poverty
MacArthur’s public criticism of the U.S. government’s handling of the war.
Intended to confirm American tradition of civilian control over military;
widely criticized
Proposed in 1947 and ratified inn 1951; limited the number of terms of a
president to serve to two; Inspired by FDR’s 4 term presidency
Agreement signed by Ho Chi Minh; France divided Vietnam along the 17 th
parallel. Minh had control to the North; Diem to the South
Two rival labor organizations unite to gain total membership of over 15
million
Began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man;
sparked the Civil Rights Movement and began a bus boycott that lasted for 11
months
France and Britain launch assault on Egypt after President Nasser of Egypt
nationalized the Suez Canal (owned chiefly by British and French investors).
France and Britain expected the U.S. to supply them with oil while Middle
East supplies were disrupted. U.S. refused; France and Britain forced to
withdraw troops. UN forces sent. Rise of Middle East oil power.
Governor Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine black
students from entering Little Rock Central High School; Eisenhower sent in
U.S. paratroopers to ensure the students could attend class
First artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviets
Reaction to Sputnik; multi-million dollar loan fund for college student; focus
curriculum in sciences and foreign language
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states
Band of insurgents led by Fidel Castro succeeded in overthrowing the corrupt
government of Cuba; established a Communist regime
Organized by MLK, Jr. as a student civil rights movement inspired by sit-ins;
encouraged blacks to resist segregation and register to vote
USSR erects a wall between East and West Berlin to keep people from
fleeing from the East
1400 American-trained Cuban expatriates left from Nicaragua to try to topple
Castro’s regime, landing at the Bay of Pigs. They expected the local
populace to sweep them to victory; however, the local people refused to
support them. US air cover failed to materialize. Invaders were captured or
killed. Under the direction of President John F. Kennedy
October 14-28, 1962: After discovering that the Russians were building a
nuclear missile launch site in Cuba, the U.S. announced a quarantine of Cuba
(virtually a blockade). After 6 days of confrontation that led to the brink of
nuclear war, Khrushchev backed down and agreed to dismantle the launch
sites.
Prohibited nuclear testing undersea, in air, and in space. Only underground
testing permitted; signed by all major powers except France and China
200,000 demonstrators converged on Lincoln Memorial; speech given from
steps of Lincoln Memorial by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Outlawed taxing voters, such as poll taxes, at presidential or congressional
elections as an effort to remove barriers to black voters
Public accommodations could not be segregated and nobody could be denied
access to public accommodations based on race
U.S. Navy ship Maddux reportedly fired upon; U.S. Congress passed
resolution which gave President power to send troops to Vietnam to protect
against further North Vietnamese aggression
Under LBJ, platform for campaign focused on peace, prosperity, anti-poverty,
prudence, and progress
LBJ used funds to fight poverty; started many programs such as Head Start,
Medicare; reorganized immigration to eliminate national origin quotas
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1965
Medicare
1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1967
Six Days War
1967
Twenty-fifth Amendment
1968
1969
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Moon race; Walk on moon
1970
Kent State Incident
1971
June 17,
1972
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Watergate
1972
1972
Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA) defeated
China visit
1973
Yom Kippur War
1973
War Powers Act
1973
Paris Accord
Oct. 6,
1973
1974
Arab oil embargo
1978
Impeachment and
Resignation of Nixon
Panama Canal Treaty
1978
Iranian Crisis
1979
Three Mile Island
1979
USSR invades Afghanistan
1980
Olympic Boycott
1984
1985
Reagan-Bush v. MondaleFerraro
Iran-Contra Scandal
1989
Tiananmen Square
Provided, under Social Security, for federal subsidies to pay for
hospitalization of sick people over age 65
Allowed supervisors to register Blacks to vote in places where they had not
been allowed to vote before
Israel responded to a blockade by launching attacks on Egypt, Jordan and
Syria. Won territories.
Made replacement of a vice-president the same as for a Supreme Court
justice; President nominates, Congress confirms
Attempted to provide blacks with equal opportunity housing
On July 20, 1969,, Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the moon,
beating Communists in the moon race and fulfilling Kennedy’s goal; cost $24
billion
National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of students protesting the
Vietnam War
Voting age lowered to 18
Five men arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s
executive quarters in the Watergate Hotel. Two white house aides indicted;
Senate hearings began May 1973; Nixon admitted to complicity in the
burglary.
Amendment calling for equal rights for both sexes is defeated in the House
Nixon met with Mao Tse-tung for improved relations with China; led to
establishment of trade policy and recognized the People’s Republic of China
Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel; Israel counterattacked,
won a decisive victory, and occupied portions of N. Egypt
Gave president the power to go to war under certain circumstances, ,but
required he could only do so for 90 days before being required to officially
bring the matter before Congress
Peace treaty with North Vietnam; withdrawal of troops began; S. Vietnam
taken over by N. Vietnam in 1975, a violation of treaty
Yom Kippur War-OPEC imposed oil embargo on all oil to U.S. in attempt to
pressure America into a pro-Arab stance
Impeachment hearings opened May 9, 1974; Nixon resigned on August 9,
1974
Passed by President Carter; called for gradual return of Panama Canal to
people of Panama; transfer of canal ownership in 1999
Popular uprising forces Shah to flee Iran; Ayatollah Khomeini established an
Islamic Republic; Carter allowed Shah refuge in the US for medical reasons;
Iranian militants broke into he US embassy and held the staff hostage for 444
days
Mechanical failure and human error caused a radiation escape over a 16 mile
radius at the Pennsylvania Power Plant
USSR invades Afghanistan to support Communism against guerilla attacks by
fundamentalist Muslims; US aids rebels
US withdrew from Olympics in Moscow to protest USSR invasion of
Afghanistan
Geraldine Ferraro becomes first woman on VP ticket for one of the two major
parties
1985: Reagan requested that military aid be provided to contra rebels in
Nicaragua fighting against the Sandinista regime. Congress refused.
Americans secretly arranged arms sales to embattled Iranians in return for
Iranian aid in obtaining release of hostages by Middle Eastern terrorists.
Money from these sales was diverted to the contras. Violated a congressional
ban on military aid to Nicaragua.
Student-led pro-democracy demonstration in China; brutally crushed by
communist government; condemned by world but U.S. maintained normal
relations with Beijing
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1989
Collapse of Communism
1991
Persian Gulf War
1992
Bill Clinton Elected
1994
NAFTA
2001
9/11/2001
2008
2010
Barack Obama Elected
AHCA
Eastern European satellite communist governments toppled; the Berlin Wall
came down in December of 1989 and the two Germanys were united for the
first time since 1945
War between US-Coalition forces and Iraq over access to world oil supplies
located in Kuwait. War lasted less than 100 days.
Due to reneged promise on “No New Taxes” and introduction of Ross Perot
as 3rd party candidate, G.H.W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton.
North American Free Trade agreement goes into effect. Free trade and lower
tariffs b/w US-Canada-Mexico
19 hijackers take 4 airliners and crash them into targets in NYC, Washington
DC, and Penn. Begins what will become known as War on Terror.
First African-American president elected
Affordable Health Care Act or commonly known as “Obama Care” passed by
Congress. Allows for all Americans to have access to health care.
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