1. Mini Timeline

2. Gilded Age 1877-1900 Characteristic Important Terms and People
Industrialization
Immigration
Railroads
Organized Labor
Important Terms and People
Political Bosses
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Carnegie/Rockefeller
Monopolies

3. Progressive Era
Characteristics-Fixes problems caused by the Gilded Age
Reforms
Urban Problems
Government Corruption
Theodore Trust busting.
Important Terms or People
Square Deal
Temperance
Women’s Suffrage
Muckrakers
3rd Parties (populist)

4. Spanish American War 1898 Causes Results
Yellow Journalism
De Lomé Letter
Humanitarian Concerns
U.S.S. Maine Explosion
Results
Territorial Acquisitions
Platt Amendment
U.S. becomes a world power.
Important People, Presidents and their foreign policy
Dollar Diplomacy-Taft
Big Stick Policy-Roosevelt
Watchful Waiting-Wilson
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Panama Canal
Open Door Policy

5. World War I 1914-1918 America Enters 1917
Reason America enters
Sussex Pledge
Lusitania sinking
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Ties with Britain
Zimmerman Note
Treaty of Versailles ends the war
World Wide causes.
Militarism
Alliance systems
Imperialism
Nationalism

6. Roaring 20’s 1920-1929 Characteristics Important Terms or People
Economic Prosperity
Prohibition
New Cultural Values
Red Scare
Important Terms or People
Teapot Dome Scandal
Harlem Renaissance
Scope Monkey Trial
Immigration Restrictions

7. Great Depression 1929-1941 Causes- Day Stock Market Crashed New Deal
Overproduction
Buying on Margin
Speculation
Shaky Banking Practices
Restricted international trade
Day Stock Market Crashed
October 29, Black Tuesday
New Deal
FDR’s plan to end the Great Depression
Creator
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Plan
To create jobs and provide direct relief to the poor
Result
Permanently increases the size of the federal Government.

8. World War ii 1939-1945 U.S enters on December 6, 1945 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
Important Event
Holocaust
Atomic Bomb
D-Day
War Effort on the Home Front
War Bonds
Victory Gardens
OWI
Rationing
Japanese Internment
Axis Governments Leaders
Japan Heidki Tojo
Italy Benito Mussolini
Germany Adolf Hitler

9. Cold War 1945-1989 -1957 Russians Launch Sputnik Communism VS Democracy
Important Events, terms, people
Berlin Wall/Airlift
Joseph Stalin/Soviet Union
Cuban missile Crisis
Vietnam/Korean War
Domino Theory
Iron Curtain
Cold War ends 1991 with the fall of the Berlin Wall

10. Civil Rights Era 1954-1968 1968- Martin Luther King assassinated
Important People/Groups
Martin Luther King
Black Panthers
Civil Rights Acts
Voting Rights act 1965
Civil Rights act 1964
Court Case
Brown V. Board of Education
Protest Strategies
1. Sit Ins
2. Freedom Rides
3. Boycotts
4. Marches

11. 1970’s-1980’s Nixon 1969-1974 Ford 1974-1977 Carter 1977-1987
Opening of Red China
Détente
Watergate
Ford
OPEC Oil Embargo
Helsinki Accords
Carter
Iran Hostage Crisis
Camp David Accords
Reagan
Reagonomics -Tax Cuts for the Rich
Iran-Contra Affair

12. 1980-2000 Reagan 1981-1989 H.W. Bush 1989-1993 Clinton 1993-2001
Reagonomics -Tax Cuts for the Rich
Iran-Contra Affair
H.W. Bush
Cold War Ends
Somalia
Persian Gulf War
Clinton
NAFTA
War in Kosovo
Impeachment Scandal.

13. 2000-Present
George W. Bush
Election of closest in history, Bush wins electoral college, Gore won popular vote.
Events Responses
9/11
Dept. of Homeland Security
TSA/NSA
Patriot Act
War In Afghanistan and Iraq
Hurricane Katrina
Slow Response, not enough help.

14. Obama Elected -2008 Significance Accomplishments Global Age
First African American President elected.
Accomplishments
American Recovery and reinvestment act.
Global Age
Technology-
1. Computer
2. Internet
3. Social Media
Effects of Technology
1. Spread information faster
2. Cultural Diffusion.