Founding Principals Declaration of Independence U.S. Constitution Bill of Right Founding Principals Founding Fathers such as Benjamin Rush, John Hancock John Jay, John Witherspoon, John Peter Muhlenberg, Charles Carroll, and John Trumbull Sr. Alexis de Tocqueville’s Five American Values Gilded Age 1877-1898 Dawes Act Homestead Act Settlement of Great Plain Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Klondlike Gold Rush Political Machines Service Reform Transcontinental Rail Roads The Cattle Industry Boom Rise of Entrepreneurship Free Enterprise Big Business Philanthropy Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford Interstate Commerce Act American Imperialism Spanish American War USS American Expansionism acquisition of Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico Panama Canal Henry Cabot Lodge Alfred Thayer Theodore Roosevelt Sanford B. Dole Open Door Policy Dollar Diplomacy Progressive Era 1900-1919 Populism Social Gospel Initiative, Referendum, Recall 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Tarbell Woodrow Wilson Urbanization Suffrage Movement Federal Review Act of 1913 Shift from gold standard to fiat money. Anti-Trust Act Pure Food and Drug Act WWI -1914-1918 Isolationism and Neutrality Lusitania U-Bombs Reasons for Entering WWI American Expeditionary Forces Battle of Argonne Forest General John Pershing Technological guns, airplanes, tanks, poison gas, trench warfare resulting in stalemate. Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points Treaty of Versailles The Roaring Twenties-1920-1929 Social Darwin Eugenics Nativism Red Scare Prohibition Flappers Scopes Trial Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan Curtiss Marcus Garvey Charles Lindbergh The Great Migration Tin Pan Alley Harlem Renaissance Warren Harding’s Return to Normalcy. Teapot Dome American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 The Depression -1929-1939 Great Migration Dust Bowl Stock Market Speculation Bank Failures Federal Reserve System Mexican Repatriation Hoovervilles Hoover Dam President Hoover, President F.D. Roosevelt Rationing Soup Kitchens “Grapes of Wrath” The New Deal-1933-1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt The New Deal 1st and 2nd Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security Act FDR and the Packing of the Supreme Court WWII-1939-1945 Axis Powers Allied Powers Hitler Stalin Tojo Churchill Mussolini Holocaust The United States and Pearl Harbor Pacific Front Western/European Front Code Talkers Tuskegee Airmen
The Flying Tigers President FDR Truman War Mobilization U.S. Office of War Information Rationing Executive Order 9066 Atomic Bomb Battle of Midway Island Hopping Bataan Death March Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) Omar Bradley Dwight Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur Chester A. Nimitz George Marshall George Patton Volunteerism War Bonds Victory Gardens Women and minority workers Bracero Program G.I. Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) The 1950 Suburbs Baby Booms Consumerism Television Rock and Roll Beat Generation Cold War and New Frontier Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Berlin Airlift Cuban Missile Crisis Arms Race Space Race McCarthyism House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Venona Papers Korean War-reason and outcome for involvement “In God We Trust” President John F Kenney Civil Rights 1950s-1970s Brown vs. Board of Education African American Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks Martin Luther King Jr “I have a dream”, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Panthers Chicano Rights Movement Chicano Mural Movement (UFW)Ceasar Chavez and Dolores Huetra Hector P. Garcia American Indian Movement (AIM) Second Wave of Feminist Betty Freidan Gay Rights Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Opponent to Civil Rights and Status quo supporters: George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox. Great Society 1960s President Johnson (LBJ) Great Society Medicare Affirmative Action Title IX Vietnam War Domino Theory Tet Offensive Vietnamization Fall of Saigon The Draft Role of Media Credibility gap Silent Majority Anti-War Movement Nixon and the 1970s Détente policies with China Watergate Scandal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Endangered Species Act Crisis and Resurgence 1969-2000 President Ronald Regan Reaganomics Peace Through Strength Camp Accords Iran-Contra Affair Marines in Lebanon Iran Hostage Crisis Conservative Resurgence: opposed Equal Pay Act: Phyllis Schlafly, Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority, National Rifle Association, Contract With America Persian Gulf War Balkan Crisis 2000 Presidential Election Rust Belt to Sun Belt Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 NAFTA OPEC GATT America in the New Millennium 9/11 War on Terror U.S. PATRIOT Act of 2001 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 2008 Presidential Election Hurricane Katrina Effects of legal and illegal Immigration People (Have to know) Omar Bradley Cesar Chavez Bill Clinton Dwight Eisenhower Betty Friedan