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138 Cards in this Set
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Start of Civil War |
1860 |
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Homestead Act |
1862 |
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The Sand River Massacre |
1864 |
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End of Civil War |
1865 |
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Freedmens Bureau established |
1865 |
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Assassination of Lincoln |
1865 |
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Johnson President |
1865 |
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13th Amendment - end of slavery |
1865 |
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Civil Rights Acts |
1866 1875 |
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Ku Klux Klan founded in Tennessee |
1866 |
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Reconstruction Act |
1867 |
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Tenure of Office Act |
1867 |
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Alaska Purchase |
1867 |
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
1868 |
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14th Amendment - citizenship rights |
1868 |
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Treaty of Fort Laramie |
1868 |
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General Ulysses Grant elected President |
1868 |
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Transcontinental railroad completed |
1869 |
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15th Amendment - voting rights |
1870 |
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First Enforcement Act |
1870 |
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Orange riots in NY |
1870 |
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Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company |
1870 |
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Second Enforcement Act [Ku Klux Klan Act] |
1871 |
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Third Enforcement Act |
1871 |
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Reelection of Grant |
1872 |
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Cleveland Massacre |
1872 |
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Stock Market Panic |
1873 |
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Trade Treaty with Hawaii |
1873 |
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Renewed war with Plain Indians after the Treaty of Fort Laramie was broken by gold prospectors pouring into the Black Hills of Dakota |
1874 |
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Disputed Tilden - Hayes election |
1876 |
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Rutherford Hayes elected |
1876 |
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Battle of Little Bighorn |
1876 |
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Compromise of 1877 |
1877 |
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End of Reconstruction |
1877 |
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Nez Perce War |
1877 |
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Great Railroad Strike |
1877 |
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Trade Treaty with Samoa |
1878 |
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Black Exodus |
1879 |
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James Garfield elected |
1880 |
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Assassination of Garfield |
1881 |
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Chester Arthur President |
1881 |
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Standard Oil trust set up |
1882 |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
1882 |
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Grover Cleveland elected [TWICE] |
1884 1892 |
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Haymarket Riot in Chicago |
1886 |
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Formation of the American Federation of Labour |
1886 |
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End of the Apache Wars |
1886 |
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Statue of Liberty built in NY harbour |
1886 |
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Start of many years of draught |
1887 |
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Interstate Commerce Act |
1887 |
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Benjamin Harrison elected |
1888 |
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Oklahoma Land Act |
1889 |
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Sherman Antitrust Act |
1890 |
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The Sioux Ghost Dance Rebellion crushed in the Massacre at Wounded Knee |
1890 |
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National American Womens Suffrage Association [NAWSA] founded |
1890
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Publication of Mahans 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History' |
1890 |
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General Electric formed |
1892 |
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Homestead Steelworks Strike |
1892 |
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Chinese Exclusion Act renewed |
1892 |
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Carnegie Steel Company consolidated |
1892 |
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The Omaha Platform: Populists set out their manifesto |
1892 |
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Financial Panic and start of the Depression |
1893 |
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The End of the Frontier |
1890 |
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The Turner Thesis |
1893 |
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The Great Northern Strike by the ARU |
1893 |
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Pullman Strike |
1894 |
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Revolt in Cuba with unofficial American backing |
1895 |
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The turning point election: victory for McKinley |
1896 |
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Plessey vs Ferguson |
1896 |
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The Dingley Tariff Act |
1897 |
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USS Maine blown up |
1898 |
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Start of the Spanish - American War |
1898 |
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Annexation of Hawaii & the Phillipines |
1898 |
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Start of the Filipino revolt against American rule |
1899 |
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William McKinley reelected |
1900 |
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Gold Standard Act |
1900 |
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Assassination of McKinley |
1901 |
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Theodore Roosevelt President |
1901 |
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Formation of US Steel |
1901 |
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Anti-lynching bill proposed and defeated |
1901 |
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The Platt Amendment |
1901 |
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Roosevelt blocked the creation of Northern Securities |
1902 |
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Great Coal Strike |
1902 |
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Reclamation Act |
1902 |
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Alaska boundary dispute settled in favour of US |
1903 |
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Start of the Panama canal |
1903 |
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Roosevelt reelected |
1904 |
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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine |
1904 |
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Supreme Court ordered Northern Securities to be broken up |
1904 |
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American mediation of peace settlement to the Russo - Japanese War |
1905 |
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The Hepburn Act |
1906 |
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Meat Inspection Act |
1906 |
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Start of the Alaska - Yukon Gold Rush |
1906 |
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Financial Panic [3rd] |
1907 |
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Voyage of the Great White Fleet |
1907 |
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William Taft elected |
1908 |
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National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People founded |
1909 |
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Mid term elections - Democrat gains |
1910 |
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Woodrow Wilson elected |
1912 |
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'Bull Moose' Progressive Party founded |
1912 |
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Underwood - Simmons Tariff Act |
1913 |
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Federal Reserve Act |
1913 |
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16th Amendment: Income tax |
1913 |
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Start of WW1 |
1914 |
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Federal Trade Commission set up |
1914 |
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
1914 |
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Sinking of the Lusitania |
1915 |
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Revival of the KKK |
1915 |
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The Adamson Act |
1916 |
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Federal Highway Act |
1916 |
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Federal Farm Loan Act |
1916 |
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Secret Report to British Government on need for US help |
1916 |
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German order to begin unrestricted submarine warfare |
1917 |
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Interception of the Zimmerman Telegram |
1917 |
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US entry into WWI |
1917 |
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Selective Service Act |
1917 |
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First Liberty Loan |
1917 |
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Espionage Act |
1917 |
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War Industries Board set up |
1917 |
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Food and Fuel Control Act |
1917 |
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Nationalisation of the railroads |
1917 |
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Vocational Education Act |
1917 |
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Russian Revolution |
1917 |
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Start of large scale US forces arriving in France |
1918 |
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Sedition Act |
1918 |
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Immigration Act |
1918 |
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End of WWI |
1918 |
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General Strike in Seattle |
1919 |
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Great Steel Strike |
1919 |
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The Palmer Raids |
1919 1920 |
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18th Amendment - Prohibition |
1919 |
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Paris Peace Conference |
1919 |
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False predictions of widespread revolution |
1920 |
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Chicago Race Riots |
1920 |
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US rejection of the League |
1920 |
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Republican election victory - Harding |
1920 |
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19th Amendment - voting rights for women |
1920 |
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Emergency Quota Act |
1921 |
