Timeline Flashcards
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1865:
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- Assassination of Lincoln
- 13th Amendment: the end of slavery
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1866:
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- Andrew Johnson’s ‘Presidential Reconstruction’
- Ku Klux Klan founded in Tennessee
3
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1867:
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- Reconstruction Act
- Howard University founded
- Alaska purchase
4
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1868:
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- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- 14th Amendment: citizenship rights
- Treaty of Fort Laramie
5
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1869:
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- Tammany Hall controlled by William Tweed
- Union Pacific railroad completed
6
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1872:
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- Re-election of Ulysses Grant
- Yellowstone National Park created
- Alabama claims settled
7
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1876:
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- Disputed Tilden-Hayes election
- National Baseball League founded
- Battle of Little Bighorn
8
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1877:
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- End of Reconstruction
- Phonograph invented by Edison
- Nez Perce War
9
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1879:
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- Light bulb invented by Edison
- F.W. Woolworth store opened in New York
10
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1881:
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- Assassination of James Garfield
- US population above 50 million
- Gunfight at the OK Corral
11
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1882:
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- Standard Oil Trust set up
- Chinese Exclusion Act
12
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1886:
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- Founding of AFL union
- Haymarket Riot in Chicago
- End of the Apache Wars
13
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1888:
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- Defeat of Grover Cleveland
- First electric trams, Richmond, Virginia
- Congress for Women’s Rights
14
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1889:
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- Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
- Oklahoma Land Rush
15
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1890:
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- Rising support for Populism
- Sherman Antitrust Law
- Massacre at Wounded Knee
16
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1892:
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- Election of Grover Cleveland
- General Electric formed
- Homestead steelworks strike
17
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1893:
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- Financial Panic & the start of the depression
- ‘Turner Thesis’ & end of the frontier
18
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1896:
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- Election victory of McKinley
- Start of Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Plessey vs Ferguson
19
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1898:
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- 84% of US oil controlled by Standard Oil
- Start of Spanish-American War
20
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1901:
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- Assassination of McKinley
- Formation of US Steel
- Platt Amendment
21
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1903:
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- Ford Motor Company founded
- Alaska boundary dispute resolved
22
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1904:
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- World’s Fair in St Louis
- Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
23
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1907:
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- Financial Panic averted by J.P. Morgan
- Voyage of the Great White Fleet
24
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1909:
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- NAACP founded
- World’s first military aircraft purchased by US
25
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1912:
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- ‘Bull Moose’ Progressive Party founded
- US military intervention in Nicaragua
26
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1913:
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- Federal Reserve established
- Woman Suffrage Parade in New York
27
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1915:
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- Modern Ku Klux Klan founded
- Film, Birth of a Nation, released
- Sinking of Lusitania
28
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1917:
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- Espionage Act
- US entry into World War
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1919:
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- Red Scare: the first Palmer Raids
- 18th Amendment: prohibition
- Paris Peace Conference
