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timeline and important laws Flashcards

1
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Monroe Doctrine

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1823

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2
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War with Mexico

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1846

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Formation of the Republican Party

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1854

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4
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Top 5% of free adult males in 1860

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Owned 53% of the wealth

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5
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In 1860, the South had only

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8% of US factories

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6
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Homestead Act

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1862

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7
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Pacific Railroad Act

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1862

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8
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Homesteaders in the West by 1865

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20,000

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9
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Emancipation Proclamation

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1863

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10
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Seward rejects invitation to join France, Britain and Austria in an attempt to persuade Tsar Alexander II to be more sympathetic to Poland

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1863

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11
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Total dead in Civil War

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600,000

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12
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Lincoln’s 10% plan

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1864

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13
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Just one elected Southern president

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In 50 years from 1864

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14
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13th Amendment

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1865

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15
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Freedmen’s Bureau

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1865

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16
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Presidency of Johnson (1) (Republican)

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1865-69

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17
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Annual turnover of NY Stock Exchange in 1865

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$6 billion

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18
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Wade-Davis Bill (50%)

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1865

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19
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Percentage increase in wealth in the North during the 1860s

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50%

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20
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Black codes

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1865-66

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21
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Johnson vetoes Freedmen’s Bureau Bill

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1866

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22
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Seward demands the French withdraw from Mexico

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1866

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23
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Civil Rights Bill

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1866

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24
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KKK founded

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1866

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25
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Military Reconstruction Bill

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1867

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26
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Alaska purchased from Russia

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1867

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27
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USA acquires Midway Island

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1867

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28
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Tenure of Office Act

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1867

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29
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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1868

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30
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Burlingame Treaty with China

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1868

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31
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14th Amendment

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1868

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32
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Cotton in 1890 sold for…

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half of it’s 1860 price

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33
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Dominican Republic offers itself for colonisation

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1869

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34
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Tweed and Tammany Hall

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1869

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35
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Average Southerner’s income 1870

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2/3 of the Northern average

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36
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15th Amendment

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1870

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37
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Transcontinental railroad

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1870

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38
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Percentage of ‘carpetbaggers’ in the South

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2%

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39
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All rebel states successfully readmitted

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1870

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40
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Black officeholders in 1870

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More than for the next 100 years

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41
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Immigrants during the 1870s

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2.8 million

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42
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Protective tariff duties (Reconstruction Era)

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As high as 50%

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43
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Presidency of Grant (Republican)

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1869-77

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44
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First National Park at Yellowstone

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1872

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45
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Britain pays $15.5 million in compensation for aiding the Confederacy

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1872

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46
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Re-election of Grant

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1872

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47
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Panic and depression

A

1873

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48
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Second gold rush in the Black Hills of Dakota

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1874

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49
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Party workers employed by NY Customs House (Gilded Age)

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1,000

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50
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Bribe paid to Roscoe Conkling by metal importers in 1874

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$50,000

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51
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Whiskey Ring Scandal

A

1875

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52
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Great Sioux War

A

1876

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53
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Battle of Little Bighorn

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1876

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54
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Boss Tweed exposed

A

1876

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55
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End of Reconstruction

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1877

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56
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Great Railroad Strike

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1877

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57
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South Carolina children in school by 1880

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6x more than in 1870

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58
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Presidency of Hayes (Republican)

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1877-81

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59
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Presidency of Garfield

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1881-81 (assassinated)

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60
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Anti-Semitic riots in the south and west

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1881

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61
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Presidency of Arthur

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1881-85

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62
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US population in 1881…

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50 million

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63
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Railroad carries 1 million passengers

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1882

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64
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Standard Oil America’s first trust

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1882

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65
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Secretary of the Navy, William Hunt

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1882

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66
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Chinese Exclusion Act

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1882

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67
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Number of lynchings 1882 - 1899

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2,500

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68
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Only … of eligible black children enrolled in schools (Gilded Age)

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2/5

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69
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Pendleton Act

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1883

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70
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Supreme Court strikes down 1875 Civil Rights Act

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1883

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71
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Immigrants during the Gilded Age

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10 million

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72
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Presidency of Cleveland (1)

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1885-89

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73
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Percentage of labour force in manufacturing and mechanical industries of foreign birth/parentage (Gilded Age)

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56%

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74
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Haymarket bomb

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1886

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75
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Knights of Labor membership by 1886

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700,000

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76
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American Federation of Labor founded in…

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1886

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77
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Number of labour strikes in 1886

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1,400

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78
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Land Grants from federal government to railways

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70 million hectares

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79
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American Protective Association set up

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1887

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80
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Reservation land held by Native Americans in 1870

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138 million hectares

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81
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Interstate Commerce Act

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1887

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82
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Expanded treaty of friendship with Hawaii (Pearl Harbour)

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1887

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83
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Dawes General Allotment Act

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1887

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84
Q

Congress for Women’s Rights

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1888

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85
Q

Oklahoma Land Rush

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1889

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86
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Pan-American Conference

A

1889

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87
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Presidency of Harrison

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1890-93

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88
Q

Beginning of ‘Jim Crow’ laws

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1890

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89
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McKinley Tariff

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1890

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90
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Battle of Wounded Knee

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1890

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91
Q

US Census Bureau declares end of the frontier

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1890

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92
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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1890

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93
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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1890

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94
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1 in 7 Americans were foreign born in

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1890

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95
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African Americans living in the South in 1890

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90%

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96
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Pittsburgh Steelworkers’ Strike

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1892

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97
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Formation of the Populist party

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1892

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98
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Anti-Saloon League formed

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1892

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99
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Second Panic (unemployment hits 20%)

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1893

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100
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Presidency of Cleveland (2)

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1893-97

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101
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Pullman Strike

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1894

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102
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Immigration Restriction League

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1894

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103
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Cleveland intervenes in Venezuela

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1895

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104
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Booker T. Washington’s ‘Atlanta Compromise’

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1895

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105
Q

Amount spent by Mark Hanna on McKinley’s campaign

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$3 million

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106
Q

Gold Democrat Convention in Indiapolis

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1896

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107
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In the 1896 election Bryan…

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carried 22 states in the West and South, but lost by 100 electoral college votes

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108
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Plessy v Ferguson

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1896 (separate but equal)

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109
Q

Cleveland removes the Silver Purchase Act

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189 6

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110
Q

Presidency of McKinley

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1897-1901

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111
Q

US did not fight in overseas wars until

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1898

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112
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US annexes Hawaii

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1898

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113
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Spanish American war

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1898

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114
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US acquires Philippines, followed by four-year war of subjugation

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1898

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115
Q

Black migration North and West during Gilded Age

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Pratically doubled

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116
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Grandfather Clause introduced in Louisiana

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1898

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117
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Amount spent on the ‘Americanisation’ of Native American children in 1899

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$2.5 million

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118
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China Open Door Policy

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1899

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119
Q

Number employed by the railroads 1900

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1 million

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120
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Gold Standard Act

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1900

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121
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US establishes a protectorate in Eastern Samoa

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1900

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122
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Platt Amendment

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1901

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123
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Members of the Populist Party in Congress 1891-1902

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45

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124
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Presidency of T. Roosevelt

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1901-09

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125
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Number of anti-trust prosecutions under Roosevelt

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44

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126
Q

Anthracite Coal Strike

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1902

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127
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US Troops leave Cuba

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1902

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128
Q

Number of people killed in industrial disputes 1902 to 1904

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198

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129
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(Progressive Era) Energy firm Dupont controlled…

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85% of the nation’s power

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130
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Roosevelt Corollary

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1904

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131
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US takes over Panama Canal construction

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1904

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132
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Lochner v New York

A

1904 (bakers given a maximum number of working hours)

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133
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Roosevelt intervenes in Russo-Japanese conflict

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1905

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134
Q

Pure Food and Drug Act

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1906

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135
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Hepburn Act

A

1906

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136
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Third Panic

A

1907

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137
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Root-Takahira Agreement with Japan

A

1908

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138
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Presidency of Taft

A

1909-13

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139
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Taft used the Sherman act more often in his four years…

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than Roosevelt had in his seven

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140
Q

Number of anti-trust suits under Taft

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80

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141
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W.E.B Du Bois sets up the NAACP

A

1909

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142
Q

Payne-Aldrich Act

A

1909

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143
Q

Fraction of urban population consisting of first or second generation immigrants in 1910

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2/3

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144
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Roosevelt launches a tour promoting his ‘new nationalism’

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1910

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145
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In the progressive era, 50% of wealth was held by…

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1% of the population

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146
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Taft sends marines to Nicaragua to stop a revolution

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1912

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147
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Presidency of Wilson

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1913-1921

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148
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Underwood Tariff

A

1913

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149
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Federal Income Tax

A

1913

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Federal Reserve Act

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1913

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Rockefeller world’s first billionaire

A

1913

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152
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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1914

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153
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Federal Trade Commission

A

1914

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154
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Declaration of Neutrality (WWI)

A

1914

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155
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Possible loss of trade with belligerents in WWI

A

possible $100 million deficit

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156
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Wilson screens ‘Birth of a Nation’

A

1915

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157
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‘Luisitania’ sunk

A

1915

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158
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1914-1916 exports…

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doubled as a percentage of GDP

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159
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First Federal Child Labour Act

A

1916

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160
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Zimmerman Telegram

A

1917

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161
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Suffragists storm the White House

A

1917

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162
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US enters WWI

A

April 1917

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163
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African American migrants to North 1914-1918

A

500,000

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164
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By 1918 the allies had borrowed…

A

$7 billion from the USA

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165
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Wilson tours US to win support for League of Nations

A

1919

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166
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Senate refuses to join the League of Nations

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1920

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167
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By 1920, the USA consumed…

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70% of the world’s oil

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168
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18th Amendment begins Prohibition

A

1920

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19th Amendment grants women’s suffrage

A

1920

170
Q

Number of women in the workforce and higher education diminished in the…

A

1920s

171
Q

In 1920, the Ford Factory in Detroit produced one car every…

A

10 seconds

172
Q

Proportion of goods bought on hire purchase in the 1920s

A

50%

173
Q

In the 1920s, for every four businesses that succeeded, … failed

A

3

174
Q

Sacco and Vaznetti Case

A

1921

175
Q

Presidency of Harding

A

1921-23

176
Q

Washington Disarmament Conference

A

1921

177
Q

Emergency Quota Act

A

1921

178
Q

Emergency Tariff Act

A

1921

179
Q

American Birth Control League

A

1921

180
Q

Budget and Accounting Act

A

1921

181
Q

Fordney-McCumber Act

A

1922

182
Q

Teapot Dome Scandal

A

1922

183
Q

Presidency of Coolidge

A

1923-29

184
Q

Number of banks folding every year during Coolidge’s presidency

A

600

185
Q

Dawes Plan

A

1924

186
Q

Cessation of Japanese immigration

A

1924

187
Q

National Origins Act

A

1924

188
Q

‘Monkey Trial’

A

1925

189
Q

US troops withdraw from Nicaragua

A

1925

190
Q

KKK membership in 1925

A

5 million

191
Q

First female mayor

A

1926

192
Q

Number of people who listened to the boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney in 1926

A

50 million

193
Q

Average number of people at the cinema in one day during the 1920s

A

10 million

194
Q

Fraction of homes with electricity in 1927

A

2/3

195
Q

Gangland murders in Chicago 1927-30

A

227

196
Q

Kellogg-Briand Pact

A

1928

197
Q

In 1928, … of US farmers were living in poverty

A

1/2

198
Q

% of plate glass produced used by the car industry

A

75%

199
Q

% of purchase price of shares borrowed in 1928

A

70%

200
Q

Total shares sold in 1929

A

1.1 billion

201
Q

Presidency of Hoover

A

1929-33

202
Q

Number of people with cars in America 1929

A

27 million

203
Q

US investment in Latin America 1929 vs 1924

A

doubled

204
Q

Radio sets by 1929

A

12 million

205
Q

Young plan

A

1929

206
Q

Highways being constructed at … miles per year by 1929

A

10,000 miles per year

207
Q

In 1929, the largest 200 corporations held … of the nation’s wealth

A

20%

208
Q

1929, prior to crash, percentage of people living near subsistence

A

70%

209
Q

Wall Street Crash

A

October 1929

210
Q

Drop in investment 1929-1933

A

90%

211
Q

Amount wiped of value of American corporations on Black Tuesday

A

$14 billion

212
Q

Number of extra women employed by 1930 since 1920

A

2 million

213
Q

Medical schools allocated only … percent of places to women in the 1920s

A

5%

214
Q

Agricultural Marketing Act

A

1930

215
Q

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

A

1930

216
Q

Fall in exports due to Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

A

60%

217
Q

Banks closing per day in 1932

A

40

218
Q

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

A

1932

219
Q

Revenue Act

A

1932

220
Q

Bonus Army

A

1932

221
Q

Number of homeless people in 1932

A

2 million

222
Q

Inadvertent budget deficit by Hoover in 1932

A

4% GDP

223
Q

North unemployment among black people during the Depression was … the normal rate

A

twice

224
Q

Presidency of FDR

A

1933-45

225
Q

Prohibition abolished (21st amendment)

A

1933

226
Q

Unemployment in 1933

A

25%

227
Q

Number of Americans not getting enough to eat during the Depression

A

20 million

228
Q

Unemployment was … greater for African Americans during the Depression

A

6 times

229
Q

FDR’s inaugural address

A

March 1933

230
Q

Emergency Banking Relief Act

A

March 1933

231
Q

Amount returned to bank deposits by April 1933

A

$1 billion

232
Q

NRA (National Recovery Administration), PWA (Public Works Administration)

A

June 1933

233
Q

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)

A

1933

234
Q

Jobs created by the PWA

A

2 million

235
Q

Securities Act creates the SCC

A

1934

236
Q

Liberty League

A

1934

237
Q

Indian Reorganisation Act reverses policy if assimilation

A

1934

238
Q

Anti-lynching bills defeated in Congress

A

1934 and 1937

239
Q

Amount for every family under the proposed ‘Share Our Wealth’ program of Huey Long

A

$2500

240
Q

First Neutrality Act

A

1935

241
Q

Wagner Act

A

1935

242
Q

Social Security Act

A

1935

243
Q

Banking Act

A

1935

244
Q

‘Sick Chicken’ Case

A

1935

245
Q

Zero bank failures for the first time in decades

A

1936

246
Q

% of Americans opposed to involvement in WWII in 1937

A

95%

247
Q

‘Quarantine Speech’

A

1937

248
Q

Japan invades China

A

1937

249
Q

Mexicans nationalise half of American oil interests and face no real reaction

A

1938

250
Q

FDR requests an increase in the size of the bureaucracy

A

1938

251
Q

Fair Labour Standards Act

A

1938

252
Q

FDR opens secret talks with the French

A

October 1938

253
Q

National total of personal income in 1929 was … and in 1939 was …

A

$86 billion and $73 billion

254
Q

Number of Americans still out of work in 1939

A

9 million

255
Q

Number of African Americans who benefited from housing/schools built by WPA

A

1 million

256
Q

On average during the 1930s, women earned … the average wage of men

A

half

257
Q

Amendment of 1935 Neutrality Act

A

November 1939

258
Q

National Debt in 1940

A

$45 billion

259
Q

Roosevelt trades Britain 50 destroyers for 6 Caribbean bases

A

1940

260
Q

Smith Act

A

1940

261
Q

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

A

1940

262
Q

‘Arsenal of Democracy’ speech

A

December 1940

263
Q

Number of African Americans in Civil Service 1941 vs. 1932

A

tripled

264
Q

Beginning of ‘lend lease’

A

May 1941

265
Q

Plans for the March on Washington Movement

A

1941

266
Q

Fair Employment Practices Commission formed

A

1941

267
Q

Embargo on oil to Japan

A

July 1941

268
Q

Atlantic Charter

A

August 1941

269
Q

Pearl Harbour

A

December 1941

270
Q

US declares war on Japan

A

8 December 1941

271
Q

By the time of WWII, women made up … of the civilian workforce

A

1/3

272
Q

Americans conscripted in WWII

A

10 million

273
Q

Growth in farm income during WWII

A

250%

274
Q

Increase in wages during WWII

A

40%

275
Q

Number of women workers during WWII

A

19 million

276
Q

Percentage of war industries unwilling to hire African Americans (WWII)

A

50%

277
Q

Unemployment effectively zero in…

A

1942

278
Q

CORE founded

A

1942

279
Q

Japanese internment

A

1942

280
Q

GI Bill of Rights ($13 billion)

A

1944

281
Q

Indian Claims Commission created to compensate Native Americans for past exploitation

A

1944

282
Q

Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A

August 1945

283
Q

Membership of the NAACP increased from … in 1940 to … in 1945

A

50,000 to 450,000

284
Q

National Debt in 1945

A

$260 billion

285
Q

Percentage increase in earnings during WWII

A

40%

286
Q

Yalta Conference

A

February 1945

287
Q

Presidency of Truman

A

1945-53

288
Q

Truman’s labour management conference

A

1945

289
Q

Potsdam Conference

A

July-August 1945

290
Q

Iron Curtain Speech

A

1946

291
Q

Percentage increase in cost of living in second half of 1946

A

30%

292
Q

Truman unsuccessful in vetoing Taft-Harley Act

A

1947

293
Q

Loyalty-Security Program removes 200 federal workers

A

1947

294
Q

Percentage of houses still lacking running water in 1947

A

33%

295
Q

Rate of building of Levitt Houses

A

1.5 million per year

296
Q

Truman issues order to desegregate the armed forces

A

1948

297
Q

Marshall Aid ($13 billion)

A

1948

298
Q

British retreat from control in the Middle East

A

1948

299
Q

Alger Hiss Case

A

1948

300
Q

Berlin Blockade

A

1948-49

301
Q

Truman’s Fair Deal

A

1949

302
Q

USSR first nuclear weapon

A

1949

303
Q

Formation of NATO

A

1949

304
Q

Four Point Plan to spend $400 million on Asia and Latin America

A

1949

305
Q

Fall of China to Communism

A

1949

306
Q

Korean War

A

1950-53

307
Q

Percentage of population under 24 in 1950

A

41.6%

308
Q

Number of US dead in Korea

A

27,000

309
Q

Defence spending in the 1950s

A

$40 to $50 billion per year

310
Q

McCarthy claims to have a list of 205 communists in the State Department

A

1950

311
Q

Arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

A

1950

312
Q

McCarran Internal Security Act

A

1950

313
Q

Percentage of world’s goods consumed by the USA in the 1950s

A

33%

314
Q

Percentage of families with fridges in 1951

A

90%

315
Q

Presidency of Eisenhower

A

1953-61

316
Q

McCarthy Hearings

A

1953-54

317
Q

Termination Policy

A

1953

318
Q

US-Taiwan Defence Treaty

A

1954

319
Q

Brown vs. Board

A

1954

320
Q

Krushchev succeeds Stalin

A

1955

321
Q

Warsaw Pact

A

1955

322
Q

Austrian Peace Treaty (first surrender of Soviet territory since WWII)

A

1955

323
Q

Montgomery Bus Boycott

A

1955

324
Q

Interstate Highway Act

A

1956

325
Q

Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact

A

1956

326
Q

Soviet-backed Egypt takes control of Suez Canal

A

1956

327
Q

Percentage rise in number of murders carried out by teenagers in NY in 1956

A

26%

328
Q

Eisenhower Doctrine

A

1957

329
Q

SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) founded

A

1957

330
Q

Eisenhower sends federal troops to Little Rock

A

1957

331
Q

Number of AA schoolchildren still in segregated schools by 1957

A

240,000

332
Q

Second Berlin Crisis

A

1958

333
Q

Cuban Revolution

A

1959

334
Q

Teenage annual spending power increased from BLANK in 1950 to BLANK in 1959

A

$10 billion to $25 billion

335
Q

Percentage living in suburbs by 1960

A

33%

336
Q

Number of malls in 1945, and 1960

A

8; 4000

337
Q

1930-1960 the average household income…

A

doubled

338
Q

Household debts rose from … in 1945 to … in 1960

A

$5.7 billion to $56.1 billion

339
Q

By 1960, only BLANK of the total 400,000 Native Americans had moved permanently under the Termination Policy

A

13,000

340
Q

Percentage of Americans under poverty line in 1960

A

25%

341
Q

Number of women in university in 1960

A

1.3 million

342
Q

Number of entries for a competition in 1960 asking women to describe why they felt ‘trapped’

A

24,000

343
Q

Presidency of Kennedy

A

1961-63 (assassinated)

344
Q

Bay of Pigs fiasco

A

April 1961

345
Q

Putting up of the Berlin Wall

A

1961

346
Q

Freedom Rides

A

1961

347
Q

Omnibus Housing Act

A

1961

348
Q

Farmer’s Home Administration

A

1961

349
Q

Castro declares himself communist

A

December 1961

350
Q

US spy planes spot nuclear missile installations in Cuba, Kennedy establishes a quarantine

A

15 October 1962

351
Q

Exchange of letters between Kennedy and Krushchev

A

26-27 October 1962

352
Q

Resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis

A

28 October 1962

353
Q

Kennedy introduces Civil Rights Bill

A

1963

354
Q

Percentage of lawyers who were women in 1963

A

4%

355
Q

Partial Test Ban Treaty

A

1963

356
Q

Kennedy assassinated

A

November 1963

357
Q

Presidency of LBJ (2)

A

1963-69

358
Q

Equal Pay Act

A

1963

359
Q

Protests in Birmingham, Alabama

A

1963

360
Q

March on Washington

A

1963

361
Q

Betty Friedan’s ‘The Feminine Mystique’

A

1963

362
Q

Berkley Free Speech Movement

A

1964

363
Q

Beginning of ‘Great Society’

A

1964

364
Q

Organisation for Afro-American Unity founded

A

1964

365
Q

Civil Rights Act

A

1964

366
Q

Economic Opportunity Act (billion-dollar stimulus)

A

1964

367
Q

Gulf of Tonkin incident

A

September 1964

368
Q

Republic of China acquires nuclear weapons

A

1965

369
Q

Operation Rolling Thunder, military invasion of Vietnam

A

1965

370
Q

Medicare

A

1965

371
Q

Number of people with first-time access to decent healthcare under Medicaid

A

25 million

372
Q

Selma

A

1965

373
Q

Voting Rights Act

A

1965

374
Q

Assassination of Malcolm X

A

1965

375
Q

Immigration reform laws

A

1965

376
Q

Number of black riots between 1964-1966

A

300

377
Q

Black Panthers founded

A

1966

378
Q

King’s Chicago campaign

A

1966

379
Q

National Organisation for Women (NOW) founded

A

1966

380
Q

Number of TV sets in 1967

A

55 million

381
Q

Percentage of evening news devoted to coverage of the Vietnam war in 1967

A

90%

382
Q

Tet Offensive, Viet Cong take control of American embassy in Saigon

A

January 1968

383
Q

Mai Lai Massacre

A

March 1968

384
Q

In the first half of 1968, there were … demonstrations against the war, involving … students

A

100; 400,000

385
Q

Cost of Vietnam War by 1968

A

$26.5 billion per year

386
Q

Number of American Deaths in Vietnam

A

50,000

387
Q

Assassination of Martin Luther King

A

1968

388
Q

Democrat Convention: ‘Battle of Chicago’

A

1968

389
Q

Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

A

1968

390
Q

Indian Civil Rights Act

A

1968

391
Q

In this year, America is a net importer of textiles, steel and household goods

A

1969

392
Q

Nixon begins ‘Vietnamisation’

A

January 1969

393
Q

Number of female senators in the 1960s

A

2

394
Q

Presidency of Nixon

A

1969-74

395
Q

Kent State Massacre

A

1970

396
Q

Nixon stops the public bussing of black students

A

1969

397
Q

Black male unemployment in 1970

A

50%

398
Q

21 year trade embargo with China lifted

A

1971

399
Q

Pentagon Papers leaked

A

1971

400
Q

Amount of back pay secured for women by NOW in cases 1966-1971

A

$30 million

401
Q

In 1970, there were … black congressmen

A

11

402
Q

Percentage of country on side of federal troops at Kent State

A

90%

403
Q

Nixon visits Beijing

A

1972

404
Q

Educational Amendment Act

A

1972

405
Q

Supreme Court rules that men and women have equal rights

A

1972

406
Q

Formation of CREEP (Committee for the re-election of the Presdient)

A

1972

407
Q

SALT 1 (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

A

1972

408
Q

Paris Peace Treaty (Vietnam)

A

January 1973

409
Q

Roe v Wade

A

1973

410
Q

War Powers Act

A

1973

411
Q

Oil embargo from Arab countries

A

1973

412
Q

Nixon and Kissenger fail to persuade Congress to vote for US military intervention in Angola

A

1974

413
Q

Nixon’s impeachment trial

A

1974

414
Q

Election Campaign Act

A

1974

415
Q

Congressional Budget Act

A

1974

416
Q

Watergate Scandal

A

1972-74

417
Q

Congress withdraws financial support for South Vietnam

A

April 1975

418
Q

Helsinki Agreements

A

1975

419
Q

Suicide rate for Native Americans in 1975…

A

100 times higher than for whites

420
Q

Unemployment among Native Americans by 1975…

A

10 times greater than other Americans

421
Q

66% of adults classified as poor in 1975 were…

A

female

422
Q

GDP up by a factor of … between 1945 and 1980

A

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