 | Term | Definition |
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1892 |
Homestead Strike |
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1860 |
US 4th world industrial output |
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1890 |
US 1st world industrial output |
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1894 |
US outproduces 2nd and 3rd nations combined |
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1859 |
Rockefeller buys an oil well |
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1863 |
Rockefeller buys a refinery w.4 partners |
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1865 |
Rockefeller buys out his partners |
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1865 |
Rockefeller makes deals with the railroads |
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1865 |
Rockefeller moves to wholesale, selling to distributors |
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1870 |
Rockefeller makes standard oil company |
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1872 |
Rockefeller suggests all oil companies come together - CARTEL |
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1882 |
Rockefeller makes the standard oil trust |
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February 4, 1887 |
Interstate Commerce Act is passed |
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July 2, 1890 |
Sherman Anti-Trust Act is passed |
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1871 |
Uriah Stevens founds the Knights of Labor, he is later succeeded by Terence V. Powderly |
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1886 |
Samuel Gompers founds the A F of L |
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1886 |
Statue of Liberty given to the US by France |
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1882 |
Chinese Exclusion Act is passed |
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1965 |
Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed |
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1862 |
Pacific Railroad Charter is passed, allows Union Pacific and Central Pacific to build a railroad. |
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1865 |
work on the transcontinental railroad starts |
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May 10, 1869 |
Transcontinental Railroad finished on Promotory Point, Utah |
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February 8, 1887 |
Dawes Severalty Act is passed |
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1934 |
Dawes Act repealed and replaced by Indian Reorganization Act. |
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1789 |
Society of St. Tammany founded |
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1800's |
Boss William Marcy Tweed gains power in Tweed Ring |
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1871 |
'Boss' William Marcy Tweed convicted of money laundering, sent to jail. |
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1892 |
Populist Party founded in Omaha, Nebraska, first nominating convention |
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1867 |
Secretary of State Seward - Alaska purchased from Russians for 7.2 million dollars. |
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1875 |
King Kamehameha signs an agreement with the US allowing tax-free shipping of goods |
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1890 |
McKinley Tariff is passed - Hawaii falls into almost a depression |
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1898 |
Hawaii annexed |
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1900 |
Hawaii becomes a state |
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February 15, 1898 |
USS maine blows up in Havana harbor |
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April 11, 1898 |
US declares war on Spain |
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December 10, 1898 |
US signs Treaty of Paris with Spain - we get all their lands |
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1914 |
Panama Canal completed |
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1912 |
Wilson elected president in a landslide |
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1920 |
Ammendment 19 is passed, women get the vote |
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1916 |
Henry Ford builds the first car at $360 |
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1920 |
8,131,825 vehicles are registered in the US |
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1929 |
26,704,825 vehicles are registered in the US |
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February 24, 1917 |
British Intelligence intercepts the Zimmerman Telegram |
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1910 |
Emergency Quota Act passed |
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1924 |
National Origins Act |
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April 15, 1920 |
Someone robs a company payroll |
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July, 1921 |
Sacco and Vanzetti sentenced to death, huge outcry by rest of world |
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August 23, 1927 |
Sacco/Vanzetti arrested |
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January 29, 1920 |
Prohibition is made effective |
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December 5, 1933 |
Prohibition is repealed |
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1925 |
Scopes 'Monkey' Trials |
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1932 |
Reconstruction Finance Corporation is started |
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July 1932 |
Federal Home Loan Bank Act is passed |
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1935 |
American is strictly neutral in the upcoming European conflict |
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1936 |
President can say when war is existent |
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1937 |
President can decide if civil war is threat, belligerents can't buy weapons |
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1939 |
Cash and Carry sale of arms to belligerents |
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September 5, 1939 |
Roosevelt proclaims the US neutral in the war |
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December 7, 1941 |
the Pearl Habor attack is carried out by the Japanese |
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1942 |
Executive Order 9066 is passed - Japanese relocated to concentration camps |
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1988 |
Civil Liberties Act passed, 20K dollars to each of the remaining 60K detainees |
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June, 1947 |
Marshall Plan is passed |
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1947 |
Berlin Airlift starts |
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May 1948 |
Berlin Airlift is stopped, Soviets remove bans on supplies. |
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1955 |
Linda Brown vs. Kansas Board of Education |
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1957 |
Civil Rights Act 1 is passed - allows for Civil Rights Commission and Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department |
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1961 |
Freedom Riders ride on segregated Interstate Highways |
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1964 |
Civil Rights Act allowing for Equal Employment Opportunity Commision |
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1964 |
Economic |
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1964 |
Economic Opportunity Act established Job Corps, educational programs, work-study programs, job training, loans for small businesses and farmers, (VISTA) |
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1965 |
Medicare, Housing and Urban Development Act |
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1966 |
Appalachian Redevelopment Act 1.1 billion dollars |
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1969 |
Space Program enacted |
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1954 |
Viet Cong gets control of Japan |
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August 7, 1964 |
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed |
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June 17, 1972 |
Watergate Headquartes break-in by CREEP |
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August 9, 1974 |
Nixon resigns |
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