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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1865) start learning
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Presidential Reconstruction completed (1865) start learning
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Black Codes implemented in South (1865) start learning
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National Labor Union founded (1866) start learning
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Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction (1867) start learning
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Tenure of Office Act (1867) start learning
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Seward’s Folly [Alaska] (1867) start learning
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Cattle drives begin (1867) start learning
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Smaller Indian reservations adopted (1867) start learning
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Fort Laramie Treaty (1868) start learning
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Knights of Labor founded (1869) start learning
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Transcontinental Railroad completed (1869) start learning
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Black Friday—Stock Market crash (1869) start learning
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Amnesty Act for exConfederates (1870) start learning
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Yellowstone National Park (1872) start learning
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Anthony Comstock, Society for the Suppression of Vice (1872) start learning
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Panic of 1873 [depression lasts until 1879] start learning
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Mark Twain Gilded Age (1873) start learning
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Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) start learning
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Fisk and Gould corner of gold market (1869) start learning
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Belknap Scandal (1876) [Sec. of War accepted bribes from Indian agents] start learning
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Gold discovered in Black Hills, South Dakota (1874) start learning
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WCTU Women Christian Temperance Union (1874) start learning
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Specie Resumption Act (1875) start learning
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Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) start learning
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National League of baseball organized (1876) start learning
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Telephone patented, Alexander Graham Bell (1876) start learning
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Phonograph, Thomas Edison (1877) start learning
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Compromise of 1877 (Wormley Agreement) start learning
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Henry George Progress and Poverty (1879) start learning
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Salvation Army in U.S. (1880) start learning
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American Red Cross founded (1881) start learning
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Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor (1881) start learning
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Theodore Roosevelt Winning of the West (1881) start learning
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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) start learning
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Standard Oil Trust (1882) start learning
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First electric power station opens in New York City (1882) start learning
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Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883) start learning
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Lester Frank Ward Dynamic Sociology (1883) start learning
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Mark Twain Huck Finn (1884) start learning
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NCFA National Colored Farmers Alliance start learning
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Reduced protective tariffs and cut pensions for veterans start learning
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Skyscraper, Chicago (1885) start learning
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American Federation of Labor created (AFL) (1886) start learning
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Dedication of the Statue of Liberty (1886) start learning
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Wabash v. Illinois (1886) start learning
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Interstate Commerce Act [Commission] created (1887) start learning
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Edward Bellamy Looking Backward (1888) start learning
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Department of Agriculture start learning
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National Farmers Alliance (1889) start learning
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Oklahoma Territory opened for settlement (1889) start learning
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Brought in N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oklahoma start learning
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Billion Dollar Congress (1890) start learning
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Mckinley Tariff [raised duties on manufactured goods] (1890) start learning
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Sherman Anti trust Act (1890) start learning
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United Mine Workers (1890) start learning
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890) start learning
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Census declares frontier closed (1890) start learning
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Alfred Thayer Mahan Influence of Sea power on History. (1890) start learning
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Basketball invented at Springfield, Massachusetts (1891) start learning
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Homestead Steel Strike (1892) start learning
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Populist Party organized (1892) start learning
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Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1892) start learning
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Sierra Club, John Muir (1892) start learning
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Ellis Island opened (1892) start learning
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Fredrick Jackson Turner “Significance of Frontier in American History” (1893) start learning
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Queen Lili overthrown (1893) start learning
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Stephan Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) start learning
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Panic of 1893 [depression lasts until 1897] start learning
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Repeals Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1893) start learning
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Wilson Gorman Tariff (1894) start learning
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United States v E.C. Knight Co. (1895) start learning
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Borrowed $62 million from J.P. Morgan (1895) start learning
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Coney Island opened (1895) start learning
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) start learning
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Library of Congress opens (1897) start learning
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Charlotte Perkins GilmanWomen and Economics (1898) start learning
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Spanish American War (1898) start learning
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Acquisition of Hawaii (1898) start learning
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Philippines guerrilla warfare start learning
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Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) start learning
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Kate Chopin The Awakenking (1899) start learning
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Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie (1900) start learning
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Foraker Act [Puerto Rico] (1900) start learning
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Currency Act [places U.S. on gold standard] (1900) start learning
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United States Forest Service/national parks and Nature preserves start learning
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Modernized Army: Great White Fleet, Army College, etc. start learning
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United States Steel, J.P. Morgan (1901) start learning
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Anthracite Coal Strike (1902) start learning
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Philippine Government Act (1902) start learning
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National Reclamation Act (1902) start learning
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Newland Act (conservation movement) (1902) start learning
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W.E.B. DuBoisThe Souls of Black Folk (1903) start learning
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Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty (1903) start learning
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Department of Commerce and Labor (1903) start learning
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Panama Canal begins (1903) start learning
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Wright Brothers first air flight (1903) start learning
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Lincoln Steffens The Shame of the Cities (1904) start learning
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Ida Tarbell History of the Standard oil Company (1904) start learning
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Roosevelt Corollary and Lodge Corollary added to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) start learning
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Treaty of Portsmouth concludes Russo japanese wae start learning
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Industrial Workers of the World [Wobblies] (1905) start learning
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Niagara movement Established, Leads to NAACP (1905) start learning
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Receives Nobel Peace Prize start learning
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) start learning
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Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906) start learning
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Walter RaushenbuschChristianity and the Social Crisis (1907) start learning
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Great White Fleet’s world voyage (1907) start learning
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Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907) start learning
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Ford’s Model T introduced (1908) start learning
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Payne Aldrich Tariff (1909) start learning
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Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House (1910) start learning
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Ballinger Pinchot controversy (1910) start learning
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Angel Island opened (1910) start learning
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911) start learning
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Dollar Diplomacy, Nicaragua (1912) start learning
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Supreme Court orders dissolution of Standard Oil start learning
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Standard Oil v. New Jersey 1911 start learning
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Progressive (Bull Moose) Party (1912) start learning
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16th Amendment: income tax (1913) start learning
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17th Amendment: direct election of senators (1913) start learning
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Underwood Tariff (reduced tariff rates) (1913) start learning
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Federal Reserve Banking Act (1913) start learning
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Panama Canal opened (1914) start learning
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Moral Diplomacy: Veracruz, Mexico (1914) start learning
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Federal Trade Commission Act (1914) start learning
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Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) start learning
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated (1914) start learning
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Moral Diplomacy: Haiti (1915) start learning
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Moral Diplomacy: Dominican Republic (1915) start learning
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John DeweyDemocracy and Education (1916) start learning
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Moral Diplomacy: Mexico to find Pancho Villa (1916) start learning
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Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in New York City (1916) start learning
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Time Zones implemented through nation (1916) start learning
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National Defense Act (1916) start learning
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Federal Farm Loan Act (1916) start learning
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US troops withdraw from Mexico (1917) start learning
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Zimmerman Telegram (1917) start learning
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Selective Service Act (1917) start learning
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War Industries Board (1917) start learning
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Committee on Public Information (1917) start learning
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Food Administration (1917) start learning
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Bolshevik Revolution (1917) start learning
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World wide influenza pandemic start learning
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18th Amendment: prohibiton start learning
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A. Mitchell Palmer raids/Red Scare (1919-20) start learning
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19th Amendment: women's suffrage start learning
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Treaty of Versailles with League of Nations (1919) start learning
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Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles (1920) start learning
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American Civil Liberties Union established (1920) start learning
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U.S. v. United States Steel Co. (1920) start learning
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Sinclair Lewis Main Street (1920) start learning
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Radio broadcasting begins (1920) start learning
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