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Dawes Act (Westward Expansion)
Law obtaining the idea to assimilate Indians though delegating land plots and authorized surveying from the president to divide 160 acres allotments. -
Sherman Antitrust Act (Gilded Age)
Law created to outlaw businesses monopolies but failed to define monopolies and trust, leading to its overall ineffectiveness. -
Spanish-American War (American Imperialism)
Imperialism and Journalism led to the United States and Spain having altercations and fighting in Cuba and the Philippines. After a victory from the US, Europe was signaled by their achievement and created recognition of America becoming a world power. -
Panama Canal (American Imperalism)
A man-made water way was built by the US to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans so ships could avoid going around the tip of South America. -
Prohibition (Progressive Era)
National Ban on the manufacturing, distributing, and selling of Alcohol in the United States as social reform to have more societal decorum. -
Scopes Trial (Roaring 20s)
Result of a Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schooling and created a cultural divide between modernism and traditionalism. -
Black Tuesday (Great Depression Era)
The day the New York Stock Market crashed due to overproduction of consumer goods, margin buying, and tariffs which effected world trade and increase in unemployment. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Great Depression Era)
Democrat who defeated Hoover in the 1932 election and promised a "New deal" with government, economic, and social programs to help those in need. Additionally, Roosevelt addressed the Public for reassurance during his radio "fireside chats" and explained how the government was trying to help the economic crisis -
World War 2 begins (WW2 Era)
Germany invades Poland under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and identified under Nazi power targeting "lesser" individuals including jews and the disabled. -
Pearl Harbor Attack (WW2 Era)
Japanese Troop attacked a US base and caused the United States involvement in the great war as allied forces against the Axis powers. -
Battle of the Bulge (WW2 Era)
Germany's final attempt to break the allies only to make a "bulge" in the line and the allies repelling back and creating an allied victory. This marked the end of the war in Europe. -
Harry Truman (WW2 Era)
Roosevelt's Vice President who took over after Roosevelt's death and had to make the hard decisions to drop atomic bombs on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Berlin Wall (Cold War)
A barrier between US controlled West Berlin and Soviet controlled East Berlin, standing for 28 years until its fall in 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Cold War Era)
Standoff between US and Soviet Union when it was discovered the the Soviet Union was installing nuclear missile sites that could reach America if active and was the closest the two came to open conflict crisis. -
NASA Space Race
The Soviet Union and US fought for supremacy in space exploration as a dominant sign of technological and ideological superiority with the US "winning" when Apollo 11 was launched and Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon. -
Fall of Saigon (Cold War Era)
US cut off all supplies and aid to South Vietnamese and caused an opening to Saigon for North Vietnamese Army to attack. -
Ronald Reagan (New National Directions Era)
Elected 1980 President who created a new conservative wave due the heritage foundation, moral majority, NRA, and the Iran Hostage Crisis. -
Persian Gulf War
Also known as "Operation Desert Storm," the US led several nations of Kuwait after the Small country was invaded by Saddam Hussein of Iraq with operations lasting two months. -
9/11 (New Millennium Era)
On September 11th, Al-Qaeda terrorists led by Osama bin Laden, hijacked 4 planes and flew 2 of them into the twin towers of the the world trade center, 1 into the Pentagon and 1 intended to crash into the Capitol Building but crashed in a Pennsylvania Field instead. -
Hurricane Katrina (New Millenium Era)
A Hurricane Slammed into the Guld Coast causing massive destruction in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the City of New Orleans with massive floods and wind currents.