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United States annexed Midway Island
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US purchases AK
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Progressive Era Begins
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Period 7 1890-1945
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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Coney Island: 1st Amusement Park opens
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U.S.S. Maine explodes = Start of the War w/ Spain
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Spanish-American War ends
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Philippine-American War starts
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Hay releases Open Door Notes
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McKinley re-elected president
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American Socialist Party formed
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McKinley assassinated; TR becomes president
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TR intervenes in anthracite coal strike
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Henry Ford establishes Ford Motor Company
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W. E. B. DuBois’ book of essays, Souls of Black Folk
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Women's Trade Union League Formed
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Henry Ford founded ford motor company
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Wright Bros. make 1st successful flight
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Wright Bros. make 1st successful flight
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Roosevelt Corollary announced
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Teddy Roosevelt is elected president
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Roosevelt Corollary announced
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Niagra Movment founded
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Niagara Movement
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The Jungle published=passing of food reforms
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Pure Food and Drug Act passed
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Meat Inspection Act passed
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William Howard Taft becomes president
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NAACP formed
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Angel Island established
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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Teddy Roosevelt forms Bull Moose Party
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Woodrow Wilson elected President
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17th Amendment ratified
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16th Amendment ratified
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Federal Reserve Act passed
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated; starting WWI
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Marcus Garvey creates UNIA
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Panama Canal opens
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act passed
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Birth of a Nation premiered
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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Great Migration begins
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The Sussex attacked = created the Sussex Pledge
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Wilson re-elected president
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Zimmermann telegram intercepted
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Germany violated the Sussex Pledge
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U.S. declares war on Germany = U.S. enters WW1
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Bolshevik Revolution begins
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Harlem Renaissance begins
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Wilson announces 14 points
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Treaty of Versailles signed
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Progressive Era Ends
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19th amendment ratified
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1st comemercial radio station begins broadcasting
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Warren Harding elected President
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Sacco and Vanzetti case decided
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Margaret Sanger founded American Birth Control League
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Motion Picture Association founded
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Harding dies, Coolidge becomes president
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KKK reaches peak membership
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Immigration Act passed
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes the Great Gatsby
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Scopes Trial decided
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Charles Lindbergh makes solo transatlantic flight
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Herbert Hoover elected president
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Great Depression Begins= Black Tuesday= Stock Market Crashed
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Dust Bowl begins
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Hitler comes to power in Germany
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Scottsboro Boys accused
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Bonus Marchers came to Washington D.C.
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FDR elected president (1st Term)
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Amelia Earhart becomes 1st woman to fly solo
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First New Deal Legislation enacted
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Civilian Conservation Corps created
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21st Amendment = Repealed 18th Amendment
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) created
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Social Security Act passed
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1st Neutrality Act passed
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Franklin Roosevelt Elected President (2nd Term)
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Last Neutrality Act Passed
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Great Depression ends
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Germany invades Poland = WW2 Begins
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Franklin Roosevelt Elected President (3rd Term)
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Lend-lease plan
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor = U.S. enters WW2
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News of Holocaust reaches US
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Battle of Midway
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Executive Order 9066 is signed
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Manhattan Project begins
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Battle of Stalingrad ends
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Zoot Suit riots in LA
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Franklin Roosevelt Elected President (4th Term)
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Yalta Conference
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FDR dies; Truman becomes president
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Trinity test, the first successful detonation of an atomic bomb
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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2nd A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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V-J Day= WW2 Ends
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ENIAC, World's 1st Automatic Digital Computer, Introduced
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Great Migration ends