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Eras in U.S. History

TermDefinition
1898 Spanish-American War-Marked rise of U.S. as a world power
Progressive Era Protections against abuses, corruption, and waste. Prohibition. Women's suffrage.
Imperialism Panama Canal, Annexation of Hawaii, Spanish-American War
1914-1918 World War 1, U.S. Joined in 1917
Roaring Twenties Isolationism , Nativism, Fear of Immigration, Red Scare, Social Darwinism, Eugenics, Jazz Age, Flappers, Boom
Stock Market Crash 1929
Great Depression Dust Bowl and New Deal
1939-1945 World War II
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Raid, US Enters World War II
The Cold War McCarthyism. HUAC. Berlin Wall. Domino Theory. Korean War. Vietnam War.
1957 Sputnik Launches igniting the space race
1991 End of the Cold War
1968 Martin Luther King Assassinated
1969 US Lands on the Moon
1970-1990 Conservative Resurgence
2001 Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
2008 Barack Obama is elected first African American President
Westward Expansion Dawes Act, Indian Wars, Transcontinental Railroad, Closing of the Frontier, Manifest Destiny
Gilded Age Robber Barrons, Philanthropists, Big Business, Political Machines, Political Bosses
Industrialization Big Business, Bessemer Process, Urbanization
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