1789 to 1797: Washington 1st president
1823: Monroe Doctrine >> moral opposition to colonialism
1830 – 1860: The Era of Reform
- Women’s issues
- Education becomes public
- Temperance movement (no alcohol)
- Abolitionism (of slavery)
1830 –1860: 1st immigrants from GB, Ireland, Western Germany.
1860 – 1890: 2nd wave: same countries
1840s: Manifest Destiny
After 1842: Open Door Policy
1865 to 1901: The Gilded Age
1867: Purchase of Alaska
1882 Chinese exclusion act
1893: economic depression
1898: Annexation of Hawaii
1898: Spanish – US war
1902: Independance of Cuba
1903: Platt amendment
End of 19th, early 20th Urban political machine/Urban boss
From the 1890s through the 1920s: Progressive Reform
1890: Sherman Anti Trust Act
1901: L. Czolgoss assassinates President mc Kinley
In 1916: Margaret Sanger founded the 1st birth control clinic
1917: Espionage Act
1918: Sedition Act
1919: Communist Labor Party
over 10 000 suspected communists arrested
1919: Women’s right to vote.
20’s >> business boom
1921: The Johnson quotta act limited immigration to 3%.
1924: National Origins act: reduced it to 2%.
1925: Marcus Garvey arrested
1920: alcohol prohibited
1925: Butler Act
1933 = prohibition ends
1945: Yalta Conference – Postdam conference
1945 to 1990: Iron curtain
1947: Truman doctrine
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
1949: NATO
Berlin Blockade
From the late 1940s to the late 1950s: McCarthyism
1955 to 1968: Civil Rights Movement
1960s and early '70s: Black Nationalism
In the late 1960s: Black Panther Party
1963-1969: President Lyndon B. Johnson >> The Great Society
1964: Civil Rights Act
1965: Voting Rights Act
May 4, 1970: Kent State Killings
