Valley Forge and the Development of the
Movement
Continental Army
Roger Williams and the Separation of
Ronald Reagan and the Resurgence of
Church and State
Conservatism in
Watergate and the Weakening of the
America
Presidency
The Interstate Highway Act of 1956 and
The Keating-Owen Act and Child Labor
the Growth of
Harvard: First College of the Colonies
Suburban America
Brigham Young and the Mormon Migration
Turning Points of the Korean War: China’s
to Utah
Entry
Samuel Gompers and the Founding of the
Television in the 1950s and the
American Federation
Transformation of American
Entertainment
of Labor
The Homestead Act and the Settlement of
The Great Migration of African Americans
the West
to the North and its
Sears Roebuck Catalogue and the Rise of
Consequences
Mass Consumerism
King Phillip’s War and its Impact
Harry Truman: Changing the Way We Fight
Ms. Magazine and the Growth of the
War and the
Feminist Movement
Dropping of the Bomb
Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific
The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
War
Prohibition
Walter Reed and the Conquest of Yellow
Dorothea Dix and the Asylum Movement
Fever
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
The Civilian Conservation Corp
and Alcohol in
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the
Coming of the Civil
War
The Impact of the Erie Canal
America
Canals and Railroads: The 19th Century
Revolution in
Transportation
The Sinking of the USS Maine and the
The Airplane: Revolution in Warfare
Beginning of the
Trial of John Peter Zenger: Rights of the
Spanish American War
Press (1734)
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the
Samuel Slater and the Industrial Revolution
American Labor
(1789)
The Presidential Election of 1800- a
King Phillips War (1675)
Peaceful Transition
First Great Awakening (1730s)
Sewer Systems: Revolution in Urban
Imperial Reforms:
Sanitation
-Currency Act (1764)
The Federal Reserve: Reform of the
-Sugar Act (1764)
Banking System
-Stamp Act (1765)
The Columbian Exchange
-Townshed Acts (1767)
Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan: Leaders
-Tea Act (1773)
of the Women’s
-Intolerable Acts (1774)
Movement
Boston Massacre (1770)
United Farm Workers (1966)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Native American boarding schools (1880s)
Revolutionary War (1776-1783)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Dawes Act (1887)
Northwest Indian War (1785-1795)
Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
The Constitutional Convention (1787)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Creating a New Nation: The Early National
American Indian Movement (1960s/70s)
Period
1968 Indian Civil Rights Act
Northwest Ordinance/ Land Ordinance of
Wounded Knee Incident (1973)
1785
(NAGPRA) Native American Graves
The Whiskey Rebellion (1791)
Protection and Repatriation
The Cotton Gin (1793)
Act (1990)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
National Women’s Rights Convention
Pike Treaty (1805)
(1850)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Elizabeth Blackwell and Female Education
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Reform (1850s)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Nellie Bly and Stunt Journalism (1880s)
War for Texas Independence (1835)
19th Amendment (1920)
1848 Seneca Falls Convention
Rosie the Riveter- Role of Women in WWII
California Gold Rush (1848-1855)
(1940)
Compromise of 1850
Equal Rights Amendment (1972)
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1850
Jamestown and Tobacco (1607)
Trust Busting & President Roosevelt
Civil War and Reconstruction
(1901)
Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt (1831)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
South Carolina secedes from the Union
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)
(1860)
Keating-Owen Act Child Labor Act (1916)
New York Draft Riots of 1863
IWW Loggers Strike (1917)
Battle of Antietam (1862)
The Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
New Deal:
The Gettysburg Address (1863)
-Emergency Banking Act (1933)
The Dakota War of 1862
-Glass-Stegall Act (1933)
Homestead Act (1862)
-Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
-Relief Agencies (1933-1935)
The ‘New South’ (1877 <)
-Social Security (1935)
Freedmen’s Bureau (1865-1869)
West Coast Waterfront Strike of 1934
Memphis Riots of 1866
Wagner Act (1935)
Black Code – Jim Crow Laws (1876-1965)
Flint Sit-Down Strike (1937)
Reconstruction Amendments (1865-1870)
Recession of 1937
World War II and the Cold War
Development of the Industrial U.S./Social
and Labor Issues
The Arts
Industrial Revolution (1800s)
Jackson Pollock; Abstract Expressionist
Oliver Kelley starts the Grange (1867)
(1950s)
Yellowstone Park: Beginning of National
Pop Art (1950s)
Great Chicago Fire and Its Impact (1872)
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s
Parks and Land Preservation (1872)
Cabin (1852)
Great Railroad Strike (1873)
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle (1906)
U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1880/90s)
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883
Bob Dylan, folk-rock music (1960s)
Haymarket Strike and Riot (1886)
Film: West Side Story (1961)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Television: A Cultural Reform
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Martha Graham: Mother of Modern Dance
Pullman Railroad Strike (1893)
Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse: A Cultural
Mother Jones and Labor Rights (1900s)
Transformation
The Beatles and the British Invasion
Supreme Court Cases
Science and Technology
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Edison and the Light Bulb (1880s)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Steamships (early 19th century)
Plessey v. Ferguson (1896)
Ford’s Model T and the Assembly Line
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
(1908)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Telephone: A Communication’s Revolution
Man Landing on the Moon
Launch of the First Satellite
Borlaug and the Green Revolution (1960s)
Jonas Salk and the Polio vaccine
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and
Environmental Awareness
(1962)
The Personal Computer Revolution
The Development of the Railroads
Sports History
Implementation of forward pass in football
(1906)
Development of NCAA (1906)
Implementation of hockey helmets (1930s)
Invention of Instant Replay (1955)
Implementation of the three-point line
(1961)
Sports Illustrated publishes articles exposing
steroids (1960s)
Curt Flood and Free Agency in Baseball
Title IX: Gender Equity in Sports (1972)
Breaking the Barrier: Jackie Robinson
The Black Sox Scandal