TOPIC/ KEY POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS KEY SOCIAL KEY ECONOMIC KEY FOREIGN POLICY EVENTS KEY CIVIL RIGHTS
PERIOD DEVELOPMENTS DEVELOPMENTS DEVELOPMENTS
RECONSTRUC • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments • Freedmen’s Bureau • Industrial North • Monroe Doctrine (1823) • Black codes
TION • 10% Plan vs Wade Davis Bill • Sharecropping • Agricultural South ongoing • 13th, 14h, 15th Amendments
1865-1877 • Radical reconstruction • North v South divide • Economical divide • Westward expansion and • 1866 and 1875 Civil Rights Acts
• Democrat Redeemers • Segregation • Southern recovery Manifest destiny ongoing • Rise of Jim Crow laws
• 1877 - Hayes Compromise • 1873 depression • Emancipation partly motivated • KKK and the enforcement acts
• Republican hegemony Britain to stop supporting the
South
• 1867 - Purchase of Alaska
GILDED AGE • Republican changed to Democrat in • Population increase = slums • Spoils System - machine • Immigration increase from • 1887 - Dawes Act
1884 • 1877 - Railroad strike politics Europe • Lynchings
• Laissez-faire Gov - corrupt • Robber Barons - corrupt • Robber Barons = Captains • Westward expansion • Literacy test for the vote
• 1887 - Dawes Act • Labour Movement - Union of industry • 1882 - Trade deals with Hawaii • Jim Crow laws/Segregation
• 1883 - Pendleton Act formed in 1866 - movement • Laissez-faire = free market (Pearl Harbour) • 1877-1890 - Labour Movement
• 1883 - Tariff Act continued more so in 1870s/ • Cheap labour due to • 1881 - Pan-American
80s immigration Conference
WESTWARD • 1862 - Homestead Act • Rapid industrial growth • Urbanisation • Westward expansion ongoing • Disruption of Native American
EXPANSION • 1852 - Pacific Railway Act • Religious persecution • Rapid industrial growth • Manifest destiny lifestyle due to loss of land and the
• Mid 1860s - Reservation Policy • Transcontinental Railroad • By 1890, the NY Stock • Immigration from Europe and Buffalo being driven away
• 1868 - Fort Laramie Treaty • 1887 - Dawes Act Exchange was 2nd on the Asia • Mid 1860s - Reservation Policy
• Republican hegemony • 1860s - Reservation Policy world money market • Railway improved foreign and • 1868 - Fort Laramie Treaty.
• Gold Rush internal trade
POPULISM • Populist movement emerged in the • Era of ‘change and charity’ • Limiting big business • WW1 began • Child labour
AND 1890s • Immigrants = ‘Americanised” • Regulatory commissions • Immigration increase • 19th Amendment = women’s vote
PROGRESSIVI • 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments • Media exposed poor living • Growth of public utility • neutrality until 1912, when the • 1916 - workmen’s compensation
SM • Prohibition conditions and political ownership US joined the war. Act
1900 - 1920 • Wilson (1912) - first Democrat POTUS corruption • Removal of laissez-faire • Progressive women’s associations.
in 50 years • Women’s suffrage and child gov for economic
welfare corruption
• Workers’ compensatetion
WORLD WAR • Democratic • NAACP an Black Press • Liberty and Victory loans to • Neutrality until 1917 • Segregation in army troops
ONE 1914 - • Bureau of Investigation of Justice • War Labor Policies Board allies • Increased threat from German • African-Americans migrated to
1918 (US Department to track down pro- • 1918 - National War Labor • Taxes for loans and war warfare (Zimmerman Telegram, Chicago to avoid discrimination
INVOLVEMENT Germans Board bonds collected by Gov submarines) resulted in joining • NAACP
1917-1918) • Wilson’s 14 Point Plan • War Industries Board war
• Wilson campaigns for League of • Gov intervention in • 14 Point Plan - points 1-5 to
Nations, but it doesn’t go through. industries such as maintain international relations
agriculture
PERIOD DEVELOPMENTS DEVELOPMENTS DEVELOPMENTS
RECONSTRUC • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments • Freedmen’s Bureau • Industrial North • Monroe Doctrine (1823) • Black codes
TION • 10% Plan vs Wade Davis Bill • Sharecropping • Agricultural South ongoing • 13th, 14h, 15th Amendments
1865-1877 • Radical reconstruction • North v South divide • Economical divide • Westward expansion and • 1866 and 1875 Civil Rights Acts
• Democrat Redeemers • Segregation • Southern recovery Manifest destiny ongoing • Rise of Jim Crow laws
• 1877 - Hayes Compromise • 1873 depression • Emancipation partly motivated • KKK and the enforcement acts
• Republican hegemony Britain to stop supporting the
South
• 1867 - Purchase of Alaska
GILDED AGE • Republican changed to Democrat in • Population increase = slums • Spoils System - machine • Immigration increase from • 1887 - Dawes Act
1884 • 1877 - Railroad strike politics Europe • Lynchings
• Laissez-faire Gov - corrupt • Robber Barons - corrupt • Robber Barons = Captains • Westward expansion • Literacy test for the vote
• 1887 - Dawes Act • Labour Movement - Union of industry • 1882 - Trade deals with Hawaii • Jim Crow laws/Segregation
• 1883 - Pendleton Act formed in 1866 - movement • Laissez-faire = free market (Pearl Harbour) • 1877-1890 - Labour Movement
• 1883 - Tariff Act continued more so in 1870s/ • Cheap labour due to • 1881 - Pan-American
80s immigration Conference
WESTWARD • 1862 - Homestead Act • Rapid industrial growth • Urbanisation • Westward expansion ongoing • Disruption of Native American
EXPANSION • 1852 - Pacific Railway Act • Religious persecution • Rapid industrial growth • Manifest destiny lifestyle due to loss of land and the
• Mid 1860s - Reservation Policy • Transcontinental Railroad • By 1890, the NY Stock • Immigration from Europe and Buffalo being driven away
• 1868 - Fort Laramie Treaty • 1887 - Dawes Act Exchange was 2nd on the Asia • Mid 1860s - Reservation Policy
• Republican hegemony • 1860s - Reservation Policy world money market • Railway improved foreign and • 1868 - Fort Laramie Treaty.
• Gold Rush internal trade
POPULISM • Populist movement emerged in the • Era of ‘change and charity’ • Limiting big business • WW1 began • Child labour
AND 1890s • Immigrants = ‘Americanised” • Regulatory commissions • Immigration increase • 19th Amendment = women’s vote
PROGRESSIVI • 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments • Media exposed poor living • Growth of public utility • neutrality until 1912, when the • 1916 - workmen’s compensation
SM • Prohibition conditions and political ownership US joined the war. Act
1900 - 1920 • Wilson (1912) - first Democrat POTUS corruption • Removal of laissez-faire • Progressive women’s associations.
in 50 years • Women’s suffrage and child gov for economic
welfare corruption
• Workers’ compensatetion
WORLD WAR • Democratic • NAACP an Black Press • Liberty and Victory loans to • Neutrality until 1917 • Segregation in army troops
ONE 1914 - • Bureau of Investigation of Justice • War Labor Policies Board allies • Increased threat from German • African-Americans migrated to
1918 (US Department to track down pro- • 1918 - National War Labor • Taxes for loans and war warfare (Zimmerman Telegram, Chicago to avoid discrimination
INVOLVEMENT Germans Board bonds collected by Gov submarines) resulted in joining • NAACP
1917-1918) • Wilson’s 14 Point Plan • War Industries Board war
• Wilson campaigns for League of • Gov intervention in • 14 Point Plan - points 1-5 to
Nations, but it doesn’t go through. industries such as maintain international relations
agriculture
