Industrialization:
- Thomas Edison
- Standard Oil
- Andrew Carnegie
- Sherman Antitrust Act *
- Henry Ford
The Labor Question:
- “The Labor Question”
- Knights of Labor
- American Federation of Labor
- Haymarket
- Homestead Lockout
- Pullman Strike
- Eugene V. Debs*
- Ludlow Massacre
The Closing of the Frontier:
- Pacific Railway Act
- Homestead Act*
- Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
- Little Big Horn
- Wounded Knee
- Frederick Jackson Turner*
Immigration:
- Ellis Island
- The Lower East Side
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Angel Island
- Pogroms
- Dillingham Commission*
Urbanization:
- Louis Sullivan
- Dumbbell Tenements
- How the Other Half Lives
- William Marcy Tweed
Outsiders:
- Settlement Houses
- Jim Crow Laws
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Lynching
- Sundown Towns
- Margaret Sanger*
Political Reform:
- Grangers
- Cross of Gold Speech
- Muckrakers
- Booker T. Washington
- W.E.B. DuBois
- The Mann Act
- Pure Food and Drug Act*
World War I:
- “Remember the Maine”
- Lusitania
- Zimmerman Telegram*
- Committee on Public Information
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Fourteen Points
- Versailles Treaty
The 1920s:
- KDKA
- Charles Lindbergh
- “The Jazz Singer”
- Installment Buying
- Volstead Act
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Johnson-Reed Act
- Marcus Garvey*
Business in the 1920s:
- Teapot Dome
- Florida Land Boom
- Great Crash
- Bruce Barton*
Great Depression:
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Bonus March
- The Dust Bowl
- Mexican Repatriation
New Deal I:
- The Hundred Days
- Fireside Chats
- Emergency Banking Act
- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
- Huey Long
- Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)*
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)*
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)*
New Deal II:
- National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
- Works Projects Administration (WPA)
- Social Security Act
- New Deal Coalition
- Court-Packing Plan
- John Maynard Keynes
- Fair Labor Standards Act*
WWII Abroad:
- Midway
- Iwo Jima and Okinawa
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- D-Day
- Stalingrad
WWII At Home:
- Henry J. Kaiser
- “Rosie the Riveter”
- A. Philip Randolph
- Japanese Internment
- GI Bill*
The Manhattan Project and the Origins of the Cold War:
- Yalta
- J. Robert Oppenheimer*
- Potsdam
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- NATO
- John Foster Dulles
- Berlin Wall
Anti-Communism:
- McCarran Act
- House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
- Alger Hiss
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung
- Inchon
- Joseph McCarthy
Baby Boom and the Postwar Prosperity:
- Taft Hartley-Act*
- Postwar Prosperity
- The Baby Boom
- Levittown
- Restrictive Covenants
- Redlining
Ike/JFK:
- Interstate Highway Act
- Sputnik
- U-2 Incident
- Kitchen Debate
- Peace Corps
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Cuban Missile Crisis
The Social History of the 1950s:
- The Feminine Mystique*
- The Organization Man
- Harley Earl
- Volkswagen Beetle
- Sam Phillips
Civil Rights:
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Little Rock School Crisis
- Letter from the Birmingham Jail*
- Civil Rights Act
- Voting Rights Act
Vietnam:
- Ho Chi Minh
- Dien Bien Phu
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution*
- Tet Offensive
- My Lai Massacre
The Counterculture:
- The Beat Generation
- Ken Kesey
- Timothy Leary
- Haight-Ashbury
- Woodstock
- The Generation Gap
- The “Silent Majority”*
Social Movements of the 1960s:
- The Great Society
- Port Huron Statement
- Free Speech Movement
- Stokely Carmichael*
- Black Panther Party
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Stonewall Uprising
Watergate and the 1970s:
- The Plumbers
- Woodward and Bernstein
- Saturday Night Massacre
- U.S. v. Nixon*
- Roe v. Wade
- Moral Majority
- Supply-Side Economics
Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War:
- PATCO Strike
- Kemp-Roth
- The Iran-Contra Affair
- Mikhail Gorbachev
The Bonfire of the Vanities and the Computer Revolution:
- Michael Milken
- Moore’s Law
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Netscape Navigator
- Rust Belt
The Clinton Years:
- “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Contract With America
- Jones v. Clinton*
- Kenneth Starr
- Bush v. Gore
Road to 9/11:
- Iran Hostage Crisis
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- First Gulf War
- World Trade Center Bombing (1993)
- Authorization to Use Military Force*
- The PATRIOT Act
