U.S. History Video Note Guidelines
10: Reconstruction And Segregation (1865 � 1910)
Time Line 1865 � President Lincoln is assassinated. 1865 � The 13th Amendment is ratified. 1866 � Over President Johnson�s veto, the Civil Rights Act is passed. 1867 � The Reconstruction Acts are passed. 1868 � President Johnson�s impeachment trial begins; he is narrowly acquitted. 1868 � The 14th Amendment is ratified. 1868 � Former Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant is elected president. 1870 � The Force Acts are passed. 1870 � The 15th Amendment is ratified. 1876 � Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president. 1877 � Military occupation of the South is ended; Radical Reconstruction is over. 1896 � The U.S. Supreme Court decides the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Vocabulary Reconstruction � The Civil War � Ford�s Theater � 13th Amendment � Black Codes 14th Amendment � The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 impeachment � 15th Amendment � Freedmen�s Bureau � Ku Klux Klan � The Force Acts segregation sharecropping � Jim Crow laws � Plessy vs. Ferguson �Back to Top
11: Industrialization And Urbanization
Time Line 1862 � The Federal Homestead Act is passed. 1864 � President Lincoln sets aside the Yosemite Valley for preservation. 1865 � The Civil War ends. 1869 � The transcontinental railroad is completed in Promontory, Utah. 1869-1870 � The Utah and Wyoming territories give women the right to vote. 1871 � Yellowstone National Park is created. 1873 � Thousands of businesses close during a major financial panic. 1876 � Alexander Graham Bell holds the first public demonstration of the telephone at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. 1879 � Thomas Edison develops the first practical light bulb. 1885 � The Santa Fe Railroad to southern California is completed. 1892 � John Muir helps to establish the Sierra Club. Vocabulary Louisiana Purchase � industrialization � telegraph � transcontinental railroad � 1876 Centennial Exposition � patent � Standard Oil � philanthropist � robber barons � Panic of 1873 � captains of industry � cattle frontier � vaqueros � Homestead Act of 1862 � Great Plains � bonanza farm � mass production � Environmental Movement � National Audubon Society � Sierra Club �Back to Top
12: Immigration And Cultural Change
Time Line 1867 �The National Association of Baseball Players bars black players and teams. 1870 �The �new� immigration of southern and eastern Europeans begins. 1876 �The California Workingmen�s Party is formed. 1882 �The Chinese Exclusion Act is passed. 1886 � Samuel Gompers helps organize the American Federation of Labor. 1890 � Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives. 1893 �The first public performance using a movie projector, called a kinetoscope. Vocabulary The Civil War � tenements � industrialization � . labor union � American Federation of Labor � typhoid � discrimination � workmen�s compensation � political boss benefit societies � E Pluribus Unum � Americanize � California Workingmen�s Party � The Chinese Exclusion Act � scientific racism � Vaudeville � nickelodeon �Back to Top
Time Line 1869 � The Knights of Labor is founded. 1877 � The Great Railroad Strike takes place. 1886 � Several people are killed at the Haymarket Square bombing. 1886 � The American Federation of Labor is founded. 1889 � The Homestead Strike occurs. 1892 � The Populist Party is organized. 1892 � Grover Cleveland is elected president of the United States. 1894 � Coxey�s Army conducts a march on Washington. 1894 � The Pullman strike takes place. 1896 � William McKinley is elected president of the United States. Vocabulary The Great Railroad Strike workman�s compensation child labor laws �rags to riches� The Civil War The Knights of Labor � boycott � Haymarket Square � anarchist � American Federation of Labor (AFL) � Homestead Steel � trade union Pinkerton agents lockout � court injunctions � Grange � cooperatives � Southern Farmers Alliance � Populism � Coxey�s Army � Pullman Palace Car Company �Back to Top
Time Line 1881 � Booker T.Washington founds the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. 1889 � Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star open Hull House in Chicago. 1890 �The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is enacted. 1892 �Almost two hundred African-Americans are lynched in the United States. 1901 � President McKinley is assassinated;Theodore Roosevelt becomes president. 1904 � Ida Tarbell writes an expose of the Standard Oil Trust Company. 1905 � IndustrialWorkers of theWorld is formed. 1906 � Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle. 1906 �The federal Meat Inspection Act is passed. 1906 �The Pure Food and Drug Act is enacted. 1909 �The NAACP is founded. 1909 �The National Conservation Commission is formed. 1912 �WoodrowWilson is elected president of the United States. 1914 �The Clayton Anti-Trust Act is passed. 1914 �WorldWar I begins in Europe. Vocabulary Standard Oil � Progressivism � . Hull House � child labor reform � Americanize � Tammany Hall � muckrakers � The Jungle � The Pure Food and Drug Act � trust � trust-busting � Clayton Anti-Trust Act � Federal Reserve Act � The Progressive Party � Plessy vs. Ferguson � lynching � Socialist Party � Industrial Workers of the World � Suffragists �Back to Top
15: United States And The World
Time Line 1867 � Secretary of State Seward negotiates the purchase of Alaska. 1869 � The transcontinental railroad is completed. 1883 � The United States begins constructing a powerful naval fleet. 1887 � Congress passes the Dawes Act. 1890 � Hundreds of Sioux are massacred at Wounded Knee. 1890 � Alfred Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History. 1898 � The American battleship Maine explodes, killing over two hundred sailors. 1898 � The United States defeats Spain in the Spanish-American War. 1898 � Hawaii is annexed by the United States. 1901 � President McKinley is assassinated;Theodore Roosevelt becomes president. 1902 � The Philippine-American War ends; America controls the Philippines. 1903 � President Roosevelt issues his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. 1914 � The Panama Canal opens. 1914 � The Mexican Revolution begins. 1916 � Pancho Villa attacks the U.S.; General Pershing�s expedition into Mexico begins. Vocabulary The Civil War � World War I � transcontinental railroad � reservations � The Dawes Act � New Deal � The Carlisle Model � Wounded Knee � �Seward�s Folly� � missionaries � The Monroe Doctrine � T �Remember the Maine� � �The Splendid Little War� � The Open Door Policy � imperialism � The Anti-Imperialist League � Philippine-American War � The Platt Amendment � Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine � �Dollar Diplomacy� � �Yankee Imperialism� �Back to Top
Time Line 1914 �Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated;WorldWar I begins. 1915 � British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk. 1916 �WoodrowWilson is reelected president of the United States. 1917 � PresidentWilson asks for a declaration of war against Germany. 1917 �The Espionage Act is passed. 1918 �The Sedition Act is passed. 1918 �WorldWar I ends. 1918 �An influenza pandemic kills millions worldwide. 1919 � Major race riots occur in American cities. 1919 � Numerous labor strikes impact the nation. 1920 �The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified. Vocabulary The Allied Powers � The Central Powers � trench warfare � isolationism � Progressives � imperialism � blockade � U-boat � Selective Service Act � Liberty Bonds � The Great Migration � Nineteenth Amendment � Committee on Public Information � American Expeditionary Force � Treaty of Brest-Litovsk � President Wilson�s Fourteen Points � League of Nations � Versailles Treaty � Red Summer of 1919 � nativism �Back to Top
Time Line 1913 � Henry Ford sets up the first moving assembly line. 1913 � John Watson publishes Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. 1914 � Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association. 1919 � The 18th Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol, is ratified. 1920 � Women gain the right to vote with ratification of the 19th Amendment. 1920s � For the first time, more Americans live in cities than in the countryside. 1924 � The Immigration Act establishes the first national origins quota system. 1925 � The Scopes trial is held in Tennessee. 1927 � Duke Ellington brings his band to the Cotton Club in Harlem. 1927 � The Jazz Singer, the first �talkie�movie, is released. 1927 � Charles Lindbergh is first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1929 � The stock market crash signals the end of the Roaring Twenties. Vocabulary Progressivism � �The Jazz Age� and �The Roaring Twenties� � Third Industrial Revolution � Model T � mass consumer culture � 19th Amendment � speakeasies � flappers � snake oil salesmen � Universal Negro Improvement Association � Harlem Renaissance � The Cotton Club � blues � Prohibition � Ku Klux Klan � nativism � . �Golden Age of Sports� � Scopes trial � The Gospel of Business �Back to Top
18: The Great Depression And The New Deal
Time Line 1920s �The United States enjoys an unprecedented economic boom. 1928 � Herbert Hoover is elected president. 1929 �The stock market collapses. 1931 � Several unemployed men are killed in protests at Ford�s River Rouge plant. 1932 �The unemployment rate in the United States reaches approximately 25%. 1932 � Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president. 1933 �The first New Deal legislation begins to be enacted. 1934 � Great Plains dust storms blow soil as far east asWashington,D.C. 1934 �The Supreme Court rules the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional. 1935 �The second New Deal begins. 1935 �The Social Security Act is signed into law. 1936 � President Roosevelt is reelected. 1938 � Congress authorizes federal deficit spending to stimulate the struggling economy. 1940 � President Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented third term. Vocabulary Roaring Twenties � Stock market crash (1929) � Great Depression � Hoovervilles � trickle down theory � Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) � first New Deal � National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) � Dust Bowl � Agricultural Adjustment Administration � Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) � Works Progress Administration (WPA) � �Black Cabinet� � �Blue Eagle� codes � Commerce Clause � American Liberty League Organization � Communist Party � second New Deal � Social Security Act � National Labor Relations Act � court-packing � Fair Labor Standards Act �Back to Top
Time Line 1919 � The Treaty of Versailles ending World War I is signed. 1922 � Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of Russia�s Communist Party. 1922 � Fascist Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy. 1933 � Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany. 1938 � Germany invades Austria and Czechoslovakia. 1940� Germany invades Denmark,Norway,Holland,Belgium and Luxembourg. 1940 � France surrenders to Nazi forces. 1940 � The Battle of Britain occurs. 1940 � President Franklin Roosevelt is reelected for a fourth term. 1941 � German forces pour into the Soviet Union. 1941 � Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; the U.S. declares war on Japan. 1942 � Japanese Americans begin to be placed in internment camps. 1942 � The Battle of Midway Island takes place. 1943 � Race riots explode in dozens of American cities. 1944 � The invasion of Normandy, or D-Day, begins. 1944 � The Battle of the Bulge takes place. 1945 � President Franklin Roosevelt dies; Harry Truman becomes president. 1945 � Germany surrenders; the war in Europe ends. 1945 � The U.S. drops atomic bombs on two Japanese cities; the war in the Pacific ends. Vocabulary The Treaty of Versailles � Nazi Party � Totalitarian state � fascism � blitzkrieg � Battle of Britain � wolf packs � Axis Powers � Neutrality Acts � isolationists � embargo � Lend-Lease Program � Pearl Harbor � Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere � Arsenal of Democracy � Fair Employment Practices Committee � second front � D-Day � Battle of the Bulge � concentration camps � Bataan Death March � The Battle of Midway � island hopping � Manhattan Project �Back to Top
Time Line 1947 � Jackie Robinson breaks the color line in Major League Baseball. 1947 � The Truman Administration issues the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. 1948 � President Truman ends segregation in the armed forces. 1948 � President Truman is reelected president. 1949 � The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is formed. 1950 � The Korean War begins. 1950 � Ralph Bunche is the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. 1952 � Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president. 1954 � Senator Joseph McCarthy is censured by Congress. 1954� The Supreme Court decides the Brown vs.the Board of Education case. 1955 � The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins. 1957 � President Eisenhower sends troops to enforce school integration in Arkansas. 1963 � Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the March on Washington for civil rights. Vocabulary The Fair Deal � Great Depression � The GI Bill of Rights � Dixiecrats � Crabgrass Frontier � Model T � Baby boomers � The Cold War � Iron Curtain � Truman Doctrine � 38th Parallel � massive retaliation � Second Red Scare � McCarthyism � blacklisting � Brown vs. the Board of Education � beatniks �Back to Top
Time Line 1945 � World War II ends. 1946 � The Soviet Union begins to dominate the countries of Eastern Europe. 1948 � The United States implements the Marshall Plan. 1948 � The United States begins the Berlin Airlift. 1949 � NATO is formed. 1950 � The Korean War begins. 1955 � The Warsaw Pact is formed. 1957 � The Soviet Union launches Sputnik. 1958 � NASA is created. 1960 � The Soviet Union shoots down an American U2 spy plane. 1961 � The Berlin Wall is erected. 1961 � The United States sends its first military personnel to Vietnam. 1962 � The Cuban Missile Crisis. 1963 � President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas,Texas, on November 22nd. 1972 � President Nixon makes an unprecedented trip to Communist China. 1972 � SALT I treaty with the Soviet Union is completed. 1987 � INF treaty is signed. 1989 � The Berlin Wall is opened. 1989 � Thousands are killed in a protest in China�s Tiananmen Square. 1993 � The break-up of the Soviet Union is completed; the Cold War ends. 1998 � The war in Bosnia ends. Vocabulary Third World � capitalism � communism � Cold War � containment � Iron Curtain � Truman Doctrine � Marshall Plan � blockade � North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) � Warsaw Pact � nuclear arms race � Sputnik � Berlin Wall � Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) � Bay of Pigs � domino theory � d�tente � Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) � Contra � Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) � Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty (INF) � glasnost � perestroika �Back to Top
Time Line 1954 � Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka decision outlaws racial segregation in public schools. 1955 � Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery,Alabama. 1957 � The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC, is formed. 1961 � The Freedom Riders campaign begins in the South. 1962 � National Farm Workers Association is formed, led by C�sar Ch�vez. 1963 � March on Washington is held in Washington,D.C. 1963 � President John F.Kennedy is assassinated. 1964 � Congress passes the Civil Rights Act. 1965 � Congress passes the Voting Rights Act. 1965 � Malcolm X is assassinated. 1968 � American Indian Movement is founded. 1968 � Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. 1968 � Robert Kennedy is assassinated. 1973 � Supreme Courts decides in Roe v.Wade that abortion is legal. 1990 � Americans with Disabilities Act is passed. Vocabulary segregation � Jim Crow laws � boycott � Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) � civil disobedience � Freedom Riders � Civil Rights Act of 1964 � Voting Rights Act of 1965 � Nation of Islam � Black Panthers � United Farm Workers (UFW) � American Indian Movement (AIM) � Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act � National Organization for Women (NOW) � Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) � Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) � affirmative action �Back to Top
Time Line 1858 � The French invade and begin to colonize Vietnam. 1941 � Ho Chi Minh forms the Vietnam Independence League, or Vietminh. 1954 � The French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu and Vietnam is divided into two parts. 1954 � President Eisenhower sends aid and military advisers to South Vietnam. 1963 � The Premier of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, is assassinated. 1963 � The President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is assassinated and Vice President Lyndon Johnson becomes president. 1964 � Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 1965 � The United States military begins Operation Rolling Thunder. 1968 � The North Vietnamese launch the Tet Offensive;Americans fear the war cannot be won. 1968 � President Johnson announces that he will not run for re-election. 1970 � President Nixon orders United States ground troops to invade Cambodia. 1970 � Student anti-war protestors are killed on college campuses. 1973 �The Paris Peace Accords are signed, declaring a cease-fire. Fighting resumes ten months later. 1975 � The North Vietnamese military attack and take Saigon as Americans evacuate. Vocabulary nationalist � Communism � Vietminh � Vietcong � guerrilla � Ho Chi Minh trail � Cold War � domino theory � Pentagon � Tonkin Gulf Resolution � Operation Rolling Thunder � Agent Orange � napalm � Tet Offensive � New Left � Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) � conscientious objector � Vietnamization � Watergate �Back to Top
Time Line 1947 � United Nations recommends dividing Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. 1948 � David Ben-Gurion proclaims Israel as an independent state. 1948 � First Arab-Israeli War begins. 1964 � Palestine Liberation Organization is formed. 1967 � Israel launches the Six Day War and captures West Bank, Gaza, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. 1969 � Yasser Arafat is named chairman of Palestine Liberation Organization. 1973 � Arab nations launch war against Israel in an attempt to regain territory lost in the Six Day War. 1981 � Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated. 1990 � Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait. 1991 � Kuwait is liberated by an international military force led by the United States. 1993 � The Oslo Accords are signed, setting forth a plan to resolve Middle East tensions. 1995 � Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated. 2001 � President Clinton leaves office without a Middle East settlement. Vocabulary Middle East � United Nations (UN) � refugee � Jerusalem � Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) � Six Day War � Camp David Accords � Oslo Accords � terrorism � extremist � Cold War � Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) � Communism � nationalist � Contras � moderate � Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) � Gulf War �Back to Top
Time Line 1960 � John F.Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the United States. 1961 �The BerlinWall is constructed. 1961 � Bay of Pigs invasion. 1962 � John Glenn is the first American to orbit the Earth. 1962 � Cuban Missile Crisis. 1963 � President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas,Texas, on November 22. Vice President Lyndon Johnson becomes the nation�s 36th President. 1964 �The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed. 1965 �The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed. 1965 �The Immigration Act of 1965 is passed. 1968 � Richard Nixon is elected the 37th President of the United States. 1969 � Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon. 1972 � President Nixon is reelected for a second term as president. 1974 � President Nixon resigns as President, and Gerald Ford becomes the 38th President of the United States. 1976 � Jimmy Carter is elected the 39th President of the United States. 1979 � Sixty-six Americans are taken hostage in Iran. 1980 � Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of the United States. Vocabulary New Frontier � Peace Corps � Bay of Pigs Invasion � Berlin Wall � blockade � Warren Commission � Civil Rights Act of 1964 � Voting Rights Act of 1965 � The Great Society � Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 � Medicare, Medicaid � The Immigration Act of 1965 � Gideon v. Wainwright � Miranda v. Arizona � inflation � Watergate � recession � Three Mile Island �Back to Top
Time Line 1979 �The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. 1980 � Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of the United States. 1981 �American hostages held in Iran are released. 1981 � S a n d ra Day O�Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court. 1981� 82 �The United States economy experiences a severe recession. 1983 � P resident Reagan proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative , or � Star Wars.� 1987 � President Reagan delivers his �Tear Down This Wall� speech. 1988 � George H. Bush is elected the 41st President of the United States. 1991 �The United States leads United Nations fo rces against Iraq in the Gulf War. 1992 � Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States. 1994 � R e p u blicans take control of both houses of Congress for the fi rst time in 42 years. 1996 � President Clinton signs the Welfare Reform Bill. 1999 � President Clinton is acquitted in his impeachment trial. 2000 � GeorgeW. Bush is elected the 43rd President of the United States. Vocabulary Cold War � impeach � inflation � communism � Reaganomics � Federal Reserve Board� recession � Great Depression � deficit � debt � deregulation � New Deal � Medicare, Medicaid � Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) � Contra � Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) � . United Nations (UN) � North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) � Gulf War � Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) �Back to Top