Identifications

Group 1:  “In Our Last Episode”: The U.S. to 1877

Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876)
Homestead Act (1862)
Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) 

Jim Crow Laws and Grandfather Clauses
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963)
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] (1909)

Group 2:  1877-1910: Business/Foreign Affairs/Immigration

Alexander Graham Bell
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Ellis Island
John Pierpoint (J.P.) Morgan

Panama Canal (1904)
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)
Scopes Trial
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
The Battleship Maine (1898)
The Birth of A Nation
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Spanish American War

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
 

Group 3:  The Progressive Era: 1900-1916

Progressives

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Rough Riders
Standard Oil

Trust-Busting
William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)

W.E.B. DuBois

Booker T. Washington
Hull House and Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906)
Pure Food and Drug Act/Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Lynchings
Margaret Sanger (1916)
 

Group 4:  Woodrow Wilson and World War I
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1923)

Lusitania (1917)
Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
Treaty of Versailles (1919)

League of Nations
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 
Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917-1918)
A. Mitchell Palmer (1918-1921)

Volstead Act (1919)
American Civil Liberties Union (1917>)
Great Migration (1910>) (Black Americans 1910-1950)

Group 5:  America Between the Wars

Kellogg-Briand Pact
Charles Lindbergh (1927)
"flappers"
"Silent Cal" (1923-1928, 1872-1933)
Al Capone (1899-1947)
Henry Ford

Nye Committee

Ku Klux Klan

Black Thursday (October 24, 1929)
Dust Bowl

The 100 Days

National Recovery Administration

Works Progress Administration (WPA) (1935 – 1942)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Bonus Army (Summer, 1932)

Tennessee Valley Authority (1933)
Social Security Act (1935)

Group 6:  The United States and World War II

Adolph Hitler

Josef Stalin

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)

Winston Churchill

Wagner-Rogers Bill

Auschwitz (1939-1945)

Neutrality Acts (1935-1939)
Lend Lease (March 1941)

Pearl Harbor

Executive Order #9066 (February 1941) - Japanese Internment

Rosie the Riveter

Manhattan Project (1941-1945)

United Nations (1943)

Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949)

Serviceman’s Readjustment Act (1946)  (GI Bill of Rights)

Group 7:  1950s: Seeking the Center with Eisenhower

Eisenhower Doctrine

Greensboro

Rosa Parks

Strom Thurmond

Dixiecrat

European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan) (1948-1952)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1947--NATO)
Mao Zedong (1949)
Korean War

U2 Incident (May 1960)

House Un-American Affairs Committee (HUAC)

Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957)
Sputnik (1957)

Baby Boom (1945-1963)
Salk Vaccine (1955)
Disneyland (Anaheim, CA-1955) 
Playboy Magazine (1954)
Elvis Presley
 

Group 8:  1960s: The Turbulent Decade

Apollo 9/Mercury 7

Barry Goldwater

Betty Freidan

Bobby Kennedy

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
SNCC (1960)
Malcolm X (1965)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Watts Riot (1965)
Black Panthers (1968)

Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17, 1961)
Cuban Missile Crisis (October 22-28, 1962)

Earl Warren

Medicare-Medicaid (1964/1965)
Immigration Act of 1965
George Wallace

Ho Chi Minh (1945>)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (Aug. 7, 1964)
Tet Offensive (January, 1968)
My Lai Massacre (1968)
Pentagon Papers (1971)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)(1965)
1968 Democratic Convention
Nikita Khrushchev

NOW

Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)

Group 9:  Malaise and Conservative Rebirth: 1970-1988

Henry Kissinger

Kent State (May, 1970)

Energy Crisis

CREEP (1972)

Roe. v. Wade (1973)

War Powers Act (1973)
Freedom of Information Act (1974)
Richard Nixon
Mikhail Gorbechev

Glastnost

Sandanistas/Contras
Desert Shield/Desert Storm (1990-91)