Period 6 1865-1898
Name given by Mark Twain to post Civil War period, implied hidden problems
Gilded Age
War that brought America Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillippines
Spanish-American War
President associated with interstate highway system, growth of suburbs, Little Rock Nine Protection
Eisenhower
President for most of the 1980s
RONALD REAGAN
Reconstruction ended in this year
1877
Most famous political machine
Tammany Hall
Jane Addams is associated with this movement (not Progressivism)
Settlement Houses
Name of LBJ's set of domestic programs
Great Society
Epidemic that was mostly ignored by federal government in the 80s
HIV/AIDS
Civil War broke out this year
1861
first federal law that (was supposed to) break up monopolies
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Government agency meant to persuade Americans to support WWI
Committee on Public Information
Invention that propelled massive demographic shift from North to South and Southwest
Air conditioning
Bill Clinton's free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Constitution written this year
1787
Agricultural group that focused on farmers's rights
Populists
Amendments that prohibited alcohol and repealed prohibition
18 and 21
Campaign in Vietnam that turned American opinion against the war
Tet Offensive
George W. Bush's legislative response after the 9/11 terror attacks
Patriot Act
WWII started for the U.S. this year
1941
Strike crushed by Government
Homestead Strike, Great Railway Strike, Pullman Strike
Group that opposed American intervention in WW2
America First Committee
Name of economic crisis during Ford and Carter's administrations
Stagflation
Two areas that lead in immigration to the U.S. in period 9
Asia, Latin America
Mexican American War lasted between these years
1846 - 1848