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- English: History of the United States — the cultural, social, and political history of the United States.
Pre-colonial history (40000 BCE - 1607 CE)
[edit]related property: Archaeology of the United States
Early Colonization (1607–1789)
[edit]related property: Colonization of the United States
National Founding (1776-1789)
[edit]Main gallery: American Revolutionary War.
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Slave quarters at George Washington's plantation at Mt. Vernon
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The U.S. Declaration of Independence called Native Americans "merciless Indian Savages."
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During the Revolutionary War, many enslaved people and Indigenous nations supported the British
Westward Expansion and Indigenous Genocide (1776-1900)
[edit]related property: Native American genocide in the United States
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Andrew Jackson ordered the ethnic cleansing of Georgia, culminating in the Trail of Tears
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Massacre in Crow War
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Sitting Bull (1831-1890) led the Lakota people to resist U.S.' genocidal policies
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Slavery (1619–1865)
[edit]related property: Slavery in the United States
Civil War (1861–1865)
[edit]Main gallery: American Civil War.
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Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the majority opinion in Dred Scott
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Union soldier from Kentucky
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Confederate soldier from Alabama
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
[edit]related property: Reconstruction Era
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And Not This Man? (August 1865), by Thomas Nast
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Political cartoon depicting the anti-Reconstruction movement (1868)
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U.S. Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American in the Congress (1870-71)
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"Colored Rule in Reconstructed State", Harpers Weekly (1874)
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A political cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicts the Compromise of 1877
Jim Crow (1877–1964)
[edit]related property: Jim Crow Era
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Ku Klux Klan marching in Washington, D.C.
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KKK in Virginia
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The Juan Crow era is described as the rough equivalent matrix of legal discrimination targeting Mexican Americans during this period
Gilded Age (1870s – c. 1900)
[edit]related property: Gilded Age
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Toluca Street oil district in Los Angeles
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Standard oil
Progressive Era (1896–1916)
[edit]related property: Progressive Era
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Mexican American boy targeted for eugenic sterilization. The Progressive Era marked the zenith of Eugenics in the United States
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Breaker boys sort coal in at an anthracite coal breaker near South Pittston, Pennsylvania, in 1911
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Anti-immigrant sentiment during the Progressive Era set the foundation for the Immigration Act of 1924 which shut off immigration from non-white countries
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Women's Progressive era organizing led to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Great Depression (1929-1941)
[edit]Main gallery: Great Depression in the United States.
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Bank failure
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Mexican American boy in San Antonio, Texas
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Hooverville in Portland, Oregon
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African American boy in Vicksburg, Mississippi
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World War II
[edit]related property: Military history of the United States during World War II
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Mexican American servicemen
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Segregation (1896–1954)
[edit]related property: Racial segregation in the United States
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Detroit, Michigan
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Dallas, Texas
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Lancaster, Ohio
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Durham, North Carolina
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Chinese Americans were segregated into neighborhoods known as Chinatowns
Civil Rights Movement (1945–1975)
[edit]related property: Civil Rights era
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Clinton, Tennessee
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Chicano Movement, Austin, TX
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Red Power movement, Alcatraz Island, CA
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Little Rock Nine, Little Rock, AK
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Watts Riots, Watts, CA
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Gay liberation movement
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Late-Twentieth Century (1975–1999)
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Nixon became the first sitting U.S. president to resign after the Watergate scandal
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1979 oil crisis under Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan led the War on Drugs and the Iran-Contra Affair
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Phyllis Schafly led the movement to prevent the Equal Rights Amendment from being adopted
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Bill Clinton become only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached
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Fox News started in 1996 and quickly became the number one news channel in the U.S.
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Rise of Mass Incarceration in the United States under Reagan and Clinton
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1992 Los Angeles riots after the police brutalization of Rodney King
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Oklahoma City bombing by white supremacist Timothy McVeigh
Contemporary (2000–present)
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Iraq War was started after George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction
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First inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African-American president in U.S. history
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Legalization of same-sex marriage after Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015
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Donald Trump was impeached twice and lost his re-election bid in 2020
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2021 United States Capitol attack by Trump supporters who believed his lies about 2020 election irregularities
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George Floyd protests after the murder of George Floyd
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Mass shootings in the United States reached an all-time high after Congress allowed semi-automatic bans to lapse in 2006 and the Supreme Court loosened gun controls in 2008
