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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 Wikidata property: Archaeology of the United States
Early Colonization (1607–1789)
[edit]related Wikidata 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 -
The U.S. Declaration of Independence. -
During the Revolutionary War, many enslaved people and Indigenous nations supported the British -
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Westward Expansion and Indigenous Genocide (1776-1900)
[edit]related Wikidata 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 -
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 Wikidata 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 -
Union soldier from Kentucky -
Confederate soldier from Alabama -
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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Reconstruction (1865-1877)
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And Not This Man? (August 1865), by Thomas Nast -
Political cartoon depicting the anti-Reconstruction movement (1868) -
U.S. Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American in the Congress (1870-71) -
"Colored Rule in Reconstructed State", Harpers Weekly (1874) -
A political cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicts the Compromise of 1877
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Jim Crow (1877–1964)
[edit]related Wikidata 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
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Gilded Age (1870s – c. 1900)
[edit]related Wikidata property: Gilded Age
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Toluca Street oil district in Los Angeles -
Standard oil
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Progressive Era (1896–1916)
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Mexican American boy targeted for eugenic sterilization. The Progressive Era marked the zenith of Eugenics in the United States -
Breaker boys sort coal in at an anthracite coal breaker near South Pittston, Pennsylvania, in 1911 -
Anti-immigrant sentiment during the Progressive Era set the foundation for the Immigration Act of 1924 which shut off immigration from non-white countries -
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 -
Mexican American boy in San Antonio, Texas -
Hooverville in Portland, Oregon -
African American boy in Vicksburg, Mississippi -
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World War II
[edit]related Wikidata 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 Wikidata property: Racial segregation in the United States
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Detroit, Michigan -
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Chinese Americans were segregated into neighborhoods known as Chinatowns
Civil Rights Movement (1945–1975)
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Clinton, Tennessee -
Chicano Movement, Austin, TX -
Red Power movement, Alcatraz Island, CA -
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Little Rock Nine, Little Rock, AK -
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Watts Riots, Watts, CA -
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 -
1979 oil crisis under Jimmy Carter -
Ronald Reagan led the War on Drugs and the Iran-Contra Affair -
Phyllis Schafly led the movement to prevent the Equal Rights Amendment from being adopted -
Bill Clinton become only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached -
Fox News started in 1996 and quickly became the number one news channel in the U.S. -
Rise of Mass Incarceration in the United States under Reagan and Clinton -
1992 Los Angeles riots after the police brutalization of Rodney King -
Oklahoma City bombing by anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh
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Contemporary (2000–present)
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Iraq War was started after George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction -
First inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African-American president in U.S. history -
Legalization of same-sex marriage after Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 -
Donald Trump was impeached twice and lost his re-election bid in 2020 -
2021 United States Capitol attack by Trump supporters who believed his lies about 2020 election irregularities -
George Floyd protests after the murder of George Floyd -
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
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