| Dick's Guide to American
History Since 1865
Another Free
College Level Course
1786 Federalist
Papers 45 and 46 by James Madison explaining why the proposed federal government would not
exceed the powers of the State governments
1863 Reconstruction
1865 Republican
Radicals
1866 The
Fourteenth Amendement
1867 Congress Took
Charge of Reconstruction
1870 The Fifteenth
Amendment
1870 After The Civil War and
Reconstruction
1869-76 Grant as President and
the Hayes/Tilden
1876 The Dirty Politics of
The Industrial Age, Local, State and National
1877 Compromise; Dick's Guide to
the Compromise of 1877
1880-1913 The USA
Becomes an Industrial Giant by 1900
1880-1913 American Society
in the Industrial Age
1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement
leads to World War II, Dick's Guide to American History
1917 Post World War I, Society and Culture:
Change and Adjustment
1917 Urban and Rural
Conflicts After World War I (The Great War)
1921-1933 The New Era: 1921-1933
1933 The New Deal: 1933-1941
1936 The Election of 1936,
FDR beats Landon, 60% of popular vote, 98% of electoral
1937 FDR takes on
Supreme Court; loses fights with nine old judges and loses to stack court
1944-45 Yalta and
Potsdam
1945 Post World War
II society - The Baby Boomers
1946 America's Post
World War Containnment Policy directed at Soviet Expansionism
1947 The Marshall Plan was created during the
Truman Years
1948 The Election of 1948, Truman beats Thomas Dewey
and Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats
1950 The Korean War
1950 McCarthyism
1951 Truman
sets up a Loyalty Review Board in 1951 to fight Communism at home
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower
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