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Founding Fathers:
Civil War & the Gilded Age

The Game as History - The Presidents and the Issues They Faced

Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865

Initiating Civil War
War in the West
Kansas
Emancipation Proclamation
Transcontinental Railroad
Lee Moves North
West Virginia
Lee Defiant
Abraham Lincoln/
Andrew Johnson
1865-1869

Nevada
Reconstruction Amendments
Re-admitting Tennessee
Reconstruction
Alaska purchase
Nebraska
More Re-admissions
Ulysses S. Grant
1869-1873

Public Credit Act of 1869
Re-admitting GA, MS, TX, VA
The South Resists
Treaty of Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
1873-1877

Long Depression
Gold Standard
Colorado
Black Hills Gold
Rutherford B. Hayes
1877-1881

Ending Reconstruction
Great Railroad Strike
James Garfield/
Chester A. Arthur
1881-1885

Star Route Scandal
Downturn of 1882
Grover Cleveland
1885-1889

Civil War Pensions
Department of Agriculture
Benjamin Harrison
1889-1893

Montana
Washington
North Dakota
South Dakota
Idaho
Wyoming
Breaking Monopolies
Purchasing Silver
Grover Cleveland
1893-1897

Panic of 1893
Pullman Rail Strike
Utah
William McKinley
1897-1901

Annexing Hawaii
Spanish-American War
"Open Door" Policy
Boxer Rebellion
William McKinley/
Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1905

A Man, A Plan, A Canal
Philippine-American War
Breaking the Railroad Trusts
Breaking the Oil Trusts
Anthracite Coal Strike
Theodore Roosevelt
1905-1909

Russo-Japanese War
Crisis in Morocco
Food Safety
Knickerbocker Crisis
Oklahoma
William Howard Taft
1909-1913

New Mexico
Arizona
Woodrow Wilson
1913-1917

Tampico Affair
Recession of 1913
Preventing Monopolies
The 16th Amendment
Pancho Villa
German U-Boat Warfare
British Blockade
American Ships Lost to U-Boats
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmermann Telegram
Unrestricted U-Boat Warfare
A War to End All Wars


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