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19th Amendment
Granted American women the right to vote -
Teapot Dome
Scandal begins when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming. -
Scopes Trial
John T. Scopes of teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school -
Stock Market Crashed
The Stock Market Crash as Black Tuesday. This was a devastating and memorable event because all stocks lost 13% of all their value. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Signed by President Herbert Hoover. Its effective rate hikes would slash world trade. -
The New Deal
The president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt made a plan to help people and the economy recover from the disaster of the Great Depression. -
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World War II
Known as The Second World War -
Pearl Harbor
Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor -
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Korean War
Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea -
Brown v. Board
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. -
Little Rock Nine
Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. and his SCLC organized a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C., where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech -
JFK Assassination
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States -
Voting Rights Act
prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
MLK, Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement -
Watergate
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. -
Ronald Reagan Assassination
Shot in the chest while walking to his limousine in Washington, D.C. -
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Dedicated in Washington, D.C., holding the names of the more than 58,000 killed or missing in action during the conflict