U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Nicholas.Welch
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil War/ Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    provided 160 acres of land to anyone who would settle out in the west.

  • 13th amendment

    Abolished Slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    Granted Slaves citizenship and due process

  • Continental Railroad complete

  • 15th Amendment

    allowed voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

  • Sherman Antitrust act

    Outlawed Business Monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    legalized segregation and separate but equal laws
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    Imperialism

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    World War 1

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    The Roaring Twenties

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    The Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment- stop the spread of communism
    2. Arms Race/ Space Race- race between US and USSR between who can make the better technology
    3. The USSR is the union of the communist states under the power of Russia
    4. Communism- type of heavy government control with the goal to create a classless society.
    5. Domino Theory- the idea that if one country falls to communism that the surrounding ones will too.

  • Truman Doctrine

    US policy that offered financial aid to countries threatened by communism.

  • 22nd Amendment

    Prohibits Presidents from serving more than 2 terms.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War 2.

  • NATO Established

  • Start of Korean War

  • Sweatt vs Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenburg Trials

  • First H-Bomb detonated by United States

  • End of Korean War

  • Brown vs Board of education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk Invents Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks Arrest

  • Little Rock nine integrated into white school in AK

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24th amendment

    abolished the poll tax

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war on North Vietnam

  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on a equal opportunity basis.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • voting act of 1965

    eliminated literacy tests for voting

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale of lease of housing

  • Tinker V Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendments rights for students in U.S. public schools.

  • Kent state university shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers released

  • 26th Amendment

    Lowered the Voting age from 21 to 18

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on sex in school programs.

  • War Powers act

    Law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal leads to Nixon's resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, Marks the end of Vietnam War

  • Camp Davis Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three mile Island disaster

  • Iran Contra affair

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    1990's -21'st Century

  • USSR launches Sputnik