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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence signed
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Constitution written
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Bill of Rights ratified
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Civil War/Reconstructon
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Homestead Act
provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery -
14th Amendment
citizenship and due process -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
voting for all male citizens -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
1.Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
2.Philanthropy
3.Monopoly
4.Jane Addams
5.Laissez-Faire -
Chinese Exclusion Act
prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act -
Pendleton Civil Service Act
awarded government jobs based on merit -
Interstate Commerce Act
endure railroad set "reasonable and just" rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business -
Dawes Act
gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively -
Hull house funded, first of many settlement houses
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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The Progressive Era
1.Muckrakers
2.Initiative, Referendum, Recall
3. The Great Migration
4.NAACP
5.Immigration Issues -
Plessy v. Ferguson
legalized segregation, establish "separate but equal" -
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Imperialism
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Klondike Gold Rush
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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Meat Inspection Act
law that makes it illegal to adulterate of misbrand meat -
Pure Food and Drug Act
regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines -
NAACP Founded
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16th Amendment
established the federal income tax -
17th Amendment
direct election of U.S. Senators -
Federal Reserve Act
established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry -
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World War I
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National Parks System created
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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Would War II
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
1.Containment
2.Arms Race/Space Race
3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
4.Communism
5.Domino Theory -
Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Sweatt v. 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
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. 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
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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USSR launches sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Bay of Pigs invasion on Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Gulf Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in 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 an equal opportunity basis -
24th Ammendment
abolishes the poll tax -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
eliminated literacy test for voters -
Tet offensive
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Tinker V. Des Moines
defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public School. -
Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First man on the moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon papers leaked
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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26th Ammendment
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Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Power Act
law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval -
War Powers Act
law limited the President's right to send troops to war without congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to President Nixon's resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century