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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/Reconstruction
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Homestead Act
Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west -
13th Ammendment
Abolished slavery -
14th Amendment
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
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Telephone Invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
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Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlawed business monopolies -
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The Progressive Era
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized segregation, established “separate but equal” -
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Imperialism
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World War I
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War II
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
• Containment - A policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
• Arms Race/Space Race - A race between the two cold war rivals to achieve spaceflight
• The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Includes Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
• Communism - Leading a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works according to needs and abilities
• Domino Theory - When one country causes something to happen to multiple countries -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Amendment
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
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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Rosenburgs Trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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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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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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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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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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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 in 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
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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 -
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 Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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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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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
Kent State University Shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
Prohibition of using age as a reason to deny someone's right to vote -
Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to 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 Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century