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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence Signed
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Constitution Was Written
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Bill of Rights Ratified
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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Homestead Act
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13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery -
14th Amendment
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
Vanderbilt -
15th Amendment
Voting for all male citizens. -
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
Muckrakers - Those who exposed corruption
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The Great Migration
NAACP
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas - Allowing only a certain number of immigrants into the country.
Yellow Journalism - Exaggerating a story to get a reaction from the public. -
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World War I
Alvin York
Homefront
M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
Sussex Pledge - Germany will not attack U.S. merchant ships.
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Roaring Twenties
Social Darwinism
The Red Scare - A period of time where the US was scared of communism infiltrating their country
Assembly Line - A line of workers doing certain jobs on the same product, helped with mass production
Return to Normalcy - Going back to how everything was before WWI and the Spanish flu pandemic.
Harlem Renaissance - -
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Great Depression
Hoovervilles - A town built by the homeless during the Great Depression.
The New Deal - Passed by President Roosevelt, to help citizens obtain jobs during the depression and receive income.
Causes of the Great Depression (5) - Over production, speculation and credit
Court Packing - The attempt of increasing in the addition of Justices of the Supreme Court.
Eleanor Roosevelt - First lady who changed the title of the first lady to one who interacts and moves for changes. -
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World War II
Axis powers vs Allied powers, Hitler, Chaplin, pearl harbor. Brought us out of the Great Depression, by supplying allies. -
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Early Cold War
Containment - Stop communism from spreading
Arms Race/Space Race - The competition between to countries/nations to improve and or enlarge military personal and a race to the moon.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - The people who rebelled against Russia. They wanted communism.
Communism - A government that owns everything, where everyone gets the same amount and quality of things.
Domino Theory - One country falls to communism then the surrounding countries will do the same. -
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Civil Rights Era
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Vietnam War
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End of the Cold War
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1990s-21st Century