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Minimum Wage Increase
Minimum Wage increases from .75 cents per hour to 1 dollar -
Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk creates a vaccine for Polio. -
Disneyland
Disneyland is established. -
Rosa Parks
She incites Montgomery bus Boycott -
Civil Rights Act 1957
he goal of the 1957 Civil Rights Act was to ensure that all Americans could exercise their right to vote. -
NASA Formed
NASA created many jobs for the economy. NASA also selects the first seven military pilots to become the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts of the United States. -
Alaska and Hawaii enter Statehood
Alaska and Hawaii enter the United States. -
J.F.K
John F. Kennedy is elected president -
President Kennedy Assassination
President Kennedy is assassinated. -
Vietnam War
USA enters Vietnam War -
MLK Assassinated
Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. -
Man on the Moon
Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. The U.S. economy spends a lot of money to make this happen. -
26th Amendment
18 year olds can vote. -
Microsoft
Bill Gates founded Microsoft, which in time dominated the home computer operating system market.
