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Outlined the women's rights movement of the mid-19th century.
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1,775 miles of track from Omaha to Sacramento. Union Pacific and central Pacific building towards each other. May 10, 1869 they met at Promontory Point, Utah. They had a big positive impact of rail roads.
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This act gave public lands to American citizens. Any person that was the head of a family or 21 years old could become the owner of 120 acres of land. Married couples were entitled to 320 acres. This act helped poor families and gave unemployed people a chance to find work on land of their own.
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An organization that provided food, clothing, jobs, education, and medical services for former slaves.
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Andrew Johnson was a Democrat and became President. He was a white supremacist and came up with the 10%+ Plan, or the President Johnson's Plan.
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Sharecropping is renting land which was a power struggle. A Sharecropper is a farmer who works part of the land and gives that landowner part of the harvest. Radical Republicans wanted to give every former slave or "freedman" 40 acres of land and a mule. Freedman were in constant debt to their landowners and were never able to earn profit, so basically like slaves again.
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Its a crime for any individual to deny full and equal use of public conveyances and public places. It prohibited discrimination in jury selection.
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Battle of Little Bighorn was a big battle between Sitting bull and Crazy Horse and Custer. Custer and all his men were massacred.
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Republican Rutherford Hayes wins the election, but with the exception that the Democrats get to end the reconstruction. The biggest loser in this bargain are the black population. Southerns could vote again, and federal troops were removed from the South.
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This act limits and ends Chinese immigration into America. This was important because Americans didn't want them to take their jobs so only a tiny percent of Chinese immigrants were allowed in.
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The date i put is when it was finished because I couldn't find the specific date when it was started. But the Brooklyn Bridge was designed by John Roebling and started in 1869.
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Fredric Auguste Bartholdi designed it and France gave it to America to celebrate 100 years of being and independent country. The statue was dedicated on this date.
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This was an event where homesteaders lined up at territory border to stake a claim. Oklahoma was a "sooner state". And all the Native Americans were conquered. Oklahoma was the "Indian territory".
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This act outlawed all contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraints of trade and all monopolies.
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ellis Island is where most immigrants come to become American citizens. 12 million people pass through from 1892-1954. This is very important because many immigrants were seeking a new life and America provided that.
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A man who was 1/8 black went on a white train and got arrested so he sued for it to be a right.
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This let poor and illiterate white people avoid the voting restrictions. It stated that if your father of grandfather was eligible to vote, then you wouldn't have to take the test or pay.
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This date is the start of the war. This was fought between the United States and Spain. America won.
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Congress declares war on Spain, and the war goes into full effect.
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This was a group of black people whose goal was to have equality.
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Theodore and Taft both ran again, with Wilson, and Wilson won the election.
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Created by Congress in response to the banking crisis in 1907
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.
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Germans torpedoed Lusitania, sinking it with 1,200 passengers and crew. Including 120 Americans.
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This act forbade actions that obstructed recruitment or efforts to promote insubordination in the military.
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The NWP began to picket the White House in order to get the Presidents attention in order to have women vote.
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This act stated that it was a crime to speak against war bonds or anything about the war effort.
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This ended the war. It took away land rom Germany, dismantled their military, forced them to make reparations to the countries it harmed in the war, ad forced them to take all the blame.
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This amendment banned making, selling, and transporting alcohol.
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This is when the 19th amendment became part of the constitution. This amendment let women vote. This changed women's suffrage forever.
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Tenessee passed the first law forbidding teaching evolution because John Scopes started teaching evolution in his science class.
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& members of the Moran gang were murdered, and it is assumed that this was Al Capone's doing. But to this day, the authorities can't tie it to him.
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This is the day the stock market crashed. Over 16 million shares were sold in massive selling frenzy and losses exceeded $26 billion.
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
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Closed our borders to foreign goods and ignited vicious international trade war.
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It increased the top income tax rate to 63 percent.
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This amendment basically repealed prohibition.
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Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in order to try to cripple the Pacific fleet. This was important because it was the start of the war for America.
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Admiral Chester Nimitz defended island. Americans won, and destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carries and 250 planes.
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Largest land-air-sea operation in military history. Allies freed France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. German retaliation was brutal, especially on Omaha Beach.
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Victory in Europe. Allies won, and the war is over.
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Americans drop the atomic bomb Little Boy on the city Hiroshima.
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Americans dropped second atomic bomb Fat Man on this city.
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This truce was finally signed July 27, 1953. Negotiations lasted 2 years. The war lasted 3 years.
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Lind Brown of Topeka Kansas became face of school segregation. She was a 3rd grader. After the ruling, integration and desegregation took awhile.
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She sat in a white seat on the bus and refused to move. She was charged for violating a segregation law.
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Blacks there boycotted using the bus. 40,000 people participated and walked instead of riding the bus for 382 days.
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Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the first thing in space. It stayed in orbit for 92 days until January 4, 1958.
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This is the date when Alaska officially becomes a state.
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This is the official date that Hawaii became a state.
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Soviets send Yuri Gagarin into space. He is the first human to successfully be in space.
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East Germany under communist control builds the Berlin Wall to keep East Germans in.
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On 16th street, a black church was bombed and 4 girls died. The 5th girl lost an eye, and 17 more people were injured.
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Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy twice from the 6th floor of the School Book Depository
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Nonstop bombing of Hanoi for 3 years. Air war.
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US troops went to this village and open fired and killed 300-500 men women and children.
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Police riot in Chicago. Hundreds of thousands of people protested US involvement
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America sends Neil Armstrong to the moon. He takes the first steps.
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5 men were arrested while trying to bug the office of the Democrat Party.
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Gel or like hot tar dropped on the Vietnamese.
