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Jamestown, VA
first permanent English colony established -
Plymouth is founded
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founding of New York
was the Netherlands, later became New York -
Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded
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New Hampshire
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Maryland
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Conecticut
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Rhode Island
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Pequot War
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Delaware
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English Civil War
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North Carolina
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New Jersey
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South Carolina
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Period: to
King Philips's War
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Pennsylvania is established
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Pennsylvania
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Glorious Revolution
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Salem Witchcraft trials
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Slavery legally established in 13 colonies
in the 1700s -
Period: to
Great Awakening
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Georgia is founded
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Period: to
French and Indian War
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Peace of Paris
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Pontiac's Rebellion
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Peace of Paris
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Boston Massacre
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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British close port
reaction to Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
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Battles of Lexigton and Concord
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Revolutionary War
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Common Sense written by Thomas Paine
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Virginia Declaration of Rights
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Virginia Constitution adopted
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Declaration of Independence
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Articles of Confederation
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Period: to
Shays's Rebellion
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
excluded slavery from ohio -
Constitution of the United States of America
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Tariff of 1789
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Election of George Washington
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first Bank of the United States
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Bill Of Rights
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Pickney's Treaty
negotiated with Spain -
Election of John Adams
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Period: to
Second Great Awakening
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Election of Thomas Jefferson
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Louisiana Purchase
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Election of James Madison
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End of Slave Trade
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Macon's Bill #2
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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War of 1812
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Treaty of Ghent
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Costruction of the National Railroad begins
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Election of James Monroe
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American Colonization Society is founded
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Tariff of 1816
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Panic of 1819
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MIssouri Compromise
AKA Compromise of 1820 establishes the 36*30' line -
The Lowell System
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Florida becomes territory
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Monroe Doctrine
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Election of John Quincy Adams
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Corrupt Bargain
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Election of Andrew Jackson
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Tarrif of Abominations
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Indian Removal Act
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Cyrus McCormick invents mechanical reaper
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Tariff of 1833
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Indian Intercourse Act
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Election of Van Buren
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Period: to
Trail of Tears
Eastern Indians are forced west -
Election of William H. Harrison
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Election of James K. Polk
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US annexes Texas
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Mexican-American War
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Ralph Waldo Emerson literature
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Election of Zachary Taylor
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California Gold Rush begins
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Seneca Falls Convention
Women issue the Declaration of Sentiments -
Treaty of Guadalupe
Concluding treaty of Mexican-American War -
Compromise of 1850
Debate over whether to allow slavery in the territories gained from Mexico which had banned slavery -
Election of Franklin Pierce
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Gadsen Purchase
US acquires 30,000 square miles from Mexico -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by congress
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Ostend Manifesto
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Election of James Buchanan
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Dred Scott v. Stanford
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Election of Abraham Lincoln
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South Carolina secedes from the Union
(begining of Civil War) -
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Civil War
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Homestead Act
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Emancipation Proclamation
signed by Lincoln, cleclared all slaves free -
Ku Klux Klan
(1865-1877) -
Gen. Lee surrenders to Gen. Grant
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Thirteenth Amendment is ratified
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Lincoln is Assassinated
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Civil Rights Act
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Tenure of Office Act
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Election of Ulysses S. Grant
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Knights of Labor begins
grew in the 1970s -
Compromise of 1977
ends Reconstruction -
Great Railroad Strike
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Election of James A. Garfield
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A Century of Dishonor- by Helen Hunt Jackson
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assassination of President Garfield
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Electric Power
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Election of Grover Cleveland
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Haymarket incident
a bomb set off at Chicago labor rally kills and wounds police officers -
Dawes Severalty Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Election of Benjamin Harrison
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Oddis Elevator
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, McKinley Tarrif
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Basketball is Invented
by James Naismith -
Election of Grover Cleveland
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Ellis Island
federal center for processing immigrants, opens -
Baseballś National League is formed
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Pullman Strike
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Election of McKinley
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Plessy v. Ferguson decison
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US annexes Hawaii
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U.S. battleship Maine Explodes in Havana Harbor
¨remeber the Maine to kill the Spain -
Spanish-American War
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Platt Amendment
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Election of Theodore Roosevelt
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First Move house opens
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Upton Sinclairś The Jungle is published
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Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food, Drug Act
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Panic
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Election of William H. Taft
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W.E.B Du Bois founded NAACP
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Election of Woodrow Wilson
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Federal Reserve Act
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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WWI
begins in Europe on 1914, US enters the Great War on April 1917 -
Zimmerman Note
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Election of Warren G. Harding
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Prohibition begins
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Rise of automobile use
Henry Ford's Model T -
Emergency Immigration Act
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Joint resolution
ends war among United States, Germany, and Austo-Hungary -
President Warren Harding dies in office
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Election of Calvin Coolidge
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Immigration Act
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Indian Citizenship Act
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election of Herbert C. Hoover
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Stock Market Crashes
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The Great Depression
Began with the Stock market crash and expanded to the early 1940s -
Dust Bowl in the 1930s
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Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Wagner Act of 1935
ensured workers' right to organize and bargain collectively -
Social Security Act
act from the New Deal -
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WWII
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Japanese Attack on Pear Harbor
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Yalta Conference
Roosevelt, Churchil, and Stalin plan the shape of the postwar world -
Franklin Roosevelt dies
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V-E Day
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Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic Bomb created
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Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki
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V-J Day
(Japan surrenders) -
Japanese Surrender
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Election of Harry S. Truman
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Period: to
Korean War
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Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Armistice
Concluding treaty of Korean War -
Brown vs. Board
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Operation Wetback
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Montogomery Alabama, bus boycott begins
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Elvis Presley
Rock and Roll was big in the 1950s -
Baby Boom
1950s, peaks in 1957 -
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Federal troops are ordered to guarntee the safety of students attemting to to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, AR. -
Election of John F. Kennedy
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Period: to
Vietnam War
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Bay of Pigs fiasco
President John F. Kennedy's attemp to overthrow Cuban Fidel Castro -
Student for a Demorcratic Society
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Cuban missile crisis
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Betty Friedan- Feminine Mystique
Feminism movement -
I Have a Dream Speech- Martin Luther King Jr.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated
in Dallas, TX -
Election of Lyndon B. Jognson
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24th Amendment
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Anit-Vietnam War Movement
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La Raza
(Chicango youth movement) -
Voting Rights Act
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Election of Richard M. Nixon
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Tet Offensive
turning point, causes widespread destruction and heavy casualties -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Gay Rights Movement
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1st Man on the moon
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Microprocessor is invented
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Paris Peace Accords
concluding treaty of Vietnam War -
Election of Jimmy Carter
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Camp David Accords
Jimmy Carter, an agreement between Israel and Egypt -
Election of Ronald Reagan
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Immigration Reform and Control Act
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Election of George H.W. Bush
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Berlin Wall is torn down
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Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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Election of Bill Clinton
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North American Free Trade Agreement
U.S., Canada, and Mexico end most barriers -
Bill Clinton is impeached
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Election of George W. Bush
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911 Attack
Terrorist attack, fall of Twin Towers in New York -
Afghanistan War BEGINS
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Period: to
Second Gulf War (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
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Bush Doctrine
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Hurricane Katrina
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Election of Barack Obama
