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Scopes-monkey trial
Deciding whether evolution should be taught in schools or not -
Herbert Hoover Elected
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Stock market Crashes causing Great Depression
Everyone loses their money in the stock market -
FDR elected
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Eleanor Roosevelt becomes first lady
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FDR begins fireside chats
informs America of what the government is doing to get rid of the great depression -
Rosie the Riveter image first used
Represented women as hard working, and that they are just as able as men -
Cold war begins
We are scared that the soviets will launch their atomic bombs -
Brown V Board
decided whether schools could be segergated or not -
Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
All blacks refused to ride the bus until everyone could ride the bus equally -
JFK elected
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The Feminine Mystique publishes
This was written to express how all feminists felt -
Bull Connor uses fire hoses
Bull Connor would use fire hoses to punish the blacks even though they were not doing anything -
JFK assassinated
Shot while in a parade of sorts -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This was when the government decided that everywhere in the USA there was to be no segergation -
Griswold vs. CT
A fight for privacy especially in the case of abortion -
Malcolm X killed
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NOW formed
This was a organization of women that helped to accomplish what all the women wanted in the world -
Nixon revised Philadelphia Plan implemented
This had to do with the affirmative action. It said that women could not be turned away from a job because of their gender -
MLK killed
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Richard Nixon elected
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Woodstock
A hippie music festival -
Vietnam Draft begins
They start drafting young men to go to war -
Kent state shooting
The Ohio National Guard fired upon college students during a protest against the Vietnam War -
TItle IX passed
This allowed women to participate in sports -
ERA sent to states for ratifiacation
The equal rights amendment. This was never actually ratified and is still being fought for today -
Roe vs. Wade
Was a deciding court case about making abortion illegal or not. -
Nixon Resigns
He resigns before he has the chance to be impeached -
Ronald Reagan elected
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Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman Supreme Court Justice
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Geraldine Ferraro runs for VP
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Cold War ends
America makes nice with the soviets -
Bill Clinton Elected
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Clinton impeached
For lying about tapes and having sexual relations with one of his staff -
World Trade Center Towers Collapse
Hijacked planes fly into the world trade center killing many innocent Americans. -
Barack Obama Elected
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Hillary Clinton runs for President
