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The American Civil War was when the principal cause of the war was the status of slavery in the United States, especially over territories.
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An act by the government in which they could take their land and public domain.
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
The Reconstruction era was a period from 1865 to 1877,which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states.
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the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States. -
This was a railroad that made traveling possible for the first time during history.
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This was when industrialization began to grow and it became popular among all the people.
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The 15th amendment in Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote. -
He was an American Politian that was mostly known for being the boss of the Tammany halls during 1871.
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Alexander Graham Bell was the one who invented the telephone for a faster way for anyone to communicate.
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This was when the president promised to remove federal troops from the south and end the time that was known as Reconstruction.
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The Gilded Age was a fast and economic growth in the Northern and Western United States.
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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Thomas Edison was the one who invented the light bulb for everyone to use during every time of the day.
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This was to increase the population and railroad companies to send agents across the Atlantic Ocean.
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This law was restricting immigration to the United States and declines wages to many Chinese workers wanting a chance.
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This was a law that say that government jobs should only be awarded based on the merit of the people.
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An authorized act signed by the president to take the Native Americans land and sell it.
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This was a federal law to be able to regulate the railroad industry and control it,
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This was an article about the new upper class that made him rich in June of 1889.
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This house was one of the first social settlements in North America. This was was founded in Chicago in 1889.
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This was a migration by everyone because they all wanted to get the gold for themselves.
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This is a federal statue by the United States of competition law passed by the congress in 1890.
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This was an publication by Jacob Riis, describing the living conditions in New York City slum.
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This was a book by Alfred Thayer Mahan explaining the political policies and leading to World War 1
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This was a time of political reforms and fixing problems by industrialization and political corruption.
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This was when they extended the power of the country and had more control and political ruling.
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This event was an industrial lockdown and strike which becan on July 1, 1892 and ended July 6, 1892
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Pullman Labor Strike was a railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May till June 20 of 1894.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896 that made the decision of the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. -
This was when Hawaii declared their independence by the Spanish-American war and to keep their territory.
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This was a war between Spain and the U.S for the colonial ruling of some territories.
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This was a system for China to open their doors equally and support to all the countries that come.
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He was the 25th president of the United States and was assassinated on September 14 of 1901 in New York.
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He was one of the most important man in history for being president, historian, writer, and a leader of the progressive movement.
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This canal was built as a benefit for everyone because it was for ships to import goods in a faster way.
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This was a novel that was written by Upton Sinclair to explain and show the bad conditions of many workers.
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This act was to prohibited the sale of adulterated food and drugs to minors to stop selling them.
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This was the first model of a the truck ford in 1908 invented by Henry Ford being affordable for the people and very useful.
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This is mostly known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was established in 1909 the largest civil rights organization.
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William was the 27th President of the United State and later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States and he is know as the only person to have had the honor to have been in both offices.
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the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax.
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This law created the System of, the central banking of the United States and was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913.
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He was an American politician and had serves as the 28th president of the United States, and he also led us to World War 1.
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The Seventeenth Amendment established the popular election of United States senators in each state.
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Due to the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand cause the war and caused Britain to declare war on Germany.
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These were weapons and comebacks from the WW1 that was happening and everyone has to defend themselves.
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A war that lasted for 4 years between countries over power and territories of themselves.
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This event the sinking of the Lusitania was an important event in World War I because it happened the death of so many innocent people at the hands of the Germans.
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Yellowstone became the first national park in 1872 and now it is for the public to visit but it is supervised at all times.
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The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret way of communication from the German that was thinking of a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
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The Russian Revolution was a time of war that was commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1917.
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The U.S entered to WWI in 1917 to the was that Britain had against Germany and the U.S came in support of Britain.
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This was an event that was a major part of the final allied during WWI. This became the last war during WWI and the U.S supported it with over 1 million troops.
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This is a major holiday that is celebrated on November 11 and this was to celebrate the agreement that was signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany.
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The Fourteen Points speech of President Woodrow Wilson was some information delivered before a meeting of Congress in which Wilson had outlined his potential.
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The Treaty of Versailles was one of the most important events that brought peace and World War I to an end.
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the 18th Amendment prohibited the sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors and drinks.
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The 19th amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to people on the basis of sex.
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This President return happened to return to the way of life before World War I, and the United States president that was returning and having all powers.
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This event happened in Harlem, Manhattan and at the time this was known as the ''New Negro Movement''. This supported the black community in many thing and became a part of history to remember.
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The Red Scare was a time were communist widespread fear in groups that scared the people by a society or state. The name are the red flags that the communists use to represent themselves.
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The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic growth and many impacts that happened to the people with power or the economy.
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The Teapot Dome became a big scandal that was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States in many ways of administration.
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Joseph had served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922–1952 and he let go of the power to become the country's dictator.
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This was a very well known legal case that happened in July of 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act.
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This was when Louis carried Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris in 33 and a half hours, and had become the first nonstop flight of all time across the Atlantic Ocean.
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This was an event of the murder of 7 members of and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang and this took place on Valentine's day.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, is known as the Great Crash, and was major American event in the stock market crash that occurred in the fall of 1929.
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This decade was the worst time in history because it had become the most stressful times for the people living there. Everyone had no money, food or jobs.
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This town Hooverville was a shanty town built by the people who were there with no food or support during the Great Depression in the United States.
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This had become a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States for everyone doing trades of goods.
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During this time many banks were starting to vanish till the end of 1932, over 10,000 U.S. banks disappeared.
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This act was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices in any goods and products.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is one of two agencies in the world that help deposit insurance to depositors in many different ways they may need it.
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This administration was a large-scale public works of construction agency in the United States that helped the people with businesses.
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Franklin Roosevelt was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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The New Deal was a series of new ideas and programs by president Roosevelt to help in the Great Depression public work and financial reforms.
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The Dust Bowl was a time period of drought in the Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period.
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This was an act signed by president Roosevelt and the new Act created a social insurance program that was to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
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GI Bill helped create benefits for the veterans and help with college tuition.
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The United Nations is an organization that aims together to maintain international peace and their security.
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After the Potsdam conference, Germany was divided into four zones: Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east.
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The Baby Boom consisted of young couples who started families putting off marriage during the War, and the government encouragement of the growth of families.
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the principle the US gives support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
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The 22nd Amendment says a person can only be elected to be president two times for a total of eight years. -
The rivalry that developed after WWII between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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The Marshall Plan was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.
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The Berlin Blockade became one of the first major international crises of the Cold War in history.
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Arab-Israeli War Begins and there the loss of life from soldiers in both sides, but also innocents were murdered. -
The Nato formed means The North Atlantic Treaty Organization that was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and many Western European nations to provide collective security.
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Kim Il-sung invades South Korea after the Japanese rule in 1945, that authorized the invasion in 1950, triggering an intervention in defense of South Korea.
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Most of North Korea is now under UN control now and South Korean troops reach the Yalu River, the natural border separating North Korea from China.
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UN forces invaded North Korea in October of 1950 and moved rapidly towards the Yalu River and that is when they entered the war.
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. When North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border.
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The economy overall had grown by 37% during the 1950s. And by the end of the decade, the median American family had 30% more purchasing power.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, were executed, by the electric chair.
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The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport that ended fighting on land in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was a officer in the United States Army and then later he became a politician who was the 34th president of the United States.
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This was when the accords established the 17th parallel as a temporary demarcation line separating the military forces of the French and the Viet Minh.
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In 1954 Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in North Vietnam to control that side since South Vietnam was split from them.
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Brown v. Board of Education of 1954 was a Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955.
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Jonas Salk created the vaccine for the deadly virus of polio that leave people paralyzed.
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Rosa Parks Arrested in 1955 was because she refused to give up her seat in a bus to a white passenger. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system. -
The Vietnam War, is also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America and it started because The US was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia so it decided to send them help.
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The Interstate Highway Act created the act to eliminate unsafe roads and the speeds of the streets.
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Elvis Presley first hit song became the "Heartbreak Hotel" makes its climb up the charts on its way to #1.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite in the world that The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit.
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Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV on October 4, 1957 and was an American comedy.
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In 1957, President Eisenhower sent Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation and established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students who were segregated and prohibited from entering school by the Governor of Arkansas. -
President John F. Kennedy defeated the Vice President Richard Nixon in the Tv debate that happened to discuss positions and promises.
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The Chicano Mural Movement started by using walls of cities, house projects, schools and churches to represent our Mexican Culture. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles.
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The Peace Corps were created by the Executive Order to provide educational and technological support to developing countries.
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Affirmative action was to ensure that applicants are treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
John F Kennedy served as the 35th president of the United States and was an American politician until his death in 1963
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 1 month and 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the intallations of missiles.
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Sam Walton opens the first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas and now Walmart has become the top retailer in the U.S. -
President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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March on Washington was the purpose to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance and stood at the door of the auditorium to block the entry of two African American students. -
The Feminine Mystique is a book by Betty Friedan that explains a lot of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
Lyndon B. Johnson served as an American politician as the 36th president who took the place when president JFK was assassinated.
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The Great Society had main goals to eliminate poverty and injustices but also create programs in benefits of the people like medical care and education.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a way authorizing President Johnson to take actions to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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The 24th amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Arab and Israeli forces clashed for the third time, and many attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the peace process. -
United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike went on strike and demanded union representation elections. -
Malcom X was Assassinated in 1965 by gunshots wounds after everything he did as an African American Minister. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 expanded voting rights for minority groups that traditionally had fallen outside the Act's protections. -
Justice Marshall challenged discrimination based on race or sex, opposed the death penalty and he defended affirmative action. -
The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, and it significantly altered the map of the Mideast and gave rise to lingering geopolitical friction. -
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War during 1968.
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The My Lai massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was Assassinated in 1968 and he was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. -
Vietnamization is the US policy of withdrawing its troops and responsibility to the direction of the war effort and to the government of South Vietnam.
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The Woodstock Music Festival was a time of era of the civil rights movement, a period of protest and was an opportunity for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace.
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The Draft Lottery was when the Selective Service System of the United States made two lotteries to determine to call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from January 1, 1944 to December 31, 1950.
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The Tate–LaBianca murders were members of the Manson Family in Los Angeles, California who murdered five people on August 9–10 in 1969.
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin.
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, from 1969 to 1974 and also a member of the Republican Party.
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The Invasion of Cambodia was a campaign a brief series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia that was invaded.
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The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. -
The Pentagon Papers revealed that the United States had expanded its war with the bombing of Cambodia and Laos which were reported by the American media to the people.
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The 26th amendment granted the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older.
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Policy of Détente Begins during the era of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union and the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaties. -
Jimmy Carter was an American politician, businessman, and philanthropist who served as the 39th president of the United States.
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Title IX was for No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation. -
President Nixon visited China to become the first U.S. President to visit mainland China while in office in which its position on a crucial obstacle to normalization. -
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States of President Richard Nixon that led to his resignation. -
The War Powers Resolution is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
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Roe v. Wade was when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute banning abortion, effectively legalizing the procedure. -
The Engaged Species act was designed to protect critically species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth. -
The OPEC oil embargo was an event where the 12 countries that made up OPEC stopped selling oil to the United States. -
The first handheld cellular phone call was made in 1973, by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper from Sixth Avenue in New York. -
United States v Nixon was a landmark to the Supreme Court case that resulted in a decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to give up tape recordings and other materials to a federal district court. -
Ford felt that Nixon had not committed any crimes and should not have to issue such a document. Ford eventually agreed, and he granted Nixon a free and absolute pardon. -
President Ford presided over the worst economy since the Great Depression as the 38th president with growing inflation and a recession.
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The Fall of Saigon was when the South Vietnamese forces had collapsed under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese.
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Bill Gates started Microsoft computer program in 1975 and It went on to become the world's largest personal computer software company. -
National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins its primary goal was to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis". -
Steve Jobs was a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era and he oversaw the launch of such revolutionary products as the iPod and the iPhone. -
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 requires the Federal Reserve and banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities. -
The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt. -
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran because 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage.
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Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court appointed to be the first woman to the highest court in the United States. -
AIDS Epidemic the first cases of an illness subsequently defined as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome reported in California. -
The War on Drugs began when U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon declared drug abuse as a problem and increased federal funding for drug-control agencies. -
Conservative Resurgence was an intense struggle for control of the organizations labeled it the fundamentalist takeover. -
Trickle-down economics, also known as trickle-down theory or the horse and sparrow theory. -
Ronald Reagan originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States and came up with a system of Reaganomics.
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Marines in Lebanon were Lebanese terrorists that evaded security and drove a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. -
The Iran-Contra Affair was a big scandal secret U.S. arms deal that traded missile to free some Americans held hostage by terrorists. -
The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs her daytime television talk show turns Winfrey into one of the most powerful, wealthy people in show business. -
“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!” also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech by President Ronald Reagan. -
The Cold War came to an end with the collapse of Communist parties rule in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. -
The Belin Wall Falls was an event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism. -
George H. W. Bush was an American politician, diplomat and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States.
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Iraq invaded the country of Kuwait to its southeast in a bid to gain more control over the lucrative oil supply of the Middle East. -
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. -
The Persian Gulf War is recognized as a decisive victory for the coalition, Kuwait although Iraq suffered enormous damage.
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Operation Desert Storm was a military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union. -
Rodney King was an American activist that was beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest for driving while intoxicated. -
An American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd US president also prior governor of Arkansas.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented to promote trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. -
The Contract with America was a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994. -
Simpson was acquitted of both counts of murder on October 3 of the same year and is known as the trial of the century because of its publicity in criminal trial in history. -
Bill Clinton became the second president in history to be impeached because he was charged with lying under oath to a federal grand jury. -
The USA Patriot Act was an Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush. -
The September 11 attacks, is referred to as 9/11, of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda. -
The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism and U.S. an ongoing international military campaign. -
George W. Bush was an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States and a member of the Republican Party.
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The conflict is also known as the US war in Afghanistan or the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity exploring the planet Mars. -
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition.
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On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media he had built in order to connect Harvard students by the next day, over a thousand people had registered. -
Hurricane Katrina was a large hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in August 2005. -
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The execution of President Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity. -
The iPhone was released in the United States on June 29, 2007 at the price of $499 for the 4 GB model and $599 for the 8 GB model. -
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama. -
Hillary Clinton was the 67th United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013. -
Sonia Sotomayor is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama. -
The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States.
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The Arab Spring was a series of protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world. -
Robert O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden during the 2011 Neptune Spear raid. -
Space X Falcon was a private American Commercial Resupply Service it was the nineteenth overall flight for the Falcon 9. -
Donald Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States.
