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- many state governments passed state-wide prohibition in the early 1900s
- Congress passed a resolution in 1917 regarding nationwide prohibition to be presented to the states for ratification.
- was ratified on January 16, 1919, banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol.
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old people could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868 -
transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history.
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Society no longer has the support of the collective consciousness.
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It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
an American politician most notable for being the "boss"
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a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation
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the history of American civil rights.
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An incandescent light bulb
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when the United States had 75 million residents.
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A federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur
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Act provided for selection of some government employees
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Native American heads of families and individuals.
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the government to fix specific rates.
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an article written by Andrew Carnegie
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- a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
- Located on the Near West Side of the city, Hull House opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants.
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the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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an era that occurred during the late 19th century.
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a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors
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- examines the lives of the poor in New York City's tenements.
- a journalist and photographer, uses a combination of photographs
- prose to depict life in poverty-stricken urban areas.
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- a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
- a two-volume work that argued that sea power was the key to military and economic expansion.
- an instant classic that proved highly influential in both American and foreign circles.
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a battle between strikers and private security agents.
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a nationwide railroad strike in the United States
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities -
- the treaty effort was blocked when the newly-formed Hawaiian Patriotic League
- successfully petitioned the U.S. Congress in opposition of the treaty.
- the Joint Resolution passed and the Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States.
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- an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898.
- Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba
- U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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- a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900.
- It called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China
- the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.
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- he gravitated toward socialist and anarchist ideology.
- He claimed to have killed McKinley because he was the head of what Czolgosz thought was a corrupt government.
- Czolgosz was convicted and executed in an electric chair on October 29, 1901.
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- Seemingly not grasping the lessons from the French effort
- the Americans devised plans for a sea-level canal along the roughly 50-mile stretch from Colón to Panama City. 3.businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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- exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago.
- similar industrialized cities.
- The novel portrays the harsh conditions
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- the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws
- was enacted by Congress in the 20th century
- the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
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1.the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
2. the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices
3. the denial of voting rights, racial violence, discrimination in employment, and segregated public facilities. -
policy. the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance
political. He expanded the amount of land that
was used for national parks and national forests
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policy. became the only man in history to hold the highest post in both the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
2. Taft aspired to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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- created a federal income tax
- Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913
- an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
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- Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress
- signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913.
- The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
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- provided for the appointment of senators to fill vacancies.
- Senators have been elected by write-in votes and some have seen their elections contested.
- changed how senators were elected.
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- President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service
- a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks
- monuments managed by the department and those yet to be established.
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period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire
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President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany.
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a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
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a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
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the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I
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an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s.
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- a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States.
- began in the late 19th century and continued until World War I.
- problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.
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- Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
- gave all women who were citizens of the United States the right to vote in local, state, and federal elections in the U.S.
- Paul and other members of the National Woman's Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment.
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- was an American politician and academic
- president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
- led the United States into World War I in 1917, establishing an activist foreign policy known as "Wilsonianism".
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a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
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an independent federal agency insuring deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts in the event of bank failures.
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The amendment was passed by Congress in 1947, and was ratified by the states on 27 February 1951. -
Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country. -
Ho Chi Minh first emerged as an outspoken voice for Vietnamese independence while living as a young man in France during World War I. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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was first used in the United States in "Executive Order No. 10925" -
a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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The three-part mission of the Peace Corps is to: Send trained volunteers to countries that want help. -
the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1 month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. -
a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
was an ambitious series of policy initiatives -
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. -
The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War -
the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. -
The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on March 16, 1968. -
a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces -
was an event where the 12 countries that made up OPEC stopped selling oil to the United States. -
a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. -
was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. -
a popular mainframe computer programming language, for use on an early personal computer (PC), the Altair. -
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978 -
- a shift had taken place in American atti- tudes toward expan- sion
- Between 1870 and 1900, the European powers seized 10 million square miles of territory in Africa and Asia
- Foreign trade solve unemployment and economic depression.
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was devastated by a car bomb, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. -
was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. -
was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. -
it invaded the neighbouring State of Kuwait, consequently resulting in a seven-month-long Iraqi military occupation of the country. -
was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany. -
was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union -
was an American activist. On March 3, 1991, King was beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest, after a high-speed chase, for driving while intoxicated on I-210. -
was a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign. -
was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998 -
The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
is an ongoing international military campaign launched by the United States government following the September 11 attacks. -
a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. -
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was a large Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in August 2005 -
The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. -
was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. -
President Obama addressed the Nation to announce that the United States has killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda. -
was the 45th president of the United States, serving from January 20, 2017, to January 20, 2021.
