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The Missouri compromise
Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. Slavery was not otherwise to be permitted in the lands of the Louisiana purchase. -
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Kansas Nebraska act
Allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to determine the issue of slavery by right of popular sovereignty (voting) -
segregation
Brown v. Board decision declares segregation in public schools illegal. -
Bleeding Kansas
Fighting that broke out over the expansion of slavery in Kansas by means of popular sovereignty -
Dred Scott decision
United States Supreme Court decision which held that persons of African descent cannot be, nor were ever intended to be, citizens under the U.S. Constitution. -
EMANICIPATION PROCLAMATION
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery in territory controlled by the Confederate States of America -
KLU KLUX KLAN
The Klu Klux Klan evolves into a hooded racist organization -
14TH AMENDMENT
Fourteenth Amendment is ratified making blacks citizens. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court establishes 'separate but equal' doctrine -
Lyndon B. Johnson
became the 36th president of the United States following the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). Upon taking office, Johnson, a Texan who had served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, launched an ambitious slate of progressive reforms aimed at alleviating poverty and creating what he called a “Great Society” for all Americans. Many of the programs he introduced–including Medicare and Head Start–made a lasting impact in the areas of he -
Malcolm X
Civil Rights activsist. -
Cold War
The goal to prevent communism from spreading in european countries. -
MaCarthyism
capitalized on national paranoia by proclaiming that COMMUNIST SPIES were omnipresent and that he was America's only salvation.An atmosphere of fear of world domination by communists hung over America in the postwar years. -
The Korean War
75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment -- even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal. -
Civil Rights movement
The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations and productive dialogues between activists and government authorities -
The Space Race
he Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future". The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, and later beat the US to the first human in space. -
Emmett Till’s murder
an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants–the white woman’s husband and her brother–made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. -
Vietnam War
Promises and commitments to the people and government of South Vietnam to keep communist forces from overtaking them reached back into the Truman Administration. -
boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins on December 5 after Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. This boycott lasts 381 days and ends with the desegregation of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system on December 21, 1956. As a pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Martin Luther King, Jr. leads this black bus boycott and becomes a national hero. -
kings letter
King's Letter from Birmingham Jail inspires a growing national civil rights movement. In Birmingham, the goal is to end the system of segregation completely in every aspect of public life (stores, no separate bathrooms and drinking fountains, etc.) and in job discrimination. -
Assassination of President John.F.Kennedy
While visiting Dallas, President Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet. LEE HARVEY OSWALD was arrested for the murder. Oswald was an avowed communist who spent three years living in the Soviet Union. -
Hippie Culture (Music, Clothing, Beliefs)
Long hair, vibrant colors and peace signs are typically the most associated characteristics of the hippies and counterculture. However, the lifestyle was dramatically more interesting. Hippies tended to set up living quarters or communes within bigger cities. These areas were known as hippie villages or districts. -
The Civil RIghts Act
providing federal enforcement provisions for discrimination in housing. The 1968 expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status. This law enabled housing opportunities for blacks beyond the "ghetto." -
Assassination of Robert.F.Kennedy
United States senator, and potential president of the United Sates. Along with the brother of past President John.F.Kennedy. -
Woodsock
the grooviest event in music history–the Woodstock Music Festival–draws to a close after three days of peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll in upstate New York. -
Richard Nixon/ Watergate Scandal
The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. While historians are not sure whether Nixon knew about the Watergate espionage operation before it happened, he took steps to cover it up afterwards, raising “hush money” for the burglars, trying to stop the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from investigating the crime, destroying evidence and firing uncooperative staff members -
Jimmy Carter/ Iran Hostage Crisis
a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. -
John Lennon’s Murder
English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City -
Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
John Hinckley, Jr.shoots President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. just after the president had addressed the Building and Construction Workers Union of the AFL-CIO. Hinckley was armed with a .22 revolver with exploding bullets and was only ten feet away from Reagan when he began shooting. Fortunately, he was a poor shot and most of the bullets did not explode as they were supposed to. Hinckley’s first shot hit press secretary James Brady and other shots wounded a polic -
HIV/AIDS
Official confirmation of the deadly diease. -
The Falling of the Berlin Wall/Fall ofCommunism/ Breakup of Soviet Union
the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States. -
first african american President elected
Barack Obama is elected President of the United States of America.
