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The Great Depression
The deepest economic downtown of the U.S began with market crash in 1929.Many people lost their jobs and houses.A huge a lot in Midwest creating a food shortage. -
The Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
JFK gets elected
The first widely broadcast election with debates on Tv. JFK wins the election by a landslide against Nixon. -
Freedom Riders
Blacks and whites volunteers from the North traveled to the South to draw attention to the South's refusal to end segregation of buses. -
The Voting Rights
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Law the suspended liberacy tests and other discriminatory. Jim Crow law practices that had restricted African Americans from voting.
