U.S. History: 1877 -2008

By Antony.Harris
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west

  • 13th Amendment

    abolished slavery

  • 15th Amendment

    voting for all male citizens

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

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    the progressive era

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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    Imperialism

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    WW1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

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    Early Cold War

    1 Containment The US stopping communism from spreading
    2 Arms Race/Space Race The US VS the USSR to see who could build the stronger weapons and space race USSR won lunching spuntink
    3 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who the US was fighting agistant doing the cold war
    4 Communism A government system were ever was supposed to get terty the same like a dog walker gets paid the same as a police
    5 Domino Theory the US was scard that commnism was gonna spread to other contreys causing WW3

  • United Nations formed

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    : ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

  • Rosenbergs V US

    the Rosenberg were spays licking impenitent information to The USSR both Husband and wife put to death

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States Operation IVY

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    : overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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    Vietnam War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • USSR launches Sputnik won space race

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • 14th Amendment

    citizenship & due process

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • First Man on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War

  • Kent State University shooting

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century

    1. Barack Obama. 1st black president of the united states served for two terms 2009-2017 and mad addfolble care act
    2. al-Qaeda a islamic terrorist group ran my osama bin laden who caused 9/11 3.No Child Left Behind that schools must test all kids thow 2nd - 8th on math and reading and once in highschool to see if the pass 4.President Clinton’s Impeachment was impeached in 1998 for the obstruction of justice of the third article
    3. Presidential Election of 2000 was diced by the supreme court

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Hurricane Katrina