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Early American History (1776-1860)
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Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)
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The Gilded Age (1877-1900)
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Chinese Exclusion Act
prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act -
Pendleton Civil Service Act
awarded government jobs based on merit -
Interstate Commerce Act
ensure railroad set "reasonable and just" rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business -
Dawes Act
gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively -
Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses
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The Progressive Era (1890-1920)
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Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska) 1896-1899
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Imperialism (1898-1910)
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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NAACP founded
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16th Amendment
established the federal income tax -
17th Amendment
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World War 1 (1914-1918)
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National Parks System created
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Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
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Great Depression (1929-1939)
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World War 11 (1939-1945)
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War (1945-1960)
1Containment-strategy to contain the spread of communism
2Arms Race/Space Race-arms race was a military personnel race between Russia and the US and the space race was a race to space between the US and Russia
3The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-Socialist state that was made up of Northern Eurasia
4Communism-the government controls everything and hands their people everything
5Domino Theory-one country came under the influence of communism then the countries around them would to -
22nd Amendment
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Truman Doctrine
US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade the United States began a massive airlift to supply west Berlin with food, water, and medicine. -
Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
Intend to give security and freedom to countries by any political and military means necessary from the Soviet Union. All thought the Soviet Union no longer exists NATO still does with 27 members. -
Korean War
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Sweatt v. Painter
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal" -
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Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)
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Rosenbergs trial
Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of providing the Soviet Union with classified information and were executed in 1953. -
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
The US detonated the first hydrogen bomb resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War (1954-1976)
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
Also known as the Salk vaccine it helped give immunity to mostly children against polio and large-scale use began when it was given to American school children in 1954. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest
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USSR launches Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial Earth Satellite that orbited for 3 weeks and then 2 month silently before it fell back into Earth's atmosphere. It was also the start of the space race for the US. -
Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets took over Cuba and started building missiles and the U.S. found out, set up a quarantine around Cuba not allowing ships in or out. Finally the Soviets agreed to take down the missile bases if the U.S. took their's out of Turkey. -
24th Amendment
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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in United States Public Schools -
First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of Cold War (1970-1991)
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Pentagon Papers leaked
Papers talking about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam and that previous presidents have lied to the people in the U.S. about the status of the war. -
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
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981)
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair (1985-1987)
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Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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1990s-21st Centruy (1990-2008)
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Fall of USSR - Official end of the Cold War
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NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
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Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
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USA Patriot Act
tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism -
Hurricane Katrina