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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
US citizens could occupy 160 acres of government land in the Great Plains/ West. -
13th Amendment
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Reconstruction
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14th Amendment
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Industrialization Begins to Boom
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15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Boss Tweed Rise at Tammany Hall
Poltical machine that took in immigrants and gave them houses and jobs. But in exchange for votes -
Telephone Invented
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Reconstruction Ends
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Jims Crow Laws Start in South
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
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3rd Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese immigrants werent allowed in the west (california) for 10 YEARS -
Pendleton Act
Positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Dawes Act
U.S. federal legislation that aimed to assimilate American Indians into U.S. society by granting them an allotment of reservation land to farm on. “Excess” land would be put on the open market, allowing purchase and settlement by non-Native Americans. -
Interstate Commerce Act
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Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
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Chicago's Hull House
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Klondike Gold Rush
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Sherman Anti- Trust Act
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How the Other Half Lives
How the poor lived in horrible conditions in tenement housing. And everyday people were dying for the unsanitary living conditions. -
Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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Progressive Act
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
Workers were fed up with the work conditions. So they gathered a huge group and striked. But it ended bloody once guards were called. -
Pullman Labor Strike
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. -
Annexation of Hawaii
America had a tariff on Hawaii sugar. Their economy was damaged. Only way they thought to fix it was become apart of America. Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown. -
Spanish American War
U.S.S. Maine blew up. Yellow Journalism: Blamed Spain.
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Open Door Policy
US gave all foreign countries the equal rights to trade with China -
Assassination of President McKinely
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Theodore Roosevelt
Political Party= Republican+ Progressive "Bull Moose" Party
Square Deal(3 C's)
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Wright Brothers Airplane
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
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The Jungle
Wrote by Upton Sinclair. Written to show the harsh conditions immigrants were living with and dealing with. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
Model-T
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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B. Du Bois -
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William Howard Taft
Political Party= Republican
Tried 3 C's :( 16th/17th Amendment -
16th Amendment
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Federal Reserve Act
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Woodrow Wilson
Political Party= Democrat
* Clayton Ant- Trust Act
* National Parks Service
*Federal Reserve Act
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17th Amendment
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferinand
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
-Soldiers from both sides fought from trenches.
-Mustard Gas.
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World War 1
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Sinking of the Lusitania
100+ Americans lives lost. Sunk by German submarines. US was mad -
National Parks System
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Zimmerman Telegram
Germany asked Mexico for an alliance. And for them to attack America. Mexico said no. -
Russian Revolution
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U.S. entry into WWI
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18th Amendment
Ban sale and consumption of alcohol. -
19th Amendment
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Red Scare
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President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s -
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes “Monkey” Trial
Teacher taken to court for teaching evolution in a public school. -
Mein Kampf published
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Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”
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Great Depression
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Hoovervilles
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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100,000 Banks Have Failed
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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The Holocaust
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Rape of Nanjing
The Nanjing Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass. Jewish houses, businesses and churches are burned down and destroyed. -
Hitler invades Poland
Starts World War II -
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World War II
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Tuskegee Airmans
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Navajo Code Talkers
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Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell -
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France. -
GI Bill
Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Nazi Concentrations are liberated. The remaining prisoners are released. -
United Nations (UN) formed
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Germany divided
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
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Baby Boom
An increase in population by almost 30 million people after WWII in the U.S. This spurred a growth in suburbs and three to four children families. -
Truman Doctrine
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The Cold War
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
The supply of West Berlin in Germany by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade in 1948. -
NATO Formed
A defensive military alliance with the West European nations and the US. (opposite was Warsaw Pact) -
Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
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UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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Korean War
1950 to 1953 war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the support of the U.S.) -
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1950s Prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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Armistice signed
Formal agreement to stop fighting in order to negotiate a peace treaty (not necessarily the end of a war) -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Warren Court
The period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States during which Earl Warren served as Chief Justice. -
Hernandez vs. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other racial and national groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam -
Warsaw Pact Formed
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Polio Vaccine
Developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955, acquired immunity used to prevent the polio virus (reduced the number of cases reported each year worldwide from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 to 37 in 2016) -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city's buses -
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Vietnam War
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Interstate Highway Act
Signed by President Eisenhower in 1956, law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway -
Elvis Presley First Hit Song
White singer born in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi; chief revolutionary of popular music in the 1950s, fused black rhythm and blues with white bluegrass and country styles; created a new musical idiom known forever after as rock and roll. -
Sputnik I
Created by Soviet Union, first satellite to orbit the Earth launched in 1957 causing the “space race”. -
Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
American TV sitcom that showed the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Kennedy Vs. Nixon TV Debate
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed military invasion of Cuba sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro in 1961 -
Peace Corps formed
Signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, U.S. volunteer program where American citizens provide social and economic aid to other developing countries -
Mapp vs. Ohio
Ruled that illegally seized evidence cannot be used in court against the accused -
Affirmative Action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. -
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John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba; often considered the closest the Cold War came to a full-scale nuclear war -
Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Tx
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Gideon vs.Wainwright
Required that state courts provide counsel (services of an attorney) for indigent (poor) defendants -
The Feminine Mystique
book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Great Society
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s domestic programs which aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice -
Miranda vs. Arizona
Extended the ruling in Escobedo to include the right to a lawyer being present during questioning by the police. -
Escobedo vs. Illnoise
United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and NFL, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
My Lai Massacre
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968 by American soldiers -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization of the war was 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 -
Woodstock Music Festival
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Draft Lottery
366 blue plastic capsules contained the birthdays that would be chosen in the first Vietnam draft lottery drawing on December 1, 1969. The first birth date drawn that night, assigned the lowest number, “001,” was September 14. -
Manson Family Murders
The Manson Family was a commune established in California in the late 1960s, led by Charles Manson. They gained national notoriety after the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others on August 9, 1969 by Tex Watson and three other members of the Family, acting under the instructions of Charles Manson. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. -
Tinker vs. Des Moines
Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. -
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Richard Nixon
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Invasion of Cambodia
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Kent State Shooting
The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the Vietnam War. -
Kent State Shootings
The shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. -
Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in December 1970 under United States President Richard Nixon. The EPA is an agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health. -
Pentagon Papers
A classified study of the Vietnam War that was carried out by the Department of Defense. An official of the department, Daniel Ellsberg, gave copies of the study in 1971 to the New York Times and Washington Post. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
Policy of Detente Begins
period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, ... -
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Jimmy Carter
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Title IX
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Watergate Scandal
An incident in the presidency of Richard Nixon that led to his resignation. In June 1972, burglars in the pay of Nixon's campaign committee broke into offices of the Democratic party. -
Nixon Visits China
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War Powers Resolution
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roe vs wade
landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions -
Endangered Species Act
provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
US v. Nixon
United States Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court. -
Ford Pardons Nixon
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Fall Of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975 -
Conservative Resurgence
Its initiators called it the Conservative Resurgence while its detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover. It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals. -
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Lebanon
October 23, 1983 - 241 US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. Three hundred service members had been living at the four-story building at the airport in Beirut.Oct 18, 2017 -
End of Cold War
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
