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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
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13th Amendment
Slaves are free -
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Reconstruction
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14th Amendment
Black people become citizens -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Industrialization Begins to Boom
Factories for manufacturing were more efficient -
15th Amendment
Black men can vote -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed, owner of the Tammany Hall, was an example of corruption in the government especially in voting processes -
Telephone Invented
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell -
Reconstruction Ends
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Jim Crow Laws Start in South
Laws that supported racial segregation after Reconstruction -
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
The light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison -
Third Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
This act allowed the west to not allow Chinese immigration to California for 10 years -
Pendleton Act
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Dawes Act
Act allowed the government to provide a separate space for Native Americans far away from society and their land was going to be sold to the american public -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act allowed the government to take charge of railroad costs for transportation not letting the owners charge more than necessary -
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth
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Chicago's Hull House
Founded by Jane Adams, this was a house for poor immigrants and a school for their young children. -
Klondike Gold Rush
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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How the Other Half Lives
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Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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Pullman Labor Strike
Worker's from Pullman's company hit a strike due to poor working conditions and low wages -
Plessy v. Ferguson
"separate but equal" -
Annexation of Hawaii
The queen of Hawaii had to leave her throne and therefore the US became the owner of it for its resources -
Spanish American War
USS Maine ship exploted and sank and the us declared war on Spain. Also because Cuba wanted independence. -
Open Door Policy
This policy allowed any country to trade freely with China -
Assassination of President McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
American statesman, trust buster, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States. Progressive party and republican party "Bull Moose'' party. Domestic policy "square deal" -
Wright Brother’s Airplane
The first successful airplane invented -
Panama Canal U.S Construction Begins
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The Jungle
This book described the horrible conditions that meat packaging factories or industries went through. Rats wondered between the meats,and some meat didn't work anymore but it was sold to the public anyways. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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Model T
Efficient transportation, more popular, and caused debts -
NAACP
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William Howard Taft
Served as the 27th President of the United States.
Republican party.
Domestic policy: tried 3 c's but was unsuccessful. 16th and 17th amendments. -
16th Amendment
We have to give taxes -
Federal Reserve Act
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Woodrow Wilson
Political party: Democrat
Domestic policies: Clayton Trust Act, National Parks Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18th and 19th amendment. -
17th Amendment
Regular voters can choose senators -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
These were used during the war as a more efficient form of fighting -
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World War I
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Sinking of the Lusitania
Lusitania was sunk from German forces which led to the rising anger of the US and entry to WWI -
National Park System
Conservation and protection of national parks -
Zimmerman Telegram
German Government sent this to the Mexican government for them to secretly attack the US -
Russian Revolution
Communism and Lenin was the cause of this revolution -
U.S entry into WWI
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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Armistice
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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
This treaty was meant to end WWI, create peace, and make Germany pay reparations -
18th Amendment
Alcohol is prohibited -
19th Amendment
Women suffrage -
President Harding's Return to Normalcy
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Red Scare
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Harlem Renaissance
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Fall illegally loaned money from the oil company from Teapot Dome, Wyoming to other oil companies -
Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Scope had illegally taught evolution to children that consequently brought him into court -
Mein Kampf published
Hitler wrote this book while he was in prison -
Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight
Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 33 hours by himself -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
This loss of billions of dollars in the stock market later led to the Great Depression -
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Great Depression
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Hoovervilles
People felt forced to build their own houses made up of cardboard on the outskirts of the city due to the dept they faced -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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100,000 Banks Have Failed
Banks didn't have the money to repay the people for their dept and stocks -
Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Banks had to secure their client's money -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Deal Programs
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The Holocaust
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Dust Bowl
A disaster due to drought and poor farming works. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Provided money to the elders and single moms -
Rape of Nanjing
Japanese troops brutally attacked and conquered areas of China -
Kristallnacht
All Jewish churches were burned up -
Hitler invades Poland
Starts WWII -
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World War II
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German Blitzkrieg Attacks
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack in Hawaii and killed 2000 sailors -
Tuskegee Airmen
African american military pilots -
Navajo Code Talkers
US soldiers used Native American languages to secretly communicate -
Executive Order 9066
Japanese American citizens were forced to live in internment camps -
Bataan Death March
Japanese army made the Filipinos and Americans march like prisoners -
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
US troops battled on Omaha beach against the Nazi army -
GI Bill
Gave support to veterans returning home by making new homes and spending on them -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
US attacked Japanese -
Victory over Japan/ Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
Japan surrenders September 2 -
Liberation of concentration camps
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day
Germany surrenders May8 -
United nations formed
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Germany Divided
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Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
He was the leader of North Vietnam -
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
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Baby Boom
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Truman Doctrine
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Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
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22nd Amendment
President should only serve two terms -
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The Cold War
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Marshall Plan
This plan gave money to European countries for recuperation after WWII, and for the US to have a better relationship with them -
Berlin Airlift
Since the US and USSR divided Berlin in the middle of Germany, US had to create airlifts toward west Germany -
Arab-Israeli War Begins
Was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine, -
NATO formed
This was created by the eastern European countries and the US to work together just in case all of them get attacked -
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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Korean forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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Korean War
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1950's Prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
The us government suspected they were communist spies and just decided to execute them -
Armistice signed
This ended the Korean War but it wasn't a peace treaty -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Warren Court
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Hernandez v. Texas
"the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." -
Brown v. Board of Education
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
This is an imitation of the NATO formed by the communist countries -
Polio Vaccine
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Rosa Parks Arrested
She refused to give her seat to a white woman -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Black people refused to ride buses after parks got arrested -
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Vietnam War
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Interstate Highway Act
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Elvis Presley First Hit Song
Famous white singer -
Sputnik I
During the space race between US and USSR, Russia created the first satellite to go into space -
Leave It To Beaver First Airs on TV
TV sitcom -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African american students tried to enter little Rock Central High School but the governor of Arkansas didn't let them. Therefore, the president sent federal troops. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875 -
Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
It was the first debate recorded on TV -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
Mexican-american artists used the walls to buildings to support their culture -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
US tried to invade Cuba but were unsuccessful -
Peace Corps Formed
This was formed for young adults that wished to help third world countries -
Mapp v. Ohio
Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts -
Affirmative Action
policy of favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination -
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John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba had ties with USSR and they were found with nuclear weapons that pointed out into the US. Later Kennedy had a blockade to prevent attack -
Sam Walton opens First Walmart
In Arkansas -
Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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Gideon v. Wainwright
Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states are required under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay. -
George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
He was against ending school segregation -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream " speech -
The Feminine Mystique
This was a book by Betty Friedman that showed the way women should have rights -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Great Society
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Escobedo v. Illinois
Criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places -
24th amendment
no poll taxes -
Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
They were fighting for the Palestine state that is now Israel -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Outlawing literacy tests. -
Malcom X Assassinated
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United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
Decided to strike against grape growers in Delano, California, to protest years of poor pay and working conditions. -
Miranda v. Arizona
The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination requires law enforcement officials to advise a suspect interrogated in custody of his or her rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney. -
Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
First African american to be in supreme court -
Six Day War
Involved three distinct battlefronts, tied together by a shared desire on the part of the surrounding Arab states to eliminate Israel and erase the shame of their defeat 19 years earlier when they failed to destroy the Jewish state. -
My Lai Massacre
Mass murder of 500 innocent civilians, some rapped and tortured by US troops -
Tet Offensive
A North Vietnamese attack against South Vietnam during the Vietnamese New Year -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Vietnamization
Nixon ordered US troops to start leaving Vietnam little by little to end the war -
Woodstock Music Festival
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Draft Lottery
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Manson Family Murders
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Tinker v. Des Moines
Ruling on Behalf of Student Expression.
She was against the Vietnam War -
Apollo 11
First US spaceship to land on the moon -
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Richard Nixon
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Invasion of Cambodia
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Environmental Protection Agency
EPA will work to repair and restore the nation's water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land. -
Kent State Shootings
During a peaceful protest against war, the National Guard started shooting at the crowd of college students -
Pentagon Papers
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26th amendment
18 year old people gained the right to vote -
Policy of Détente Begins
Reducing Cold War tensions -
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Jimmy Carter
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Nixon visits China
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Watergate Scandal
Nixon sent his workers to the opposing complex to spy on them -
Title IX
law that prohibits gender discrimination in any school or education program( sports) -
War Powers Resolution
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Endangered Species Act
Provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
OPEC Oil Embargo
Time period where the US had limited oil trade with Iran -
Roe v. 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. -
First Cell-phones
Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone -
United States v. Nixon
Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other materials to a federal district court. -
Ford pardons Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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Fall of Saigon
North Vietnam attacked the south Vietnamese capital and conquered all vietnam -
Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
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Steve Jobs starts Apple
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Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
Intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities -
Camp David Accords
Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel made by US -
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Conservative Resurgence
The " New Right" endorsed school prayer, war on drugs, lower taxes, cut spending, a smaller government, free-enterprise, and a stronger military. -
" Trickle Down Economics"
Reduce taxes to stimulate economic growth
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War on Drugs
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AIDS Epidemic
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Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Lebanon
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Iran- Contra Affair
Reagan secretly sold arms to Iraq to support Nicaragua -
The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
Speech in West Berlin -
End of Cold War
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Berlin Wall Falls
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George H. W. Bush
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Germany Reunification
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Iraq invades Kuwait
Iraq wanted the piece that was next to the gulf for oil -
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Persian Gulf War
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Soviet Union collapses
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns and the new president is Boris Yelstin -
Rodney King
Victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, -
Operation Desert Storm
The United Nations attacked Iraq -
Ms. Adcox's Birthday
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Bill Clinton
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NAFTA Founded
Free trade was worked out between US, Mexico and Canada -
Contract with America
Document released by the United States Republican Party during the Congressional election campaign. -
O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”
Former NFL player, broadcaster, and actor was tried on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Mezzaluna restaurant waiter Ronald Goldman. -
Bill Clinton Impeachment
He lied about not having an affair with another woman -
USA Patriot Act
Protect form Terrorism -
War on Terror
Military campaign after 9/11. Helped fight terrorism -
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George W. Bush
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War in Afghanistan
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9/11
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My Birthday
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NASA Mars Rover Mission begins
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Iraq War
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Facebook launched
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Hurricane Katrina
Government didn't do a good job at helping the people -
Saddam Hussein executed
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IPhone released
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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Hillary Clinton Appointed U.S Secretary of State
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Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S Supreme Court
First latina in US Supreme Court -
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Barack Obama
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Arab Spring
The series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa -
Osama Bin Laden killed
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Space X Falcon 9
safe transport of satellites -
Donald Trump elected President
