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Declaration of Independence
- announced the colonies’ freedom from British rule and set forth the founding principles of the United States of America including : “all men are created equal”,unalienable rights; government derives its power from the consent of the governed
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United States Constitution
- defines a framework for the country’s law and order. The Constitution is the supreme law enforcer of the United States
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Bill of Rights
- was created to protect individual rights including economic rights related to property, political rights related to freedom of speech and press, and personal . The BOR exists as the first 10 amendments to the U,S. Constitution
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13th amendment
- abolishes slavery
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United States purchased Alaska
U.s. purchase Alaska from Russia (becomes 49th state in 1959) -
Battle of Little Bighorn
- sitting Bull and crazy horse lead Sioux to crushing victory of general George Custer
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Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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Plessy vs Ferguson
- ‘Separate but Equal ‘ is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs.Board of Education in 1954)
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Spanish - American War
Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S. crushes Spain’s Navy -
Henry Ford introduces the Model T
- introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced
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World War I begins in Europe
- bloodiest war in world history to date, aka “The Great War” , “ The War to End all Wars
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Selective service act
- establishes the draft
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Harlem Renaissance
- was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of WWI and the middle of the 1930s
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Stock Market Crash - “ Black Tuesday “
- launches a Great Depression
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Dust Bowl
- severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the Us and Canadian prairies which lasted about 1930 to 1940
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FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)elected President