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American Civil War
-America’s bloodiest clash, the sectional conflct of the Civil War (1861-65) pitted the Union against the Confederate States of America and resulted in the death of more than 620,000, with millions more injured. -
13th Amendment
-13th amendment was to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery in the United States. -“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” -
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Reconstruction
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14th Amendment
-The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. The most commonly used and in the amendment is "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases, including Brown v. Board of Education (racial discrimination), Roe v. Wade (reproductive rights), Bush v. Gore (election recounts), Reed v. Reed (gender discrimination), and University of California v. Bakke (racial in education). -
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.”
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Jim Crow Laws Start in South
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Chicago’s Hull House
•a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams.
-opened to recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had grown to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp -
How The Other Half Lives
•It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class.
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Influence of Sea Power Upon History
- naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
- Its policies were quickly adopted by most major navies,
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Imperialism
-Imperialism is an action that involves a country (usually an empire or a kingdom) extending its power by the acquisition of territories. It may also include the exploitation of these territories, an action that is linked to colonialism, Colonialism is generally regarded as an expression of imperialism. -
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Progressive Era
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Plessy v. Ferguson
- was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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Annexation of Hawaii
- Queen Lili'uokalani, was overthrown by party of businessmen
- United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. -by foreign residents residing in Honolulu, mostly United States citizens, and subjects of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Wikipedia
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Spanish American War
- U.S. won over Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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Assassination of President McKinley
-William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
•Political Party- republican and progressive “Bull Moose” party
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Pure Food and Drug Act
•a law passed in 1906 to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the markets
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Model -T
-automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927.
- made by Henry Ford as practical, affordable transportation for the common man.
- the model T was also known “Tin Lizzie”
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NAACP
•the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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William Howard Taft
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16th amendment
-The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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Federal Reserve Act
- Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System the central banking system of the United State, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes commonly known as the US Dollar as legal tender. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
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17th Amendment
-The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip. - -
Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
- the Germans used poison gas during a surprise attack in Flanders, Belgium, in 1915.
- Later, phosgene and other gases were loaded into artillery shells and shot into enemy trenches.
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WORLD WAR 1
- known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars
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Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean linerLusitania on 7 May 1915 during theFirst World War as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of GermanyWhen Germany torpedoes a Britishpassenger ship believed to be smuggling arms, anger at the resulting American deaths increases pressure on President Wilson to enter World War I. Its sinking caused moral outrage both in Britain and in the US and led, ultimately, to the USA declaring war against Germany -
National Parks System
-The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. -
Zimmerman Telegram
-a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
-The United States entered the war because of the Germans' decision to resume the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the so-called "Zimmerman telegram," intercepted by the British, in which Germany floated the idea of an alliance with Mexico. -
U.S entry into WW 1
-President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. ... The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. -
Russian Revolution
-The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
-The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. -
18th Amendment
-prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
19th 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 sex.
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President Harding's Return to Normalcy
-the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Harlem Renaissance
-The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement"
-the Harlem Renaissance was very significant because it marked a moment when white America started recognising the intellectual contributions of Blacks and on the other hand African Americans asserted their identity intellectually and linked their struggle to that of blacks around the world and planted -
Red Scare
- "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. -The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which led many to fear that immigrants, particularly from Russia, southern Europe, and eastern Europe, intended to overthrow the United States government; The end of World War I, which caused production needs to decline and unemployment to rise
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Teapot Dome Scandal
-The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
-The Teapot Dome Scandal of the 1920s shocked Americans by revealing an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within a presidential administration.
-politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly. -
Joseph Stalin Lead USSR
-Joseph Stalin was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader. Governing the Soviet Union as its dictator from the mid-1920s
-consolidation of power in the 1920s the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party became synonymous with 'Leader of the Soviet Union' because the post controlled both the CPSU and the Soviet Government. -
Scopes ''monkey'' Trail
-in a This Day in History video, learn that on July 10, 1925, the Scopes Monkey trial began in Dayton, Tennessee. High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. -
Mein Kampf Published
- autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight
-Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Slim,[1] Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
-Gang warfare ruled the streets of Chicago during the late 1920s, as chief gangster Al Capone sought to consolidate control by eliminating his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. -
Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
-Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
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GREAT DEPRESSION
-The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations.
-The Great Depression had devastating effects in countries both rich and poor.
-Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25% and in some countries rose as high as 33%. -
Hoovervilles
-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 named after the president -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
- Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people’s frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty.
- post-war Weimar government into support for his fledgling Nazi partyIn an election held in July 1932, the Nazis won 230 governmental seats; together with the Communists, the next largest party, they made up over half of the Reichstag.
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THE HOLOCAUST
-The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews -
Rape of Nanjing
-The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- A large number of rapes were done systematically by the Japanese soldiers as they went from door to door, searching for girls, with many women being captured and gang raped. The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit mutilation -
Kristallnacht
-mainly known as " Night of Broken Glass''
-Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
-Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” to the what they referred to as the “Jewish problem,” and carried out the systematic murder of some 6 million European Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust. -
Hitler invades Poland
-German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
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WORLD WAR II
-World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945
-. the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy starting in 1936.
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
-Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war).
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Tuskegee Airmen
-African American military pilots who fought in World War II.
-Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. -
Navajo Code Talkers
-code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater
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Executive Order 9066
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas.
-100,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry were moved to assembly centers. They were then evacuated to and confined in isolated, fenced, and guarded relocation centers, known as internment camps. -
Bataan Death March
-The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army
-75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
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
If you are attending a public school, the Post-9/11 GI Bill can pay your full tuition directly to the school. You will receive a monthly housing allowance and up to $1000 a year for books and supplies. The housing allowance is paid at a percentage based on your active duty service, and your credit load. -
Victory in Europe (V/E) Day
-Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
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 on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. -
United Nations (UN) Formed
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Germany Divided
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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
-Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners -
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Harry S. Truman
-Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Nuremberg Trails
- Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. 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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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO Formed
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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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1950s Prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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Dwright D Eisenhower
-Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 -
Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
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VIETNAM WAR
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interstate high act
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956. The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Sputnik I
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Thurgood Mrshall Appointed to supreme court
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals, but his nomination was opposed by many Southern senators, and he was not confirmed until the next year. In June 1967, President Johnson nominated him to the Supreme Court, and in late August he was confirmed. -
“The Jungle”
•Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry
•His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.
