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Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a turning point in the late 1800's right after the Civil War. It was a prosperous time for United States history where the country saw major growth in industry and technology. It was also a time ran by greed; a time where corruption in businesses held more power in politics than politicians.
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US History: VHS Summer: Emoni Wiggins
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first discriminatory immigration act. It wouldn't allow Chinese Immigrants to enter the country and forbid the Chinese already living in the United States from gaining citizenship, no matter how long they had resided in the states. The citizens living in the United States were forced to carry around documents proving their citizenship or they risked deportation.
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Imperialism
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World War I
World War I began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This start the break out of Austria-Hungary against Britain and eventually lead to countries recruiting their allies.
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The Harlem Renaissance
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League of Nations
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The Great Depression
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime
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Battle of Midway
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World War II
The war was sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war was dragged on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery bus boycott, a mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional. The 381-day bus boycott also brought the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., into the spotlight as one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement.
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The Sit-in movement
Students from across the country came together to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and organize sit-ins at counters throughout the South. This front page is from the North Carolina A&T University student newspaper.
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Roe vs Wade
Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman’s constitutional right of privacy, which it found to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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Reaganomics
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Fall of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
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Operations Desert Storm
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The Internet
The internet was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested the advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the early days, the Internet was used mainly by scientists to communicate with other scientists. The Internet remained under government control until 1984.
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Columbine School Shooting
When two students entered Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado in April 1999 with weapons, they murdered thirteen people before taking their own lives.
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