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Manifest Destiny
Idea**
The idea that it was in the apparent future for the US to take controll off the westward terrirotries. Promoted the creation of the transcontinental railroad
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Tradgedy at Haymarcket Square
May first was the begining of a laborors stike demanding higher pay. On May 4th someone threw a bomb into the crowd, and a police officer was killed along with three people being injured. This was the beggining of workers rights strikes to ensure shorter hours and higher pay
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The Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Farmers that moved to the islands wanted the island to be owned by the United States to avoid the protective terrif put on sugar. The goal of the attach was to have Hawaii become part of the states and it was, in 1898.
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Laissez-Faire
Idea**
This is the term used to describe the United States attitude toward big buisiness and monoplies at the turn of the century. The term is French and its literal translation means to "let it be" or leave it alone. The meaning is that government did not regulate buisness or the economy at all, this eventyally led to the stock market crash in 1929.
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The Panama Canal
The Canal was built to give US ships a passage way through from the Atlantic to the pacific without going around South America. To do this the US helped Panama recieve its independence from Columbia.
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
German warned that any ship carrying war supplies was subject to attach. On May 7th, 1915, German U-boats torpiedoed the Lusitania sinking it and killing more than 1,100 people. This forced the US to break its own foreign policy and join WWI.
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The Treaty of Versailles
On June 28, 1919 the threaty to endy World War I was signed, at this treaty convenion President Woodrow Willson presented his 14 Points, which were demands that the US had to put into the Treaty. With this was the Creation of the League of nations, which under US foreign policy, the US could not join.
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Prohibition
Prohibition was the ban of the Manufacturing and sale of Alcholhol. It was the 18th amendment to the Constitution. The public was so outraged by it that the in the 21st amendment they repealed it.
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The 1929 Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash.... Began the Era known as the Great Depression. With a Second Great Crash 5 Days later. The 24th is known as Black Thursday and the 29th is known as Black Tuesday. Those were the days that they fell on.
Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
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The Great Depression
The Great depression lasted 10 years from the Collapse of the Stockmarket in 1929 untile the start of WWII in 1939.
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World War II Begins
Nazi troops crossed into Poland on September 1st and on September 3rd, 1939, Britain and France declared war against Germany and the war began
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese Imperical Navy lead a surprise attack on pearl harbor in an attempt to cripple the United States Navy. The attach was ment to scare the US, but it rather united the country and sent us into WWII
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The United Nations
The United Nations was created in 1945 following the end of WWII. The main point was to improve the idea of the League of Nations. The UN was given the power to inforce thier rulings while the League was given no power but relied on the power of the great nations that represent it. The UN's design was clearly an improvement from the League, thats why it stilll exists today, and it is only growing in numbers. -
Containment of Communism
Idea**
The Soviet threat of spreading the ideas of communist were spreading to most third world counties. While the US had gone nuclear and the soviet union following close behind, the threat of World War III slowly grew starting after WWII, The policy of containment to stop communism from spreading became the US's main concern. This all began with the introduction fo the Marshall Plan.
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Seperate but Equal link http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/separate-but-equal.html
Idea**
Seperate but Equal was the term given to the segregation of African Americans. The term itself is a positive outlook at of the time period, saying that blacks and whites were separated but equal. This turned out to be horribly wrong in the actuallity of the situation. They were separate but they were not equal. Blacks were treated worse in every aspect, and this sparked the Civil Rights Movement that would change everything about African American culture. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to segregate public schools. This set the presedent, and with this now it was possible to desegragate schools all over the US.
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Reaganomics
Idea**
The idea that President Reagan put in place to slowly raise the economy. This purposed upper-income level tax cuts of about 30% and initiate massive socail spending. He lessend the tax burdent on the wealthy to promote spending. This spending and investing would create new jobs and innitiate economic growth.
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The End of The Cold War
This day marks the end of agressive competition of power between the United States and the Soviet Union. Though no battles were fought between the two nations, there were times like the Cuban MIssile Crisis, in which the world thought that war was inevitable.
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The Complete Commercialization of the Internet
In 1995 the last of the government bans on commercialization of the internet were removed. The interent became an open system to the public and from then on became primarily used for commercial puropses.
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The Columbine School Shooting
Two seniors at The Coumbine High School went in with guns that they had esily purchased and killed 13 people before taking their own lives. This gave awareness of the ever growing problems that exist within our country. It was a crude awakening to the dangers of the age that we live in.
link
http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/columbine.htm
