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moving westward after reconstruction. Our "God given right" to move westward
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The US developed impearialist ideas in the late 1800s
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Former commanding general of the Union Army. Got elected as an American hero
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Won against Samuel Tilden. Served one term as he promised in his inagural speech
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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Cleveland expanded the Civil Service and ended wasteful government programs. But an economic depression wrecked his second term.
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By the 1870s, support was waning for the racially egalitarian policies of Reconstruction, as many southern whites had resorted to intimidation and violence to keep blacks from voting and restore white supremacy in the region. Beginning in 1873, a series of Supreme Court decisions limited the scope of Reconstruction-era laws and federal support for the so-called Reconstruction Amendments, particularly the 14th and 15th, which gave African Americans the status of citizenship and the protection of
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The Populist movement was a revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties. For over a decade, farmers were suffering from crop failures, falling prices, poor marketing, and lack of credit facilities.
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Cleveland expanded the Civil Service and ended wasteful government programs. But an economic depression wrecked his second term.
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McKinley led the U.S. during the Spanish-American War. The U.S. won several important overseas colonies.
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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The Battle of San Juan Hill, also known as the battle for the San Juan Heights, was a decisive battle of the Spanish–American War. The San Juan heights was a north-south running elevation about two kilometers east of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
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A revolution was organized by John Stevens, the US minister to Hawaii, and was supported by marines
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Spanish and American diplomats met in Paris to argue over the terms of the peace agreement that would end the Spanish-American War.
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The Hurricane of 1900, also known as the Great Galveston Hurricane, made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States.
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On this day in 1901, President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest. The president rose slightly on his toes before collapsing forward, saying “be careful how you tell my wife.”
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Roosevelt was one of the most activist Presidents. His many accomplishments included the building of the Panama Canal, cracking down on business monopolies, and creating many national parks.
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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on April 18 with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI. Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days.
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Taft was the only president to have served in both the President and Cheif Justice of the United States
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Leader during World War 1. Created the Progressive Reforms to try to build new world order.
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The Federal Reserve Act (ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, enacted December 23, 1913, 12 U.S.C. ch. 3) is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes
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World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
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Germany invades Belgium to get into France
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An amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The Clayton Antitrust Act attempts to prohibit certain actions that lead to anti-competitiveness.
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Russia withdrew after communist revolution led by Vladimir Lenin in 1917
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The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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Warren G Harding won the Presidency, promising a "return to normalcy"
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Teapot Dome Scandel was the main thing that happened during his presidency
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Led the country through most of the roaring 20's. Believed in laissez-faire. many of his policies led to the Great Depression
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Hoover Dam
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Became president during the great depression. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
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The Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler-Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of Native Americans (known in law as American Indians or Indians).
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Ranchers and farmers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, driven by the American agricultural ethos of expansion and a sense of autonomy from nature, aggressively exploited the land and set up the region for ecological disaster. Most early settlers used the land for livestock grazing until agricultural mechanization combined with high grain prices during World War I enticed farmers to plow up millions of acres of natural grass cover to plant wheat.
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Hitlr annexed Austria saying that he was helping Germans in the country.
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Germany invaded Poland, France and Britain declare war on Germany.
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier.
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Japanese general Tojo launched a surprise attack on the naval base hoping to preserve their empire in the pacific.
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Was Vice President before becoming President. Made the decision to drop the bombs on Japan
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Ended WWII; major arms reduction in the Axis countries
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GATT' A treaty created following the conclusion of World War II. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was implemented to further regulate world trade to aide in the economic recovery following the war.
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Made by Harry Truman after WWII; completely desegregated the military
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Built the Insterstate Highway System. Helped ease the cold war
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The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, Interstate Freeway System, Interstate System, or simply the Interstate) is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States.
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The Suez Crisis, also named the Tripartite Aggression, and the Kadesh Operation was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France.
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The 1960 U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace.
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Youngest Man ever to become president. Assasinated in Texas. "Ask not what your country ca do for you, but what you can do for your country"
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (4 June – 9 November 1961) was the last major politico-military European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.
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Bacame president after JFK was assasinated. Planned to build a Great Society
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Helped protect voting rights for African Americans
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Watergate Scandel. Ended fighting in Vietnam. Improved relations in USSR and China
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Became president when Nixon resigned. Nobody really liked him.
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Running against Ford. increased jobs by nearly 8 million by the end of his presidency.
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The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter.
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Known as the Grandfather President. Survived an atempted assasination. Created "Reaganomics".
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Wanted to make the U.S. a "kinder and gentler nation".
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The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war.
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Took office after the end of th Cold War. Known for his whit house affair, and his almost impeachment
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Declared War of Terror. Disrupted the Taliban under the rule of Osama Bin Laden
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Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States
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Barack Obama becomes the first African American President
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Captured and killed Osama Bin Laden. Currently the US President
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected as the US President