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Rutherford B Hayes
19th President of Us -
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws in the south that prevented many blacks basic rights -
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James Grafiled
20th President of US -
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Chester Aruther
21st president of US -
Chineses exclusion act of 1882
Prohibitat all chinese immigrants -
Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883
federal law established in 1883 that decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
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Grover Cleveland
22nd President of US -
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. -
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Benjamin Harrison
23rd president of US -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
was the first United States Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies. -
McKinley Tariff
Boosted protective tariff rates on 50% of American products -
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Grover Cleveland
24th president of US -
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William McKinley
25th President of US -
USS Mainee
USS Maine sunk in Havana Cuba -
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Spanish American War
War between the US and Spain -
Open door policy
Provided equal trade with China -
Galvestion Hurricane of 1900
Huge earthquake that hit galveston texas and destroyed the town and towns around it -
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of US -
San Francisco earthquake of 1906
Most defistating earthquake in American history -
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William Taft
27th President of US -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Fire at a shirt factory that killed 145 workers -
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Woodrow Wilson
28th President of US -
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World War 1
Great War between Germany and Great britan, Russia France and The US -
Lusitania
Passenger ship sunk by German U-boat -
19th Amendment
forbids voting rights discrimination anywhere in the United States based on sex. -
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Warren Harding
29th president of US -
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Calvin Coolidge
30th president of US -
Immigration Quota Act of 1924
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
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Herbert Hoover
31st president of US -
Black Tuesday
The stock market collasped causing the Great depression -
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Great Depression
Worst economic time in American history -
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Dust Bowl
Dust storms that wrecked the middle US -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of US -
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World War 2
Second great war between the Axis powers and Allied powers -
Lend Lease act
principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks US navy stationed at Pearl Harbor -
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Harry Truman
33rd president of US -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. -
National Security Act
major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. -
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Cold War
War between US and USSR but no actual conflict occured -
Executive Order 9981
abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
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Korean War
War between North Korea and the US and south Korea -
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Dwight D. Eisnhower
34th President of the US -
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Vietnam War
War fought in Vietnam by the US to stop the spread of communism from north Vietnam to south Vietnam -
Little Rock 9
9 black students denied entry into A Little rock high school -
U-2 incident
US spy plane shot down over USSR -
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John F. Kennedey
35th President of the US -
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Cuban Missle crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba -
Limited Nuclear test Ban Treaty
prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. -
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Lyndon Johnson
36th President of US -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Gave blacks the same housing opputunites as whites -
Immigration act of 1965
Prevented many immigrants -
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Richard Nixon
37th president of US -
Salt treaty
United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
Watergate
A break in at the democratic headquarters in washington that lead to Nixon resiginning -
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Gerled Ford
38th President of the US -
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James Carter
39th President of the US -
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Ronald Reagan
40th President of the US -
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George W. H. Bush
41st President of the US -
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Persian Gulf War
US lead colation to get Saddum Hussais militarty out of Kuwait -
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Bill Clinton
42nd President of the US -
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George W Bush
43rd President of the US -
9/11 Attacks
Terror attacks that killed 3000 US citizens -
Patriot Act
Allowed the goverment to monitor peoples lives that they supsect are terriost -
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Barrack Obama
44th president of the US