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Chapter 6 - A New Industrial Age
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Chapter 7 - Immigrants and Urbanization
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Chapter 8 - Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Bessemer Steel Process (ch6)
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Racial Discrimination (ch8)
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Chapter 9 - The Progressive Era
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Chapter 10 - America Claims an Empire
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The Spanish-American War
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The Americanization Movement (ch7)
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Chapter 11 - The First World War
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Harlem Renaissance (ch13)
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Prohibition (ch9)
The Prohibition was the banning of alcohol which was supported by women reformers. This is the start of women starting to get what they want in society. -
Treaty of Verailles (ch11)
The Treaty gave Germany the sole responsibility of the War, barred them from maintaining an army, and forced them to pay for reparations. -
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Chapter 12 - Politics of the Twenties
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Chapter 13 - Life in the 1920s
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Instalment Plan (ch12)
this allowed people to buy things now and pay later; credit -
Great Depression (ch14)
banks fail, people lose jobs and homes, etc -
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Chapter 14 - The Great Depression
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Chapter 16 - Would War Looms
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New Deal (ch15)
Roosevelts plan to fix the problems of the Great Depression (focas of relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform) -
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Chapter 15 - The New Deal
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Pearl Harbor (ch16)
japan attacks US soil, US declares war on Japan and joins the war against Germany -
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Chapter 17 - The US in WWII
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V-E Day (ch17)
WWII is finally over -
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Chaoter 18 - Cold War Conflicts
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Chapter 19 - Postwar Boom
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NATO (ch18)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; alliance between Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Gritain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, POrtugal, US, and Canada -
Baby Boom (ch19)
more people are having kids when they come bsck from the war -
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Chapter 21 - Civil Rights
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Chapter 22 - Vietnam War
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Chapter 20 - New Frontier and the Great Society
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Chapter 23 - Era of Social Change
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Living Room War (ch22)
first time Americans could see what has happening over seas and they did not like what they saw, they fet they were being lied to. -
Cuban Missile Crisis (ch20)
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MLK Death (ch21)
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Chapter 24 - An Age of LImits
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Watergate (ch24)
Nixon resigns and Amerians start to believe that polititians arent good people -
Equal Rights Amendment (ch23)
guarantee that both men and women would enjoy that same rights and protection under the law. -
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Chapter 25 - The Conservative Tide
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Cold War Ends (ch25)
soviet Union declines -
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Chapter 26 - The US in Today's World
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9/11 (ch26)
4 planes hijacked, 2 crashed into Twin Towers, 1 crashed into the Pentagon, and the last crashed in a feild when the passangers overcame the hijackers.