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The American colonies wanted to be free from Great Britain.
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The French join the American revolution and end it
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Constitution was approved at the Philadelphia convention.
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Early days in the US were unorganized and a very conflicting time.
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Treaty ending the Revolutionary war
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plan designed to stabilize the new American economy, included funding the national debt
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period of antebellum social reform and an emphasis on salvation by institutions
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belief in the United States that Americans were divinely ordained to expand westward
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era marked by a strong sense of national unity and purpose
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social movement advocating lower alcohol consumption
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era associated with President Andrew Jackson and his focus on expanding political participation for the "common man"
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a law that allowed the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to move west
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Great famine caused irish to immigrate
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launched the women's rights and suffrage movements in the United States
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legislation that repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories (Kansas and Nebraska)
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North v South
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widespread social and political reform movements
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abolished slavery
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guarantees citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US
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series of US laws passed between 1867 and 1868 that aimed to rebuild the South after the Civil War
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prohibits the denial of voting rights based on race, or color
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state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation
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flashy materialism and overt political corruption
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pivotal role in addressing poverty and inequality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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restricting immigration into the United States
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a global conflict
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period characterized by rapid social, economic, and cultural change
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two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre
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seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters
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a severe global economic downturn
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period of severe drought and dust storms that ravaged the American Great Plains
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series of programs made to combat the great depression
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intention to end slums in the city. It organized tenants' unions, held rent strikes, assumed control of a slum tenement
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global war
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the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated Japanese
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Series of riots in LA involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents
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tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Gave rights to Native Americans
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series of riots and demonstrations against a police raid
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March for gay and lesbian rights
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