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President Andrew Jackson wanted to kick the Natives out and send them on what was eventually known to be the Trail of Tears. The Supreme Court said that he couldn't do it, but he did it anyways.
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Dorothea Dix worked for mental asylum reform. She also advocated for reform for prisons and for addicts. She also volunteered in the Civil War as a nurse. Afterwards, she travelled the world, working for hospital reform.
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The Trail of Tears was the forced removal of Native American Indians from the Mississippi River Valley to Oklahoma.
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The act, passed by President Chester Arthur, blocked all Chinese Immigration for 10 years.
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This Chicago organization was the first documented society for LGBTQIA+ rights.
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Homosexuality was declared a medical issue by The American Psychiatric Association.
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President Dwight Eisenhower signs an order that says that members of the LGBTQIA+ community cannot work in the federal government.
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In 1969, the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a gay bar, was raided by police. This sparked the gay rights movement.
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Charles Bilal became the first Muslim mayor.
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The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by al-Qaeda, a radical Islamist group, created an era of Muslim-phobia.
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At the Democratic National Convention in 2012, the Democrats became the first major political party to put gay rights in their platform.
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SCOTUS rules that it is illegal for states to make same-sex marriage illegal.