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Chap. 6 A New Industrial Age
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Chap. 6 Transcontinental Railroad
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Chap 7 Immigrants and Urbanization
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Chap 9 Progressive Era
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Chap 8 Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Chap 7 Chinese Exclusion Act
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Chap 10 America Claims an Empire
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Chap 8 Plessy V. Ferguson
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Chap 11 WWI
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Chap 9 First Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone was a better way that people could communicate, for example, it no longer took months for a person to send a letter to a family in the west or another state. -
Chap 11 US enters WWI
This is very important in our history because we broke out of our isolationalism to get involved, this involvement is what gets us in trouble with Germany. -
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Chap 12 Politics of the Roaring 20s
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Chap. 12 Strikes
Over 4 million people went on strike, this was hypocritical because they were afraid of communism, but the strikes were leaning more towards that way. -
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Chap 13 The Roaring life of the 1920s
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Chap 10 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is the most important thing that happened in this chapter because it was a huge step in the equality of women and men. -
Chap 13 The 19th Amendment was put into place
The 19th amendment was a huge step towards gender equality, this had been unheard of during this time. -
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Chap 14 The Great Depression Begins
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Chap. 14 The Stock Market Crashes
Even though less than 2% of people owned stocks, people began to panic about their money. -
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Chap 16 World War Looms
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Chap. 15 The New Deal
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Chap 16 Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany
Hitler's rise to power really affected the US because if he had not been the leader of Germany, and brainwash his people, we would not have been involved in the WWII. -
Chap 15 Congress creates the SEC to regulate the stock market
The creation of the SEC was important because it helped reensure that the a stock market crash would not happen again. -
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Chap 17 The United States in World War II
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Chap 17 The US enters WWII
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Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers
This is very important because we acted on this because of fear of what the Japanese would do to us, and this scared many people at home. -
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Chap 19 The Postwar Boom
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Chap 18 Cold War Conflicts
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Chap 22 The Vietnam War Years
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Chap 19 Brown v. Board of Education
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Chap 21 Civil Rights
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Chap 20 The New Frontier and The Great Society
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Chap 22 An Era of Social Change
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Chap 18 John F. Kennedy is elected President
This was the very important because JFK began to implement things such as Medicare and funding schools, he also played a big part in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Chap 21 JFK elected POTUS
JFK's election was a big step for the Civil RIghts movement of the 60s because he was supportive of the equal rights and opportunites for the blacks. -
Chap 20 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
Even though things are still not necessarily just for African Americans, it was a very large, important step for their community. -
Chap 22 First Major US combat units arrive in Vietnam
The first troops in Vietnam was the first event in some controversial times, because of this entrance into the Vietnam war, many people began to have distrust in the government. -
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Chap 24 An Age of Limits
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Chap 23 US astronauts walk the moon
This event united the country, and it gave lots of people hope that anything is possible. -
Chap 24 VP Gerald Ford put into office after Watergate Scandal
After the Watergate Scandal, not many people could trust the government, it did not help when Ford did not do a good job of picking up after Nixon. -
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Chap 25 The Conservative Tide
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Chap 25 Pres Reagan goes to China
This was huge because people were appauled that he had gone because China was a communist country, and he was signing a treaty with them, -
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Chap 26 The US in the World Today
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Chap 26 9/11
9/11 was very important in our country because it shaped a lot of our policies with terrorism, and countries that house them today, an example would be that no one can look at a muslim without thinking that they could potentially be a terrorist.