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Ch. 2
The building of the Transcontinental Railroad was the most important event because it was a new way for people to get to other parts of the country, and it was a more efficient way to ship products. -
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This is important because it was one of the first times that the US limited the amount of people that could come and live here.
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This was the most important event because it set a precedent for segregation in the US, "separate but equal".
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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.
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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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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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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.
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The 19th amendment was a huge step towards gender equality, this had been unheard of during this time.
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Even though less than 2% of people owned stocks, people began to panic about their money.
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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.
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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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The US's entry into WWII greatly affected so many aspects of the country such as, the economy, society, etc.
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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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This case ruled out segregation in schools, which was a huge development.
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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.
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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.
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Even though things are still not necessarily just for African Americans, it was a very large, important step for their community.
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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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This event united the country, and it gave lots of people hope that anything is possible.
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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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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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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.