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This was issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. It declared that people being held in slavery shall be free. -
This amendment granted citizenship and equal rights/protections to all people born or naturalized in the United States -
The construction of the transcontinental railroad helped the settlement of western United States. With this transportation is made it easier to move goods over long distance from one part of the country to another. -
During the Reconstruction era the time for entrepreneur was at its all time high such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, etc. In 1879 Edison created the world renown light bulb that kick started the electric industry. -
The Klu Klux Klan was a white supremacy group formed to eradicate and torment African Americans. This group was primarily in the south and did not care about government loss of equality and nondiscrimination. -
The Haymarket riot happened when a labor protest in Chicago that escalated into a riot when a bomb was thrown. This strike was not the only one that happened in protest of labor. Some well known strikes include the Homestead and the Pullman strike.
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The war started when a assassin killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who at the time was the heir to an empire. This sparked a war within all of Europe that escalated to a global issues where United States were the Allied Powers. -
Margret Sanger who was a women's activist, writer, etc. opened the first birth control clinic giving women a choice of contraceptives during a conservative time. -
Germany surrendered and the Treaty of Versailles was signed to symbolize peace. After the war people in the United States rejoiced and dreamed about the prosperity their country will have in the 1920's. -
One third of the population became infect with a virus making it the most severe pandemic in recent history. In that time period there was no vaccine nor antibiotics to counteract the virus.
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The 19th amendment was passed giving women the right to vote and opened a window for women to start to be involved politically and in the workforce. -
This law banned the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol. Even though this was suppose to be good for the economy and society, it weekend it due to the increase in organize crimes. -
This law was created after World War I and allowed the limitation of immigrant into the United States. This was significant due to the affect of war and fear had on the nation. -
This crash is believed to contribute to the Great Depression. Millions of people sank into poverty after the economic downfall and people lost faith in both government and banks.
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Also known as the dirty thirties this was a time period of poverty. Crops that were once prosperous were now failing due to a drought. These caused farmers to go bankrupt and many civilians hungry. -
Started when Germany invaded Poland. Even though the United States did not have involvement in WWII in the beginning it still played a strategic role in the united states history due to the bloodshed and affect on our army.
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This is where America's involvement came in to play during WWII when they received a surprised attack by the Japanese Navy. There were a number of casualties and inspired the United States government to join the war against Germany and japan. -
The World War came to a close when the allied landings in Normandy opened a second front in Europe. The allied armies congregated toward Berlin and Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
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During World War II an American Bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over a Japanese city called Hiroshima. thousands of people died instantly and thousands more days later due to radiation. Three days later another bomb was dropped in the Japanese city Nagasaki. -
This was a huge war that was built on the tension between the United States and the once allied Soviet Union. United States became paranoids after WWII of retaliation. -
The Vietnam War was a invasive and costly conflict between North and South Vietnam. United States was on the side of South Vietnam especially after the tension caused on the cold war.
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