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American Civil War
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• Homestead Act
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• 13th Amendment
the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. -
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• 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
• Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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• 15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
• Industrialization Begins to Boom
the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. -
• Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State. -
• Telephone Invented
An early voice communicating device was invented around 1854 by Antonio Meucci, who called it a telettrofono. ... resolution by the US Congress was promptly followed by a Canada legislative motion by Canada's 37th Parliament, declaring Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone. -
• Jim Crow Laws Start in South
laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. -
• Reconstruction Ends
With the compromise, the Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south. In 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction. -
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Gilded Age
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• Light Bulb Invented
Thomas Edison and the “first” light bulb. In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights". -
• 3rd Wave of Immigration
North Carolina was largely untouched by the first two waves of immigration to the United States. Between 1840 and 1889, the U.S. received 14.3 million immigrants, the majority from Northern/Western European countries such as Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. -
• Chinese Exclusion Act
stop Chinese from entering the u.s. -
• Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
• Interstate Commerce Act
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The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
• Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians -
Chicago hull house
Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened to recently arrived European immigrants -
• Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
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how the other half live
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• Klondike Gold Rush
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• How the Other Half Lives
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• Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
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• TIMESPAN: Progressive Era
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• TIMESPAN: Imperialism
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• Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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• Pullman Labor Strike
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• Plessy v. Ferguson
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• Annexation of Hawaii
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• Spanish American War
a war fought between the united states and Spain -
• Open Door Policy
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assassination of president McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
republican and progressive
bull moose party
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• Wright Brother’s Airplane
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• Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
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pure food and drug act
preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
• The Jungle
exposing the meat industry and working conditions -
• Model-T
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• NAACP
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: William Howard Taft
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16th amendment
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• Federal Reserve Act
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Woodrow Wilson
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17th amendment
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assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand
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world war 1
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• National Parks System
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18th amendment
band alcohol -
19th amendment
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• Red Scare
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• President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
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• Harlem Renaissance
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Roaring Twenties
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• Teapot Dome Scandal
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• Scopes “Monkey” Trial
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mein kampf
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• Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
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• Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”
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• St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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: Great Depression
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• Hoovervilles
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• Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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• 100, 000 Banks Have Failed
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• Public Works Administration PWA
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• Agriculture Adjustment Administration AAA
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• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC
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hitler appointed chancellor of germany
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: New Deal Programs
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: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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the holocaust
Adolf Hitler murdered 6 million Jews -
• Dust Bowl
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• Social Security Administration SSA
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rape of Nanjing
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Kristallnacht
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hitler invades Poland
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world war 2
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Germany blitzkrieg attacks
concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. -
pearl harbor
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Tuskegee
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Navajo code talkers
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Executive order 9066
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Bataan death march
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Invasion of Normandy d day
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• GI Bill
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Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Victory over japan/pacific (vj/vp) day
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liberation of concentration camps
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Victory in Europe
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united nations
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united nations formed (UN)
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Germany Divided
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• United Nations (UN) Formed
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• Germany Divided
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
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: Baby Boom
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Truman doctrine
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• Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
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• 22nd Amendment
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The Cold War
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Marshall plan
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Berlin airlift
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• Arab-Israeli War Begins
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NATO formed
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Kim Il sung invades south korea
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UN forces push North korea to yalu river the border whith china
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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korea war
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Korean war
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: 1950s Prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg execution
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Armistice Signed
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: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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: Warren Court
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• Hernandez v. Texas
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• Brown v. Board of Education
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• Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
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Warsaw pact formed
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• Polio Vaccine
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• Rosa Parks Arrested
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• Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Vietnam War
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• Interstate Highway Act
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• Elvis Presley First Hit Song
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sputnik
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• Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
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• Civil Rights Act of 1957
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• Little Rock Nine
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• Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
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• Chicano Mural Movement Begins
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• Bay of Pigs Invasion
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• Peace Corps Formed
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• Mapp v. Ohio
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• Affirmative Action
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: John F. Kennedy
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• Cuban Missile Crisis
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• Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
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• Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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• The Feminine Mystique
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• March on Washington
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• Gideon v. Wainwright
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• George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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• The Great Society
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• Civil Rights Act of 1964
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• Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
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• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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• 24th Amendment
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• Escobedo v. Illinois
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• Voting Rights Act of 1965
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• Malcom X Assassinated
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• United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
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• Miranda v. Arizona
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• Six Day War
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• Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
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• Tet Offensive
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• My Lai Massacre
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• Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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• My Lai Massacre
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• Vietnamization
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• Draft Lottery
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• Apollo 11
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• Tinker v. Des Moines
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• Woodstock Music Festival
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• Manson Family Murders
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• Vietnamization
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Richard Nixon
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• Kent State Shootings
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• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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• Invasion of Cambodia
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• Pentagon Papers
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• 26th Amendment
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Jimmy Carter
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• Nixon Visits China
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• Watergate Scandal
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• Title IX
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• War Powers Resolution
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• Engaged Species Act
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• Roe v. Wade
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• OPEC Oil Embargo
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• First Cell-Phones
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• United States v. Nixon
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• Ford Pardons Nixon
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: Gerald Ford
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• Fall of Saigon
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• Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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• National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
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• Steve Jobs Starts Apple
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• Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
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• Camp David Accords
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• Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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• AIDS Epidemic
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Trickle Down Economics
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• War on Drugs
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• Conservative Resurgence
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• Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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Ronald Reagan
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• Marines in Lebanon
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• Iran-Contra Affair
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• The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall
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• Berlin Wall Falls
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• End of Cold War
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: George H. W. Bush
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• Germany Reunification
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• Iraq Invades Kuwait
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: Persian Gulf War
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• Ms. Adcox Born
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• Soviet Union Collapses
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• Rodney King
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• Operation Desert Storm
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: Bill Clinton
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• NAFTA Founded
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• Contract with America
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• O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century
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• Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
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• USA Patriot Act
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• 9/1111 (September 11, 2001
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• War on Terror
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War in Afghanistan
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: George W. Bush
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• NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
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: Iraq War
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• Facebook Launched
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• Hurricane Katrina
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• Saddam Hussein Executed
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• Iphone Released
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• Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
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• Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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• Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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Barack Obama
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• Arab Spring
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• Osama Bin Laden Killed
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• Space X Falcon 9
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• Donald Trump Elected President
