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Homestead Act
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13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
CITIZENS. Defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
VOTE. 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" -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
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Telephone Invented
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Reconstruction Ends
A purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era. -
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
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Third Wave of Immigration
Brought over 20 million European immigrants to the United States, an average of 650,000 a year at a time when the United States had 75 million residents -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Pendleton Act
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Dawes Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
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Chicago’s Hull House
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Klondike Gold Rush
A tributary of the Yukon River which flowed through Alaska and the Yukon Territory in in north-western Canada. The Klondike Gold Rush led to a stampede of hopeful prospectors to Alaska and brought substantial economic benefits to the United States of America. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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How the Other Half Lives
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Influence of Sea Power Upon History
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan -
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Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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Pullman Labor Strike
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Plessy v. Ferguson
upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. -
Annexation of Hawaii
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Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba -
Open Door Policy
Open Door policy, statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. -
Assassination of President Mckinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
Political Party: Republican + Progressive “Bull Moose” party
Domestic Policies: Square Deal (3’s) - Trust Buster, Nature Conservation
Big Stick Policy: International negotiations backed by the threat of force. The phrase comes from a proverb quoted by Theodore Roosevelt, who said that the United States should “ Speak softly and carry a big stick.” -
Wright Brother’s Airplane
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B. -
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William Howard Taft
Political Party: Republican
Domestic Policies: Tried 3’Cs, 16th/ 17th Amendment
Dollar Diplomacy: a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries -
Federal Reserve Act
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16th Amendment
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Woodrow Wilson
Political Party: Democrat
Domestic Policies: Clayton Anti- Trust Act, National Parks Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18 Amendment, 19th Amendment
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17th Amendment
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Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip. -
Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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National Parks System
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Zimmerman Telegram
a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
U.S. entry into WWI
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union -
Battle of Argonne Forest
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Armistice
a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting -
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers -
19th Amendment
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President Harding's Return to Normalcy
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Harlem Renaissance
a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. -
Red Scare
many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology -
18th Amendment
the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act -
Mein Kampf published
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Charles Lindbergh's Trans- Atlantic Flight
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
he Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
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Hoovervilles
a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. -
100, 000 Banks Have Failed
As the economic depression deepened in the early 30s, and as farmers had less and less money to spend in town, banks began to fail at alarming rates. During the 20s, there ... But others have looked at fundamental economic factors and regional histories and argued that banks failed as a result of the economic collapse. -
Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Deal Programs
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The Holocaust (1933- 1945)
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Dust Bowl
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Social Security Administration (SSA)
unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs -
Rape of Nanjing
an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -
Hitler invades Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. -
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. -
Navajo Code Talkers
strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory -
Tuskegee Airmen
the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II. Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Executive Order 9066
The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation. In an atmosphere of World War II hysteria, President Roosevelt, encouraged by officials at all levels of the federal government, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. -
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
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GI Bill
The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day
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United Nations (UN) Formed
Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
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Germany Divided
after Germany's unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945, the Allies divided Germany into four military occupation zones — France in the southwest, Britain in the northwest, the United States in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east, bounded eastwards by the Oder -
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
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Baby Boom
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22nd Amendment
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Truman Doctrine
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Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
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Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $140 billion in 2017 dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
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Arab-Israeli War Begins
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, or the First Arab–Israeli War, was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine, forming the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war -
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 with China
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Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
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UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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Korean War
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Korean War
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1950s Prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union -
Armistice Signed
the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany. ... Also known as the Armistice of Compiègne from the place where it was signed, it came into force at 11 a.m. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Warren Court
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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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Hernandez v. Texas
"the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period."[2] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. The signing of the pact became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe -
Polio Vaccine
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Vietnam War
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Elvis Presley First Hit Song
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Interstate Highway Act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation -
Sputnik 1
he first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
A popular situation comedy on American television which portrayed "a Utopian vision of a perfect American family, living in the perfect American suburb. It has become an icon of stable family life in a nuclear family -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. -
Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history. The Kennedy-Nixon debates not only had a major impact on the election’s outcome, but ushered in a new era in which crafting a public image and taking advantage of media exposure became essential ingredients of a successful political campaign. They also heralded the central role television has continued to play in the democratic process. -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista -
Peace Corps Formed
Kennedy signed congressional legislation creating a permanent Peace Corps that would “promote world peace and friendship” through three goals: (1) to help the peoples of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women; (2) to help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served; and (3) to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans -
Mapp v. Ohio
Suspicious that Dollree Mapp might be hiding a person suspected in a bombing, the police went to her home in Cleveland, Ohio. They knocked on her door and demanded entrance, but Mapp refused to let them in because they did not have a warrant. -
Affirmative Action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. -
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John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores -
Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
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George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
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March on Washington
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, published in 1963, is often seen as the beginning of the Women's Liberation Movement. It is the most famous of Betty Friedan's works, and it made her a household name -
Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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Gideon v. Wainwright
Gideon filed a habeas corpus petition in the Florida Supreme Court and argued that the trial court's decision violated his constitutional right to be represented by counsel. The Florida Supreme Court denied habeas corpus relief. -
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina. A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Great Society
Johnson declared a "war on poverty." He challenged Americans to build a "Great Society" that eliminated the troubles of the poor. Johnson won a decisive victory over his arch conservative Republican opponent Barry Goldwater of Arizona. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
24th Amendment
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
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Escobedo v. Illinois
Danny Escobedo was arrested and taken to a police station for questioning. Over several hours, the police refused his repeated requests to see his lawyer. Escobedo's lawyer sought unsuccessfully to consult with his client. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Malcom X Assassinated
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United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
Farm workers were often unpaid and were denied the right to unionize, a right that all other American workers enjoyed. They labored in inhumane conditions, as growers ignored state laws on working conditions. They were forced to pay two dollars or more per day to live in metal shacks with no plumbing or electricity. On top of that, grape pickers were paid an average of 90 cents per hour, plus ten cents per basket picked, placing their families well below the poverty line -
Miranda v. Arizona
The defendant confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation. -
Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. -
Six Day War
The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria -
Tet Offensive
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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My Lai Massacre
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. More than 500 people were slaughtered in the My Lai massacre, including young girls and women who were raped and mutilated before being killed -
Tinker v. Des Moines
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Draft Lottery
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Manson Family Murders
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Apollo 11
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Vietnamization
the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
Woodstock Music Festival
a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000 -
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Richard Nixon
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
an agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress -
Invasion of Cambodia
President Richard Nixon declared to a television audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were to invade Cambodia. The invasion was under the pretext of disrupting the North Vietnamese supply lines. -
Kent State Shootings
The shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. -
Policy of Détente Begins
Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party -
26th Amendment
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Pentagon Papers
which disclosed the history of U.S. involvement in Indochina from World War II until 1968, including its role in the Vietnam War. Dubbed the Pentagon Papers, the document appeared to undercut the publicly stated justification of the Vietnam War. -
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Title IX
a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. -
Nixon Visits China
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Watergate Scandal
a series of crimes committed by the President and his staff, who were found to have spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions, and covered up their own misdeeds -
War Powers Resolution
a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Endangered Species Act
was enacted to halt the rapid loss of plant and animal life. ... Once a species is declared threatened or endangered, the ESA ensures that it will be protected and all efforts will be made to assist in its recovery. -
OPEC Oil Embargo
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations -
Roe v. Wade
a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. -
First Cell-Phones
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Ford Pardons Nixon
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United States v. Nixon
the decision was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal, when there was an ongoing impeachment process against Richard Nixon. United States v. Nixon is considered a crucial precedent limiting the power of any U.S. president to claim executive privilege. -
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Gerald Ford
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Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
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Fall of Saigon
a very important event because it marked not only the end of the Vietnam War, but the beginning of the formal reunification of Vietnam under Communist Rule. -
Steve Jobs Starts Apple
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Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
An act of Congress enacted in 1977 with the intention of encouraging depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of surrounding communities (particularly low and moderate income neighborhoods). -
Camp David Accords
signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979 -
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
the treaty led both Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to share the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace between the two states. -
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AIDS Epidemic
On July 4th, the CDC reports that during the past 30 months, 26 cases of Kaposi Sarcoma have been reported among Gay males, and that eight have died, all within 24-months of diagnosis. -
Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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Conservative Resurgence
the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) experienced an intense struggle for control of the organization. Its initiators called it the Conservative Resurgence while its detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover -
“Trickle Down Economics”
also referred to as trickle-down theory, is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term. -
War on Drugs
President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. He proclaimed, “America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. ... Nixon initiated the first significant federal funding of treatment programs in. -
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Lebanon
US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. Three hundred service members had been living at the four-story building at the airport in Beirut. -
Iran-Contra Affair
a secret U.S. government arms deal that freed some American hostages held in Lebanon but also funded armed conflict in Central America. In addition, the controversial dealmaking—and the ensuing political scandal—threatened to bring down the presidency of Ronald Reagan. -
The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
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End of Cold War
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Berlin Wall Falls
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Iraq Invades Kuwait
The Invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 was a 2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month-long Iraqi occupation of the country -
Germany Reunification
the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited -
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Persian Gulf War
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Ms. Adcox Born
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Rodney King
an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991. -
Soviet Union Collapses
the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state. -
Operation Desert Storm
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Bill Clinton
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Bill Clinton
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NAFTA Founded
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States and entered into force on 1 January 1994 in order to establish a trilateral trade bloc in North America. -
Contract with America
The 1994 elections resulted in Republicans gaining 54 House and 9 U.S. Senate seats. When the Republicans gained this majority of seats in the 104th Congress, the Contract was seen as a triumph by party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general. -
O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”
He was convicted in 2008 on 12 counts, including burglary with the use of a deadly weapon, kidnapping and assault. Simpson was sentenced to a minimum of nine years and maximum of 33. Trial of the century is an idiomatic phrase used to describe certain well-known court cases, especially of the 20th century. It is often used popularly as a rhetorical device to attach importance to a trial and as such is not an objective observation but is the opinion of whoever uses it. -
Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
The impeachment process of Bill Clinton was initiated by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, against Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice -
USA Patriot Act
Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. With its ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOT) expanded, the full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001” -
War on Terror
also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001. -
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War in Afghanistan
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9/11
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CRISTAL RUBIO !
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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
took place on Saturday, 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him -
Iphone Released
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. An economic stimulus bill created to help the United States economy recover from an economic downturn that began in late 2007 -
Hillary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
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Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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Barack Obama
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Arab Spring
also referred to as Arab revolutions, was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution -
Osama Bin Laden Killed
Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group. -
Space X Falcon 9
Falcon 9 is a family of two-stage-to-orbit medium lift launch vehicles, named for its use of nine Merlin first-stage engines, designed and manufactured by SpaceX. -
Donald Trump Elected President
