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Period: to
Modern
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The Missouri Comprimise
Henry Clay of Kentuckey proposed a two part soloution.Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri was admitted as a slave state -
The Great Depression
The american economy had weaknesses -
The Comprimise Of 1850
Southerners Were Afraid That They Were Losing Power -
The Kansas-Nabraska Act
This allowed Kansas and Nabraska territories to vote on whether they wanted to be free or slave territories -
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott,a slave filed lawsuit in the missouri courts -
Battle Of Antietam
23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded -
Emancipation Proclamation
General Lee signed the Emanicipation Proclamation -
Gettysburg
Largest Battle Of The Civil War -
Freedmen's Bureau
The Congress created it to help the freedmen and poor whites cbtain food,shelter,and clothing -
13th Amendment
Slavery Was Ambolished -
14th Amendment
Civil Rights Act -
The Ku Klux Klan
The most dangerous secret society to african americans -
15th Amendment
Right To Vote -
The Bourbon Triumvirate
Democratic Party was in full control of Georgia politics -
The New South
The south focused on rebuilding its economic,social,and political structures -
Sharecropping
Poor whites contracted to work a plot of land for the landowner -
Booker T. Washington
a teacher and early leader for racial equality -
Boll Weevils
The Boll Weevil killed crops -
William B. Hartsfield
He convinced Atlanta's mayor to invest in the future of airplanes -
AAA
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Lend-Lease
It gave Roosevelt the power to lend or rent military goods -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese warplanes staged a attack on the U.S Pacific Fleet -
Atomic Bomb
Enola Gay dropped a single atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK delivered his " I Have A Dream" speech in Washington -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was elected president