U.S. History: 1877-2008

By evan.carter
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

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    The Gilded Age

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    The Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

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    World War I

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

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    Early Cold War

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal"
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
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    Vietnam War

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin.

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream speech" at the March on Washington.

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th amendmant: Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.

  • Gulf of tonkin resolution

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • voting rights act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendments

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.

  • War powers act

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century