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1st Amendment
Freedom of religion, speech, petition and assembly -
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2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms -
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11th Amendment
States are protected from being sued by citizens of another state. -
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12th Amendment
Separated balloting procedures for president and vice-president (put them as a team). -
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Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)
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13th Amendment
Abolition of slavery. -
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14th Amendment
Granted former slaves citizenship and equal protection, established principle of selective incorporation. -
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15th Amendment
African-American men could vote. -
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The Gilded Age (1877-1900)
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The Progressive Era (1890-1920)
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Imperialism (1898-1910)
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16th Amendment
Established federal income tax. -
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17th Amendment
Direct election of U.S. Senators. -
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World War I (1914-1918)
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18th Amendment
Prohibition -
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Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
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19th Amendment
Women have the right to vote. -
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Great Depression (1929-1939)
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20th Amendment
President and vice-president's term of office begins on January 20th, and no longer in March. -
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21st Amendment
Repeal of Prohibition -
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World War II (1939-1945)
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Early Cold War (1945-1960)
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United Nations formed
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Berlin Airlift
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
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NATO established
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Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)
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Korean War
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Sweatt v. Painter
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal” -
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Rosenbergs trail
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22nd Amendment
Presidents limited to 2 terms. -
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War (1954-1976)
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
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Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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USSR launches Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax -
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
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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 -
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968:
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
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First Man on the Moon
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End of the Cold War (1970-1991)
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old -
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Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
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War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)