U.S. History 1877- 2008

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    Early American History (1776-1860)

  • Declaration of independence

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of rights ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

  • Homestead act

    Gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee.

  • 13th Amendment

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

  • 14th amendment

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

  • Sherman antitrust act

    First Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

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    World War I (1914-1918)

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

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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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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

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    Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

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

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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    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

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

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    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

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

  • 26th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)