U.S. History 1887-2008

By emma.jones1
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship and due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for all male citizens
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    The Gilded Age

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"
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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

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
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    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

  • Bays of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedys is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • 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

  • 1975 Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • 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