U.S. History: 1877-2008

By JordanArceneaux
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence signed

    A. equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. B. Thomas Jefferson wrote it. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are some of the people who signed it.

  • Constitution written

    Form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

  • Bill of Rights ratified

    The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. It was ratified after the Constitution because before 1788, there was no Bill of Rights. 1788 was the year when 9 of the 13 states had ratified the Constitution, and that was enough to put the Constitution into effect. The addition of the Bill of Rights ensured that states such as New York and Virginia would ratify the Constitution.
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    Civil War/Reconstruction

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    The Gilded Age

    a. Industrial Revolution
    b. Use of Natural Resources
    c. Transcontinental railroad
    d. Inventors and their Inventions
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    Imperialism

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    The Progressive Age

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    World War l

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War ll

  • United Nation Reformed

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    Early Cold War

    1.Containment 2.Arms Race/Space Race 3.The Union of Soviet
    4.Communism 5.Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • Truman Doctrine

    US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War ll

  • NATO Established

  • Korean 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

  • Rosenberg Trial

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk Invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • 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

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by the United States

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

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    24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax
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    John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

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

  • 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968:

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tet offensive

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    Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • 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

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End Of The Cold War

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendement

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 ears 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

  • 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