U.S. History 1877-2008

By celil.akgobekk

  • Declaration of Independence

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    Early American History

  • Constitution Written

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

  • 14th Amendment

    9 July

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

  • Telephone was Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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    The Progressive Era

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

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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

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment- Preventing the spread of communism.
    Arms Race- The competition between the US and the USSR for who could build stronger weapons.
    Space Race- The competition between the US and USSR to get to explore space.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/ USSR- Unification of countries to create a communist superpower.
    Communism- An ideology in which everything is controlled by the government.
    Domino Theory- The idea that if one nation falls to communism other nations will follow.

  • Truman Doctrine

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO Established

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by the United States

  • 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

  • Jonas Salk Invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins the undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

    The 24th Amendment ended 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 student 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 to 18.

  • War Powers Act

    Limited the Presidents right to send troops to war without the approval of Congress

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • 1990 Persian Gulf War (operation desert storm)

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    1990's-21st Century

    Barack Obama = American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017
    Al- Qaeda=militant Sunni Islamist multi-national terrorist organization
    No child left behind=The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students.
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    Unit 11 1990s-21st Century

    President Clinton's Impeachment = occurred when Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998, for "high crimes and misdemeanors"
    Presidential Election of 2000 = Texas Governor George W. Bush was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2000 Republican National Convention

  • Fall Of the USSR - Official End of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, United States and Canada

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act (2001)

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Hurricane Katrina