U.S History 1877-2008

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    Early American History

    we gained our independence & started our new county.
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    Civil War/ Reconstruction

    First battle of bull run/ Amendments took affect/People & Cities surrendered/ Lincoln DIED
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    The Gilded Age

    When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name. The term reflected the combination of outward wealth and dazzle with inner corruption and poverty
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    The Progressive Era

    the country grappled with the problems caused by industrialization and urbanization. Progressivism, an urban, middle‐class reform movement, supported the government taking a greater role in addressing such issues as the control of big business and the welfare of the public.
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    Imperialism

    “American imperialism” is a term that refers to the economic, military, and, The cartoon contrasts the 1898 representation with that of the United States in 1798, Thomas Uzzell led the Methodist People's Tabernacle from 1885 to 1910.
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    World War 1

    it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history, Serbia was defeated in 1915, and Romania joined the Allied Powers in 1916 only to be defeated in 1917, none of the great powers were knocked out of the war until 1918.
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    End Of Cold War

    he Cold War came to an end when the last war of Soviet occupation ended in Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall came down in Germany, and a series of mostly peaceful revolutions swept the Soviet Bloc states of eastern Europe in 1989.
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    Early Cold War

    the first military action of the Cold War began when the Soviet-backed North Korean People's Army invaded its pro-Western neighbor to the south. Many American officials feared this was the first step in a communist campaign to take over the world and deemed that nonintervention was not an option.
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    Civil Rights Era

    The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. ... They, along with many white Americans, mobilized and began an unprecedented fight for equality that spanned two decades.
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    Vietnam War

    a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. the war was also part of a larger regional conflict
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    1900's- 21 Century

    common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade.century is the current century of the Anno Domini era or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 2001, and will end on December 31, 2100.