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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence signed
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Constitution Written
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Bill of Rights ratified
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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Homestead Act
provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west -
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery -
14th Amendment
Citizen & Due Process -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
Voting for all male citizens -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
Philanthropy
Monopoly
Jane Addams
Laissez-Faire -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
outlawed business monopolies -
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The Progressive Era
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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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Stock Market Crash
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Great Depression
Hoovervilles: Built by homeless in the united state
The New Deal:series of programs
Causes of the Great Depression: Stock Market crash,Factories catastrophe,Overproduction,Executive inaction,ill-limited tariffs
Court Packing:he Supreme Court struck down several New Deal measures as being unconstitutional.
Eleanor Roosevelt:longest First Lady of united states -
Dust bowl
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Works Progress Administration
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Social Security Act
established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII
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World War II
Island Hopping: Taking control and making it a base to attack other islands
Liberation of Concentration Camps:Stopped after Poland was clea of jews
Dwight Eisenhower:President 1953-1961
Douglas MacArthur: General during ww2 1939-1945
Chester W. Nimitz:was a fleet admiral
Navajo Code Talkers:Unbreakable code
Tuskegee Airmen: 322nd Pilot Squadron
Flying Tigers:a Plane to bomb Japan
The Manhattan Project: Developing Nuclear weapons
Rosie the Riveter :having women work in factories to help the war -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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battle of midway
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Bataan death march
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D-Day invasion of normandy
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Executive Order 9066
incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII -
G.I Bill
gives military veterans financial and educational benefits -
United Nations formed
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The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)
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The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)
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Early Cold War
Containment : Stop and Contain Communism
Arms Race/Space Race : US and Soviet Union Racing to the finish line to have nuclear weapons
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : Established by Russia
Communism : First developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century, it has been the foremost ideology of the communist movement.
Domino Theory : 1 country falls and everyone else falls -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenbergs trial
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22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Korean War
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Interstate Highway Act
authorized the building of a national highway system -
USSR launches Sputnik
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cuban missile crisis
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Medicore & Medicaid established
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Tet Offensive
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Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined the first amendment rights for students in the united states. -
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End of the Cold War
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Petagon Papers Leaked
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26th Amendment
moving the voting age from 21 to 18 year old -
Fail of Saigon & End of Vietnam War
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1990-21st Century
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Perisan gulf war