U.S History 1877-2008

By sydni.mitchell
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence was signed

  • 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 Ammendment

    Abolished Slavery

  • 14th Ammendment

    Citizenship and due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

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    World War 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22 Amendment

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War I

  • 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

  • Rosenberg trial

  • First H-bomb detonated by the U.S.

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"

  • 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

  • Jonas Salk Invents Polio Vaccine

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    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 Missile Crisis

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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 undecided war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act

    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 Medical Established

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Moines

    Defined the first Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of Cold war

  • Tet Offensive

  • 26 Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the president's rights to send troops o battle without congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon

    Marks end of 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