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Provided 160 acres to anyone willingly settle on land in the west.
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Abolished Slavery
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Citizenship and Due Process
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Voting for all Male Citizens
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1.Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
2.Philanthropy
3.Monopoly
4.Jane Addams
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Prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act.
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Awarded government jobs based on merit.
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Ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business.
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Gave individual ownership of land to native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively.
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First of many settlement houses
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Outlawed business monopolies.
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Outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness.
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- Muckrakers
- Initiative, Referendum, Recall
- The great Migration
- NAACP
- Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)
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Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"
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USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War.
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Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States.
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- Theodore Roosevelt
- Rough Riders
- Foreign Policy
- Immigration Quotas
- Yellow Journalism
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Initiated free trade with China
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An addition to the Monroe Doctrine
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Law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat.
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Regulation of the preparation of foods and the sales of medicines.
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Taft's policy of paying for peace in Latin America
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Established the federal income tax
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Direct election of US Senators
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Established the federal reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry.
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Ferdinand was assassinated, starting Word War 1
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- Alvin York
- Homefront
- MAIN ( Causes of War)
- Sussex Pledge
- American Expeditionary Forces
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The telegram was intercepted by the British, warned the US of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany
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On the Allied side
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The Bolshevik Revolution begins in Russia, causing Russian troops to exit the war.
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Considered the turning point of the war.
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Statement of principles for peace after WW1, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations.
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Peace treaty that ended WW1, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize.
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Prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal.
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Women are given the right to vote
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- Social Darwinism
- The Red Scare
- Assembly Line
- Return to Normalcy
- Harlem Renaissance
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Was uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
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Granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States.
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Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris
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- Hoovervilles
- The New Deal
- Causes of the Great Depression
- Court Packing
- Eleanor Roovevelt
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Adjusted the dates of the Presidential terms
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Repeals the 18th Amendment and the prohibition ends
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Established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families.
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Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WW2
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- Island Hopping
- Liberation of Concentration Camps
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Douglas MacArthur
- Chester W. Nimitz
- Navajo Code Talkers
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Flying Tigers
- The Manhattan Project
- Rosie the Riveter
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Incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WW2
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Gives military veterans financial and educational benefits
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The atomic bomb, Little Boy, is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan.
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The atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending the War
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- Containment
- Arms Race/ Space Race
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Communism
- Domino Theory
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Prohibits anyone who had been elected President twice from being elected again
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US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War 2
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1950-1953
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Ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as 'separate but equal'
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th amendment.
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Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
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Invented by Jonas Salk
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Authorized the building of a national highway system
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Integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Prevented the people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Delivered his famous speech at a march in Washington
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Begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Abolishes the poll tax
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Made discrimination against race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
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Defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.
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- OPEC
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 4.AIDS Epidemic
- Star Wars (Not the Movies)
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Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.
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Protects people from discrimination based on gender in educational programs
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Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without congressional approval.
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Leads to Nixon's resignation
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Marks the end of Vietnam War
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- Barack Obama
- Al-Qaeda
- No Child Left Behind
- President Clinton's Impeachment
- Presidential Election of 2000
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Official end of the cold war
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Created free trade between Mexico, US, and Canada.
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The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
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Tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism
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