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Early American History (
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Amendment Number six
What the Amendment did -
The Tenth Amendment
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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The Gilded Age
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The Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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World War I
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Roaring Twenties
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Cesar Chavez
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Great Depression
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Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience
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World War II
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Early Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
U.S policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Amendment
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
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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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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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 -
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Great Society
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24th Amendment
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act
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Black Panthers
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Thurgood Marshall
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act
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First Man on the Moon
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Tinker Vs Des Moines
The first amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old. -
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War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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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