U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Isaac Guerra8
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    Early American History (

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • 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

  • 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 undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the pall tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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    Black Panthers

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    Thurgood Marshall

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • 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

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the 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