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The Declaration was signed by congress during this day.
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This date marked the end of the writing of the Constitution.
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This is when the document that stated US citizens' rights was ratified.
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This Act provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west.
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This Amendment was put in place to abolish slavery, it was ratified on this day.
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The 14th Amendment was ratified on this date, it allowed born and naturalized citizens equal protection under the law, it also included former slaves.
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The first railroad to stretch from either side of the US was completed on this day.
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This Amendment allowed African men to vote.
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1 Rockefeller/Carnegie
Robber Barons were powerful industrialists who beat out smaller businesses and ended up hurting the economy. Captains of industry were also powerful industrialists, they used their power to help the economy
2 Philanthropy
Philanthropy is a desire to help others and promote the welfare.
3 Monopoly
A monopoly is when one business dominates a sector of industry
4 Jane Addams
Jane Addams was an activist
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Alexander Graham Bell finished making the first fully function phone on this day.
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This Act prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, this was the first immigration act.
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Awarded government jobs based on merit.
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ensured that the railroad set a reasonable rate, this was the first time the government stepped in to regulate a business.
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This Act 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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1 Muckrakers-
Reporters that dug up dirt on people.
2 Initiative, Referendum, Recall-
Three powers reserved for voters to change, remove, and propose legislation and government officials.
3 The Great Migration-
Six million African Americans migrated northward.
4 NAACP-
An organization that ensures equality and fairness to colored people.
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Allowed trusts to promote economic fairness.
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People rushed to Alaska to try and find gold and make a profit.
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This court case legalized segregation, established "separate but equal".
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- Theodore Roosevelt
- was the 26th president, brought many national parks to be made.
- Rough Riders
- First volunteer cavalry.
- Foreign Policy
- Strategy for dealing with other nations.
- Immigration Quotas
- Limited the amount of immigrants that could flock to the US.
- Yellow Journalism
- journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
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USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American Was
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Hawaii was annexed as a territory of the US.
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Initiated free trade with China.
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Further stated the boundary of the western hemisphere
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The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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Regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicine.
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Law that made it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat.
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The NAACP is an organization that fights for equality for colored people.
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Taft's policy of paying for peace in Latin America.
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This Act established federal income tax.
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This Amendment stated that there will be 2 senators from each state.
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Established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry.
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- Alvin York
- One of the most decorated soldiers in the army.
- Home front
- Mobilization of supplies during WWI
- M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
- Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
- Sussex Pledge
- Allowed Germany to torpedo any ship including merchant ships, excluding passenger ships
- American Expeditionary Forces
- Under the lead of John J. Pershing the army made a small independent army to launch the first major offensive in northern Europe.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, starting WWI.
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Panama canal built.
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The ship "Lusitania" was sunk.
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President Woodrow Wilson signed an act to protect the 35 national parks in the US.
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This telegram warned the US of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany.
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The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
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Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war
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Considered the turning point of the war.
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Germany surrendered to the allied powers.
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Statement of principles for peace after WWI, included no Colonialism, freedom o the seas, and a League of Nations.
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Peace treaty that ended WWI, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize.
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The UN was assembled.
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- Containment The US tried and succeeded in trying to contain the spread of communism.
- Arms Race/Space Race Technological race to see which nation could create the better weapons/ get to the moon first.
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The USSR is a union of different territories in Germany.
- Communism A government system controlled by the working class.
- Domino Theory A theory that one country can cause change in neighboring countries.
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Prohibits anyone from being elected president more than twice,
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US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
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Supplies were delivered to Berlin
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Program to help European countries rebuild after WWII
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NATO was formed.
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The differences in north and south Korea lead to a dividing of the nation.
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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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The Rosenbergs were soviet spies who leaked important information during the war, they were later executed.
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The technological arms race that was happening during the cold war lead to an H-Bomb, a powerful nuclear weapon
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
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Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine.
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The USSR puts sputnik into space, a major achievement in the space race.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day stand off with nuclear weapons between the USSR positioned in Cuba and the US
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Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.
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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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Medicare and Medicaid was established.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
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The turning point of the Vietnam war.
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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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The pentagon papers were documents that proved to the public that multiple presidents had lied to them.
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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 education programs.
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Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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The Fall of Saigon marks the end of the Vietnam War.
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