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Early American History
Declaration of Independence Signed (July 4th, 1776)
Constitution written (September 17th, 1787)
Bill of Rights ratified (December 15th, 1791) -
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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Homestead act
provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west -
Amendments
13th- abolished slavery
14th- citizenship and due process
15th- voting for all male citizens -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
Big five (Rockefeller/Carnegie, captains of industry vs robber barons, philanthropy, monopoly, jane addams, laissez faire)
Hull house founded
Klondike gold rush
Chinese exclusion act
interstate commerce act
dawes act
pendleton civil service act -
Sherman antitrust act
outlawed business monopolies -
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The Progressive Era
Muckrakers
Initiative referendum recall
the great migration
naacp
immigration issues
the jungle by upton sinclair is publishes
naacp founded
national parks system created
16th amendment- established the federal income tax
17th amendment- direct election of u.s. senators
sherman antitrust act
meat inspection act
pure food and drug act
federal reserve act -
plessy v ferguson
legalized segregation, established "separate but equal" -
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Imperialism
Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas
Yellow journals
USS Maine
Hawaii is annexed
Panama canal built
Open door policy
Roosevelt corollary
Dollar diplomacy -
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World War I
No Man's Land
Foreign Alliances
Alvin York
homefront
M.A.I.N.
sussex pledge
american expeditionary forces
Franz assassinated
Lusitania
Zimmerman telegram
US WW1 allied side
Bolshevik revolution
Argonne forest
Germany surrenders
WW'S 14 Points
Treaty of Versailles -
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Roaring Twenties
Jazz
Airplane pilot traveled -
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Great Depression
Loss of Jobs
Herbert Hoover is a bad president -
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World War II
Stalin
Hitler
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Early Cold War
Containment- Stopping the spread of communism.
Arms Race/Space Race- Sputnik rocket
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Russia's government
Communism-
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United Nations formed
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO Established
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Civil Rights Era
Martin Luther King Jr
I Have a Dream speech -
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Korean War
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22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
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Rosenberg Trials
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR launches sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Tet Offensive
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Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools. -
Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old. -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990s-21st Century