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eliminated literacy test for voters
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Philanthropy consists of ¨private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of life¨ It is to improve the well being of humankind by preventing and solving social problems
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Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west.
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Legalized segregation, established separate but equal.
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Rockfeller became the richest man in America ammasing a net worth of $150m or 225B today. In1882 Scott died his protege , Andrew carnegie was livid Rockfeller was partly responsible for his mentars death
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the process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society: assimilation of immigrants into American life.
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A business that controls (or monopolizes) an entire industry. Late 1800s monopolies were mainly oil, steel, railroads, and sugar. Extra: Monopolies were also called "trusts."
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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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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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Gave individual ownership of land to native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
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Pragmatism and empirical sociology
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outlawed business monopolies
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The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in popular magazines.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells
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In 1911, California voters approved the constitutional processes of initiative, referendum, and recall. Through these processes, voters can adopt a change in law (an initiative), disapprove a law passed by the Legislature (a referendum), or remove an elected official from office (a recall).
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played a central role in building up the powerful American federal government of the twentieth century by making it possible to enact a modern, nationwide income tax.
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The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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Truman Doctrine (1947): U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
Marshall Plan (1948): program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
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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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overturned Plessy v Ferguson and mandated desegeration
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th amendment
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1 month, 4 days confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
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abolishes the poll tax
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made discrimination based on race,religion, origin in public places illegal and requires employers to hire on equal opportunity basis
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The Tet Offensive of 1968, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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prohibited discrimination based on gender in education
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protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
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when communist North Vietnamese forces took control of the capital of South Vietnam. The event in 1975 marked the end of nearly 30 years of internal conflict and ushered in the end of the Vietnam war
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On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
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Al-Qaeda is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national terrorist organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War
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The impeachment of Bill Clinton occurred when Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998 for "high crimes and misdemeanors".
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The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000
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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students.
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tightened the national security particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism
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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.