U.S. History 1887-2008

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  • Homestead act

    Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
  • 13th amendment

    13th Amendment: abolished slavery: made all slaves free men
  • 14th amendment

    14th Amendment: citizenship & due process: everyone is treated the same and free slaves were given rights
  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th amendment

    15th Amendment: voting for all male citizens: all free slaves are able to vote now
  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • Sherman Anti-Trust act

    outlawed business monopolies
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"
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    Early coldwar

    Containment- limits where they can go
    Arms Race/Space Race- where we had to limit the amount of guns
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- a thing held to limit communism
    Communism- a type of party that the government is in power
    Domino Theory- a theory that is something in the office
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    A lot of bombs were threatened to go off
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam
  • Medicare and Medicaid established

    care is made now for people
  • Tet Offensive

    A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
  • Pentagon Papers leaked

    The papers were leaked
  • 26th amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old 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

    the end of the war is coming and is about to end