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the first amendment
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the second amendment
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the third amendment
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the fourth amendment
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the fifth amendment
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the sixth amendment
Sixth Amendment, amendment (1791) to the Constitution of the United States, part of the Bill of Rights, that effectively established the procedures governing criminal courts. -
the seventh amendment
The term “common law” in the Seventh Amendment meant the common law of England. Parsons v. Bedford (1830). A century later, the Supreme Court formally declared that the Amendment was to be interpreted according to the common law of England at the time the Amendment was ratified, that is, in 1791. -
the eighth amendment
In 1791, this same prohibition became the central component of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. When the United States Constitution was first ratified by the states, it did not contain a Bill of Rights, and it did not prohibit cruel and unusual punishments. -
the ninth amendment
Ninth Amendment, amendment (1791) to the Constitution of the United States, part of the Bill of Rights, formally stating that the people retain rights absent specific enumeration. -
the tenth amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -
the eleventh amendment
“The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.” -
the twelfth amendment
The Twelfth Amendment stipulates that each elector must cast distinct votes for president and vice president, instead of two votes for president. ... The Twelfth Amendment requires the Senate to choose between the candidates with the "two highest numbers" of electoral votes. -
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Civil war/reconstruction
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the thirteenth amendment
abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, -
the fourteenth amendment
granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States. -
the fifteenth amendment
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The 15th Amendment guaranteed African-American men the right to vote. -
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The gilded age
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the progressive era
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Imperialism
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the sixteenth amendment
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the seventeenth amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
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World war
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the eighteenth amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol. ... Under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition began on January 17, 1920, one year after the amendment was ratified. -
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Repairing twenties
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The Great Depression
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World war 2
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united nations formed
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Early cold war
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berlin airlift
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Nato established
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Civil rights era
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korean war
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rosenbergs trial
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the twenty second amendment
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. -
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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the twenty third amendment
The Constitution provides that each state receives presidential electors equal to the combined number of seats it has in the Senate and the House of Representatives. -
the twenty fourth amendment
prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
the twenty fifth amendment
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. -
Tinker v. Des Moines:
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
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End of the Cold War
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the twenty sixth amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.” It prohibits states from discriminating among voters based on age, for people who are at least 18 years old -
War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
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1990s-21st century
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the nineteenth amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
the twentieth amendment
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. -
the twenty first amendment
The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America. -
the twenty seventh amendment
“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.”