U.S History 1887-2008

By Cristian.Gonzalez
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    Early American History

  • Declaration Of Independence Signed

  • Constitution Written

  • Bill Of Rights Ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished Slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship and due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone Invented By Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed Business Monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, separate but equal
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    Imperialism

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    World War 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Big Five

  • Containment

    To prevent communisms from spreading.

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO Established

  • The Union Of Soviet Socialist's Republics

    A federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenburg Trials

  • 22nd Amenment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • First H bomb detonated by the U.S

  • Communism

    A government that believes in equal everything.

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Arms/Space Race

    The U.S and Russia raced to create better weapons and technologies.

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Domino Theory

    The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

  • Bay Of Pigs

    Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • MLK Speech

    Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • JFK Assasination

    John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK Assasination

    Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Moon Landing

    First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End Of The Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Water Gate Scandal

    leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall Of Saigon, Marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century