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Battle between The Union and The Confederacy
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In 1862 160 acres was promised to people who settled land in the west with means to help westward expansion
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Slaves gain the right to freedom -
Period of reconstructing the damage caused by the American Civil War
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Anyone born(freed) in the U.S. gain citizenship -
Transcontinental Railroad aided in product production and shipment,created new jobs, and helped the west catch up to its norther competitors
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The U.S. sees a boom in manufacturing and industry work
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All African American men gain the right to vote -
William Tweed known as "Boss" Tweed, was an American politician known for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall but his reign ended when he was caught embezzling money from his clients at his law office for legal activities and was found guild of larceny and forgery
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Invention of the telephone made production and trade less of a hassle and communication easier
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Post-American Civil War slavery was abolished and Blacks gained some rights but it caused animosity within the Southern states causing the creation of Jim Crow
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After the Civil war and 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed the south enacted Jim Crow Laws
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Economy starts to boom in the Northern and Western states
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The invention of the light bulb aided the industrial revolution creating longer work hours
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Immigrants from western and northern Europe immigrated in large numbers money, political, and religious reasons
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Federal law signed on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act made it mandatory for some government employees to be chosen by competitive exams instead of relationships to other politicians, and made it illegal to fire or demote some government officials for political and personal reasons
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Natives are forced into reserved lands called reservations where they're forced to assimilate into white American norms
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Federal law that regulated the railroad industry and its monopoly style of business
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Article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 where he discussed his ideology that the rich were morally obligated to take care of the poor.
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During the late 1800s and early 1900s widespread political reform an activism across the U.S. pursuits to reform the corruption of the Gilded Age
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Gold found in Alaska brought in many immigrants to the Yukon looking for a new way to make money
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Sherman Antitrust Act is and antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises
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A strike at the Homestead works in 1882 stated in an effort to stop management from giving the workers a "yellow-dog contract"
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Pullman Palace Car Company cut more than 2,000 workers and reduced wages by 25 percent during the a depression causing workers to go on strike
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Court case rules in favor of Jim Crow
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Set of laws protecting consumers after "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair exposed the conditions of meat packaging factories to the public
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A book written by Upton Sinclair that exposed the terrible working conditions and food storage for immigrant workers in the Chicago meat packaging industry an other industries alike
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First Assembly line made automobile. The Model-T brought transportation to new bounds now people other than the rich could drive cars. It lead to over crowding in city streets
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Congress can levy a taxes on income from any source without dividing and allocating it among the states and without regard to the census
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Law that created the Federal Reserve and established it as the central banking system of the U.S.
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War tactic commonly used in World War 1 where both sides dig trenches this created a stalemate
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Mustard gas was used in chemical warfare when inhaled you would slowly die and those who didn't would end up with deformities such as blindness, loss of limbs, or permanent nerve damage
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Machine Guns became a stepping stone out of the stalemate of trench warfare
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Global war that was caused by aggressions from European countries
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused countries to create alliances and declare war against each other(The start of WWI)
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A ship that was sunk in WWI by German U-boats. Was the catalyst that pushed the U.S. into WWI
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In 1917 a telegram from Germany arrived to the German Secretary in Mexico but before it was caught by the telegram service in Britain and They told the U.S.
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A revolution from 1917-1918 that overthrew the Czar and brought the Bolsheviks into power this was the creation of communism
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After multiple acts of aggression from Germany the U.S. is forced to assert their power and go into WWI against Germany and the Central powers
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Final acts of war in WWI leading up to armistice these lasted for 47 days
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President Woodrow Wilson created a plan for peace after WWI
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The cease fire between the Allied and Central power to stop WWI
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Treaty between Germany and the allied powers where Germany accepted full responsibility for the war and agreed to pay all expenses of the war. The U.S. opposed the treaty
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Amendment that states that no state can deny the right to vote to a citizen based on sex
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After WWI President Warren G. Harding wanted too return back to normal and the only way of doing that was isolationism. The U.S. choose to stay neural and refused to get into international conflicts not matter who asked them to join. This caused the U.S. economy to boom.
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After The Great Migration to the north Harlem became a beacon for black Americans to express themselves, make new forms of art, and to prosper as a community
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during the 1920's there was widespread fear of communism in the U.S.
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Right after WWI the U.S wanted to return to normal but due to the effects of war that just wasnt possible this era was marked by change in fashion, societal norms, and Prohibition
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Warren G. Harding is accused of takin bribes from oil companies
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After Vladimir Lenin's death Joseph Stalin comes in power taking over the USSR
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Trial that put the teachings of Darwin's evolution against the Christian Bible
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First man to fly non stop across the Atlantic Ocean
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Multiple members of the Chicago's North Side Gang were massacred by 4 men that dressed up as cops
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After stocks drove widespread selling of stocks causes the stock market to crash
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After a sudden crash in the what was once booming economy widespread job loss and poverty swept the U.S.
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Sporadic settlements made out of trash because of the the extreme poverty in the U.S.
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In efforts to reduce foreign imports in the U.S. economy to stimulate the U.S. economy
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After the stock market crash people wen ton bank runs but when they got there the banks had already loaned their money out o they had to shut down
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The AAA provided direct payments to farmers who agreed to reduce their production of certain crops
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Created to give the U.S. citizens trust in the banking system and government
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The PWA paid construction workers to build dams, ports, and other huge “public works.”
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When elected President in 1933 he brought in new plans for Relief, Recovery, and Reform called New Deal programs
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During President Roosevelt's first term he created a the New Deal programs to help pull the U.S. out of the depression
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The SSA provided money for retired workers, people who lost their jobs, dependent children, and those with disabilities.
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Between poor farming techniques and droughts a huge dust storm went over the Great Plains
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After WWII the UN was formed to correct the mistakes of the League of Nations from WWI to maintain peace between nations
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After WWII it was decided that to keep Germany from recuperating and starting another war that Germany should be divided into four zones(East Germany(Great Britain), West Germany(USSR), Bavaria(U.S.), and Rhineland(France) )
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The U.S. decides to give help to at risk of Soviet Russia's spread of communism
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Presidents can only run for 2 terms in office -
A unspoken tension between the Soviet Union and the US
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A $15 billion plan to help Western Europe rebuild and recover after WWII
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The Allied powers and USSR had zones inside of Berlin but they needed to get through the USSRs zone to get supplies to their people when the USSR blocked the Allied Powers the U.S. and Great Britain airlifted supplies over the blockade to prevent conflict between the nations
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Military conflicts between Israeli and various Arab forces -
NATO is formed to protect countries against the Soviet union
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North Korea invades South Korea to bring together both countries under one communist government
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War Between North and South Korean because of the spread of Communism
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After being convicted of espionage for cooperating with the Soviet Union Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed they plead innocent even during their execution
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Japans occupation of Korea ends they create North and South Korea at the 17th Parallel -
Ho Chi Min is the communist ruler of North Korea -
Warsaw pact created a military alliance between the Soviet Union and multiple European countries
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Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her seat to a white man on the bus -
After Rosa Parks is arrested in Alabama a city wide boycott is held in Montgomery, Al -
Communist North Vietnam and some South Vietnamese citizens want to reunite the country under Communism
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During the race to space between the U.S. and the Soviet Union Sputnik I was successfully launched by the Soviet Union
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Federal government makes segregation illegal in all public areas -
After Brown v. Board of Education nice Black students are chosen to integrate into Little Rock Central Highschool -
1st election broadcasted on national television the media heavily influenced voting -
Chicano artist across the U.S. create murals that depict Chicano culture -
Failed attempt by the Kennedy administration to over throw Fidel Castro -
JFK started the Peace Corps an organization of young Americans who went to 3rd world countries to provide humanitarian services and provide stability. -
An order to ensure that applicants are treated equally from all backgrounds -
Democratic President elected in 1961 at the age of 42 with his Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Kennedy was the only Catholic ever elected President
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Soviet Russia supplied Cuba with missiles directly facing the U.S. -
Sam Walton opens the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas -
President John F Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald -
Alabama Governor George Wallace blocks University of Alabama Entrance to stop Black students from attending -
Said to be the drive behind women going into the work force the book The Feminine Mystique discusses women's frustrations with being forced to cater to their families
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Massive protest against discrimination in the U.S. -
After President JFK is assassinated Lyndon B. Johnson takes over in 1963
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Lyndon B Johnsons fight to end poverty. The Great Society was Johnson’s vision for a more perfect and equitable nation. -
After Johnson notifies Congress of 2 naval vessels being attacked in international water by North Vietnam Congress permits Johnson to send troops without an official declaration of war it was found later that only 1 attack actually happened -
Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is the world’s longest military occupation in modern times
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex -
poll taxes and voting requirements are illegal
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• Malcom X is assassinated in New York by The Nation of Islam -
Filipino grape farm workers walk out on strike because of bad working conditions and terrible pay
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Israel crippled the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian militaries, having killed over 20,000 troops while only losing less than 1,000 of their own -
Thurgood Marshall is appointed as the first black justice on the Supreme Court -
North Vietnam attacks South Vietnam on a day designated for peace -
On a "search and destroy mission" the town My Lai that was located in Vietcong jurisdiction was massacred by U.S. soldiers because they were suspected of harboring Vietcong soldiers -
Martin Luther King Jr. is Assassinated in Memphis, TN -
Nixon's plan to gradually remove U.S. troops from Vietnam (His administration bombed innocent neighboring countries ex. Laos; Cambodia ) -
Music Festival held on a diary farm in New York -
Due to there being too many unfilled spots and a wide spread anti-war movement in the military a draft is enacted
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A cult called "The Family" ran by Charles Manson a man masquerading behind the peaceful façade of a hippie murders multiple people one of which is famous actress Sharon Tate -
First successful spaceflight that put humans on the moon -
Though he lost the presidential race against Kennedy Nixon gets put in office in 1969
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Nixon sends troops to take over a Vietcong military operation in Cambodia -
During an anti-war protest at Kent State the coast guard is comes in and kills 4 Kent State students -
Agency that monitors air and water pollution and review construction impacts on the environment before approving it -
The New York Times gets ahold of secret government documents that expose the government of lying to the citizens and they publish them The New York Times is taken to court and wins on the basis of freedom of press -
Congress passes amendment to allow 18 year old's to vote on the basis that if they can join the military they can vote for the future of their country -
Nixon's policy to increase trade and cooperation with foreign nations -
Jimmy Carter was the 39th U.S. President
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Nixon travels to Communist China to mend relationships -
Nixon’s administration tries to cover up Nixon’s involvement with the break in at DNC headquarters -
Discrimination on the basis of sex is prohibited in all schools nation wide -
Created to make Congress able to prohibit the sending of troops to fight without an official declaration of war after Presidents abused the privilege -
Act that protects endangered animals and their habitats -
Abortion is ruled legal nation wide by the federal government -
OPEC imposes an embargo against the US causing a world wide shortage because the US sold oil to the Israeli military -
Creation of the first wireless handheld phone -
After Nixons resignation after the Watergate Scandal President Gerald Ford pardons him -
After news on Nixons Watergate Scandal is exposed he's taken to trial to face punishment
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Gerald Ford was the 38th U.S. President
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After the Nixon administration left South Vietnam to fight by themselves their Capital is quickly overrun by North Vietnam and they're reunited under communist rule Vietnam is still communist today -
Bill Gates founds Microsoft -
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Steve Jobs founds Apple -
Act to make the banking system more accessible to all people
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Negotiations between Egypt and Israel held by President Jimmy Carter -
After Iran captured the U.S. embassy 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days
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The “New Right” endorsed school prayer, war on drugs, lower taxes, cut spending, a smaller government, free-enterprise, and a stronger military -
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Ronald Regan is the 40th U.S, President
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Speech made by President Reagan in West Berlin (1987) calling for Soviet Union to open the barrier which divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
The war between the U.S. and The USSR end(Berlin wall comes down) -
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George H. W. Bush is the 41st President
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Iraq Invades Kuwait on Aug 2, 1990 – Aug 4, 1990 because irag accused Kuwait of stealing oil -
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War waged coalition forces from 35 nations led by US against Iraq (Saddam Hussein) invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
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The fall of the USSR -
Offensive operations launched against Iraq -
Rodney King was beaten to death after a highspeed chase in Los Angeles -
Clinton is the 42nd president of the US
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Famous American football player Orenthal James Simpson is sent to trial for killing his wife and her lover -
Bill Clinton is impeached on counts of perjury for lying about his affair to the federal courts -
After 9/11 America is on high alert looking for suspected terrorists -
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Bush was the 43rd president US
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4 planes are hijacked by members of an Islamic extremist group Al-Qaeda hitting the Twin Towers in New York, The Pentagon, and a field -
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Facebook is launched by Mark Zuckerberg -
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana and destroys the city og New Orleans -
LaiLynn is born in Houston Texas -
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The first Apple iPhone is released by Steve Jobs -
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Barack Obama is the 44th President of the US and the 1st Black President of he US
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Donald Trump is elected as the 45th President of the US
