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a civil war fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America.
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Law passed by congress in 1862 that granted 160 acres of federal land to any U.S. citizens.
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the 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime it was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865. -
Followed the American civil war it marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
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it was ratified on July 9, 1868 and granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States. -
A train route across the united states finished in 1869.
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Passed by Congress February 26, 1869 it granted African American men the right to vote. -
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Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876.
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The compromise of 1876 effectively ended the reconstruction era.
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Occurred during late 19th century it was an Era of rapid economic growth.
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Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park tested more than 3000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880
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between 1880 and 1914, brought over 20 million Europe immigrants to the United states.
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Authorized the president of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholding.
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a mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their home towns to Canada Yukon territory
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A policy extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws -
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An armed conflicted between Spain and the United States in 1898.
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It called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.
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The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States.
Foreign policies "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." -
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A novel that portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
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it was the first series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
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The Model- T is Fords universal car that put the world on wheels.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
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Republican Party
he was more committed to the expansion of the U.S. foreign trade. -
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population
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Include freedom of the seas at all times and free trade all over the world. -
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Known as the Great War. When the war ended and the Allied Powers claimed victory more than 16 million people/soldiers where dead.
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A British ocean linear that was sunk om May 7,1915 killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany.
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A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign office in January 1917 proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
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On April 2,1917 President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. April 4,1917 the U.S. senator voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany.
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Armistice signed at Le Franc port that ended fighting on land.
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During Wilson outlined his vision for a stable, long lasting peace in Europe the Americas and the rest of the world following World War I.
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Prohibited of alcohol in the United Sates.
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Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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Return to the way of life before World War I.
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A decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation.
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Louis carried Charles Lindbergh's from New York to Paris the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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One of Capones longtime enemies. On February 14 seven members of Moran's operation were gunned down while facing the wall of the garage.
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Also known as the Great crash a major American stock market crashed that occurred in the fall of 1929.
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The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialization world lasting from 1929-1933.
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A law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United Sates. The act raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
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A federal law passed in 1933 as part of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal.
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Part of the New Deal of 1933 was a large scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.
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FDR was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Dust Bowl was the name given to the drough-sticken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930's.
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An international organization found in 1945 after World War II.
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President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat.
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Limits the number of times a person is eligible for election to the office of President. -
A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies.
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a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations.
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Began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea.
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it formally ended the war in Korean.
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The Geneva Agreements was signed on July 1954.Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel. -
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A collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven others soviet satellites.
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Salk's inactivated polio vaccine was the first vaccine for the disease it came into use in 1955.
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Rosa Park got arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. -
Known as the Second Indochina War. It was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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A law authorized the construction of a 41,000 mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation.
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Leave it to Beaver ran for six full 39-week season.
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A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
It was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress. -
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A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961.
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President John F. Kennedy signed congressional legislation creating a permeant Peace Crop on September 22,1961
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It was also known as The Great March on Washington it was held in August 28, 1963 to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
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A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65.
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Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7,1964. President Johnson took any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia -
Ratified on January 23, 1964 prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
prohibits discrimination -
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A federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
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The Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops. -
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement. -
A music festival held on August 15-18,1969. -
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37th President of the United States.
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The Cambodian campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia. -
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A independent executive agency of the U.S. federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. -
A United States Department of Defense history of the United States political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. -
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It prohibits discrimination in any school or other education program -
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A major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon that led to Nixon's resignation -
Known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act. A federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States -
a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. -
It is a primary law in the United States for protecting imperiled species. -
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It was the first handheld cellular phone call made on April 3, 1973 by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper. -
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He was a American politician and attorney who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
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Known as the Liberation of Saigon captured of Saigon the capital of South Vietnam by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. -
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On April 1, 1976 Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne established the Apple computer company. -
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A political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem. -
A diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran.
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Combatted drug trafficking and aimed to end the crack cocaine epidemic destroying many lives. -
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She promise to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the United States. -
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U.S. embassy in Beirut was devastated by a car bomb killed 63 people including 17 Americans. -
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A speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan. Also known as the Berlin Wall Speech. -
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A pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain. -
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German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany. -
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United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes.
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Was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union. -
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An American politician from Arkansas he was the 42nd President. He took office at the end of the Cold War.
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A legislative agenda advocated for by Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign. -
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It is also known as the Global War on Terrorism and U.S. War on Terror. I t was a ongoing international military campaign launched by the United States government. -
An American politician and business man he was the 43rd President.
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An ongoing war following the Unites States invasion of Afghanistan. Began when the U.S. and its allies successfully drove the Taliban.
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A protracted armed conflict began march 20, 2003 ith the invasion of Iraq.
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On February 4, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook a social media website. -
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A large category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and a lot of damage. -
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A stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by Barack Obama. -
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An American politician and attorney he was the 44th President of the United States.
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He found al-Qaeda and was the terrorist groups leader when conducted the deadliest attack ever on U.S. -
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