US history 1877-2008

By Charles.Nwokocha
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    Early american history

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil war

  • Homestead Act

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

  • 13th amendment

    Abolished slavery

  • 14th amendament

    citizenship and due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th amendment

    voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    Gilded ages

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    Progressive era

  • plessy v ferguson

    legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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    imperialism

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    WW1

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    Roaring twenties

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    Great Depression

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    WWII

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • 22nd amendment

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

  • Truman Doctorine

    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

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • 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

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

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

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

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

  • 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

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of Cold War

    Containment keeps communism contained don't let it spread.
    Arms Race/Space Race fought o see who could get the most weapons and who could get to space the fastest
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR russia
    Communism the opposition to democracy during the cold war
    Domino Theory people thought that political events spread.

  • Pentagon Papers 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

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • Watergate Scandal, which 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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    1990s-21st Century