US History 1877-2008

By jakeshaw4851
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/ Reconstruction

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    The Gilded Age

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    The Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

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    World war I

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

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    Early Cold War

  • Sweatt Vs. 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

  • I have a Dream Speech

  • Hernandez Vs. Texas

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

  • Brown Vs. Board of Education Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott/ Rosa Parks Arrest

  • Little Rock 9 Integrated

  • Berlin Wall Built

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK Assassination in Dallas

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins the unofficial war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of 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 Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines Court Case

    Gave students political rights in a school setting.

  • Kent State Shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment Ratified

    Made legal voting age 18 rather than 21.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    Law made the President have to get Congress' approval to send troops to battle

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Fall of Saigon, marks end of Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Missile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s- 21st Century