us history 1877 -2008

By makkiglover45
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    early american history

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

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    civil war /reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    1862): provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

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    the gilded age

    13th admetment ,14th admetment ,15th admetment

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    the progessive era

    16th admentment ,17th admetment ,18th admetment,19th admetment,equal rights ademtment
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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

  • 1945: United Nations formed

  • 1945: United Nations formed

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    early cold war

    Containment-stop the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race-compettition with other nations
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-communist country
    Communism -a political theory derived
    Domino Theory-if one country fall they all fall

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 1948: Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • 1949: NATO established

  • 1950-1953: Korean War

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    civil rights era

  • 22nd amendment

    22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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    vientam war

  • 1957: USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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    end of cold war

  • 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

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

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    1990s -21st century