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one of the most important but least celebrated days in American history when 56 members of the Second Continental Congress started signing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
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members of the Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution.
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amendments 3 through 12 became part of the Constitution, and these first 10 amendments were thereafter known as our Bill of Rights.
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fighting for civil rights
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provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
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abolished slavery
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citizenship & due process
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the first continuous railroad line across the United States and opened for through traffic
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voting for all male citizens
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Bell's success came through his experiments in sound and the furthering of his family's interest in assisting the deaf with communication.
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lots of economic growth
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outlawed business monopolies
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social activism and poltical reform
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legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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extending political and economic access, power and control
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orginated in europe, alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism,treaty of versailles
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more construction and rapid growth of customer goods, electritcy, and economic growth.
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down fall of the economic put people out of job and homeless ness and hunger grew fast. stock market crash 1929
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2 oppsoing military alliances, great deppression,facism,pearl harbor, dictators,
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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Containment-American policy of resisting expansion of communism. Arms Race/Space Race-competition between Russia and the U.S to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- commuist superpower Communism- system of government where property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs. Domino Theory-posited that if one country came under the influence of communism, surrounding countries follow in a domino effect.
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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declaration that stated that the United States would militarily support nations that were being threatened by communism. Created initially to stem the tide of communism in Greece and Turkey.
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response to a soviet blockade of allied controlled sections of Berlin, successfully brought food and medical supplies to allied controlled areas of Berlin.
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the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism
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Developed during Cold War to deter against USSR (Warsaw Pact). Promotes democratic values and encourages consultation and cooperation on defense and security issues to build trust, and in the long run, prevent conflict.
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when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.
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ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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ending segeration, fighting for equality
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were charged and executed (1953) for allegedly passing atomic secrets to Russia, violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
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“Mike,” the world's first hydrogen bomb, on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands.
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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the U.S providng funding for the veitnam military and tensions created 2 sides
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This vaccine contains killed virus and is given by injection.
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the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first.
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leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. ... Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey
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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Abolishes the poll tax
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Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act Amendments, popularly known as the Medicare bill. It established Medicare, a health insurance program for the elderly, and Medicaid, a health insurance program for the poor.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. ... The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam.
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defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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the berlin wall came down and borders opened. the iron curtain lifted
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The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed
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moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
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law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. ... Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
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Barack Obama
al-Qaeda
No Child Left Behind
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The Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the 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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world population grew, new technolgies, nasa discoveries
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Thirteen months later, on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. President Bush and his chief foreign policy advisers were more pro-active toward Russia and the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the Communist monolith than while it was teetering.
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The goal of NAFTA was to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The implementation of NAFTA on January 1, 1994, brought the immediate elimination of tariffs on more than one-half of Mexico's exports to the U.S. and more than one-third of U.S. exports to Mexico.
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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
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Hurricane Katrina was a large Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the costliest tropical cyclone on record, and is now tied with 2017's Hurricane Harvey.
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tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism