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Declaration of Independence signed
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Constitution written
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Bill of Rights ratified
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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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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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voting for all male citizens
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Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)- name for industrialist who got their wealth in suspicious ways but captain of industry's where people with money who used their money to affect the country positively
Philanthropy- giving voluntarily to the community for the common good
Monopoly- when a specific person or enterprise are the only suppliers of a specific good
Jane Addams-A progressive social reformer and activist
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prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
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awarded government jobs based on merit
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ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business
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gave individual ownership of land to native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
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Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses
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outlawed business monopolies
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outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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Muckrakers- group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing
Initiative, Referendum, Recall- voters can adopt a change in law (an initiative), disapprove a law passed by the Legislature (a referendum), or remove an elected official from office (a recall)
The Great Migration- movement of 6 mill. African Americans from the sound to north/north west us
NAACP-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Immigration Issues -
legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
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Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
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Theodore Roosevelt- 26th president of the United States
Rough Riders- nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry
Foreign Policy-
Immigration Quotas
Yellow Journalism-American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate news -
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat
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regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines
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NAACP Founded
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established the federal income tax
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direct election of U.S. Senators
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established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry
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Alvin York- one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I
Homefront- covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war
M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)- militarism, alliance, imperialisms, nationalism
Sussex Pledge-a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships but not passenger ships to be torpedoed without warning
American Expeditionary Forces- formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War I -
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statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations
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peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize
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Containment- united States policy using different strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
Arms Race/Space Race- competition between the US and the soviet union on who could build more weapons. Space race was to see who could launch something into space.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Russia, Belorussia,U kraine
Communism- no private property, what's your is ours and what's ours is theirs
Domino Theory- the theory that if one nation fell into communism others will too -
prohibits anyone who has
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U.S. policy that gave
military and economic aid to countries
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program to help
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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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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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After Rosa parks was arrested, Buses were boycotted to take a stand against the discrimination
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failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1 month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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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
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Medicare is a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65+ or under 65 and have a disability, no matter your income. Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health coverage if you have a very low income.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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First Man on the Moon
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The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4
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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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The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.” It prohibits states from discriminating among voters based on age, for people who are at least 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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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation
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The South Vietnamese stronghold of Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) falls to People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975.
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pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland.
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group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. However, the hostage-taking was about more than the Shah’s medical care:
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accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred.
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The Iran–Contra affair, popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration
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