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July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence was sigined
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provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
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abolished slavery passed at January 31, 1865,
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passed at February 3, 1870, voting for all male citizens
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Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
Philanthropy
Monopoly
Jane Addams
Laissez-Faire -
chinese Exclusion Act (1882): prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
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Interstate Commerce Act (1887): ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business
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Dawes Act (1887): gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
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Muckrakers
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The Great Migration
NAACP
Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) -
outlawed business monopolies
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legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas
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1896-1899: Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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1906: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906): regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines
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1909: NAACP Founded
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16th Amendment: established the federal income tax
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17th Amendment: direct election of U.S. Senators
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1916: National Parks System created
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Containment: stopping the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space: was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Russia
Communism :a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their skills
Domino Theory:the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries -
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia
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February 24, 1969
Supreme Court's majority ruled that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” The Court took the position that school officials could not prohibit only on the suspicion that the speech might disrupt the learning -
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ratified July 1, 1971
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
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