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law that granted free land in the Great Plains
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Alexander Graham Bell Invented the first telephone
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enforced racial segregation in the South
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The light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison
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Law that prohibits Chinese to work for 10 years
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The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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A book that Carnegie wrote, it practices philanthropy
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Was a settlement house founded by Jane Addams
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Wanted to get rid of monopolies
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Studies of tenement houses at NYC by Jacob Riis
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book published by Alfred T Mahan
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“separate but equal” segregation
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War between USA and Spain at Cuba
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US wants other foreign countries equally trade with China.
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Political part: republican and progressive “Bull Moose” party
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first affordable automobile
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Political party: republican
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congress can collect taxes
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Political party: democratic
Domestic policy: Clayton anti-trust act, National parks service, federal reserve act,18th/19th amendment -
People directly elect senators
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women's suffrage
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widespread fear and government paranoia by a society or state, about a potential rise of communism,
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The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922
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The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution
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Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder in Chicago of seven men of the North Side gang during the Prohibition Era.[2] It happened on February 14, and resulted from the struggle between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang
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was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover
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otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley
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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The supposed one thousand-year Reich had started. But it would be another 19 months before Hitler achieved absolute power.
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The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture
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During the Sino-Japanese War, Nanking, the capital of China, falls to Japanese forces, and the Chinese government flees to Hankow, further inland along the Yangtze River.
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Nazi Germany invaded Poland and caused the WWII
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The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II.
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estimate indicates that at the outbreak of World War II, fewer than 30 non-Navajo could understand the language. Page one of Navajo ... The Navajo code talkers were commended for their skill, speed, and accuracy demonstrated throughout the war.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
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The following major units were landed on D-Day (6 June 1944). A more detailed order of battle for D-Day itself can be found at Normandy landings and List of Allied forces in the Normandy Campaign.
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provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively
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Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars.
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Germany was cut between the two global blocs in the East and West
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Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death.
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American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
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Mao declared the establishment of the PRC, which signified the end of the Chinese Revolution
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limits the number of times one can be elected to the office of President of the United States
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American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion
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first major international crises of the Cold War
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is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries
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"the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard by the supreme court
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landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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He helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930
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collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation.
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As "Heartbreak Hotel" makes its climb up the charts on its way to #1
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it
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o in the early 1980's the show was airing in most large, major, and medium TV markets.
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a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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First debate aired on tv
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba
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a permanent Peace Corps that would “promote world peace and friendship”
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an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
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the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores
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was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza.
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landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In it, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states are required under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S
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"segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
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The Feminine Mystique is a book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
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he March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment.
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nternational confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
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This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities
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This case represents the consolidation of which Miranda confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation.
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first african american in supreme court
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Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam
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the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
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a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War
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is an agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment
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the Nixon Administration attempted to prevent the New York Times and Washington Post from publishing materials belonging to a classified Defense Department
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limit age to 18 to vote
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is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
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comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
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major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s,
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federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
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a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions.
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provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range
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imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.
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Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone
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Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings
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North Vietnam captured Saigon, the capital of south vietnam
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obs and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple,
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encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods
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The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, and witnessed by United States president Jimmy Carter.
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It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals.
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AIDS were reported in the United States in June of 1981.
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first woman appointed in the supreme court
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War on Drugs is an American term usually applied to the U.S. federal government's campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trade.
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US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb
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a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier
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both east and west Germany can visit in each other side.
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A dedicated reformer, Gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR.
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2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait,
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the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany
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officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union
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The Contract with America was the conservative action of more than 300 Republican Congressional candidates who signed it.
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The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in which former National Football League
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The impeachment process of Bill Clinton was initiated by the House of Representatives on 1998 on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice
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“Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act
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international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11
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19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States
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Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate
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Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone
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The history of iPhone began with a request from Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs to the company's engineers
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President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter
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he was killed by the US Naval Special Warfare
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