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The Dawes Act of 1887 gave individual ownership of land to native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively, and opens up their land for whites.
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The Muckrakers were reform-minded journalist in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in popular magazines.
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The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
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Sherman Antitrust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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Imperialism is a policy or ideology of extending the rule over people and other countries, for extending political and economic access, power, and control.
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The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells.
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The 16th amendment played a central role in building up the powerful American federal government of the twentieth century by making it possible to enact a modern, nationwide income tax.
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World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
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The decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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a period of ideological and geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations.
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President Harry S. Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread.
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The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person is eligible for election to the office of President of the United States to two.
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With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $15 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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The Arms race was a race between the Soviets and the US to have the most powerful Nuclear weapons and this caused fear of a nuclear attack to the Americans.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
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Sweatt v. Painter was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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a campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States.
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a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.
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The United States successfully detonated “Mike,” the world's first hydrogen bomb, on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands.
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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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.
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity.
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one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16.
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module.
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a Democrat from Georgia, took office after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election. His presidency ended following his defeat in the 1980 presidential election by Republican Ronald Reagan.
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the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the United States Senate, making her the first Lady of the United States.
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2,977 victims are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland. The attacks remain the deadliest act of Terrorism upon the U.S
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The Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces.
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North Korea announced its intention to conduct a test on 3rd October, six days prior, and in doing so became the first nation to give warning of its first nuclear test. The blast was estimated to have an explosive force of less than one kiloton, and some radioactive output was detected.
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Barack obama was elected as the president of the United States of America. Barack Obama is the first afro american who was elected as the president of the United States of America.
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COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing more serious complications from COVID-19 illness.
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