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42 Cards in this Set
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Transcontinental RR |
1869 |
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Standard Oil Organized |
1870 |
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Panic of 1873 |
1873 |
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Telephone Invented |
1876 |
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"Compromise of 1877" Great RR strike |
1877 |
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Edison invents light bulb |
1879 |
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Louis Sullivan builds first skyscraper |
1885 |
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Haymarket Square Bombing, AFL |
1886 |
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Dawes Act, Interstate Commerce Act |
1887 |
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Hull House founded |
1888 |
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Sherman Act; Wounded Knee; no frontier |
1890 |
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Populist; homestead steel strike |
1892 |
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Panic of 1893 |
1893 |
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McKinley defeats Brya, Plessy case |
1896 |
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Spanish -American War |
1898 |
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Wright Bros. Kitty Hawk. First movie |
1903 |
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Ford's Model T |
1913 |
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Birth of a Nation. KKK |
1915 |
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Us enters WW1 |
1917 |
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Versailles, Red Scare, 18th Amendment |
1919 |
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19th amendment, radio |
1920 |
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First "talkie," Jazz Singer |
1927 |
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Stock Market Crash |
1929 |
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New Deal, rise of hitler |
1933 |
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Pearl Harbor |
1941 |
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A bomb against Japan |
1945 |
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Tv |
1947 |
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China falls, Soviet A Bomb |
1949 |
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Korean War begins, McCarthyism |
1950 |
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US explodes H bomb |
1952 |
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Brown vs Board of Education |
1954 |
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Sputnik |
1957 |
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Cuban Missile crisis, Rachel Carson - silent spring |
1962 |
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Betty Friedan: the feminine mystique |
1963 |
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Gulf of Tonkin incident, "Great society" |
1964 |
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Tet, assassination of MLK and RFK |
1968 |
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Moonshot |
1969 |
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Oil crisis, roe vs wade |
1973 |
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Watergate |
1974 |
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Fall of communism in eastern europe |
1989 |
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Fall of soviet union, 1st gulf war |
1991 |
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911 |
2001 |
