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Constitution

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September 17 1788
States the rights and privileges Americans have
Arranges the government’s privileges
States the rules of America’s democracy

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Revolutionary war

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1776-1783
A war between America and Britain
Fought to gain America’s independence from Britain’s rule

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Powers of each branch

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Executive branch- president makes federal laws, in charge of foreign policies, commands armed forces, chief law enforcement officer
Legislative Branch- Congress- House of Representatives and senate. The two pass laws, impeach officials, and approve treaties
Judicial Branch- Supreme Court- reviews laws, and decides cases involving states’ rights

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Bill of rights

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First 10 amendments of the constitution (1791).

Limit the powers of the federal government

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Preamble

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We the people in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the constitution, for the United States of America.

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Industrial Revolution- positive and negative effects

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Positive- Economic boom, created more jobs for poor people

Negative- factory conditions were awful, small companies lost their work

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Vertical integration

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A company owns all different businesses it depends on for operation

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Horizontal Integration

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Combining money firms doing the same type of business

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Factory conditions during. The industrial revolution

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Dangerous, lost limbs, long hours, low pay

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Patent

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An exclusive right to sell inventions

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Separate but equal

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Plessy vs. ferguson case 1896
Homer Plessy was 1/8 black. He refused to give up his seat to a white person and was arrested. The case reached supreme the court and they ruled that segregation was okay, as long as all are equal

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Ellis Island

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1892-1954
Island in NY by the statue if liberty
Receiving and processing center for immigrants
Interviewed, examined, and sometimes deported immigrants
2% of immigrants were deported
12 million went through

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19th amendment

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1900- women gained the right to vote

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Spanish American war

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US and Cuba against Spain
1898-1901
Cuba fighting for their independence

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Teddy Roosevelt

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Leader of the rough riders (American troops who charged up San Juan hill and defeated he Spanish in war
26th president
Trust buster
Created the Panama Canal

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Muckrakers

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Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of businesses and public life

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Zimmerman note

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January 19 1917
Tipping point for US- telegram from Germany to Mexico
British intercepted it and decoded
It said: if Mexico joined the war on Germany’s side, Germany will give you back the land that US took from mexico

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Airplanes in WWI

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Mostly scouting airplanes

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Civilians’ roles during WWI

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Gasless Sundays, Lightless nights
Food administration: Hoover ran it: meatless day, sweet less day, wheat less day, etc- tripled the food to allies
US completely about supporting the troops

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Amendment 1

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Petition
Religion
Assembly
Press speech

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Amendment 2

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Right bear arms

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Amendment 3

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The right to protect from quartering soldiers

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Amendment 4

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Search and seizure

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No man’s land

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The area between trenches where no soldier wanted to be

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Causes of WWI

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Secret Alliances/rivalries
Nationalism
Growth of military 
War was glorified
Competition between European countries over global colonies
Resource issues
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Big four

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Woodrow Wilson- USA
George Clemenceau- France
David Lloyd George- Britain
Vittorio Orlando- Italy

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League of Nations

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Wilson’s 14th point
Made treaties and peace
42 countries joined righty away

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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty that officially ended WWI
Demilitarized Germany
Established 9 new nations that split up the Ottoman Empire
Germany could only have 100,000 soldiers
Guilt-war clause
Signed on June 28 1919

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The great migration

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More than 6 million African Americans moved from rural southern places to the north for a better life which created a lot of riots and uncomfort

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Years of WWI

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1914-1919

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Lusitania

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May 7 1915
German U-boat sunk a British liner
1198 people died- 128 Americans
Americans protested but still didn’t want to go to war

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“The Jungle”

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Written by Upton Sinclair
A book about immigrant’s lives and the working conditions during the progressive area
What really was going on in factories in the 1920s

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John T Scopes

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“Scopes trial”
Tested the law- July 1925
William Jennings Brian- against scopes
Clarence Darrow- for scopes
Scopes was a teacher and taught his students about evolution
Found guilty and was found guilty withs fine of $100

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Flappers

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20's women
Embraced new fashion and attitudes 
Close-fitting felt hats, short hair, lipstick, pumps, beads
Smoke and drank in public
Charleston, fox trot, tango
Started working more
Brith control
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The Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem, New York
“capital of Black America”
Cultural movement starting in 1919
Jazz music, art, etc

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Black Tuesday

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October 29 1929

U.S. Stock Market crashes and causes the Great Depression

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Great Depression years

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1939-1939

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Unemployment during the Great Depression

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Unemployment reached 25%

People created shanty towns and Hoovervilles

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Dust bowl

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1930-1936- severe drought
Large dark clouds of dust everywhere
Millions of acres were affected
A major factor to the Great Depression

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Fireside chats

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Franklin Roosevelt would sit and talk through the radio once a week and in a way comfort American citizens
He would make citizens feel like he was talking directly to them

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The new deal

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Programs to help pull America out of the Great Depression
Job creation for the unemployed through public work projects
Federal assistance to people who had lost houses, jobs, etc
Agricultural and manufacturing assistance for troubled factories and farmers
Stricter banking regulations
Investments

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FDR

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32nd president
Created the New Deal
Fireside chats
President during Great Depression

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WWII causes

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Treaty of Versailles
Balkan Peninsula
Hitler broke the Munich pact
The non-Agression pact between USSR and Germany

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D-DAY and the 5 beaches of Normandy

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June 6 1944
5:30 AM
Navy bombarded coast of France
Hitler was prepared at another spot (Calais)
Greatest achievement of war
5 beaches: Omaha, Sword, Gold, Utah, Juno

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Holocaust

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“Slaughter on a mass scale”
Started with Kristallnacht- night of broken glass
Mass genocide of Jews and other minorities at death and concentration camps
11 million people were killed
6 million jews killed

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Final solution

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Extermination of all Jews

Hitler

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Josef Mengele

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Twin scientist during the

holocaust

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Baby boom

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After all the soldiers came home from WWII they had children and it was the biggest generation in American history

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Civil Rights act

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March on Washington

July 2 1964- LBJ signs the civil rights act

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Little rock

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Little Rock, Arkansas
Governed Orval Faubus supported segregation
9 African Americans volunteered to desegregate Central High School
Trailed by an angry mob
1957- Faubus sent in the national guard then closed the school for the rest of the year
Televised

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March on Washington

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August 28 1963
250,000 people marched from the Washington monument to the Lincoln monument- wanted to pass civil rights act

MLK gave “I have a dream” speech

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MLK

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January 15 1929-April 4 1968
Became a pastor and a civil rights leader
Youngest man to win the Nobel peace prize
Arrested over 20 times
Symbolic leader for equality
Shot and killed April 4 1968 in Memphis Tennessee by James Earl Ray

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Rosa parks

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December 1 1955
Rosa parks sat in the front of a segregated bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man
She was arrested
Outrage

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Korean War

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North Korea: communist, supported by USSR, industrial based
South Korea: democratic, agriculturally based, US supported
June 25 1950- North Korea invaded South Korea- Eisenhower sends aircraft and naval support to South
July 1953- armistice signed

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Bay of Pigs

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JFK used fleeing exiles (from Fidel castro’s dictatorship in Cuba) to attack Cuba and stop communism
Cuba was ready and captured or killed all exiles
Huge embarrassment to US

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Cuban missile crisis

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October 1962- US realized that Cuba had missiles pointed straight at them
America put a quarantine down so that USSR couldn’t get their supplies to Cuba, so Cuba removes the missiles

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Sputnik

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First spacecraft sent into space by USSR

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Red scare

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Americans afraid of communism

People started to be investigated for communist ways

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Berlin blockade

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Separates east and West Berlin

People risked their lives to get over the wall to prosperity

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Harry Truman

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33rd president

During Korean War

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Dwight Eisenhower

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first a commander for d-day

Then became 34th president

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JFK

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35 president

Shot and killed November 22 1963

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Joseph McCarthy

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Republican senator- not popular
Began accusing people of being communist
Bullied people on trial but had no real evidence
Public lost respect for him

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Lee Harvey oswald

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Murdered JFK

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Iron Curtain

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Barrier by USSR to separate not communist countries from them

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China

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Mao Ze Dong-leader of the communists- won

After WWII the Cold War started up again

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Robert McNamara

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Leader of the Vietnam war

Secretary of defense

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Fidel Castro

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Communist Leader of Cuba

Became leader in 1959

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Vietnam war years

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1964-1973

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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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August 4 1964
LBJ asks congress to pass it
Have president more power

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Vietcong

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Group of communists in South Korea hiding who supported the north

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Richard Nixon

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Wanted to turn US more conservative

Wanted support from southern whites so he tried to slow down desegregation of schools

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Election if 1980

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Republicans: Ronald Reagan-40th
Democrats: jimmy carter

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Ronald Reagan

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Wanted to lower taxes, traditional values, and strengthen national defense
Large tax cuts
Unemployment went down and stock market went up
69 days into presidency he was shot but not killed

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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First woman to Supreme Court-1981

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Sally ride

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1st woman in space- 1983

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Rodney king

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March 3 1991
Fleeing officers in speeding car
Beaten brutally- taped by a bystander 
Only two of the cops were convicted 
Riots broke out in anger- 51 killed
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Challenger explosion

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January 28 1986
NASA mission
Christa Mcauliffe- teacher that died

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Berlin Wall opening

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November 9 1989

Separated for 28 years

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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1985

Overthrown in 1991

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AIDS

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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

No cure

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Election of 1992

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Republicans: George H.W. bush- 168 votes
Democrats: Bill Clinton-357 votes

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Columbine high school

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Tuesday April 20 1999

12 students killed and 1 teacher

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World Trade Center bombing

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February 26 1993
Car bomb went off
Killed 6, 1042 injured,
By al-Quadea

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Oklahoma City bombing

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April 19 1995
Federal building first 2 floors was a daycare
168 killed, 18 kids
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

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Operation desert storm

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1990-1991
August 22 1990- Iraq invades Kuwait
Jan 16 1991- Air Force attack on Iraq
Feb 23 1991- ground attacks on Iraq

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Watergate

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June 17 1972
5 men caught trying to break into the democratic headquarters
Wanted to take democratic info and bug the area
Nixon was responsible

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Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein-

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Washington post reporters that revealed info on watergate

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William Mark Felt

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Secret person telling newspeople info about watergate

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Election of 2000

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Democrats- Al gore

Republicans- George W Bush

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Lloyd benson

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Senator

“Senator, you’re no jack Kennedy.”

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William McKinley

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1887-1901

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Theodore Roosevelt

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26

1901-1909

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William Taft

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1909-1913

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Woodrow Wilson

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1913-1921

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Warren Harding

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1921-1923

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Calvin Coolidge

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30

1923-1929

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Herbert Hoover

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1929-1933

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Franklin Roosevelt

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1933-1945

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Harry Truman

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1945-1953

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Dwight D Eisenhower

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1953-1961

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John Kennedy

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1961-1963

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Lyndon Johnson

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1963-1969

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Richard Nixon

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1969-1974

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Gerald Ford

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1974-1977

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Jimmy carter

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1977-1981

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Ronald Reagan

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1981-1989

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George HW Bush

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1989-1993

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Bill Clinton

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1993-2001

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George W Bush

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2001-2009

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Barack Obama

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2009-present

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Amendment 5

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No one has to answer for a capital unless they are In legal process
No one can be killed, injured, or have their land/freedom taken away without government involvement

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Amendment 6

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If someone commits a crime, the will have a trial where the crime was committed but he/she is allowed to have a witness and a lawyer in his/her defense

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Amendment 7

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When the “value In controversy” goes passed $20 the case is closed and nothing can be reexamined or charged.

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Amendment 8

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No huge bails, fines, or extremely bad punishments are allowed

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Amendment 9

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The government can’t say that the Bill of Rights people have.

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Amendment 10

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The thing that doesn’t belong to the national government and that isn’t prohibited by the constitution in the states are given to the people

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