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Date : 1865 - 1867

Location : Southern United States

During this period of time after the Civil War, many changes were starting to take place and were trying to address the issues that involved slavery.

Additional Source:

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction

https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/reconstruction-and-its-impact#:~:text=The%20Reconstruction%20Era%20lasted%20from,between%20African%20Americans%20and%20whites.

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Date : March 2, 1867

Location : United States

This act allows for the states to be required to write a new constitution, which requires these states to ratify the 13th and 14th amendment while still protecting African Americans

Additional Source :

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Civil_War_AdmissionReadmission.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction

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Date : July 9, 1868

Location : United States

Following the 13th Amendment, this amendment was passed to allow for people that were born or naturalized in the United States to be considered a citizen, including former slaves

Additional Sources :

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xiv

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Date : February 3, 1870

Location : United States

This allows for newly appointed citizens from being unable to vote based on their color or race. Unfortunately there was a bump in the road that states used to but more restriction on voting.

Additional Source :

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/15th-amendment

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-15/

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Date : January 1, 1892

Location : Ellis Island, New York City

This immigration station opened as a new change to immigration in America, immigrants came from many countries, this center allowed for close examination of these individuals to allow them to start a life in America

Additional Source :

https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/overview-history/

https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/ellis-island

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Plessy V Ferguson Supreme Court Decision 

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Plessy V Ferguson Supreme Court Decision 

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Date : May 18, 1896

Location : United States

This decision by the Supreme Court established the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing discrimination in public facilities because they considered that equal

Additional Sources :

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/plessy-v-ferguson

https://www.britannica.com/event/Plessy-v-Ferguson-1896

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Date : September 14, 1901

Location : Washington, D.C.

Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when President William Mckinley was assassinated

Additional Sources :

https://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Roosevelt

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Date : April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918

Location : Europe

Americans reluctantly entered Europes war and assisted in an allied victory while they still responded to threats that were still taking place on the home front

Additional Sources :

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-first-world-war

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Date : August 18, 1920

Location : United States

This Amendment allowed for women to have the right to vote, it continued to serve as a remind to women to exercise her right under this amendment

Additional Sources :

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/19th-amendment

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xix

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Date : October 28, 1929

Location : New York City, New York

Also known as The Wall Street Crash of 1929, this event marked the beginning of the Great Depression in America, which was devastating

Additional Sources :

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/stock-market-crash-of-1929

https://www.britannica.com/event/stock-market-crash-of-1929

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Date : 1933-1938

Location : United States

After President Franklin D Roosevelt was elected, he launched a new program called the New Deal that implemented address to economic challenges due to the Great Depression

Additional Sources :

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal

https://www.archives.gov/seattle/exhibit/picturing-the-century/great-depression.html

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Date : December 7, 1941

Location : Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

This attack lead to why the U.S. entered the second World War, when Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

Additional Sources :

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/pearl-harbor-december-7-1941

https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/pearl-harbor-fact-sheet-1.pdf

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Date : June 6, 1944

Location : Normandy, France

Almost 133,000 troops from the U.S. landed on this day which launched a massive invasion, which was a huge turning point

Additional Sources : https://www.liberationroute.com/stories/124/d-day?gclid=CjwKCAiAu9yqBhBmEiwAHTx5p1KQGB8r_G7cl1VZWuJL8My98xQFvW-KDfRoNS1516Cr9iopLyWDFxoCrGEQAvD_BwE

https://hertogfoundation.org/resources/the-d-day-invasion?gclid=CjwKCAiAu9yqBhBmEiwAHTx5p8ytc4xuFAOlHp-2h1sM1CW3bi_s_CqkF3wJvZQfebX8c0SQqkuOoRoCvvAQAvD_BwE

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Date : August 6 and 9, 1945

Location : Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

The U.S. dropped these atomic bombs in hopes to put the War to an end, which lead to Japans surrender and the end of the war

Additional Sources :

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

https://www.britannica.com/question/Why-did-the-atomic-bombings-of-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki-happen#:~:text=It%20looked%20increasingly%20likely%20that,Pacific%20to%20a%20close%20sooner.

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Date : June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953

Location : Korea

The Korean War when North Korea invaded South Korea in a coordinated attack along the 38th parallel

Additional Sources :

https://www.britannica.com/event/Korean-War

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-short-history-of-the-korean-war

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Date : May 17, 1954

Location : United States

Supreme Courts decision that bans racial segregation in public schools

Additional Sources :

https://www.oah.org/tah/february-3/the-troubled-history-of-american-education-after-the-brown-decision/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3uGqBhDdARIsAFeJ5r0TEOk5M6yvsxo95hQ48YqHD1T27Rqc3JnbUO-NzJHQ8FJ1RNGeK5IaAmWxEALw_wcB

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education

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Date : July 2 1964

Location : United States

This was signed into law in 1964 tjat outlawed discrimination based on color, race, religion, sex, or national origin

Additional Sources :

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-act

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act

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Date : December 1, 1955

Location: Montgomery, Alabama

Rosa Parks was arrested due to an situation on a bus, which lead to the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Additional Sources :

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott#rosa-parks-bus

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/montgomery-bus-boycott

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Date : 1955- 1975

Location : Vietnam

The U.S. joined into the Vietnam war, which caused a huge uproar and sparks protest all around

Additional Sources :

https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War

https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war

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Date : 1965

Location : United States

This outlaws discrimination while voting after the civil war but required a literacy test as a prerequisite to voting

Additional Source :

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act

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Date : April 4, 1968

Location : Memphis, Tennessee

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the second floor of his balcony in a Motel he was staying at in Tennessee

Additional Sources :  https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/assassination-martin-luther-king-jr

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2a.html#:~:text=Shortly%20after%206%20p.m.%20on,7%3A05%20p.m.%20at%20St.

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Date : 1972 - 1974

Location : Washington, D.C.

This had a a huge impact on leadership when it lead to President Richard Nixon's resignation which land lead to a huge political crisis

Additional Sources :

https://www.history.com/topics/1970s/watergate

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/watergate

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Date : January 22, 1973

Location : United States

This Supreme Court case allows women to legally obtain and abortion in the United States

Additional Sources :

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/roe-v-wade-and-supreme-court-abortion-cases?fbclid=IwAR2Kz765sUBsiwqWn8pUki4YpcoxJ5XIvEl-o3OJui8uI1lC__Ix_JJhJU4_aem_AfgrWAFkIRW408Mm01VaIrZ7E38XR6HSpUUMVtGivgFGN7waH7ALIX-9h5PpMj5bFbY

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Date : January 28, 1986

Location : United States

The Space Shuttle challenger exploded during ascent, all seven of the shuttle members died due to a external tank bursting

Additional Sources :

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/challenger-explodes

https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/looking-back-at-the-space-shuttle-challenger-disaster/

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Date : 1989 - 1991

Location : Global

At the end of the Cold War it leads to the downfall of the Soviet Union, which is physically shown when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989

Additional Sources :

https://www.ushistory.org/us/59e.asp

https://coldwar.unc.edu/theme/end-of-the-cold-war/

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Date : 1991

Location : Kuwait and southern Iraq

Also know as "Operation Desert Storm", this war was the invasion of Kuwait in 1991 and the destruction of this area

Additional Sources:

https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/gulf/stormsum

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/persian-gulf-war

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Date : September 11, 2001

Location : New York City, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania

Multiple terrorist on different planes hijacked them and crashed them into multiple things. Including the two World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and an unsuccessful hit but a field in Pennsylvania

Additional Sources :

https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-attacks

https://www.britannica.com/event/September-11-attacks

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Date : 2003 - 2011

Location : Iraq

Along with coalition forces the U.S. invaded Iraq, which lead to the capture eventually of Saddam Hussein

Additional Sources :

https://www.georgewbushlibrary.gov/research/topic-guides/the-iraq-war

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a-timeline-of-the-iraq-war

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Date : November 4, 2008

Location : United States

Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States and he served two full terms, and did many good things while he held office

Additional Sources :

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/barack-obama/

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/president-obama

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Date : 2013- Present

Location : Nationwide

The Black Lives Matter Movement breaks out and stands up fro racial justice while trying to put an end to police brutality

Additional Sources:

https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0016241/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/12/8-facts-about-black-lives-matter/