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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 (California) |
| 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| 1861-1865 | Civil War |
| 1867-1877 | Radical Reconstruction |
| 1880s | cattle drives |
| 1887 | Dawes Act |
| 1892 | Homestead Strike at Carnegie Steel |
| 1895 | Atlanta Compromise of Booker T Washington |
| 1896 | Plessy v Ferguson |
| 1898 | Spanish American War Begins |
| 1917 | US enters WW1 |
| 1920 | women vote for president (19th Amendment |
| 1924 | Immigration Quota Act (limited SE immigration; racist) |
| 1929 | stock market crash starts Great Depression |
| 1933 | FDR elected and starts New Deal |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor Attack pulls US into WW2 |
| 1950 | Korean War begins |
| 1954 | Brown v Board of Education |
| 1960 | Kennedy-Nixon Debate |
| 1961-1962 | Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1965-1973 | Vietnam War |
| 1974 | Richard Nixon resigns as a result of Watergate |
| 1979 | Iran-Hostage Crisis |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan elected president |