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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
Basically free land -
• 13th Amendment
Abolishing of slavery -
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Reconstruction
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• 14th Amendment
All US citizens have rights -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
Starts near Nebraska and ends in California -
• Industrialization Begins to Boom
More cities and factories -
• 15th Amendment
All men can vote -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
Ran Tammany Hall -
Telephone Invented
Alexander Graham invented it -
Reconstruction Ends
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• Jim Crow Laws Start in South
Laws that allowed legal segregation -
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
Invented by Thomas Edison -
Third Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Restricted the Chinese from coming to the US -
Pendleton Act
rids the spoils system and people are hired based on merit -
Dawes Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
Act made to set a flat rate for railroad owners -
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
He felt bad about the pinkerman incident -
Chicago's Hull House
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Klondike Gold Rush
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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How the Other Half Lives
Pictures by Jacob Riis that shows people living in tenements -
Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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progressive era
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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Pullman labor strike
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• Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme court case that agreed "separate but equal" -
Annexation of Hawaii
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Spanish American War
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Open Door Policy
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Assassination of President McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
Republican, Progressive(Bull Moose), Square deal (3 c's), Trust Busters, Conservation(nature) -
Wright Brother’s Airplane
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
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The Jungle
Book by uptan sinclaire -
Pure food and drug act
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model t
Henry Fords truck made by an assembly line -
NAACP
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William Howard Taft
Republican,Big Softy, 16th and 17th amendment -
16th Amendment
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Federal Reserve Act
Gave bills and coins value -
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Woodrow Wilson
Democrat, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, National Park Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18th and 19th amendment -
17th Amendment
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Trench warfare, poison gas, and machine guns
The creation of new deadly weapons caused their to be more deaths than other battles -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
his assassination prompted the start of WWI -
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World War I
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Sinking of Lusitania
Yellow journalism accused the Spanish of sinking the Lusitania -
National Parks System
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Zimmerman Telegram
A telegram sent to the Spanish to betray America, but intercepted by the U.S. -
Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin was sent by Germans as a distraction to Russia, He started the Russian revolution -
U.S. entry into WWI
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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Armistice
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Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points
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Treaty of Versailles
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18th Amendment
Banning of alcohol (prohibition/temperance) -
19th Amendment
Woman's suffrage (right to vote) -
President hardings return normalcy
President Harding wanted to return to the way things were before -
Harlem Renaissance
Time in the 20s when African american culture booms along with Jazz -
Red Scare
U.S. did not agree with Russian and their communism -
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Roaring twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes "monkey" trial
Teacher goes to court after teaching about evolution in a class -
Mein Kampf
Book by Hitler titled Mein Kampf -
Charles Lindberghs Trans-Atlantic Flight
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St. Valatines Day Massacre
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Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
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Great Depression
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Hoovervilles
Towns built by people with no homes (usually made from cardboard and boxes etc.) -
Smoot-Hawley Tarrif
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100,000 banks have failed
Thousands of people rushed to get their money from banks this caused the banks to close due to lack of money -
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Money put in the bank was ensured by the Government -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
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The Holocaust
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Period: to
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Period: to
New Deal Programs
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Dust Bowl
Huge droughts and dust storms preventing any agriculture to be done -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
This returned money to the elderly and disabled who couldn't work -
Rape of Nanjing
Japanese went into china and slaughtered and tortured Chinese -
Kristallnacht
A night which Germans vandalized the Jewish -
Hitler invades Poland
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World War II
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
An attack method used by Germans where they flew over, dropped bombs, and took off -
Tuskee Airman
World War II air forces of African american descent -
Navajo Code Talkers
Code used during WWII to communicate which was almost impossible to decipher -
Pearl Harbor
Attack on US naval base by Japanese -
Executive order 9066
Order made by president to put all Japanese Americans in camps -
Bataan Death March
Japanese forced people in Philippines to walk for several miles -
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
The US liberated France by winning several battles on shores -
GI Bill
Help veterans get back on their feet -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Victory over Japan/ Pacific (VJ/VP) day
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Liberation of concentration camps
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Victory in Europe (VE) day
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United Nations formed
Global organization that brings states together to confront common problems -
Germany divided
Germany was divided into communist and democracy -
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Harry S Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
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Period: to
Baby Boom
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Truman Doctrine
Gave supplies and money to Turkey and Greece to convince them to not fall for communism -
• Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
He was a pretty bad guy -
• 22nd Amendment
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The Cold War
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Marshal Plan
US aided European countries -
Berlin Airlift
Supply drop to west Berlin by airplane to help fall to communism -
• Arab-Israeli War Begins
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NATO formed
Similar to the United Nation but more militaristic -
Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
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UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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Korean War
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Period: to
1950s Prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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Armistice Signed
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Period: to
Warren Court
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Hernandez v. Texas
Reinforced the 14th amendment us citizens have rights -
Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
Ruthless communist leader -
Warsaw Pact formed
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Polio Vaccine
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• Rosa Parks Arrested
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• Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Vietnam War
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Elvis Presley First Hit Song
Died on the toilet -
Interstate Highway Act
Allowed construction of several highways -
Sputnik I
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Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
Sitcom that people liked -
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
Established Civil rights -
• Little Rock Nine
Nine black students who were denied access into school but helped by president and US troops -
Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
Have to be charismatic to get the peoples vote -
• Chicano Mural Movement Begins
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed attack on Cuba -
Peace Corps Formed
Organization to help people -
Mapp v. Ohio
No search and seizure without a warrant -
• Affirmative Action
Employers prefer nonwhites over whites in order to be more equal -
Period: to
John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba threatened to strike us with missiles -
• Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
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Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
Exactly what the title says -
Gideon v. Wainwright
Supreme court said that you can ask for a lawyer from the state -
• George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
Governor who supports segregation -
• The Feminine Mystique
Greatly influenced feminism -
• March on Washington
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Great Society
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Escobedo v. Illinois
You have the right to an attorney when being interrogated -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Started with American espionage in Vietnam and ended with higher conflict between US and Vietnam -
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places -
• 24th Amendment
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• Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
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• Voting Rights Act of 1965
Reinforced 15th amendment -
• Malcom X Assassinated
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• United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
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Miranda v. Arizona
Case that went to supreme court that reinforced 5th and 6th amendment -
• Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
First African American on Supreme Court -
• Six Day War
Israel wrecked a whole bunch of people -
Tet Offensive
Heavy attacks over a short period of time -
My Lai Massacre
Murder of several unarmed Vietnam civilians -
• Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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Vietnamization
training of Vietnam in order to aid in the war and decrease US casualties -
Woodstock Music Festival
Basically coachella of the 1900s -
Draft Lottery
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Manson Family Murders
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Apollo 11
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Apollo 11
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Period: to
Richard Nixon
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Invasion of Cambodia
After the invasion of Cambodia was publicized there were several riot outbreaks -
Kent State Shootings
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• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Help keep the environment safe -
Pentagon Papers
government documents revealing secrets exposed by press -
26th Amendment
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• Policy of Détente Begins
Russia doesn't mess with US and America will do the same -
Period: to
Jimmy Carter
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• Title IX
there must be an equal female sport for every male sport -
• Watergate Scandal
Nixon doing some shady stuff -
• Nixon Visits China
Tried to call tensions between US and China -
War Powers Resolution
Slightly Restricted presidents power to send troop to invade (24 hr notice and 60 day max) -
• Roe v. Wade
Supreme court case between pro-life or pro-choice -
• Roe v. Wade
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• Engaged Species Act
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• OPEC Oil Embargo
Main regions with oil didn't want to give fuel to US -
• First Cell-Phones
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• United States v. Nixon
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• Ford Pardons Nixon
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Period: to
Gerald Ford
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Fall of Saigon
Capture of the capital of South Vietnam -
• Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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• National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
Pro gun organization -
• Steve Jobs Starts Apple
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• Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
Helped loan money to people -
• Camp David Accords
US helped Egypt and Israel be friends -
• Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
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Period: to
Iran Hostage Crisis
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• Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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• Conservative Resurgence
More conservatives (republican views) -
• “Trickle Down Economics”
Thought that we should lower taxes on wealthy to help economy -
• War on Drugs
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• AIDS Epidemic
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Period: to
Ronald Reagan
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• Marines in Lebanon
Several people died in truck bomb -
• Iran-Contra Affair
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• The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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• “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
Get rid of Berlin Wall -
• End of Cold War
Cold war was officially over -
• Berlin Wall Falls
They finally tear the wall down -
Period: to
George H. W. Bush
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• Germany Reunification
No more east and west Germany -
• Iraq Invades Kuwait
Kuwait was accused of stealing petroleum -
Period: to
Persian Gulf War
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• Soviet Union Collapses
No more soviet union -
• Operation Desert Storm
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• Rodney King
Cab driver who was brutally beat by police, King caught the beating on camera -
• Ms. Adcox Born
One of the most exquisite specimens to roam the floors of JFA -
Period: to
Bill Clinton
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• NAFTA Founded
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• Contract with America
Republicans said they would do great stuff like cut back taxes -
• O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”
Simpson went on trial for the murder of his wife he was ultimately found not guilty -
• Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
"I did not have sexual relations with that women" -
• 9/11
Devastating terror attack on twin towers -
• War on Terror
US wanted to decrease terrorism -
• USA Patriot Act
FBI can watch you if they think you may be a terrorist -
Period: to
George W. Bush
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Period: to
War in Afghanistan
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July 22
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• NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
He sings happy birthday to himself on the day he landed -
Period: to
Iraq War
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• Facebook Launched
Mark Zucheberg is a lizard human who made facebook -
• Hurricane Katrina
Big hurricane that destroyed new Orleans -
• Saddam Hussein Executed
Iraq's leader -
• I-phone Released
Released by Steve Jobs -
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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• Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
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• Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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Period: to
Barack Obama
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• Arab Spring
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• Osama Bin Laden Killed
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• Space X Falcon 9
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• Donald Trump Elected President
