13th Amendment - Abolished Slavery, 14th Amendment - Granted Citizenship/Equal Protection under the law for the former slaves, 15th Amendment - Right to vote for African American Males, 16th Amendment - Created a national income tax, 17th Amendment - allows us to directly elect our senators, 18th Amendment - Prohibition, which led to a rise in organized crime, 19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage, women get the right to vote, Sandra Day O Connor - 1st female to serve on the supreme court, Sonia Sotomayor - 1st Hispanic to serve on the supreme court, Thurgood Marshall - 1st African American to serve on the supreme court, W.E.B. Dubois - founder of the NAACP an early civil rights group, Upton Sinclair - Wrote the book The Jungle, which exposed problems in the meat packing industry, and led to the passage of The Pure Food and Drug Act, and The Meat Inspection Act, Betty Friedan - Co-founder of (NOW) the national organization of women and wrote the book The Femine Mystique, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Gave the executive branch unlimited power to escalate the war in Vietnam, War Powers Act - Took back the executive branches unlimited power to escalate a war, Social Security Act - Provides Retirement Income, F.D.I.C. - protects your money in the bank up to 250,000 dollars, S.E.C. (Securities Exchange Commission - regulates the stock market, Dust Bowl - caused by a prolonged drought and misuse of the land by farmers, Hurricane Katrina - low elevation and failure of the levee system led to New Orleans being flooded, Panama Canal - shortcut between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, realized we needed this after the Spanish-American War, Plessy Vs. Ferguson - Separate but equal was legal, Brown Vs Board of Education - Separate but equal is illegal, Martin Luther King - Believed in Non-Violent Protest, Black Panthers - By any means necessary/Self-Defense, Ceasar Chavez - fought for the rights of migrant farm workers, Hillary Clinton - First Lady (Bill Clinton); Senator from New York State (2001-2009); Secretary of State during the Obama administration; first female presidential nominee from a major political party, Democratic Party (2016), Dolores Huerta - advocate and lobbyist for farmworkers' rights who with Caesar Chavez organized the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962, which later became the United Farm Workers of America,

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