1. Time Period #8
U.S. History – Unit 8

2. 2010 Affordable Health Care Act (Obama Care) passes.
BP oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico.
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3. 2010
“Occupy Wall Street” movement starts in NYC. To stand against corporate greed, social inequality, and the disproportion between the rich and poor. (1% vs. 99%)
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4. 2011 Osama Bin Laden found and killed in Pakistan.
In Tucson, Arizona a gunman opens fire at a constituent meeting led by US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords injuring 14, including Giffords, and killing 6.
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5. 2011
Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56. He was an American computer engineer, who co-founded in 1976 Apple Inc.,
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6. 2012 Obama re-elected as President.
2012 Summer Olympics: Michael Phelps wins a record 19th Olympic medal
Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, CT kills 26 people, including 20 children between the ages of six and seven.
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7. 2012 American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya attacked.
Four killed including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens
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8. 2013
Two brothers explode two bombs at the Boston Marathon killing 3 and injuring 264 others. Caught and later convicted in 2015.
National Anthem Boston Bruins
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9. 2014
One World Trade Center opens 13 years after 9/11. The new building is 1,776 feet high.
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1st World Trade towers were 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world's tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower surpassed them both in 1974.
9/11 Memorial is opened

10. 2015
Measles Cases spread in the US (over 100 cases), tracked backed to Disneyland.
Protests and riots break out in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, and Cleveland due to deaths of Black men at the hands of police
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11. 2015 Boston Marathon Bomber sentenced to death
2015 remembered
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12. 2016 in Review

13. 2018
You graduate!