Unit 9: Modern (jan 1, 1980 – jan 1, 2020)

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New Tech:
- Computer: apple, ibm
- Internet, email, file sharing
- Amazon
-> more productivity, closure of old fashioned brick and morter businesses
Work:
- less manufacturing, more services done in America
- Outsourced manufactuing to China through General Agreement of Trade and Tariffs
- Way fewer labor unions (Reagan)
- Growing gap bw rich and poor
Migration:
- S and W gain (continuation of sunbelt migration)
- N and E lose
Immigration:
- S and W, agricultural opportunities
- Immigration has generally helped the American economy (Mexican)

+ Amendments:
Bill of Rights
1st: Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition
2nd: Right to bear arms
3rd: Quartering of soldiers
4th: Search and seizure
5th: Grand jury, double jeopardy, self incrimination, due process, takings
6th: Right to speedy trial by jury, witnesses counsel
7th: Jury trial in civil lawsuits
8th: excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment
9th: Non-enumerated rights retained by people
10th: Rights reserved to states or people

11th: Suits against states
12th: Election of president and vice president

Reconstruction:
13th: Abolition of slavery
14th: Citizenship rights, equal protection, apportionment, civil war debt
15th: Right to vote not denied by race

16th: Income tax
17th: Popular election of senators
18th: Prohibition of Liquor
19th: Womens right to vote
20th: Presidential term and succession, assembly by congress
21st: Repeal of prohibition
22nd: Two-term limit on presidency
23rd: Presidential vote for D.C.
24th: Abolition of Poll taxes
25th: Presidential disability and succession
26th: Right to vote at 18
27th: Congressional compensation

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