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the United States army is formed 🟧
The unification of all of the colonies to fight Britain -
Declaration of Independence 🟧
A document in the 2nd Continental Congress, that gave the colonies and the colonist independence from Great Britain. -
Congress Approves the Articles of Confederation 🟧
The time when the Continental Congress thought that the need to enforce their own laws and rights -
George Washington 🟧
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. -
Hamilton's financial plan
his plan to help make the us recover from debt -
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the second great Awakening
a religious revival in early 19th century America, characterized by emotional preaching, camp meetings, and a focus on personal salvation and social reform. -
John Adams 🟧
John Adams was an American Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. -
Thomas Jefferson 🟧
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 -
James Maddison 🟧
James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817 -
war of 1812
was a conflict that lasted from 1812 to 1815. Key issues were trade restrictions, impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, and British support for Native Americans on the American frontier. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was an American Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825 -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philosophy became the basis for the Democratic Party. -
Indian removal act
a law that allowed the president to negotiate treaties to remove them -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he served as New York's attorney general and U.S. senator -
Jackson vetoes the second national bank
Andrew Jackson vetoed the Second Bank of the United States in 1832 due to his belief that it was unconstitutional and that it favored wealthy interests at the expense of the common people. He saw it as a tool for the wealthy elite and a threat to democratic governance. -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States, serving from March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history. -
John Tyler
John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. -
James Knox
James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of Jacksonian democracy and extending the territory of the United States. -
Seneca falls Convention
outlined the rights American women should be entitled to as citizens, is a foundational document in the history of the U.S. women's rights movement. -
The great famine and Irish immigration
The 410,000 documented arrivals from Ireland in the database represent about one-third to one-quarter of the up to 1.5 million Irish who arrived in the United States during the broader Famine period of 1845–1855, including some who walked into the country after landing in Canada. -
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was an American military officer and politician who was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. -
Mexican American war
a conflict between the United States and Mexico stemming from the annexation of Texas and disputes over territory, particularly along the Rio Grande -
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. A northern Democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity, he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Kansas Nebraska act
act that created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and allowed their residents to decide on the issue of slavery through "popular sovereignty" -
James Buchanan Jr
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. -
Civil war
a seperation of states north and south fighting over slavery -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States of America and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and actor, was motivated by his desire to restore the Confederacy and avenge the defeat of the South in the Civil War. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln -
13th amendment
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime. -
Reconstruction act
a series of four laws passed by Congress during the Reconstruction era to establish the terms for the readmission of former Confederate states to the Union. -
14th amendment
It defines citizenship for all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees equal protection under the laws. -
Ulysses s grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War. Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1843. -
15th amendment
prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
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Jim crow
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation -
Temperance movement
The Temperance Movement was a 19th-century social movement in the United States and other countries advocating for moderation or complete abstinence from alcohol consumption -
Rutherford Birchard
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. Hayes served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861. He was a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. -
Settlement House Movement
Settlement houses were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources. Many settlement houses established during this period are still thriving today -
James Abram Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot two months earlier. -
Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield -
Chinese Exlusion act
restricted chinese immigration -
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms and the first Democrat president after the Civil War. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father. -
GRover Clevland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms and the first Democrat president after the Civil War. -
William Mckinley
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. -
Spanish american war
conflict in 1898 between the United States and Spain, primarily focused on Cuba and other Spanish colonies. -
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., also known as Teddy or T. R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York politics, including serving as the state's 33rd governor for two years. -
William Howard
William Howard Taft served as the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices. Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Alphonso Taft, was a U.S. attorney general and secretary of war. -
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WW I
World War I, also known as the Great War. It was a global conflict that took place from 1914 to 1918. The war pitted the Allied Powers (primarily France, Britain, Russia, Italy, and the United States) against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria). -
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. -
Tulsa race massacre
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921 -
Warren Gamaliel
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents while in office -
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923 under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921 -
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Introduction to the ERA
seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe. -
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The Great Depression
a global economic collapse -
the dust bowl
The New Deal was a series of economic and social programs enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression. It aimed to provide relief to the unemployed, stimulate economic recovery, and reform the financial system to prevent future depressions. -
Franklin D Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. -
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The new deal
The New Deal was a series of economic and social programs enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression. It aimed to provide relief to the unemployed, stimulate economic recovery, and reform the financial system to prevent future depressions. -
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Chicano movement
The Hispanic community embarked on a social movement aimed at combating institutional racism, increasing cultural hegemony, and guaranteeing equal labor and political rights. -
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WW II
when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. This invasion led to declarations of war by Great Britain and France, who had treaties of mutual defense with Poland. The war's roots lay in the unresolved issues from World War I, the rise of aggressive ideologies like fascism and militarism, and the failure of the League of Nations to maintain peace. -
Japanese internment
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens. -
zoot suit riots
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. -
Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt that year. -
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Cold war
a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, lasting from 1947 to 1991 -
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Korean war
lasted from 1950 to 1953, pitting North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, against South Korea and its UN allies, led by the United States. -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. -
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Vietnam war
The Vietnam War (1955-1975) was a protracted and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its primary ally, the United States. It was a major event of the Cold War era, with the United States and the Soviet Union backing opposing sides, further fueling the conflict. -
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Red power movement
The Red Power movement was a social movement which was led by Native American youth who demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States. Organizations that were part of the Red Power Movement include the American Indian Movement and the National Indian Youth Council. -
John F Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected president at 43 years. -
Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th vice president under President Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and also as a representative and senator from California -
stone wall riots
a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by LGBTQ+ community members in response to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York City, on June 28, 1969. -
Gerald Ford Jr
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. -
James Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era -
Second national march on Washington
The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., -
George H W Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan and previously in various other federal positions. -
William Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992 -
George W Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party, he is the eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, and was the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. -
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. -
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. -
Joseph Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and also represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009. -
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021