American History 2

By greenel
  • Jim Crow Laws- NC

    Jim Crow Laws- NC
    Jim Crow Laws were created to maintain white supreamacy in the south. North Carlona made a law that segregated schools in 1875
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    Ruthaford B Hayes

    He was a republican. His vice president was William A, Wheeler.
  • Compromise of 1977

    Compromise of 1977
    Concessions given to the south after reconstruction. Included federal funds and southern cabnient postions
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    Chester A Arthor

    He was a republican. He was assasinated by Charles Guiteau.
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    Chester A Aurthor

    He acceded Garfield and was a republican.
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    Grover Cleavland

    He was a Democrate. His vice president Thomas A Hendricks.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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    Benjaman Harrison

    He was a republican. His vice president was Levi P Morton.
  • Start of the American Spanish War

    Start of the American Spanish War
    America Declared War against Spain because of the De Lome Letter and the explosion of the USS Maine. A major battle was battle of San Jaun Hill
  • Creation of the Hull house

    Creation of the Hull house
    Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants. It was founded by Jane Adams.
  • Sherman Anti-trust act

    Sherman Anti-trust act
    Itwas made to outlaw and desstroy trusts. But it was vaugly worded and impossible to inforce
  • Mckinley Tariff

    Mckinley Tariff
    The McKinley Tariff is a taxes placed on foreign goods by federal governments. By placing taxes on foreign goods, these products become more expensive.
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    Grover Clevland

    He was a democrat. His vice president was Adlai Stevenson,
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    Wiliam Mcenly

    He was a republican. His vice presedents were Garret Hobart and Theodore Roosevelt. He was assasinated in office by Leon Czolgosz
  • Battle of San Juan Hill

    Battle of San Juan Hill
    a decisive battle of the Spanish–American War. The San Juan heights was a north-south running elevation about two kilometers east of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    Ended the Spanish American War. Cause US to be an imperial power and gain new territories
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The Spanish American war ended with thr treaty of Paris signing, It made the US an Imperial Power and began a rivalry with the US and Japan
  • wilmington race riot

    wilmington race riot
    Also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898. Ircontinued for several days and is considered a turning point in post-Reconstruction North Carolina politics.
  • Galviston Hurrican

    Galviston Hurrican
    The Hurricane of 1900 touched down in Galveston, Texas, in the United States. It was the deadliest hurrican in the US
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    Theodore Roosevelt

    He was a republican. His vice presedent was Charles W. Fairbanks.
  • Roosevelt Correlary

    Roosevelt Correlary
    An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.
  • Sanfransico Earthquake

    Sanfransico Earthquake
    Earthquake that struck the coast of Northern California. Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days
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    William Howard Taft

    He was a republican and his Vice president was James S. Sherman.
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    Woodrow Wilson

    He was a Demorcrat and his vice president was Tomas R. Marshal
  • Begining of WWI

    Begining of WWI
    After the asassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian empire Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    A teenage Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as their motorcade maneuvered through the streets of Sarajevo. Next in line for the Austro-Hungarian throne, Ferdinand had not been particularly well liked in aristocratic circles.
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition
    the 18th amendment was ratified. It prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages.
  • Treaty of Versailles 1919

    Treaty of Versailles 1919
    At the end of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
  • Treaty of Versiles

    Treaty of Versiles
    The peace treaty that ended WWI. Ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
  • Womens Right to Vote

    Womens Right to Vote
    it forbids voting rights discrimination anywhere in the United States based on sex. The amendment's adoption was the result of a nearly century-long campaign to allow women to vote.
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    Warren G Harding

    He was a republican who died in office dure to a heart attack. His vice president was Calvin Coolidge.
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    Calvin Coolidge

    He was a republican. His vice president was Charles G dawes. He came into office after Harding had a heart attack.
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    Herbert Hoover

    He was a republican and his vice president was Charles Curtis.
  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday
    The Stock Market Crashed, causing the great Depression. People fled to banks to withdraw money causing them to crash
  • Beginig of the dust bowl

    Beginig of the dust bowl
    Severe Drought in the Mid west caused crops to die and sust to rise. This caused massive dust storms, which in turn caused migration due to heath reasons.
  • Good Neighbor Policy

    Good Neighbor Policy
    A diplomatic policy of the U.S., first presented in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt, for the encouragement of friendly relations and mutual defense among the nations of the Western Hemisphere.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    He was a democrat and his vice presedents were, John Nance Garner, Henry A wallace, and Harry S. Truman. He died during his 4th Term and wass the only presenedt who did more than 2 terms
  • Start of WWII

    Start of WWII
    Germany invaded poland and france and britian declared war on germany
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    Harry S Truman

    He was a democrat. His vice presedent was Alben W. Barkley. He dropped the attomic bomb on Japan.
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima
    during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day
    Japans surrenders shortly after the atomic bomb dropings.
  • VE day

    VE day
    Victory over Europe. German Surrender.
  • Truman Docterine

    Truman Docterine
    The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. He pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    The first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
  • Mashal Plan

    Mashal Plan
    an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II
  • Desegregaation of the Millitary

    Desegregaation of the Millitary
    Exective order 9981 bolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.
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    Dwight D. isenhower

    He was a reoublican and his vice preesident was Richard Nixion.
  • Brown vs Board of Education

    A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    a conflict between the U.S. South Vietnam and North Vietnam over communism belifs.
  • Authorization of the Interstate HIghway

    Authorization of the Interstate HIghway
    Dwight Isenhower wanted a quick way to travel between states. This connected the states together.
  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis
    An invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power.
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    John F Kennedy

    He was a Democrat. His Vice presedent was Lyndon B. Johnson who secceded him after he was assasinated by Lee Harvey Osawald.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.It was an attempt assasination of Fidel Castro.
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    Lyndon B Johnson

    He was a democrat who seceded Kennedy after his assasiantion. His vice president was Hubert Humphrey.
  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    Civil Rights act of 1964
    A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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    Richard Nixion

    He was a republican. His vice presidents were Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford who seceded him after he resigned.
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    Gerald Ford

    He was a republican who seceded Nixion after his resignation. His vice presedent was Nelson Rockefeller.
  • Withdraw from Vietnam

    Withdraw from Vietnam
    After 9 years of a unsupperted war, Nixion decided to pull off of vietnam. He called a cease fire over seas.
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    Jimmy Carter

    He is a Democrat and his vice president was Walter Monadale.
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    Ronald Reagan

    He was a republican and his vice president was George H. Bush.
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    George H. Bush

    He is a republican and his vice president was Dan Quayle
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    Bill Clinton

    He is a democrat and his vice president was Al Gore.
  • NAFTA

    NAFTA
    an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America. It gave these countries free and easy traide between each other.
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    George Bush

    He is a republican and his vice preseident was Dick Cheney.
  • Katrina

    Katrina
    A natural disaster that caused migration from the south. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes.
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    Barrack Obama

    He is a democrat and his vice presedint is Joe Biden