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Declaration of independence 🟧
The American colonies wanted to be free from Great Britain. -
French join the war against British 🟥
The French join the American revolution and end it -
Constitution is approved 🟧
Constitution was approved at the Philadelphia convention. -
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Early Republic
Early days in the US were unorganized and a very conflicting time. -
Treaty of Paris 🟥
Treaty ending the Revolutionary war -
George Washington
George Washington was elected as the first president of the US. -
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The Second Great Awakening
period of antebellum social reform and an emphasis on salvation by institutions -
John Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
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James Madison
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Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion
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Era Of Good Feelings
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Jacksonian
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Indian Removal act
a law that allowed the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to move west -
The Great Famine and Irish Immigration
Great famine caused irish to immigrate -
Seneca Falls Convention
launched the women's rights and suffrage movements in the United States -
Kansas- Nebraska act
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Abraham Lincoln election
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Civil war
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Progressive era
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Abraham Lincoln Assassination
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13th amendment
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14th amendment
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reconstruction acts
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15th amendment
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Jim Crow
state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation -
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Gilded age
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Settlement House Movement
pivotal role in addressing poverty and inequality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -
Chinese Exclusion Act
restricting immigration into the United States -
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WW1
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Roaring 20's
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Tulsa Race Massacre
two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre -
Introduction of the ERA
seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters -
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Great depression
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Chicago Movement
intention to end slums in the city. It organized tenants' unions, held rent strikes, assumed control of a slum tenement -
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WW2
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Japanese Internment
the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated Japanese -
Zoot Suit Riots
Series of riots in LA involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents -
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Cold war
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Red Power Movement
Gave rights to Native Americans -
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Contemporary history