American history

  • 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
    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

    John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison

    James Madison
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    Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

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    Era Of Good Feelings

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    Jacksonian

  • 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

  • Abraham Lincoln election

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    Civil war

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    Progressive era

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

  • 13th amendment

  • 14th amendment

  • reconstruction acts

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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