American History Final

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    American History

  • King James I granted 2 stock companies a license to colonie current-day VA

    Jamestown, VA
  • First colony in the New World (Jamestown)

    Virginia
  • First Africans brought into Jamestown

    Sold into slavery.
  • Puritans migrate to New England

    Massachusetts Bay Charter
  • Richard Frethorne

    Indentured Servitude -- letter to his parents asking for help
  • Cambridge Agreement

    Agreement made before landing in the New World
  • Planters' Plea

    Advertisement to recruit more colonizers
  • Massachusetts Body of Liberties

    outline rights/restrictions in the colonies
  • Alsop

    Indentured Servitude in a positive light.
  • King Charles II gave land to William Penn

    to repay Penn's father
  • Mittelberger

    Warn Germans fro working as indentures in the colonies.
  • Governor Glenn "The Role of the Indians"

  • Treaty of Paris

    Between Indians and Britain
  • Olive Branch Petition

  • "George III to the Americans"

  • Thomas Paine

    "Common Sense"
  • Declaration of Independence

  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles 1-8
    Articles 9-13
  • Peter Oliver: Origin/Progress of American Rebellion

    Appendix
  • US Constitution passed

    by 9 states (2/3)
  • Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

  • Marbury V Madison

    Notes (11/30)
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Notes (12/2)
  • Forten Letters

    Handout
  • Hartford Convention

  • Cherokee Nation V Georgia

  • Postmaster Kendall

  • Frederick Douglass/Jefferson Davis

    Frederick Douglass: anti-slavery
    Jefferson Davis: pro-slavery
  • Lincoln elected president

    November
  • Civil War

    1861 - 1865
  • Letter to Horace Greely

    from Lincoln
  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln
  • 13 Amendment ratified

  • Reconstruction

    1865 - 1876
    or
    1865 - 1877
  • Mississippi Black Code

  • Black Convention in Alabama

  • 14th Amendment ratified

  • Fort Laramie Treaty

  • 15th Amendment ratified

  • Dawes Severalty Act

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Pledge of Allegiance

  • Pullman Strike

  • Plessy V Ferguson

  • March of the Flag

    Albert Beveridge
  • Spanish American War

  • US - Phillipines War

    1900 - 1904
  • "To The Person Sitting in Darkness"

    Mark Twain
  • Amendment 16 - 19

    Amendment 16: 1913
    Amendment 17: 1913
    Amendment 18: 1919
    Amendment 19: 1920
  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act

  • World War I

    1914 - 1918
    US enters in 1917
  • Wilson's War Message

  • Debs' Speech at Canton, Ohio

    Socialist, against the war
  • Roaring '20s

  • "Revolution in Manners and Morals"

  • Great Depression/New Deal

  • World War II

    1939 - 1945
    US enters in 1941
  • FDR's War Declaration

  • Pearl Harbor

  • VE - Day

    Victory in Europe
  • VJ - Day

    Atom bombs dropped on:
    Hiroshima: August 6, 1945
    Nagasaki: August 9, 1945
  • Kennan's Long Telegram

  • Brown V Board of Education

  • MLK "Give Us the Ballot"

  • Castro takes of Cuba

    1963: Cuban missile crisis
  • "Feminine Mystique"

    Betty Friedan
  • Kennedy "Why We Are In Vietnam

  • McNamara "Vietnam"

  • Voting Rights Act

  • "The Ballot or the Bullet"

    Malcolm X
  • "All Our Problems Stem from the Same Sex-Based Myths"

    Gloria Steinem
  • "A Child Called X