apush end of the year project

By goremak244
  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    end of the year project

  • May 30, 1492

    columbus' voyage to the new world

    columbus got the backing from the king and queen of spain

  • first perminent english settlement

    jamestown founded for wealth and power

  • first enduring european settlement in new england

    Plymouth settled by pilgrims

  • house of burgesses

    first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America

  • mayflower compact

    majority rule

  • georgia

    the last of the original Thirteen Colonies

  • poor richard's almanac

    yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin

  • seven years war / combatants

    was the first global conflict

  • treaty of paris 1763

    ended the seven years war

  • samuel adams

    wrote the Massachusetts Circular Letter

  • boston massacre

    british soldiers killed five people in boston after they were harassed.

  • first continental congress

    called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts

  • american revolutionary war start

    the war for american independance

  • lexington and concord

    the first battles of the revolutionary war.

  • second continental congress

    managed the colonial war effort

  • common sense

    convinced the people that independance was for the better and helped the it get ratified.

  • declaration of independance

    stated why independance was necassary

  • articles of confederation

    the first form of government for the united states - failure

  • battle of yorktown

    american victory over the british.

  • american revolutionary war end

    ended with the Treaty of Paris and the Treaties of Versailles

  • great compromise

    determined how many representatives each state will have.

  • shay's rebellion

    caused when farmers were arrested for not being able to pay the high taxes

  • the constitutional convention

    drafted the constitution

  • john marshall

    delegate to the Virginia convention

  • george washington

    first president of the united states.

  • bill of rights

    guarenteed specific rights for everyone.

  • john adams

    second president

  • revolution of 1800

    change from a Federalist leadership to Republican

  • transportation in the 1800's

    horses and buggies

  • impact of the seven years war

    Louisiana Purchase

  • marbury v madison

    formed judicial review

  • james madison

    became the fourth president

  • the war of 1812

    began when the british impressed american sailors into the royal navy

  • era of good feelings

    began with Monroe's presidency

  • monroe doctrine

    effectively removed europeans from the western hemisphere.

  • john c calhoun

    became the 7th vice president

  • the virginia dynasty

    4 of the first 5 presidents were from virginia. ended with monroe

  • andrew jackson

    became the 7th president

  • nullification doctrine

    States could declare null and void federal laws they deemed to be unconstitutional.

  • worcester v georgia

    recognized the sovereign (politically independent) status of tribes

  • manifest destiny

    the idea that america was destined to expand across the continent.

  • transportation in the 1800's

    trains came on the scene

  • dred scott v. sanford

    slaves were not protected under the constitution.

  • john brown's raid

    an attempt to start an armed slave revolt

  • the civil war

    war between noth and south over slavery

  • the election of lincoln

    effectively started the civil war

  • emancipation proclamation

    free'd all slaves in the rebel states

  • thirteenth amendment

    outlaws slavery

  • twelfth amendment

    changed how the president and vice president are elected

  • civil rights act

    all people born in the us are citizens

  • fourteenth amendment

    grants citizenship to everyone born in the US

  • fifteenth amendment

    gave black men the right to vote

  • pendleton civil service act

    government employees competitive exams

  • dawes severalty act

    gave individual indians ownership of land

  • frederick jackson turner

    wrote the Frontier thesis to explain the frontiers importance

  • plessy v. ferguson

    upheld the constitutionality of seperate but equal

  • roosevelt corollary to the monroe doctrine

    the United States will intervene in conflicts between European Nations and Latin American

  • the federal reserve system

    central banking system of the United States

  • woodrow wilson

    28th president. took us into WWI

  • technologies of WWi

    germany uses poisonous gas

  • causes of WWI

    german submarines threatened us comercial trading.

  • zimmerman telegram

    entered the US into WWI

  • 14 points

    called for a more free and peaceful world after the war.

  • eighteenth amendment

    established prohibition in the United States

  • league of nations

    designed to maintain world peace

  • first red scare

    about worker revolution and political radicalism

  • versailles treaty 1919

    ended the war between germany and the allied powers

  • harlem renaissance

    renaissance of art and culture mainly in the black comunity of harlem newyork

  • langston hughes

    was a poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist durring the harlem renaissance

  • the scopes monkey trial

    teacher accused of teaching about evolution.

  • black tuesday

    millions sold their stock

  • causes of the great depression

    stock market crashed

  • joseph stalin

    was exiled from the Soviet Union

  • franklin roosevelt

    32nd president. took the great depression head on.

  • tennessee valley authority

    used experts and electricity to combat human and economic problems

  • indian reorganization act

    secured certain rights to Native Americans

  • causes of WWII

    germany invaded poland and other counties

  • minorities and WWII

    japanese americans place in internment camps

  • containment policy

    prevent the spread of communism

  • korematsu v. us

    the us can deny rights to people to protect the country as a whole.

  • iron curtain

    symbolized the 2 ideologies in europe

  • joseph mccarthy

    McCarthyism - accused many of being communists

  • second red scare

    focused on national and foreign communists influencing society

  • berlin blockade

    soviets blocked berlin from supplies to try to control the city

  • the marshall plan

    the us gave money to help rebuild European economies

  • korean war

    the us aided the south vietnamese to halt the spread of soviet influence

  • viet cong

    communist enemy of the us in the vietnam war

  • julius and ethel rosenberg

    executed for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war

  • brown v. board of education

    ruled school segregation unconstitutional.

  • martin luther king, jr.

    fought for equality for blacks

  • rosa parks

    sparked the civil rights movement

  • sputnik

    first object to be launched into space

  • greensboro sit-in

    students sat in a shop all day to force desegregation

  • u-2 incident

    american spy plane shot down over the soviet union

  • berlin wall

    seperated east and west berlin

  • bay of pigs

    failed attempt to eliminate fidel castro

  • freedom riders

    rode forced segregation busses to force desegregation.

  • john f kennedy

    35th president durring the african civil rights movement

  • baker v. carr

    ruled that redistricting is justicable

  • cuban missile crisis

    climax of the cold war. soviet union had missles in cuba

  • march on washington

    300,000 rallied for civil rights. including mlk jr.

  • the feminine mystique

    sparked a wave of feminism

  • the warren commission

    comissioned to conduct an investigation of the assassination of jfk

  • gulf of tonkin resolution

    gave the President authorization for the use of conventional military force

  • title VII- civil rights act of 1964

    outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women

  • vietnam

    the US enered the vietnam war

  • great society

    elimination of poverty and racial injustice

  • de facto segregation

    discrimination that was not segregation by law

  • counterculture

    went against the ideologies of older generations

  • kent state

    police shot students while they protested

  • equal rights amemdment

  • roe v. wade

    women have the right to an abortion

  • salt 1

    froze the number of existing warheads

  • jimmy carter's malaise speech

    speech designed to return confidence to the people

  • affirmative action

    benefit an underrepresented group

  • reaganomics

    ronald reagan's economic polocies

  • glasnost

    called for openess of soviet union affairs

  • perestroika

    restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system

  • iran contra scandal

    america sold arms to iran

  • saddam hussein

    invaded Kuwait

  • the first gulf war

    war waged against iran for the invasion of kuwait

  • osama bin laden

    bombed the world trade center

  • bill clinton

    42 president known for sexual misconduct

  • election of 2000

    bush won with fewer popular votes

  • 9/11

    al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the us

  • axis of evil

    described gevernment that were accused of helping terrorism.

  • human genome project

    identifying the genes of the human genome

  • election of barack obama

    44th president. first black president

  • had a great summer with friends

    dislocate my sholder but still had a great time.