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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement (know year only) -
First Africans brought to Jamestown
To work on tobacco plantations (know year only) -
Period: to
Great Awakening
Religious movement that swept through Europe and the colonies in the mid 1700s (know years only) -
Proclamation of 1763
Prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains (know year only) -
Revolutionary War Begins
Shots fired at Lexington and Concord (know year only) -
Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson -
Constitution Ratified
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Thomas Jefferson Elected
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Louisiana Purchase
Doubled the size of the U.S. overnight (know year only) -
War of 1812
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Missouri Compromise
(know year only) Drew the east/west line through Louisiana purchase. -
Monroe Doctrine
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Tariff of 1832
North liked it, South didn't. (know year only) -
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Mexican War
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Compromise of 1850
Entered California as free state and let other territories vote whether or not to have slaves (know year only) -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Repealed Missouri compromise (know year only) -
Lincoln Elected President
Southern states secede (know year only) -
Lincoln Calls for Federal Troops
After southern states secede (know year only) -
Homestead act
gave free land to settlers in the west (know year only -
Reconstruction Ended
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Compromise of 1877
Ended Reconstruction (know year only) -
Chinese Exclusion act of 1882
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WW1 Begins in Europe
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USA Enters WW1
Because of ties to Britain and German submarine warfare on our ships (know year only) -
Immigration Restriction act of 1921
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Black Tuesday
Stock market crash
