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Period: Jan 1, 1491 to
Unit 1
America's rich resourses and land was Europeans' perfect motive to explore the land which changed the Natives' society. Large amount of Europeans came to the Americas for the 3G's, but also brought deadly diseases also. This devasted the Native population. Europeans forced Natives off of their land and into slave labor. New plants, animals and technology altered the enviroment. The Mestizoget introduced. Columbian exhange changing society for the natives. -
Apr 23, 1492
The Columbian exchange
After the return of Columbus voyage european countries realize the resources that the Americas has to offer can make them wealthy. So europeans bought slaves from brought them to the americas to work on extreme labor. From there they brought resources back ti europe and start the cycle over again. -
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Unit 2
Competion for America started.Spain sought to Covert or exploit the native. The French & Dutch Depended on trade alliances with fur. England relied on agriculture for economic boost. The Atlantic Slave Trade for the labor needed. European countries fought one another for the resources and the land mass. -
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The French and Indian War
Great Briatian gained territory towards Norht America. (Soon led to the American Revolution for Great Britian's expenses.) -
Proclamation of 1763
Caused limitation of the colonies expanding westward (traders were the only allowed to move) a desire for farmland made people defy the proclamation -
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Northwest Ordiance
Northwest territory and setting forth the steps how the subdivisions might be governed, organized and decisions on slavery being prohibited. -
Land Act of 1785
How the government would measure, divide, and distribute land North and South of the Ohia River. This was a way to make the colonies money by selling the land. the land sold would be use for education in sections. -
Cotton Gin
The invention made a slavery increase in the South, making it rely on King Cotton. -
Louisiana Purchase
President Jefferson nearly doubled the nation's size with the purchase from France. It affected it with the resourses westward making the American wealthy. -
War of 1812 causes
the restriction of the United States trade and the desire to expand its territory -
Missouri Comprimise
It prohibited slavery in the north except in Missouri, which was admitted to the Union as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state. dividing the nation ito two seperate parts. -
Erie Canal
The usage to help transportation in the United States -
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Trail of Tears
Jackson removal act of the Native American to be relocated at present day Oklahoma. Killing thousands of Natives on their journey. -
54 40 or Fight
An aggressive slogan adopted in the Oregon boundary dispute, a dispute over where the border between Canada and Oregon should be drawn. This was also Polk's slogan- the Democrats' wanted the U.S. border drawn at the 54'40" latitude. Polk settled for the 49 latitude in 1846. -
California Gold Rush
Gold was discovered. Thousands of people traveled westward to become rich. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ended the Mexican-American War. The US acquired California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming. -
Compromise of 1850
Admitted California to the Union as a free state without forbidding slavery in other territories acquired from Mexico. The law prohibited the sale of slaves in Washington, DC, but included a strict law requiring the return of runaway slaves to slaveholders. -
Gadsden Purchase
Unites States purchased almost 30,000 sq. miles (Arizonia &New Mexico). that will help with the southern transcontinetal railroad. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Territory on whether or not the population that will allow slavery. (Popular sovereignty). Giving Society a voice. -
South Carolina
South Carolina Becomes the first stateto suceed form the Uion because of the fear of Lincoln becoming President. -
Anaconda Plan
An outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War by cutting of communication and limiting the abount of space. -
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Giled Age
the transition from agriculture to industrilization was where the nation was head toward. The South began competing with the North, relying on manufacturing companies than cotton. The West had the discovery of Gold/Silver.The Completion of the Tracontinental Railroad allowed oil and steel companies to boom. -
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Domestic and Global Challenges
U.S. involvement of WW1 and WW2. America golden age when we were at our economic peak and the downfall of not just us but other nations of their economy causing the great depression -
The Panama Canal
A ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. -
Haarlem Renaissance
In the 1930's this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
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Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl conditions forced thousands of farmers from the plains to migrate west in search of work. Many settled in California. -
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Prosperity and Global Responsibility
A time of the post ww2. Constant fear of another war against the 2 world super powers this time nuclear war. This time there was really fighting but more verbal. This 50 years long war was call the cold war. Stopping communsim from spreading and promoting democracy. Back at home the nation was struggling from civil rights. Equality among all. -
Truman Doctrine
Promising to aid nations that were against Communist -
CONTAINMENT POLICY
George Keenan published an article
about the Soviet's intention to spread communism around the world and the only way to stop was the U.S. to containment. Prevent it from spreading around the world. -
MARSHALL PLAN
With european countries in need of aid from post ww2 this plan was passed to finicially help the nations. -
Executive Order 1981
an executive order issued on July 26, 1948 by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
NATO
Allience among European countries that were against communism and respond quickly to the aid of any allie nation if attacked by a external party. -
Korean War
A war between Communsit North Korea and democracy South Korea wich resulted the Splitting of the nation. -
Brown v. Board of Education
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 -
Warsaw Pact
A respond to NATO it acted the same as NATO promising Protection but once a member always a member. Made by the Soviets. -
Vietnam War
A war that many Americans seen unnecasary was between the U.S and Vietnam. To stop the rising commusnist party in Vietnam. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. Boycott crippled the public transportation
service in Montgomery and eventually forced
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was constructed to seperate communist In East Berlin from Capitalist West Berlin. -
JFK assassination
Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. The assassain was Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Ronald Reagan
A consertive elected and became President. He believed in smaller government role in American life and lower life and stronger military -
MLK Assassination
was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray -
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Globalization
A time of advance technology, terrorism and the people questioning their government and doubting them. -
Iran-Contra Scandal
In order to save 7 American hostages Reagan's Administration promised to sell weapons to them. With the money earned the used it to fund anti communist countries in Latin America without congress knowing any of this -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The wall was finally torn down uniting back together Germany -
START 1 and 2
President Bush and Russian President, Boris Yeltsin worked to get rid of the large amount of nuclear warheads stored from the cold war. -
End of the Cold War
Gorbachev resigns as leader of the Soviet Union. Breaking Soviet Union apart forming 15 new nations and finally ending the cold war. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
was destroyed by a bomb that killed 168 people by Timothy McVeigh and 2 others -
George W Bush
Won the 2000 election. His president term main problems was against terrorism and oil. -
9/11
al-Qaeda members hijacked commercial airplanes crashing them to the the trade center and the pentegon. This lead on the war on terror -
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