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first continental congress
-all but Georgia -determined grievances -address actions to boycotts -parameters which were considered parlimentary interference -
Franco-American alliance
-negotiated by Ben Franklin -brings French into war on colonists side -because of the battle of Saratoga -
Treaty of Paris
-gave US land and independence -
Election of Washington
-cabinett Jefferson-Hamilton events -National Bank created -Pinckneys treaty -
John Adams
-XYZ affair -VA & KY resolutions -alien sedation acts -
Louisiana Purchase
-Lewis & Clark -
James Maddison
-attacks from Britain and France -battle of New Orleans -American system -Hartford Convention (1809 - 1817) -
Era of good feelings
-Panic of 1819 -Monroe Doctorine -Missouri is a slave state -Maine is a free state -Adams-Onis treaty -
Indian Removal act
-trail of tears -tariff of 1832 -Nat Turners rebellion -
Martin Van Buren becomes president
-Panic of 1837 -
Oregon Treaty established northern border with Canada
America acquires OR, WA, parts of ID, WY, and MT -
Compromise of 1850 written by Stephan Douglas and Henery Clay
-CA is a state -stronger fugitive slave laws -abolished slave trade in DC -
Kansas Nebraska Act
-replaced Missouri Compromise -republican party emerged -ends Whig party -leads to increased sectionalism -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
-Freeport Doctorine -
Emancipation Proclomation
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War Ends
-Lincoln assasinated -
Reconstruction Begins
-14th amendment -
Military Reconstruction
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15th Amendment
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Scandals Credit Mobilier & Whiskey Ring
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Financial Panic
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Compromise of 1877
-Hayes = President -military reconstruction ends in the south -
McKinley Tariff
Sherman Anti-Trust act -
Wilson Gorman Teriff
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Spanish-American War
-America drives Spanish out of Cuba & Philippines -Treaty of Paris ends the war (1898 - 1900)