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Lexington and Concord
First battle of the American Revelution. British troops retreated back to Boston. -
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American Revelution
A war fought between the Colonists and Britian. -
Second Continental Congress
Signed the decleration of independence and put in place the Article of Confederation. -
Battle at Bunker Hill
A battle where 1,500 American troops severly depleated British Troops. Even though the American's did retreat, they still considered the Battle at Bunker Hill to be a success. -
Olive Branch Petition
A petition led by Charlles Dickenson to reconsille with the King of England. -
Common Sense
A book by Thomas Payne pointing out the reasons why we should go to war with England. -
Declaration of Independence
A document that stated Americans Independence, and listed greeviences with the king. -
Battle of Saratoga
This battle was important because of the birtish surrender, which fave France the cofidence to enter into the war as allies with the colonists. -
Battle of Yorktown
The last battle in the American Reveltuion. -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The treaty of paris officially ended the American Revelutoin. It also gave America it's boundries. -
Shay’s Rebellion
This rebellion over the taxing of whisky, this rebellion pointed out the weeknesses of the Articles of Confederation. -
Northwest Ordinance 1787
This ordannce set up the way in which new states are addmitted. Prohibited slavery. -
Constitutional Convention
Created the Constitution - James Madison was the father/wrote. New Jersey Plan wanted equal representation for all states, the Virginia Plan wanted representation based on Population. The Great Compromise combined the two plans, by splitting the legislative branch into the Senate and the House of Representatives. Because the House of Representatives, is based on population, the issue of slaves counting as part of the the population came up. The ⅗ Compromise said that slaves were to be counted as -
Articles of Confederation
These articles set up a weak government. Set up Northwest Ordinance of 1787. -
Judiciary Act 1789
This act gave a new role to the Judiciary branch. This also set up the lower courts to the Supreme court. Set up 6 Supreme Court justices. -
Chisholm v. Georgia
Citizens can sue another state that they don’t actually live in.
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Whiskey Rebellion
A rebellion over whiskey, that George Washington came in and squashed like a boss. This showed the strength in the Constitution. -
XYZ Affair
An attempt by the United States to be diplomatic, but diplomats X,Y,&Z required a money transaction to talk to the king of france, but they refused and came home. This stirred up war talk against France. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Said that if you were a citizen of county that the United States was at war with, we could deport you. It also says that you cannot say anything bad about the governing party. These acts were set to expire at the end of Adams term. The Kentucky and the Virginia resolutions said that the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional. -
Revolution of 1800
The election in which the democratic republicans win under Thomas Jefferson. Adams the former president did not enter his second term. -
Marbury v. Madison
Set up the function of the Supreme court for judicaial review. This came after Adams rushed in his midnight judges, and was against the agenda of the president Thomas Jefferson. -
Louisiana Purchase
The purchase of land in the center of the country from France. This happened under Jefferson, and is significant because it expanded our border and now we have Louisiana and New Orleans, which is a major port. -
Embargo Act 1807
This stated that we were not to trade with England or France until they stopped taking our ships this backfired and hurt the economy. -
Fletcher v. Peck
A law that negates all property rights established under an earlier law is unconstitutional -
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War of 1812
This was a war between England and the United States. This happened in Madison's presidency. There was a lot of war talk, mostly from the war Hawks, and Native Americans are a big cause of the war. One famous battle was the Battle of New Orleans with Andrew Jackson. -
Treaty of Ghent
The Battle of New Orleans took place after the Treaty of Ghent, which was signed in 24 December 1814. The Treaty of Ghent ended the war of 1812, with no loss of territory on either side. The Battle of new orleans was significant because it showed the military leadership of Andrew Jackson. -
Election of 1816
James Monroe was elected president. There was only one party, the Democratic-Republicans, and that is why the call it the era of good feelings. They also passed the Monroe Doctrine. -
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Second Bank of United States
Andrew Jackson thought that the Second BUS was corrupt and so when the charter ran out, he didn’t renew it. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
settled the nature of public versus private charters and resulted in the rise of the American business corporation -
McColluch v. Maryland
attempt to stop the BUS by putting a tax on bank notes -
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Second Great Awakening
The second revitalization of religion led by Charles Finney which led to cultural events like Prohibition and the abolition movement. -
Johnson v. McIntosh
Citizens could not purchase land from Native Americans -
Gibbons v. Ogden
the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause -
Election of 1824
John Quincy Adams beats out Andrew Jackson with less popular and electoral votes. Promises Henry Clay to be Secretary of State if Clay (who was Speaker of the House) persuaded the House to elect Adams. -
Election of 1828
Andrew Jackson wins against John Quincy Adams after the “corrupt bargain” election. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
Signed into action by Andrew Jackson which removed the Native American’s from their homeland. Brought the Trail of Tears. -
Nullification Crisis
Event that led up to the Civil War. South Carolina had decided to nullify a tariff that was enacted by John Q. Adams. Both Jackson and South Carolina were preparing troops but no military action took place and the tariff was negotiated. -
Texas Independence
Mexico banned slavery, so Texas rebelled. Texas gained it's independence, but Mexico refused to acknowledge Texas as it's own country. -
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Resloved the border between Great Britian (Canada) and America in Maine. -
Election of 1844
An election where James K. Polk won on the platform of Westward Expansion. His slogan was 54-40 or faight, which was the boudry line in Oregon. -
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Mexican-American War
This war was between Mexico and America over the teritorial dispute of Texas. As a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848, we gained Claifornia, New Mexico, Nevada, and other land. -
Wilmot Proviso
Would have banned slavery form the new territoies, but failed to pass the senate. -
Ostend Manifesto
A document stating the reason for purchasing Cuba, and saying that America had the means to use military force against spain. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
With this tready we gained California, and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado, for a sum of $15 million, and gave texas it's border of the rio grande. -
Gadsden Purchase
A purchase of a strip of land for the purposes of completing the transcontinental railroad. -
Panic of 1857
A financial panic that had more impact in the north, giving the southerns the thought of superiority. -
Election of 1960
Abraraham Lincoln was elected preident -
South Carolina Suceedes
South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. -
Fort Sumter Attacked
First Battle of the Civil War. The confederates win, pushing the Union out of North Carolina. -
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Civil War
The civil War in America that was ought over slavery and killed a lot of people -
First Bull Run
Union Troops loose, pushing them nack to Washington D.C.. Lincoln realized that it is going to be a long war. -
Antietam
Bloodiest day of Battle of the Civil War. -
Shiloh
Looses on both sides, Union retreats back to Washington. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
Good old StoneWall Jackson leads the Confeederates to Victory -
Emancipation Proclamation
A procomation by Abraham Licoln that freed the slaves in states of rebellion. Didn't really do anything except get the confederates mad. -
Gettysburg
A battle that lasted 3 days and was the turning point in the war. The confederates lost, and Lee was afraid to encrouch in the north teretory again. -
Chattanooga
Union won, but McClellan gets fired and replaced by General Grant -
Lee Surrenders
The civil war ends!!! -
Assassination of President Lincoln
Lincoln is killed, Andrew Johnson becomes preident. -
13th Admendment
This admendment to the constitution freed the slaves. -
New Orleans Race Riots
Riots in New Orleans that was over Black Codes. -
14th Amendment
Gave citizenship to Free Blacks -
Alaska Purchase
initiated by Secretary of State William H. Seward, America gained 586,412 square miles. -
Election of 1868
Ulysses S. Grant becomes president -
Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868. -
15th amendment
15th amendment gave black people the right to vote. -
Enforcement Act of 1871
KKK act that inforced the restrictiond on the 14th admendment. lated declared unconstiutional. -
Carnegie Steel
Andrew Carnegie uses the Bessemer's process to mass produce steel in the United States. -
Panic of 1873
The collapse of Jay Cooke and Company, a Philadelphia investment bank, triggers a nationwide financial panic that leads to a broader economic depression which lasts until 1879. -
Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president of the United States. Recontruction ended. -
Railroad Strike of 1877
Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walk off the job at Camden Junction, Maryland, initiating a wildcat strike that will shut down thousands of miles of track throughout the northeastern United States. -
Election of 1880
Republican James Garfield is elected president of the United States. -
Garfield Assassination
President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau, a deranged federal office-seeker. Garfield will die on 19 September. Vice-President Chester A. Arthur will be sworn is as president one day later. -
Pendleton Act
Hoping to reduce corruption in the distribution of government jobs, the United States Congress passes the Pendleton Act, introducing an examination system for selecting federal civil servants. Only 10% of all federal appointees are made subject to this process of selection by examination. -
Election of 1884
Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James Blaine and is elected president of the United States. -
Dawes Act
An act named after Massachusetts Senator Henry Dawes that started the assimilation process for Native Americans. Indian children were forced to learn English, pick new names, and cut their hair in boarding schools that forced them into the American culture. -
Election of 1888
Republican Benjamin Harrison is elected president of the United States despite polling almost 100,000 fewer votes nationwide than Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
U.S. troops went to a Native American tribe to confiscate firearms. They attempted to take a rifle away from a deaf Indian and since he couldn’t understand they began fighting and the rifle went off. The troops then opened fire on the tribe, killing 300 men, women, and children -
Homestead Steel Strike
Henry Frick, Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Steel and plant manager at Carnegie's Homestead steel plant, shuts down the factory and locks out its employees when negotiations with representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers break down. -
Pullman Strike
Workers employed at the Pullman Company, outside of Chicago, go on strike when the company's owner, George Pullman, refuses to reduce rents in the company housing to match announced wage cuts.
The state troops come in and dispand the strike. -
Election of 1896
President William McKinley won, with Rosevelt as vice president. McKinley died one year into his term so Rosevelt took over. -
U.S.S. Maine
A ship that blew up. Yellow journalism balmed the Spanish. Cause of the Spanish-American war. -
Teller Amendment
Stated that U.S. could not annex Cuba, and that we would give them thier independence. -
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Spanish-American War
Also know as the "splended little war" we fought the spanish, and gained cuba, which we gianed Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean)
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Open Door Policy
A policy to break up the spheres of influence in china, and give equall oppertunity. -
Boxer Rebellion
A rebellion that killed American Missonaries in China. -
President Mckinley Died
President Mckinley Died. Roosevelt is no president. -
Square Deal
Corporations: broke up bad trusts, kept good ones, strengthened interstate commerce, resolved strikes
Consumers: set regulations for safety in products (especially food)
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Northern Security Antitrust
The Roosevelt administration brings an antitrust suit against the Northern Securities Company, which bankers have created in order to pool the holdings of the largest railroad tycoons. -
Platt Amendment
Replaced the Teller Admendment. It stipulated the conditons of which the U.S. were to withdrawl form Cuba. Gave us legal calim to Guantanamo Bay. -
Elkins Act
Congress passes the Elkins Act, which is intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Act. -
Roosevelt Corollary
States that the United States will deal with the confilcts of South American, including debt. Known for Rosevelts Big Stick. -
Food and Drug Act
Congress passes the Pure Food and Drug Act in response to exposés of the patent-drug, meatpacking, and food industries. -
Gentlemen’s Agreement
agreement between America and Japan saying that Japan would regualted it's imagrants to America, and California would not discriminate against Japanese people. -
Election of 1908
Elected William Taft. -
Founding of the NAACP
The founder of the NAACP is WEB Du Bois, and Ida B. Wells. The NAACP stands for the national association for the advancement of colored people, and they worked to get equal rights for black americans. The NAACP was a key organization in the fight for equality. -
Mexican Civil War (Revolution)
Mexicans rebelled against the dicatator that killed the other electors. -
Election of 1912
Wodrow willson wins, agianst 3 other canidates. One party was the Socialist party. -
Panama Canal
A canal built by the United States as a short cut from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. We aided Panama in their revelution against columbia, but eventally paid columbia for the loss of the canal. -
Jones Act
Said that we would grant the Philipeans independence when they could sustain a stable government. -
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First Red Scare
This scare spread over the Labor Unions and spread the fear of anarchism and communism to the United states. This lead to several strikes, and deaths on the May Day riots in 1919. -
Red Summer
This describes the race riots that happened in the fall of 1919. One of the more notably cities that was attacked was Chicago. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem renaissance was a cultural movement in the black community that put an emphasis on the arts, such as jazz and poetry. Also known as the “New Negro Movement” some key contributors were Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton -
Election of 1932
Between FDR and Herbert Hoover. Hoover had just finished his first term and lost to FDR. The first of FDRs 4 terms. -
New Deal
An economic plan from FDR that began in 1933 and ended in 1936 that was used to promote relief, recovery, and reform for the economy and the country. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The US dropped two atomic bombs on the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Caused Japan to surrender. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. It was the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion; it was a major step in beginning the Cold War. -
Creation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. An international organization that was created in 1949 in which for the purposes of collective security in North America and Western Europe. Also tried to stop communism. -
Fall of China to Communism
Ended Chinese Civil War with the communist party taking over. The fall of China to communism scared those in NATO. -
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Korean War
A war that lasted from 1950 until 1953 ending in an American defeat and the separation of North Korea being communist and South Korea being democratic. One of the proxy wars under the Truman Doctrine. -
Election of 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president and is also a major contributor during the ongoing Cold War during his presidency. Creates MAD and Massive Retaliation. -
Haymarket Riot
A rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square in support of striking workers from McCormick Harvester Works ends when a bomb is thrown, killing six policemen and wounding more than 60 others. -
Election of 1892
Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected president of the United States, returning to a second term in the White House after a four-year hiatus.
