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Unit 1 age of discovery
This was a period during which Europeans made contact with sought to explore and colonize the new world. It helped pave the way for the other explorers. -
1492
Unit 1 pre Columbian era
This was the period before Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. North America was populated by native Americans would he got there he though they were indians. -
1492
Unit 1 European contact
Christopher Columbus was looking for India but instead discovered America. Europeans were living there if that’s when you help me contact. -
1492
Unit 1 Columbus discovers america
Columbus was on his to to India when he discovered America instead. He found Europeans and native Americans there and that led to a trading system. -
1492
Unit 1 Columbus exchange
This was the exchange of goods, ideas, diseases, and people between the Americas, Africa, in Europe. Each region was impacted as a result of trade and contact. -
1500
Unit 2 triangle trade
Trading system between the Americas, England ,and Africa. Slaves were traded through here. -
1512
Unit 1 ecomienda system
This was a Spanish system of granting land to colonies in the New World. This exploited natives and resources. -
Unit 1 black legend
The black legend was a style of propaganda that criticizes the Spanish Empire. The legend infers that no good came over the period of explanation except for the gains of the Spanish. -
Unit 2 the enlightenment
Intellectual movement that borrowed heavily from ancient philosophy and focused on reason and promoting new forms of government. This influenced the founding fathers, and the American revolution. -
Unit 2 king Philips War
War between Native American tribes of New England and British colonists. The result was tension caused by enroahing settlers. -
Unit 2 bacons rebellion
Berkeley’s refusal to retaliate for a series of brutal Indian attacks on frontiers settlements. Many Indians were killed. -
Unit 2 Salem witch trails
Outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a Puritan village. It was marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria, and stress from encroaching settlers. -
Unit 2 great awakening
Religious movement characterized by emotional preaching. The first cultural movement to untie the 13 colonies. -
Unit 2 stono rebellion
Occurred in South Carolina. It was the largest slave rebellion in the main land colonies. -
Unit 3 townshed
The town shed act impose duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. As a result of widespread American colonies protested. -
Unit 3 revolutionary war
The revolutionary war was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and the 13 colonies. This declared independence of the United States of America. -
Unit 3 Articles of confederation
The articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America. It’s served as its first constitution. -
Unit 3 revolutionary era
The revolutionary era began when the British finally surrendered. Americans were officially independent of Britain and sit about establishing their own government. -
Unit 3 end of revlutionary war
The treaty of Paris of 1783 negotiated between the US and Great Britain. This ended the Revolutionary war. -
Unit 3 federalist papers
The Federalist papers were a series of 85 essays urging the citizens of New York to ratify the new states constitution. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Johnjay where the authors of the Federalist papers. -
Unit 4 antebellum
This was the period before the Civil War and after the war of 1812. Reform movements, like the temperance, ablation, school in prison reforms as well as others. -
Unit 3 national bank
The first bank of the United States was the national bank. Alexander Hamilton created the national bank. -
Unit 4 War of 1812
This was a conflict between the US, UK and their allies. The treaty of GHENT returned all territorial conquest made by the two sides. -
Unit 4 Market Revolution
The market revolution was drastic change in the economy. It disoriented and deordinated all aspects of the market economy in line with both nations of the world. -
Unit 4 Era of good feelings
The era of good feelings was a sense of national propose and eight desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the war of 1812. This was corresponding with the term of President James Monroe. -
Unit 4 Temperance movement
This movement was to get rid of alcohol. Because of this many people became involved in many social reform movements. -
Unit 4 Corrupt bargain
The corrupt bargain change the presidency forever. When the 1824 election ended without any candidate receiving a majority in the electoral college this became known as the corrupt bargain. -
Unit 4 nullification crisis
The nullification crisis was a sectional political crisis. It involved a confrontation between South Carolina in the federal government. -
Unit 6 women’s second wave
This focused on the woman’s legal rights such as the rights. It touched on every area of woman’s experience. -
Unit 5 compromise of 1850
This compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery. It was also strengthening the fugitive slave act. -
Unit 5 Bleeding Kansas
This was a series violet political confrontations in the US. It Involved anti-slavery “free-staters” and pro slavery “border ruffian”. -
Unt 5 Dred Scott v Sanford
Dred scott was a Virginia slave who try to sue for his freedom in court. The court justices found that as a slave Scott was a piece of property and had no legal rights. -
Unit 5 Abraham Lincoln elected
Abraham Lincoln was elected by a considerable margin in 1860. As a Republican, his parties anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many Southerners. -
Unit 5 civil war
This was a result of a long standing controversy over slavery. It happened when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. -
Unit 5 Reconstruction era
The reconstruction era was the process of building the south. The Confederacy was destroyed for good, and every state that seceded was remitted to the union. -
Unit 5 civil war ends
The silver war ended when General Robert E Lee surrendered to the army of Virginia. This was the significance of the end of the Civil War. -
Unit 6 transcontinental railroad
The transcontinental railroad was built by immigrants. It was built by the Pacific Railroad act and the Central Pacific and the union Pacific Railroad. -
Unit 6 standard oil company
Standard oil company was an American oil, producing, transporting, finding, and marketing company. It was founded by John D. Rockefeller. -
Unit 6 new south movement
The new south moment refers to the economic shift from an exclusively agrarian Society to one that embraced industrial development. Henry Grady made this term. -
Unit 6 Invention of the phonograph
The phonograph was an invention for mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. Later the radio was invented. Thomas Edison invented the phonograph along with the invention of the lightbulb and telegraph. -
Unit 6 Chinese exclusion act
This was the first significant law restricting immigration into the US. This act provided an absolute 10 year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Unit 6 statue of liberty
The Statue of Liberty was a gift given from the fridge as a thank you for inspiring the revolution. The torch on the Statue of Liberty is the symbol of enlightenment. -
Unit 7 Roosevelt corollary
Roosevelt corollary was in addition to the Monroe doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt . It’s stated that the US would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the western hemisphere for fill their obligations to international creditors. -
Unit 7 Great migration
Movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the Russo there in United States to the urban north east. It had a huge impact on urban life in the US. -
Unit 7 Jazz age
It’s where jazz music and then sales became popular. Jazz originated in New Orleans. -
Unit 7 Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cold true social and artistic explosion That took place in Harlem. It might a movement when white America started recognizing the diversities of blacks. -
Unit 7 Great Depression ends
Since the United States was on the bridge of World War II wartime jobs were offered. This led to the employment of millions of unemployed, which led to the end of the Great Depression. -
Unit 7 liberation of Paris
Patient of Paris is also known as the battle of Paris. Military actions that took place during World War II is what happened at the liberation of Paris. -
Unit 8 Berlin Wall is constructed
You The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic. -
Unit 8 Cuban middle crisis
This was a major Cold War confrontation between the us and Soviet Union. This was when the cold war came closest to nuclear war. -
Unit 8 March on Washington
This was the March for the demand of civil rights for African Americans. This is where Martin Luther king gave his “I have a dream” speech. -
Unit 8 voting rights act
This act was signed into law by LBJ. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war. -
Unit 8 moon landing
This was John F Kennedy’s goal. Once everything saw a man land on the moon that meant technology was advancing. JFK want to send a man to space because the Soviet Union has sent one. -
Unit 8 Nixon visits China
Nixon was the first president to visit China. This was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the US and China. -
Unit 8 Nixon resigns
He was the first present to resign. The watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. -
Unit 9 Berlin Wall falls
The wall symbolized lack of freedom under communism. The wall came down when the spokesman for east Berlin’s communist party announced a change change in his city’s relations with the west. -
Unit 9 Persian gulf war
A conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations. This led up to the war about the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. -
Unit 7 new deals programs
The great depression lead to a new deal for the American people. The new deal was a group of the US government programs of the 1930s.r -
Unit9 Clinton impeached
Clinton was removed from office. He was on two charges, perjury hands the obstruction of justice. -
Unit 9 9/11 attack
This was the collapse of the World Trade Center. Islamic extremist group of Al Qaeda hijacked four planes and carried out suicide attacks. -
Unit 9 us invaded Iraq
The US invaded Iraq because of the imminent threat of saddams weapons of mass deconstruction and tied to terrorism. It signaled the first start of the Iraq war -
Unit 9 Obama is elected
He was the first black African American to be elected into office . He was the 44th president. -
Unit 9 Obama signs affordable healthcare act
This is also known as obama care. This law provides consumers with subsides that lower cost for households with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level.
