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Oregon Dispute
The Oregon Dispute was a dispute that the United States and New England had with the territory of Oregon. -
Annexation of Texas
The Annexation of Texas was that the United States gaining the land of texas from Mexico. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is when the united states believed that they had a mission to complete from the gods. The mission was to expand democracy across North America. -
Oregon Territory Treaty
The Oregon Treaty was signed by the United States and Great Britain. They made parallel borders between the countries. -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot was a congressman he was the person that suggests/made that Any territory that was gained from Mexico could not be declared as a Salve State. -
Mormon trek ends
Mormons left their home at Nauvoo, Illinois. It was led was by Brigham Young that led them across to winter quarters I'm Omaha, Nebraska. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. It also gave the United States more territory. They gained New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Texas. -
Seneca Falls Convention
It was a convention that was held in Seneca Falls. It was for women's rights in the Unites States. -
California Gold Rush
It was when they found gold in California. Everyone wanted gold so they went to California and that gold helped the economy aswell. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 is when California became a free state, and Utah and New Mexico decide if they a free to a slave state. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book that was made by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book was about how Uncle Tom was a slave and how he survived. -
*Kansas-Nebraska Act*
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law that repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is an outbreak of violent attacks between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. Following the new territory of Kansas. -
*Sumner—Brooks Affair*
Senator Charles Sumner had recently given a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas” on abolishing slavery in the United States. After that Brooks came and attacked Charles Sumner. -
Dred Scott Decision
It was a case that the Supreme Court ruled that if if you lived in a free state and territory does not make give an enslaved person his freedom. That means that If they are owned they are not citizens and they can't sue the federal government. -
John Brown’s Raid in Harper’s Ferry
John Browns decided to get a group and raid Harper's Ferry. They had gotten in the federal armory and arsenals. -
Lincoln elected
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. -
South Carolina secedes
South Carolina had formerly withdrawn from the federal union. They became the first state to secede. -
Fort Sumter
It is the place where the first shots in the civil war were shot. This is where the civil war had started. -
Crittenden Compromise
This is when they proposed six amendments to be pass and Congress passed four of them. Crittenden hoped that it would please the southern states. -
Homestead Act
It is an act that allowed every adult citizen or intended citizen that does not own a gun they can claim over 160 acres of land. -
Battle of Vicksburg
It was a battle that the UNion had won. This made the mark of one out of two major events that was the turning point in the Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was the second turning point of the civil war in the United States. The Union won the war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation that paved the abolishment of slavery. -
Copperheads
They are also known as Peace Democrat. They were a group of Democrats in the Union that opposed the civil war. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
William Tecumseh Sherman was leading a group of his soldiers to the sea. They wanted to scare Georgia civilian population into leaving the Confederate cause. -
Transcontinental Railroad Act
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is -
Indian Massacre at Sand Creek
The Indian Massacre at Stand Creek was when there where a lot of native Americans attracted and killed. -
Freedmen’s Bureau
It was an act that helped refugees and newly freed slaves get food, shelter, medical services, clothing, and land. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
General Robert E. Lee surrendered. He surrendered because he did not want the south to be destroyed -
Black Codes
Black Codes are codes that made African Americans work in similar conditions when they were enslaved. And they restricted their freedom in the United States. -
Reconstruction Acts (military)
The south was divided into five military districts. That made every state to approve the 13th and 14th amendment -
Andrew Johnson Impeached
Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached in the united states. -
Knights of Labor Founded
Knights of Labor was a union. It was made to make an eight-hour work day, to end child labor and equal pay for men and women. -
Standard Oil Founded
Cleveland Ohi had founded Standard Oil. It was to transporting oil and getting oil from the ground. -
Tweed Ring Exposed
William Tweed an American politician was exposed to stealing money in New York City. They say that his group of politicians was corrupted. -
Ku Klux Klan Act
The Ku Klux Klan Act was a third installment of the Enforcement Act. They used the Klux klan act to enforce the Fourteen Amendment and the Civil Rights Act. -
Credit Mobilier Exposed
Credit Mobilier was a company to make the railroads for the Union Pacific Railroad. Credit Mobilier was exposed to selling or having their hare to congressmen. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
Native Americans attacked U.S troops. This showed the power that Native Americans had. -
Rutherford B. Hayes Elected
Rutherford B. Hayes was elected to be the president of the united states. -
Bland—Allison Act
It is also called the Bland-Allision Act that restored the silver dollar to America. -
Tuskegee Institute (Booker T. Washington)
Booker T. Washington became the head of the newly founded Tuskegee Institute. It was a school for African Americans. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was an act to suspend immigrants from China to enter the United States. It the first major exclusion of a specific nationality -
Social Darwinism
It's a theory of natural selection is also applies to humans. It was used to justify political conversation, imperialism, racism, and -
American Federation of Labor (Samuel Gompers)
American Federation of Labor was made up of craft unions. Samuel Gompers the person that founded the American Federation of labor. -
Dawes Severalty Act
It was a Law that provided the distribution of Native American land to create responsible farmers. -
Hull House (Jane Addams)
The Hull-House goal was to help immigrants, people that were poor. Jane Addams was the founder of the Hull-House -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
It was an Act purpose was to have economic fairness. -
How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis)
It was a book that was made by Jacob Rills. It was about how living in the slums in New York. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
It was an attack the Lakota Indians by the United States. They killed around 150-300 Indians killed. -
Populist Party Organized
It was an organization that represents the common people. It appeals more to the south -
Homestead Steel Strike
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers to protest a proposed wage cut. The Homestead strike led to a serious weakening of unionism in the steel industry. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a railroad strike that boycott. They severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a Supreme Court case that they decided that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism is the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. -
Spanish American War
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain. The war effectively ended Spain's role as a colonial power in the New World. -
Teller Amendment
The Teller Amendment was an amendment that declares that when the United States had overthrown Spanish rule of Cuba it would give the Cubans their freedom. -
Open Door Policy in China
The Open Door policy was a statement for equal privileges for all countries trading with China. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president (starts Progressive Era)
It is when Theodore Roosevelt officially became president of the United States. -
Platt Amendment
The Platt Amendment was established to go under terms in which the U.S. would end its military occupation of Cuba. -
Big Stick Diplomacy
President Theodore Roosevelt approached Latin America and the Caribbean to have often been characterized as the “Big Stick,”. IT was about foreign policies. -
Ford Motor Company Founded
It was a company that made automibiles. They made the very first Ford. -
Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to make sure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors. -
Niagara Movement (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Niagara Movement was organized to oppose racial segregation. And the person that made the movement was W.E.B Du Bois -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle was a book that Upton Sinclair made. It was about how workers had to work in bad conditions and how the food they sell was bad. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act was to inspect the meat at factories and in stores if they are valid to sell. -
Meat Inspection Act
It was an act that prohibited the sale of misbranded livestock and products that did not work as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was to prohibit the sale of spoiled or bad food and drugs in stores. It was the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -
NAACP formed
It is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It is one of the biggest organization to help with civil rights. -
Dollar Diplomacy
It was to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting the U.S. -
Bull Moose Party Formed
It was a third party republic that was founded by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
It prevented unfair methods of competition. It banned the practice of price disimination. -
U.S. Neutrality Proclaimed
The United States had proclaimed that they would be neutral in World War 1. -
Birth of a Nation by. D.W. Griffith
It was a book that D.W Griffith that started off with the Civil War and it ended with the Ku Klux Klan that saved the South from the reconstruction era. -
Sussex Pledge
It was a pledge that Germany would not sink any merchant ships and non-navy ships. -
Keating-Owen Act (Federal Child Labor Law)
It was an act that restricted child labor. What it limited was their working hours and interstate of goods that were made by children. -
US Declares war on Germany,
The United States declared war on Germany because Germany was attacking merchant ships from the United States. -
Bolshevik Revolution (how it impacted the US)
The Bolshevik Revolution impacted the United States because Germany helped America to help fight World War 1. -
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson made a speech that covered peace negotiations. It was he way to end World War 1 -
Worldwide Influenza Epidemic
The Influenza Epidemic was also known as the Spanish Flu. It infected more than 500 million all over the world and killed about 50 million people. -
League of Nations debated in US
American Foreign Policies was going with a debate over the U.S entry into the League of Nations. Some issues were security versus national sovereignty.