Timetoast

By 2turntrob

  • Pinckneys treaty-George Washington

    Sensing the need for rapprochement, Godoy sent a request to the U.S. Government for a representative empowered to negotiate a new treaty.

  • Alien and sedition acts passed-John Adams

    consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France.

  • Marbury vs madison-John Adams

    Marbury v. Madison, legal case in which, on February 24, 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court first declared an act of Congress unconstitutional, thus establishing the doctrine of judicial review

  • War of 1812-James madison

    economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807.

  • Adams onis Treaty-James monroe

    he Treaty was negotiated by John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State under U.S. President James Monroe, and the Spanish "minister plenipotentiary" (diplomatic envoy) Luis de Onís y González-Vara, during the reign of King Ferdinand VII.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo- James K. polk

    An act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico

  • Reconstruction-Andrew Johnson 18

    The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges.

  • Chinese exclusion act-Chester A. Author

    United States federal law

  • Hawaiian Annexation-William McKinley

    Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.

  • Gold standard act- William McKinley

    and established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism (which had allowed silver in exchange for gold

  • Food and Drug act passed-Theodore Roosevelt

    key piece of Progressive Era legislation

  • Dollar diplomacy-William Howard Taft

    a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.

  • Zimmerman Telegram-woodrow wilson

    was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.

  • 14 points-woodrow wilson

    world peace

  • 19th Amendment passed-woodrow wilson

    support of guaranteeing women the right to vote

  • Washington Naval Conference-Warren Harding

    The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference

  • New deal-Franklin D. Roosevelt

    The New Deal failed because Roosevelt created uncertainty by experimentation, protectionism, regulation and raising taxes

  • Atlantic Charter-Franklin D. Roosevelt

    The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

  • New look policy-DD Eisenhower

    concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources.

  • Bay of pigs invasion-John F. kennedy

    armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

  • cuban missle crisis- JFK

    direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.

  • Civil rights act of 1965-Lyndon B. Johnson

    aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  • Tet Offensive-Lyndon B. Johnson

    200,000 troops to help break the resolve of the Vietcong.

  • EPA Created-Richard Nixon

    an agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health.

  • Moscow olympics boycott-Jimmy Carter

    The announcement after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter's February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

  • Detente-Ronald Reagan

    marked the close of détente and a return to Cold War tensions

  • Iran hostage crisis-Ronald Reagan

    The students set their hostages free on January 21, 1981, 444 days after the crisis began and just hours after President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address.

  • Fall of the berlin wall-George Bush

    spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.

  • NAFTA-bill CLinton

    Clinton, while signing the NAFTA bill, stated that "NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement."

  • Brady Handgun Bill passed-Bill Clinton

    The Act was named after James Brady, who was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. during an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.