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Jamestown
Jamestown was first settled -
Start of Slavery
Dutch traders brought the first African slaves to the new world -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses first met -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship -
French and Indian War
The start of the French and Indian War -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris was signed
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Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 -
Stamp Act
Imposed a direct tax on the colonies, -
Boston Massacre
British soliders killed 5 civillians and injured 6 others -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest in Boston by the Sons of Liberty. 92000 pounds of tea was dumped into Boston Harbor -
First Continental Convention
Delegates from 12 colonies met in Philladelphia. Met to address issues with Britian. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the American Revolution, -
Second Continental Congress
Delegates from all 13 colonies met in Philladelphia after warfare had started. -
Decleration of Independence
The Decleration of Independence was signed, and America broke away from Britian. -
Articles of Confederation
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation -
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Battle of Yorktown
The American troops defeated British troops in this battle, causing Britian to surrender. -
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Critical Period
America's Critical Period was from the end of the Revolutionary War to when George Washington was inaggurated as president. Considered a terrible time for Americans. -
The Treaty of Paris
Treaty signed in Paris that ended the Revolutionary War -
Land Ordinance of 1785
The goal of this was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory that was west of the original United States. -
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Shay's rebellion
Armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts -
Annapolis Convention
Meeting of comissioners to remedy defects of federal government. -
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Constitutional Convention
Address the problems of the Articles of Confederation -
3/5ths Compromise
3/5 of the slave population counted for a states population -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Passed to regulate the settlement of the northwest territory. -
The Great Compromise
An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention -
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Washington's Presidency
The first president of the United States time in office -
Judiciary Act of 1789
Established the U.S. federal judiciary -
Bill of Rights signed
The first 10 ammentmends of the Constitution were passed -
Cotton Gin
The patent for the cotton gin was granted. Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin -
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Adam's Presidency
The second president of the United States time in office -
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Jefferson's Presidency
The third president of the United States time in office -
Marbury v Madison
This court case set up judicial review -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Purchase from France, which nearly doubled the size of the U.S. -
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 lasted 2 and a half years -
McCulloch v Maryland
Established the federal governments supremacy over the state government -
Missouri Compromise
This compromise set up a line at 36, 30 and made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state -
Monroe Doctrine
The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. -
Gibbons v Ogden
a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. -
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Jackosn's Presidency
The time Andrew Jackson was in office. -
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Age of the Common Man
Andrew Jackson appealed to the "common man" and more people (less educated) were voting in elections now. -
Indian Removal Act
Authorized the President to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
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Vietnam War
Fought between South and North Korea. South Korea wanted independence. -
OPEC
A permanent, international organization headquartered in Vienna, Austria, was established in Baghdad, Iraq on 10–14 September 1960. Its mandate is to "coordinate and unify the petroleum policies" of its members and to "ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers, and a fair return on capital for those investing in the petroleum industry. -
Election of 1968
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Detente
The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. Détente was known in Russian as разрядка ("razryadka", loosely meaning "relaxation of tension"). -
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Nixon's Presidency
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only US president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator -
Moscow's Summit
The Moscow Summit of 1972 was a summit meeting between President Richard M. Nixon of the United States and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was held May 22–30, 1972. It featured the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement. The summit is considered one of the hallmarks of the détente at the time between the two Cold War antagonists. -
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Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis. -
End of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is over. North Vietnem remained communist, South Korea remained free. -
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Carter's Presidency
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. -
Panama Canal Treaty
On September 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty promising to give control of the canal to the Panamanians by the year 2000. -
Camp David Accords
Signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. -
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Iran Hostage Crisis
Sixty-six American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) -
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Reagan's Presidency
The time when Ronald Reagan was in office. -
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Soviet Union Collapse
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union,[1] acknowledging the independence of the erstwhile Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) – although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. -
Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech
"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. -
Nixon in China
Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams' first opera, it was inspired by U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
