US History

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    Colonizing America

    Native Americans, French in Canada, English in America

  • Jamestown

  • Virginia House of Burgesses

  • Plymouth Colony

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Maryland Colony

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    British in America

    Mercantilism, slavery, colonies growing, "salutary neglect", Great Awakening

  • Navigation Acts

    Monopoly on trade passed by Parliament.
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    1st Great Awakening

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    Rebellion and Revolution

  • Seven Years' War begins

    (French and Indian War)

  • Stamp Act passed, Townshend Acts

    Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty>repealed 1766>Townshend Acts 1767

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts

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    American Revolution and new nation

  • Second Continental Congress

    1776 Common Sense

  • Treaty of Paris ending Rev. War

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    Establishing the US

  • Constitution ratified by states

  • George Washington elected

  • 2nd Great Awakening

  • First National Bank, BOR ratified

  • Whiskey Rebellion

    tax on whiskey

  • John Adams elected

  • XYZ Affair, Sedition Act by John Adams, Kentucky and Virginia Resolves

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    Jeffersonian Revolution

  • Revolution of 1800 (TJ elected)

  • Thomas Jefferson elected

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    Marshall Court

  • Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison (jud. review)

  • James Madison

  • War of 1812

  • Hartford Convention (death of Federalists)

  • Henry Clay proposes "American System"

  • James Monroe elected

  • Seccond Bank of the United States

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    Era of Good Feelings

  • James Monroe elected

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    Rise of Manufacturing, Jackson

  • Missouri Comprimise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • John Quincy Adams

  • John Quincy Adams elected by House of Rep.

  • Andrew Jackson elected

  • Andrew Jackson (Dem.) elected

  • Indian Removal Act, Whig Party emerges

  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

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    Union expands, slavery issues

  • Martine Van Buren (Dem.) elected

  • Texas secedes from Mexico

  • Martin Van Buren (Dem.) elected

  • William Henry Harrison (Whig) elected

  • John Tyler (Whig) pres. after Harrison dies

  • James K. Polk (Dem. dark horse) elected

  • James K. Polk (Dem.)

  • Oregon Treaty, War with Mexico, Wilmot Proviso

  • CA gold rush, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Free-Soil Party, Zachary Taylor elected

  • Zachary Taylor (Whig) elected

  • Millard Fillmore pres.

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Franklin Pierce elected, Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican Party

  • James Buchanan (Dem.) elected

  • Dred Scott Decision

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    Expansion and the West

  • Abraham Lincoln elected, South Carolina secedes in December

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    The Civil War

  • Confederate States of America, Attack on Fort Sumter, 1st Battle of Bull Run, Union blockade of Southern ports

  • Union gets New Orleans, B.Shiloh, B.Antietam

  • Homestead Act, Morrill Land-Grant Act

  • Emancipation Proclamation, Union win Gettysburg, Union win Vicksburg

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    Reconstruction

  • General Lee surrenders Appomattox, Lincoln assassinated, Black codes, Andrew Johnson liberal Reconstruction Plan, 13th Amend.

  • Congress passes Civil Rights Act and Freedmen's Bureau over Andrew Johnson veto, 14th Amend.

  • US purchases Alaska from Russia, Congressional Reconstruction

  • Johnson impeached but not convicted, U.S. Grant elected

  • Transcontinental Railroad, Knights of Labor

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    Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age

  • 15th Amend.

  • Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction and awards election to Hayes

  • President James Garfield assasinated

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Haymarket Square Riot

  • Dawes Act

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Massacre at Wounded Knee

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    Imperialism

  • Turner's Frontier Thesis, depression 1890s

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    Progressive Era

  • William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech

  • William McKinley (Rep.) elected

  • USS Maine explosion, Spanish-American War, Annexation of Hawaii

  • McKinley assasinated

  • Roosevelt Corollary, US constsruction of Panama Canal

  • Japan-Russia treaty arranged by TR

  • Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act

  • William Howard Taft elected

  • Strike of International Ladies Garment Workers Union

  • NAACP

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire

  • TR with Progressive Party ("Bull Moose Party"), Woodrow Wilson elected,

  • Assembly line, Federal Reserve System, 16th Amend., 17th Amend.

  • Federal Reserve System, 16th Amend. (income tax), 17th Amend. (direct elc. of senators)

  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act, WW1 in Europe

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    WWI

  • Lusitania sunk by German U-Boat

  • Zimmerman Telegram, US enters WW1, Russian Revolution, conscription, War Industries Board, Espionage Act, troops into France

  • Sedition Act, Fourteen Points, Nov. 11 Armistice

  • Treaty of Versailles at Paris Peace Conference, race riots Chicago, US does not join League of Nations

  • Palmer Raids

  • Warren Harding elected, Sacco & Vanzetti, Prohibition

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    1920s Prosperity

  • Teapot Dome, death of Harding, Coolidge pres.

  • Calvin Coolidge elected, KKK height of membership

  • Herbert Hoover elected

  • Stock market crash

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

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    Great Depression and New Deal

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    WW2

  • Glass-Steagall Banking Act, Bonush marchers, FDR elected, Huey Long "Share Our Wealth"

  • Emergency Banking Relief Act, Prohibition ends, AAA, NIRA, CCC, TVA, PWA, Hitler comes to power

  • High point of US unemployment

  • Second New Deal, WPA, SSA, Wagner Act, CIO, Neutrality Act

  • Recession 1937

  • Hitler annexes Austria and Sudetenland

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact, G. invades Poland, WW2 begins

  • Lend-Lease, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, US enters WW2

  • Japanese interment camps, B. Coral Sea, B. Midway

  • United Mine Workers Strike

  • D-Day Invasion, B. Bulge

  • Yalta Conference, concentration camps discovered, FDR dies, Truman pres., Germany surrenders, Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed, Japan surrenders, Potsdam Conference

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    Cold War

  • HUAC, Truman Doctrine, Taft-Hartley Act, Jackie Robinson

  • Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, nation of Israel created, Alger Hiss trials, Truman elected

  • Natio, China turns communist

  • McCarthyism, Korean War

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    1950s Prosperity and Anxiety

  • Eisenhower elected

  • CIA places Shah in Iran, death of Stalin, Rosenbergs executed

  • Army trials (McCarthy), Guatemalan gov. overthrown, French lose Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Conference, Brown v. Board

  • Warsaw Pact, Montgomery bus boycotts

  • Hungarian Revolt suppressed by USSR, Suez Crisis, Interstate Highway Act

  • Little Rock 9

  • Castro, US embargo with Cuba

  • U-2 incident, JFK elected, sit-ins, SNCC, SDS

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    1960s+ Turmoil, Cold War, Détente, Scandal, Stagnation

  • Freedom Rides, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall up

  • James Meredith, Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK assassinated, LBJ pres., March on Washington

  • LBJ "War on Poverty", Civil Rights Act, Tonkin Gulf Res.

  • Voting Rights Act, Malcolm X assassinated

  • Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael, NOW

  • Antiwar demonstrations

  • MLK jr. assassinated, Robert Kennedy assassinated, Columbia U. protests, Democratic National Convention protests, Nixon elected, AIM, Tet Offensive, My Lai, Massacre

  • US invades Cambodia, Kent State and Jackson State killings

  • Pentagon Papers pub. by NYT

  • SALT 1, Watergate

  • Vietnam cease-fire, troops out, Roe v. Wade

  • Nixon resigns, Gerald Ford becomes pres.

  • South falls to North Vietnam, war over

  • Jimmy Carter elected

  • Camp David Accords

  • Hostages held in Iran

  • Reagan elected

  • Major recession '81-'82

  • Gorbachev assumes power in USSR

  • Iran-Contra Affair, "Black Monday"

  • George H.W. Bush elected.

  • Berlin Wall down

  • Bill Clinton elected