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George Washington Elected President
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Judiciary Act of 1789
Established the Supreme Court -
French Revolution
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The Early Republic
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Alexander Hamilton creates Bank of the United States
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Whiskey Rebellion
1st time U.S. Government uses Federal troops to subdue domestic issues (Farmers did not like new excise taxes) -
XYZ Affair – public wants war
• 1797 - XYZ Affair – French try to extort U.S. for diplomatic meetings – public wants war -
Alien & Sedition Acts
Expands Gov’t power, limit dissent and weakening of Gov’t, ruled unconstitutional -
Marbury vs. Madison
establishes Judicial Review -
Louisana Purchase
not known to Jefferson if it was constitutional to annex land, Congress approves purchase from France, doubles the size of U.S. -
William Henry Harrison leads attack on Tecumseh at Battle of Tippecanoe
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War of 1812
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McCulloch vs. Maryland
ruling confirms Congresses’ right to found the 2nd
Bank of the United States -
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Age of Jackson
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First Jim Crow Laws established
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Antebellum Period
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Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President
South Carolina secedes the Union = Civil War -
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The Civil War
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Fort Sumter
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
grants citizenship to all people born in U.S. (14th
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The Gilded Age
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Progressive Era
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U.S. Involvement in World War I
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The Roaring Twenties
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World War II
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Civil Rights, Nixon, and Vietnam
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Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates JFK
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1974 – Present
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Camp David Accords
Carter negotiates peace between Egypt and Israel -
Berlin Wall falls
(Reagan feels its U.S.’s great est accomplishment of the era)