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George Washington elected president
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Alexander Hamilton creates Bank of the United States (opposed by Thomas Jefferson)
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Whiskey Rebellion
1st time U.S Government uses Federal troops to subdue domestic issues -
Alien & Sedition Acts
expands Gov't power, limit discent and weakening of Gov't ruled unconstitutional -
U.S Capital moved to Washington D.C
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John Marshall becomes first chief justice of the Supreme Court
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Louisana Purchase
doubles the size of U.S -
War of 1812
Britain provide Native Americans with weapons to attack U.S setters -
Spain cedes Florida to the U.S
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Missouri Compromise
sets dividing line between free and slave states at latitude 36'30 -
Monroe Doctrine
Claims western hemisphere closed to European intervention -
Indian Removal Act
authorizes forcible westward relocation of Native Americans -
First Jim Crow Laws established legal segregation
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Manifest Destiny
U.S destiny and duty to expand and conquer the west -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
ends Mexican War and Mexico cedes Texas to U.S -
Compromise of 1850
North gets California as free states, ban of sale of slaves in D.C and the South gets stricter enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
repeals Missouri Compromise popular sovereignty to determine slave/free states -
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown leads antislavery massacre at Pottawatomie Creek, fight over slavery in Kansas -
Abraham Lincoln elected 16th present and South Carolina secedes the Union and the Civil War begins
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Confederate States form and elect Jefferson Davis as their first and only president
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Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War -
Battle of Gettysburg
Turning point of the Civil War as the South never recovered -
Emancipation Proclamation
frees slaves in only Confederate States -
Sherman's March to Sea
Atlanta to Savannah and destroys everything in his path -
13th Amendment
abolishes slavery -
Robert E Lee surrenders and ends the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
grants citizenship to all people born in the U.S -
Transcontinental Railroad
connects the coasts of the United States -
15th Amendment
grants protection of voting rights to black males -
Susan B. Anthony
gets women suffrage vote to Congress -
Booker T Washington
gradual approach to equal right and W.E.B founds the NAACP -
Battle at Wounded Knee
Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians -
Plessy vs Ferguson
"Separate but Equal" ruled constitutional -
Spanish American War
Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S crushes Spain's Navy -
Treaty of Paris
ends the Spanish-American War -
Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced
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World War I begins in Europe
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German U-Boast sinks Lusitania and kills Americans
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Zimmerman Telegram
U.S enters WWII -
Treaty of Versailles
ends WWII -
Black Tuesday
Stock market crashes and Great Depression begins -
FDR elected president
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CCC established
to employ public works -
Social Security Act
establishes funds for unemployed and elderly -
Germany invades Poland
WWII begins -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
U.S enters the war -
Manhattan Project
creation of the Atomic bomb -
U.S drops atomic bombs on Japan
They surrender WWII ends -
USSR emerges as only major U.S rival
cold war begins -
Korean War begins
U.S aids South Korea against communist North Korea -
Brown v Board of education
overturn Plessy v Ferguson separate but equal unconstitutional -
1st televised Presidential debate
JFK beats Nixon -
Bay of Pigs
failed invasion of cuba by U.S -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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JFK assassinated
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Miranda v Arizona
police must read suspects their rights -
Tet offensive
turning point of U.S in Vietnam -
Watergate Scandal
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Richard Nixon resigns to aviod impeachment
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Osama Bin Laden found Islamist group Al Qaeda
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Berlin wall falls
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Bill Clinton elected president