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Jamestown
Jamestown Settled -
House of Burgesses
First meeting of Legislative Assembly. -
Start of Slavery
Slavery began to aid in the growth of tobacco which played a big part in America's economy. -
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower Compact established -
French and Indian War
French and Indian War Began -
Proclamation of 1763
Forbade colonial settlement west of the Apalachian Mountains -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the French and Indian War -
Stamp Act
Put taxes on legal documents -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers killed 5 colonists -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed like indians and threw all the tea into the boston harbour to revolt against the taxes. -
1st Continental Congress
First Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. -
Second Continental Congress
Moved to American Independence. -
Lexington and Concord
Kicked off American Revolutionary War -
Declaration of Independence
Declared independence from britain -
Articles of Confederation
First government basis of the United States -
Battle of Yorktown
Washington fought Cornwallis -
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Critical Period
Period in which our government was the weakest due to weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation -
Land Ordinance of 1785
Established to survey the land surrounding the states -
Annapolis Convention
Discussed issues of interstate trade -
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Shay's Rebellion
Debt-Ridden farmers rebelled -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Didn't allow american colonization west. -
The Great Compromise
Created our government -
3/5ths Compromise
Established sense that slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person when selecting representation of state in congress -
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Constitutional Convention
Got constitution established and ratified -
George Washington's Presidency
George Washington became the president of the united states of america. -
Washington's Presidency
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Judiciary Act of 1789
Established our Judicial system -
Bill of Rights signed
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Cotton Gin Invented
Cotton Gin revolutionized the cotton industy in the south, invented by Eli Whitney -
Adam's Presidency
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Jefferson's Presidency
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Louisiana Purchase
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Marbury v. Madison
Exercised Judicial Review for the first time -
War of 1812
British pushed us too far -
McCulloch V. Maryland
Tried to impede operation of the Bank of the United States -
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Susan B. Anthony
A politically active female who was very famous for her success in the area of Womens rights. She was able to get women the righ tto vote during her life -
Missouri Compromise
Allowed states below 36, 30 to be slave states and those above to be free states -
Monroe Doctrine
President Monroe tried to keep europeans from invading on soil in the western hemisphere -
Gibbons V. Ogden
Established American Government's power to regulate commerce -
Reservation System
Made reservations for indians to live on -
Homestead Act
US Residents could have 160 acres on the condition that they used it for 5 years -
Knights of Labor
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Didn't allow the chinese to immigrate into america for some time -
Haymarket Square
A riot that started after someone threw a bomb at the police -
American Federation of Labor
The first federation of several labor unions -
Dawes Act
Act to try destroying the indian reservations -
Assimilation Policy
An attempt as part of the Dawes Act to try and get indian people to assimilate into the american culture and drop their own -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Anti-trust, anti-monopoly act the tried to add regulations to companies so they could not invest stock into other companies and become monopolies -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
An act that was passed to limit certain actions that could be taken by companies that would lower or even stop all competitiveness -
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Progressive Movement
A movement to correct the excess of the Gilded Age -
Homestead Strike
Industrial lockout for the steel industry due to poor working conditions and terrible living conditions -
American Railway Union
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Pullman Strike
Nationwide railroad strike -
Treaty of Paris
Spanish surrendered control of Cuba -
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Spanish American War
A conflict between Mexico and America -
Immigration Restriction Act
Created to limit the amount of immigrants due to populations rising high in certain areas of the united states -
Establishment of the 17th Amendment
Allowed voters to cast direct votes to US Senators -
Establishment of the 16th Amendment
Established Congress' right to create a federal income tax -
Federal Trade Commission Act
Established the FTC to monitor businesses so they could not become monopolies -
Establishment of the 19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote. -
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The Division of Germany
Germany was divided into the democratic west and communist east at the beginning of the cold war -
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Cold War
The Cold War was the uneasy peace between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II -
Marshall Plan
President Harry S. Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 which later became known as the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan is a gigantic financial aide program that supplied Europe with money to help rebuild their economy -
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Berlin Airlift
After Berlin was spli in two, the US decided to fly in food and supplies to West Berlin -
NATO Established
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, established as a defensive alliance among the US and the Western Euorpean countries with the main goal to prevent the spread of communism -
Communist Takeover in China
Mao Zedong beat the nationalists in china and took over, spreading communism throughout the country with absolutely no interference -
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Korean War
The korean war was a large war between communist north and democratic south korea, the north was aided by chinese. The war eventually ended in a stalemate after a big power "teeter-totter" -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency
Eisenhower became president during the last years of the cold war -
Establishment of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was an alliance between the societ union and East European countries that opposed the NATO alliance -
Sputnik Launched
The Soviets launched Sputnik into space, beating the US in the beginning of the Space Race. -
U-2 Incident
Pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot in a U-2 plane during the cold war in Soviet Airspace. This was significant because we had assumed that the Soviets couldn't even see the spy planes. -
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JFK's Presidency
John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960 and his inauguration speech included the "Ask not..." and the "US would pay and price.." speech pieces that are still very famous -
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Berlin Wall
The berlin wall was built to separate the democratic west from the communist east berlin -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in cuba but JFK demanded they be removed and he won that short issue. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very significant because it almost sparked WWIII, a huge nuclear war -
JFK Assasination
John F. Kennedy was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald