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| -Columbus sails the ocean blue |
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| -Treaty of Tordesillas (divides the world between Portugal and Spain) |
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| -Roanoke ("the lost colony"; first settlement in America) |
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-Jamestown (first permanent British settlement)
-Headright System (land for population, people spread out) |
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| -John Rolfe introduces tobacco cultivation (first American cash crop) |
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| -House of Burgesses (Virginia; 1st representative assembly) |
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-Plymouth Colony
-Mayflower Compact (agreed rule by majority) |
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-Massachusetts Bay ("City Upon a Hill")
-First governor (Winthrop) |
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| -Roger Williams banished from Ma. Bay Colony |
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| -Roger Williams founds Rhode Island |
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| -Navigation Acts (limited trade, taxes on various items, established mercantilism) |
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| -Half Way Covenant (aims to get people back into church; erosion of Puritanism) |
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| -Restoration Colony (charter granted by Charles II; for Carolina colonies) |
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| -Blue Laws (Connecticut; death for disagreeing with parents or bible) |
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| -Bacon's Rebellion (Virginia; indentured servants, first uprising against the British) |
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| -William Penn founds Pennsylvania (Quaker) |
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| -Dominion of New England (attempt to unify northern colonies, suspends liberties like town meetings) |
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| -Salem Witchcraft Trials (lol Christians you so silly) |
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| -Parliamentary Act (more enforcement of the Navigation Acts) |
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| -The Enlightenment Era (natural rights, diesm, John Locke, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau etc.) |
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| -Great Awakening (salvation for all, extreme piety, in response to the Enlightement) |
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| -Molasses Act (import taxes on molasses, sugar, rum) |
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| -Zenger Trial (victory for freedom of the press) |
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| -French and Indian War (France vs. Britain, Britain wins, in debt -> taxes colonies) |
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| -Albany Plan of Union (for defense; shows disunity of colonies) |
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| -Writs of Assistance (search warrants to enforce Navigation Acts) |
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-Treaty of Paris (ends F&I War)
-Paxton Boys Rebellion
-Proclamation of 1763 (restricts settlement left of Apps)
-Pontiac's Rebellion (salutary neglect ends) |
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-Sugar Act (cuts Molasses Act in half, 1st direct tax; "No taxation without representation")
-Currency Acts (prevent printing of colonial money) |
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-Stamp Act (tax on printed materials + standing army in colonies)
-Sons of Liberty enforce non-importation
-Stamp Act Congress (protests Stamp Act) |
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| -Quartering Act (colonies must support troops) |
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| -Townshend Acts (tax lead, paint, paper, glass, tea) |
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| -Boston Massacre (first deaths over conflict, propaganda for colonies) |
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| -Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence |
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-Tea Act (gives England a monopoly, leads to Boston Tea Party)
-Boston Tea Party (colonists dump tea into the sea while wearing fashionably attire) |
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-Intolerable Acts (passes to punish for Boston Tea Party)
-Boston Port Act (closes ports)
-First Continental Congress (in response to Intolerable Acts) |
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-Battles of Lexington and Concord (first battle)
-Second Continental Congress convenes |
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-Declaration of Independence
-R.H. Lee's Resolution (independent states)
-Thomas Paine's Common Sense (rallying cry for colonists) |
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-Battle of Saratoga (turning point in Revolution; leads to France as an ally)
-Articles of Confederation adopted by Congress |
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| -Treaty of Alliance (U.S. and France; France joins war) |
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| -British surrender at Yorktown (Cornwallis loses) |
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-Treaty of Peace with Britain (Independence recognized)
-Articles of Confederation revealed to be weak |
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-Land Ordinance of 1785 (govt. responsible over territory)
-Treaty of Hopewell (ends hostilities with Cherokee Indians) |
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-Shay's Rebellion (farmer revolt; put down by donations, Articles of Confederation weak)
-Annapolis Convention (agreement with states; fails) |
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-Constitutional Convention (revise Articles of Confederation)
-Great Compromise (bi-cameral legislature)
-3/5 Compromise |
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-George Washington as president
-Judiciary Act (courts beneath Supreme Court)
-French Revolution (U.S. stays out) |
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-Bill of Rights ratified
-First bank of U.S. |
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| -Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney, interchangeable parts, increased productivity of the cotton industry) |
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| -Whiskey Rebellion (farmers don't want to pay excise tax, Washington uses troops to put down) |
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-Jay Treaty [with Britain, port trading changed, Britain says it will leave forts and allow U.S. to trade in Asia (not really)]
-Pinckney's Treaty (Spain; free navigation of Mississippi) |
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-Washington's Farewell Address (strong central govt. and foreign neutrality; against political parties)
-John Adams elected (Federalist), Jefferson (Rep.) VP
-XYZ Affair - France attacks U.S. ships (no money, no war) |
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| -Alien and Sedition Acts (illegal to publish anything against govt.) |
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| -Virginia and Kentucky Resolution (gives states rights to nullify laws) |
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-Fries Uprising (opposes federal tax on property)
-Logan Act (a citizen cannot represent govt.) |
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-Convention of 1800 (ends hostilities after XYZ Affair)
-Thomas Jefferson (Rep.) elected (govt. changes to Democratic-Republican)
-Midnight Judges (Adams appoints officials before leave) |
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-Louisiana Purchase (doubled size of U.S., Manifest Destiny)
-Marbury vs. Madison (establishes Judicial Review) |
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-12th Amendment (separate ballots for Pres. and VP)
-Essex Junto (Federalists try to secede; fails) |
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| -Lewis and Clark Expedition (Manifest Destiny) |
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| -Tipoli war ends (defeat of the Barbary pirates) |
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-Steamboat (Robert Fulton)
-Embargo Act (stops exports)
-James Madison (Rep.) elected |
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| -Nonintercourse Act (resumes trade with France and Britain) |
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| -Fletcher vs. Pack (action of state can be declared unconstitutional) |
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| -Battle of Tippecanoe (Harrison defeats Tecumseh) |
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| -War of 1812 (U.S. vs. Britain; stop impressment) |
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-Treaty of Ghent (ends war of 1812 with a status-quo)
-Hartford Convention (Federalists against war of 1812) |
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-American Colonization Society (free blacks -> Liberia)
-Monroe (Rep.) elected
-Henry Clay's American System (domestic improvements and protective tariff) |
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| -Rush-Bagot disarmament (U.S. and Britain; fishing rights) |
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| -Convention of 1818 (enforcement of fishing rights, 49th parallel) |
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-Transcontinental Treaty (U.S. gets Florida from Spain
-Panic of 1817 (banks can't pay loans of Bank of U.S.)
-Mculloch vs. Maryland (power to tax and destroy) |
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-Missouri Compromise (no slavery north of 36"30' line)
-Land Act (reduces price of land, encourages development) |
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| -Monroe Doctrine declared (no future colonization of Western hemisphere) |
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-Jackson's "Corrupt Bargain" (took advantage of friends in the House to get elected)
-Gibbons vs. Ogden (interstate trade controlled by fed. courts) |
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| -Erie Canal opens (connects East and MidWest, trade and transportation) |
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| -Panama Conference (congress does not send an ambassador and avoids slavery issue) |
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-Tariff of Abominations (protective tariff)
-South Carolina Exposition and Protest (right of state to nullify laws)
-Andrew Jackson (Dem.) elected, "Kitchen Cabinet" |
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-"The Liberator" begins publication
-Nat Turner rebellion (slave revolt) |
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| -Trail of Tears (Southern Indians moved to Oklahoma) |
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-Tariff of 1832 (raises tariffs)
-Force Bill (allows president power to enforce tariff)
-Ordinance of Nullification (S. Carolina nullifies tariff) |
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| -Roger Taney (removes federal funds from U.S. Bank) |
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| -Texas War for Independence; "Lone Star Republic" |
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-Specie Circular (Western land must be paid by hard currency)
-Van Buren (Dem.) elected |
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| -Panic of 1837 (due to Jackson's withdrawal of funds from the Bank of the U.S.) |
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| -Aroostook "War" (boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick) |
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-Dorr Rebellion (RI; against land qualifications for voting)
-Webster-Ashburton Treaty (ends boundary disputs of Aroostook "War" |
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| -Oregon Trail opens (Manifest Destiny) |
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| -Polk (Dem.) elected (54" 40’ or Fight campaign slogan) |
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-Wilmot Proviso (no slavery in new stats from Mexican land; fails)
-Walker Tariff Bill (lowered tariff) |
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| -Polk Doctrine (resurrection of Monroe Doctrine concerning new states) |
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-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (ends Mex-Am. War)
-Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill in California (gold rush)
-Seneca Falls convention (Women's Rights) |
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| -Clay's Compromise of 1850 (California free state, U.S. takes Texas debts, slave trade banned in Washington, Fugitive Slave Law strengthened) |
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-Commodore Matthew Perry (opened Japan to U.S. trade)
-Uncle Tom's Cabin published (Harriet Beecher Stowe) |
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| -Gadsen Purchase (U.S. buys land from Mexico to build RR) |
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| -Kansas-Nebraska Act (slavery determined by popular sovereignty, passed to create RR to go West) |
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| -Pottawatomie Massacre (John Brown kills four pro-slavery people like a baws) |
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-Dred Scott decision (slaves are property)
-Panic of 1857 (economic depression) |
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-Lincoln-Douglas Debates (on extension of slavery into new territories)
-"A house divided against itself can't stand" (Lincoln speech) |
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| -John Brown's Raid (Harpers Ferry; to free slaves) |
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-Crittenden Compromise (last attempt to bar slavery below 36' 30 line; fails)
-Lincoln (Rep.) elected |
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-The Civil War
-Beginning of Industrial Revolution (Guilded Age) |
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-Fort Sumter (first battle of Civil War)
-1st income tax |
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| -Homestead Act (govt. land grants for agricultural college) |
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-Battle of Gettysburg (turning point of the war)
-Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves free (didn't actually free any; war is now for slavery, stops Britain from intervening) |
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-Lincoln (Rep.) is elected
-Wade-Davis Bill (South divided into units until majority pledges and bans slavery; Manifesto lets Congress control reconstruction, not executive branch) |
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-Civil War Ends (Appomattox, VA)
-Freedman's Bureau established (education and food)
-13th amendment (abolishes slavery) |
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| -Civil Rights Act (gives blacks equal rights) |
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| -Reconstruction Acts (divide south into 5 military units, protect black voting, establish new constitutions) |
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-14th Amendment (born/naturalized in US are citizens)
-Klu Klux Klan begins |
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-Transcontinental RR completed
-Knights of Labor formed |
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-15th Amendment (right to vote can't be determined by race)
-Force Acts (protect constitutional rights to blacks) |
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| -Credit Mobilier Scandal (stockholders of RR overcharge govt.) |
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| -Slaughterhouse Cases (14th Amendment doesn't place fed. govt. under obligation to protect basic rights concerning monopolies) |
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-Red River Wars (NA's last attempt to resist reservationists)
-Farmers Alliances (Anti-RR pools, rebates, Granger laws) |
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-Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer)
-Telephone (Alex Graham Bell) |
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| -Compromise of 1877 (troops withdraw from South in exchange for Hayes as president; ends reconstruction) |
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-Hall vs. DeCuir (allowed segregation)
-Treaty of 1878 (U.S. gets rights to Pago-Pago, Samoa) |
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| -Lightbulb (Thomas Edison) |
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| -"A Century of Dishonor" (Helen Hunt Jackson on NA's) |
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-Chinese Exclusion Act (Chinese taking American jobs)
-European Restriction Act |
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-American Federation of Labor founded
-Interstate Commerce Act (regulates RR + private business)
-Haymarket Incident (people think unions are radical) |
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-Interstate Commerce Commission (forbids long/short haul practices)
-Dawes Severalty Act (govt. breaks up land individually) |
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| -Hull House founded (Jane Addams) |
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-Sherman Antitrust Act
-Wounded Knee (Indian revolt, lat Indian war)
-McKinley Tariff Act (raises tariffs) |
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-Homestead Strike
-Populist Platform (8hr work day, nationalization of RR, silver coinage, anti-rich capitalist, decrease tariff) |
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| -Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed |
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| -Pullman strike (worker unions) |
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-Plessy vs. Ferguson (blacks are "separate but equal")
-Cross of Gold Speech (Bryan) |
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-Spanish-American War (over Cuba)
-Peace of Paris (Cuba independence, U.S. gets Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam) |
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| -Teller Amendment (gives Cuba freedom) |
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-National Negro Business League (Booker T. Washington)
-Gold Standard Act (gold = standard unit of value)
-Progressive Era begins & Boxer Rebellion (Chinese) |
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| -Platt Amendment (U.S. given a base in Cuba and permission to intervene and consent to treaties) |
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-Hay-Buena Varilla Treaty (gives U.S. land in Panama)
-Elkins Act (deals with RR rebates, "Square Deal" policy) |
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| -Roosevelt Corollary (Addition to Monroe Doctrine; made U.S. "Team America - World Police" over the Western Hemisphere) |
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| -Industrial Workers of the World formed |
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-The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
-Pure Food and Drug Act (establishes the FDA) |
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-NAACP founded
-Dollar Diplomacy (Taft; further aims at Latin America by guaranteeing loans to foreign countries) |
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-16th Amendment (income taxes)
-17th Amendment (direct popular election of Senate)
-Federal Reserve Act (creates federal reserve system) |
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-Federal Trade Commission established
-Clayton Antitrust Act (strengthens anti-monopolistic reform) |
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| -USS Lusitania sunk by German submarine |
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-Adamson Act (allows govt. to take over RR)
-War Industries Board (help coordinate production)
-Fuel Administration (controls fuel prices) |
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-U.S. enters WWI
-Great Migration (blacks move from South to North)
-Creel Committee (propaganda) |
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-National War Labor Board (prevents strikes)
-Treaty of Versailles (Ends WWI, Germany accepts blame)
-Wilson's 14 Points (outline ideal terms for Germany surrender) |
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-Palmer Raids (target liber radicals/anarchists; Communist radicalism)
-18th Amendment (prohibits alcoholic beverages) |
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-Birth Control League (women's rights)
-Revenue Act (decrease taxes)
-Immigration Act (restricts immigration) |
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| -Fordney-McCumber Tariff (high increase in duties) |
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| -Teapot Dome Scandal (secretary of Interior Fall sells oil reserves to private industry) |
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| -Dawes Plan (helps Germany with reparation; loans) |
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| -Scopes "Monkey" Trial (religion vs. evolution in schools) |
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| -Kellog-Briand Pact (peace alliance between Japan, Italy, France, U.S., U.K. and Germany) |
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| -Jim Crow laws (racial discrimination) |
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-The Great Stock Market Crash
-Agricultural Market Act (establishes federal farm board) |
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| -Smoot-Hawley Tariff (protective tariff, makes it harder for countries to trade with U.S. and creates a worldwide economic depression) |
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-Federal Home Loan Bank Act (assists with mortgages)
-Public Works Project
-Bonus Army (veterans march on DC to receive bonus) |
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-New Deal Begins
-WPA (works progress administration employs artists)
-CCC (civilian conservation corps) |
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-NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act; min. wages)
-Glass-Steagall Banking Act (keeps gold standard)
-SEC (Securities and Exchange Commision; watch market $) |
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-AAA (Agricultural Exchange Commission; farming produce)
-TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
-"Good Neighbor" Policy (U.S. no longer police of West) |
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| -20th Amendment (presidential term starts on Jan. 20) |
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-Indian Reorganization Act (restore tribal ownership of land)
-Share the Wealth Society (communism bro) |
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-Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Board)
-Fair Labor Standard Act (min. wage and hours)
-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organization; labor unions) |
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-Social Security Acts (benefits to old and unemployed)
-1st Neutrality Act (stop selling munitions to belligerents) |
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| -2nd Neutrality Act (no lending money to belligerent nations) |
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-3rd Neutrality Act (nations at war pay and transport $)
-Quarantine Speech (isolate belligerent nations)
-Panay Incident (Japanese bombs U.S. ship; we demands $) |
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-End of New Deal Reforms
-Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) |
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-Selective Service (peace time draft)
-Smith Act (fingerprinting of aliens) |
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-Pearl Harbor (directly contributes to US entering WW2)
-Lend Lease (lend materials for war)
-US enters WW2, Japanese relocation camps |
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-Congress of Racial Equality (prevent segregation and discrimination)
-Revenue Act of 1942 (increase tax revenues for WW2) |
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-Office of Price Administration(seals prices, ration food)
-Detroit race riots (govt. does nothing)
-Casablanca Conference (FDR and Churchill meet to discuss strategy against Germany)
-Cairo Conference (conference of allied leaders to seek Japan's unconditional surrender)
-Tehran Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill to discuss strategy vs Germany) |
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-GI Bill (benefits for veterans, $ for education, creates middle class)
-D-Day (July 6, invasion for liberation of france on the beaches of Normandy) |
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-Yalta Conference (allies meet to decide on final war plans)
-US joins the United Nations
-Germany and Japan Surrender (ends WW2)
-Roosevelt dies, Truman president
-Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin meet in Germany to set up zones) |
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-Kennan containment (prevent spread of communism)
-Employment Act (goal to have full employment)
-Atomic Energy Act (develop better bombs)
-President's commission on Civil Rights (advocate rights) |
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-The Marshall Plan (economic aid to Europe after WW2)
-Taft-Hartley Act (80 day cooling period not to strike, labor leaders must sign non-communist oath)
-Truman Doctrine (financial commitment to nations fighting communism)
-Federal Employee Loyalty Program (anti-communistic oaths)
-National Security Act (creates CIA) |
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-Truman desegregates armed forces
-Berlin Blockade (Berlin airlift)
-Nuremberg trials (convict war criminals in Germany) |
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-NATO formed
-Fair Deal (most don't pass, housing act for construction, minimum wage increase) |
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| Fair Deal Policies (Truman, minimum wage increase, construction increases) |
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| Korean War begins (US enters for containment of communism) |
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| McCarthyism (fear of communism's wide spread) |
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| 22nd Amendment (president can only serve 2 terms or up to 10 years) |
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| Eisenhower elected (will end Korean war) |
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| Rosenbergs executed for treason against US (gave info to Soviet Union) |
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| Fall of Dien Bien Phu (French lose in Vietnam) |
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| Geneva Conference (reduce nukes, divide Vietnam along 17th parallel - elections in a year) |
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| Montgomery bus boycott begins (Rosa Parks) |
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| Warsaw Pact (USSR and Eastern European allies unite to counter NATO) |
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| Suez Crisis (Egyptian prez rationalizes canal) |
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| Interstate Highway Act (build federal roads, movement into rural areas, creation of suburbs) |
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| US puts Diem in power in South Vietnam |
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| Eisenhower Doctrine (extends Truman Doctrine to Middle Earth to help fight Mordor's armies and their communist ways) |
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| Domino Theory (if one country falls to Communism, it will undermine another that will fall) |
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| Civil Rights Act (creates permanent civil rights commission to supervise voting) |
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| Russians launch Sputnik satellite (space race begins) |
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| National Defense Education Act (fund math, science, and language programs) |
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| Cuban Revolution (Castro invades) |
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| U-2 incident (US spy plane goes down in USSR - Covert operation discovered) |
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| Civil Rights Act part deux (federal govt. registers black voters) |
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| Bay of Pigs invasion (attempt to overthrow Castro; fails) |
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| Alliance for Progress (build up Third World nations so the can manage their own affairs) |
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| Berlin wall built (stop citizens from crossing East/West boundary line) |
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| Peace Corps (encourage US citizens to help third world countries) |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - Arab majority, oil trade, join together to protest; oil prices go up, US fuel shortage |
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