United States History

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    Colonial Period

    -mercantilism: the universal economic theory
    -rivalry of three major nations – England, France and Spain
    -English colonies the least tightly controlled
    -geography and native population affects each colony profoundly

  • Jamestown

  • Bacons Rebellion

  • French and Indian War

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    Revolutionary Period

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

  • Quartering Act

  • Declaratory Act

  • Townsends Act

  • Intolerable Acts

  • Battles of Lezington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Land Ordinance of 1785

  • Nortwest Ordinance

  • Shays Rebellion

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    Early Republic

  • Constitution Ratified

  • Jay Treaty

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • War of 1812

  • American System

  • Missiouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctorine

  • Corrupt Bargain

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    Age of Jackson

    1. Jackson’s presidency signals more democratic trend
    2. coincides with beginning of industrialization and the market revolution
    3. followed by reform movements
    4. followed by manifest destiny and westward expansion
    5. From the west – not part of the old aristocracy
    6. democratic tendencies – increased suffrage, party conventions “spoil system”
    7. Opposes and destroys second BUS – institution of the privileged
    8. Strongly nationalistic – opposed Nullification Ordinance

  • Erie Canal Completed

  • Andrew Jackson Elected

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Nullification Crisis

  • Panic of 1837

  • Manifest Destiny

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    Antebellum Period

  • Mexican War

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Wilmont Provisio

  • Sectional Crisis

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Gasden Purchase

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

  • Election of Lincoln

  • Confederate States of America Founded

  • Fort Sumter Attacked

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    Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Confederates Surrender

  • Lincoln Assassinated

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    Reconstruction

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    Gilded Age

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish American War

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    Progressive Era

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    WWI

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    WWI

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Roaring Twenties

  • Stock Market Crash

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    Great Depression

  • Hawley smoot Tarriff

  • FDR Elected

  • WWII

  • Pearl Harbor Attacked

  • D Day

  • Yalta Conference

  • Germany Surrenders

  • Hiroshima Bombing

  • Nagasaki Bombing

  • Truman Doctorine

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    Cold War

  • China Communist

  • Korean War

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24th Amendment

  • Vietnam War

  • MLK Assassinated

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    Nixon

  • Paris Accords

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    Ford

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    Carter

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    Reagan

  • Fall of Berlin

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    Bush

  • Fall of Soviet Union

  • Persian Gulf War

  • Somalia Intervention

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    Clinton

  • 9/11

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    Bush

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    Obama