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Exploration and Colonization
Europeans explore and establish colonies it created a conflict with Native Americans. -
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Industrial Revolution
It was a time where manufactured goods where transfer from small shops to large factories. -
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American Revolutionary War
A maturing colonial economies increasing tension with Great Britain leads to War and Independence. -
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Declaration of Independence
The second continental congress adopted the Declaration of Independence announcing the colonies separation from Great Britain -
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Constitutional Convention
A decision was made on how America was going to be governed. Articles of Confederation many delegates had bigger plans. -
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Early Republic
New Federal government with first political parties There was an expansion in Mississippi. -
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Louisiana Purchase
A land deal between the United States and France the U.S. acquired around 827,000 square miles of land in the west Mississippi River for $15 Million. -
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Westward Expansion
There was growth in transportation and industry a lot of Native Americans were removed and the Jacksonian democracy. -
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War of 1812
A fight between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. -
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Acquisition of Florida
The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during the war for American Independence. -
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Missouri Compromise
An agreement passed by the U.S. Congress and agreed to admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. -
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Monroe Doctrine
A United States policy that opposed European colonialism in America. -
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Antebellum Era
Expansion of slavery that lead to increasing sectionalism and conflict with Mexico -
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Annexation of Texas
Texas had been part of Mexico but in 1845 a group of settlers from the U.S. came and declared independence. -
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Compromised of 1850
Slavery became outlawed in Washington D.C., California was admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico determine whether slavery was allowed through popular sovereignty. -
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Civil War and Reconstruction
A war over states rights to secede and emancipation union preserved voting right's for African American's. -
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American Civil War
A war in the United States between northern, pacific and southern states. Caused by economic and social differences between the north and south, federal rights -
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First Transcontinental Railroad
It was the first transcontinental railroad built that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. -
US purchases Alaska from Russia
US Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 Million. -
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Treaty of Paris
A treaty signed by the U.S. and British representatives to end the war of the American Revolution. They agreed to independence for the U.S. gave the U.S. Western territory. -
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Gilded Age
An era where there was rapid economic, population growth in the U.S. after the Civil War, railroads and organized labor. -
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Immigration
People from Europe and Asia changed American culture as they fought to establish lives in new land. -
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MCkinley Tariff
An act of the U.S. framed by William Mckinley. It raised the taxes on products by almost 50%. -
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Progressive Era
A period of time were social activism was spread and political reform across the U.S. they also gave women's right to vote. -
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Federal Reserved Act
Divided the nation into districts and established a regional central bank in each district. -
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The Clayton Act
Prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly. -
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Keating Owen Act
An act made so you cannot use any child labor -
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Treaty of Versailles
A Treaty that ended in WWI broke up the large empires charged Germany with paying reparations for the war and established the League of Nations. -
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Roaring 20's
A time of Jazz, business booms, a lot of prosperity and a much better lifestyle for women. -
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The Great Depression
A severe worldwide economic depression caused by a major stock market crash, banking crisis, overproduction and under consumption. -
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New Deal Era
A series of programs like public work projects, financial reform, and regulations by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. -
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World War 2
Dictators threaten the world peace on two fronts, European and Pacific mobilizes the U.S. economy and industry. U.S. helps win the war and becomes a world leader. -
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and it was the immediate cause of the U.S entering WWIIY. -
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Post War Boom
An American dram, social conformity, suburban and automobile culture, baby boom and consumerism. -
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Cold War
Tension and competition between the United States and communist USSR threat of nuclear war. -
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Civil Rights Movement
A movement by Black Americans to get equal rights and stop the racial discrimination. -
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Vietnam War
A long and cold war spreading communism. It was fought by communist North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Union and China, against South Vietnam and was supported by the United States. -
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Era of Social Change
Women, Latinos, and Native Americans seek equality. -
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New Frontier and Great Society
Minimum wage raise and broadening coverage, raising Social Security benefits providing federal aid to education and giving greater powers. -
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End of the 20th Century
There was energy crisis, environmentalism, political conservatism. federal deficit, booming economy, economic globalization and digital revolution.