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Europeans explore and establish colonies it created a conflict with Native Americans.
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It was a time where manufactured goods where transfer from small shops to large factories.
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A maturing colonial economies increasing tension with Great Britain leads to War and Independence.
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The second continental congress adopted the Declaration of Independence announcing the colonies separation from Great Britain
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A decision was made on how America was going to be governed. Articles of Confederation many delegates had bigger plans.
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New Federal government with first political parties There was an expansion in Mississippi.
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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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There was growth in transportation and industry a lot of Native Americans were removed and the Jacksonian democracy.
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A fight between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights.
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The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during the war for American Independence.
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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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A United States policy that opposed European colonialism in America.
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Expansion of slavery that lead to increasing sectionalism and conflict with Mexico
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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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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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A war over states rights to secede and emancipation union preserved voting right's for African American's.
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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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It was the first transcontinental railroad built that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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US Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 Million.
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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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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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People from Europe and Asia changed American culture as they fought to establish lives in new land.
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An act of the U.S. framed by William Mckinley. It raised the taxes on products by almost 50%.
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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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Divided the nation into districts and established a regional central bank in each district.
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Prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly.
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An act made so you cannot use any child labor
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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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A time of Jazz, business booms, a lot of prosperity and a much better lifestyle for women.
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A severe worldwide economic depression caused by a major stock market crash, banking crisis, overproduction and under consumption.
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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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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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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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An American dram, social conformity, suburban and automobile culture, baby boom and consumerism.
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Tension and competition between the United States and communist USSR threat of nuclear war.
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A movement by Black Americans to get equal rights and stop the racial discrimination.
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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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Women, Latinos, and Native Americans seek equality.
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Minimum wage raise and broadening coverage, raising Social Security benefits providing federal aid to education and giving greater powers.
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There was energy crisis, environmentalism, political conservatism. federal deficit, booming economy, economic globalization and digital revolution.