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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement (know year only) -
First Africans brought to Jamestown
to work on tobacco plantations (know year only) -
Period: to
Great Awakening
religious movement hat swept through Europe and the colonies in the mid 1700s (know years only) -
Proclamation of 1763
Prohibited colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains (know year only) -
Revolutionary War Begins
Shots fired at Lexington and Concord (know year only) -
Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson -
Constitution Ratified
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Thomas Jefferson Elected
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Louisiana Purchase
doubled size of USA overnight (know year only) -
War of 1812
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Missouri Compromise
drew east/west line through Louisiana Purchase (know year only) -
Monroe Doctrine
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Tariff of 1832
North liked it && South disliked it (know year only) -
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Mexican War
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Compromise of 1850
Entered California as free state and let other territories vote whether or not to have slaves (know year only) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed Missouri Compromise (know year only) -
Lincoln Elected President
Southern states secede (know year only) -
Lincoln Calls For Federal Troops
After Southern States Secede (know year only) -
Homestead Act
gave free land to settlers in the west (know year only) -
Reconstruction Ended
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Compromise of 1877
Ended Reconstruction (know year only) -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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WWI Begins in Europe
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USA Enters WWI
because of ties to Britain and German submarine warfare on our ships (know year only) -
Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
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Black Tuesday
Stock Market Crash -
Tariff Act of 1930
a.k.a Hawley-Smoot Tariff (know year only)
