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First battle of the American Revelution. British troops retreated back to Boston.
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A war fought between the Colonists and Britian.
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Signed the decleration of independence and put in place the Article of Confederation.
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A battle where 1,500 American troops severly depleated British Troops. Even though the American's did retreat, they still considered the Battle at Bunker Hill to be a success.
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A petition led by Charlles Dickenson to reconsille with the King of England.
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A book by Thomas Payne pointing out the reasons why we should go to war with England.
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A document that stated Americans Independence, and listed greeviences with the king.
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This battle was important because of the birtish surrender, which fave France the cofidence to enter into the war as allies with the colonists.
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The last battle in the American Reveltuion.
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The treaty of paris officially ended the American Revelutoin. It also gave America it's boundries.
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This rebellion over the taxing of whisky, this rebellion pointed out the weeknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
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This ordannce set up the way in which new states are addmitted. Prohibited slavery.
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Created the Constitution - James Madison was the father/wrote. New Jersey Plan wanted equal representation for all states, the Virginia Plan wanted representation based on Population. The Great Compromise combined the two plans, by splitting the legislative branch into the Senate and the House of Representatives. Because the House of Representatives, is based on population, the issue of slaves counting as part of the the population came up. The ⅗ Compromise said that slaves were to be counted as
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These articles set up a weak government. Set up Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
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This act gave a new role to the Judiciary branch. This also set up the lower courts to the Supreme court. Set up 6 Supreme Court justices.
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Citizens can sue another state that they don’t actually live in.
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A rebellion over whiskey, that George Washington came in and squashed like a boss. This showed the strength in the Constitution.
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An attempt by the United States to be diplomatic, but diplomats X,Y,&Z required a money transaction to talk to the king of france, but they refused and came home. This stirred up war talk against France.
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Said that if you were a citizen of county that the United States was at war with, we could deport you. It also says that you cannot say anything bad about the governing party. These acts were set to expire at the end of Adams term. The Kentucky and the Virginia resolutions said that the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional.
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The election in which the democratic republicans win under Thomas Jefferson. Adams the former president did not enter his second term.
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Set up the function of the Supreme court for judicaial review. This came after Adams rushed in his midnight judges, and was against the agenda of the president Thomas Jefferson.
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The purchase of land in the center of the country from France. This happened under Jefferson, and is significant because it expanded our border and now we have Louisiana and New Orleans, which is a major port.
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This stated that we were not to trade with England or France until they stopped taking our ships this backfired and hurt the economy.
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A law that negates all property rights established under an earlier law is unconstitutional
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This was a war between England and the United States. This happened in Madison's presidency. There was a lot of war talk, mostly from the war Hawks, and Native Americans are a big cause of the war. One famous battle was the Battle of New Orleans with Andrew Jackson.
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The Battle of New Orleans took place after the Treaty of Ghent, which was signed in 24 December 1814. The Treaty of Ghent ended the war of 1812, with no loss of territory on either side. The Battle of new orleans was significant because it showed the military leadership of Andrew Jackson.
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James Monroe was elected president. There was only one party, the Democratic-Republicans, and that is why the call it the era of good feelings. They also passed the Monroe Doctrine.
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Andrew Jackson thought that the Second BUS was corrupt and so when the charter ran out, he didn’t renew it.
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settled the nature of public versus private charters and resulted in the rise of the American business corporation
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attempt to stop the BUS by putting a tax on bank notes
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The second revitalization of religion led by Charles Finney which led to cultural events like Prohibition and the abolition movement.
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Citizens could not purchase land from Native Americans
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the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause
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John Quincy Adams beats out Andrew Jackson with less popular and electoral votes. Promises Henry Clay to be Secretary of State if Clay (who was Speaker of the House) persuaded the House to elect Adams.
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Andrew Jackson wins against John Quincy Adams after the “corrupt bargain” election.
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Signed into action by Andrew Jackson which removed the Native American’s from their homeland. Brought the Trail of Tears.
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Event that led up to the Civil War. South Carolina had decided to nullify a tariff that was enacted by John Q. Adams. Both Jackson and South Carolina were preparing troops but no military action took place and the tariff was negotiated.
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Mexico banned slavery, so Texas rebelled. Texas gained it's independence, but Mexico refused to acknowledge Texas as it's own country.
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Resloved the border between Great Britian (Canada) and America in Maine.
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An election where James K. Polk won on the platform of Westward Expansion. His slogan was 54-40 or faight, which was the boudry line in Oregon.
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This war was between Mexico and America over the teritorial dispute of Texas. As a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848, we gained Claifornia, New Mexico, Nevada, and other land.
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Would have banned slavery form the new territoies, but failed to pass the senate.
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A document stating the reason for purchasing Cuba, and saying that America had the means to use military force against spain.
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With this tready we gained California, and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado, for a sum of $15 million, and gave texas it's border of the rio grande.
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A purchase of a strip of land for the purposes of completing the transcontinental railroad.
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A financial panic that had more impact in the north, giving the southerns the thought of superiority.
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Abraraham Lincoln was elected preident
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South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
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First Battle of the Civil War. The confederates win, pushing the Union out of North Carolina.
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The civil War in America that was ought over slavery and killed a lot of people
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Union Troops loose, pushing them nack to Washington D.C.. Lincoln realized that it is going to be a long war.
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Bloodiest day of Battle of the Civil War.
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Looses on both sides, Union retreats back to Washington.
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Good old StoneWall Jackson leads the Confeederates to Victory
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A procomation by Abraham Licoln that freed the slaves in states of rebellion. Didn't really do anything except get the confederates mad.
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A battle that lasted 3 days and was the turning point in the war. The confederates lost, and Lee was afraid to encrouch in the north teretory again.
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Union won, but McClellan gets fired and replaced by General Grant
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The civil war ends!!!
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Lincoln is killed, Andrew Johnson becomes preident.
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This admendment to the constitution freed the slaves.
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Riots in New Orleans that was over Black Codes.
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Gave citizenship to Free Blacks
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initiated by Secretary of State William H. Seward, America gained 586,412 square miles.
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Ulysses S. Grant becomes president
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John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
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15th amendment gave black people the right to vote.
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KKK act that inforced the restrictiond on the 14th admendment. lated declared unconstiutional.
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Andrew Carnegie uses the Bessemer's process to mass produce steel in the United States.
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The collapse of Jay Cooke and Company, a Philadelphia investment bank, triggers a nationwide financial panic that leads to a broader economic depression which lasts until 1879.
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president of the United States. Recontruction ended.
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Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walk off the job at Camden Junction, Maryland, initiating a wildcat strike that will shut down thousands of miles of track throughout the northeastern United States.
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Republican James Garfield is elected president of the United States.
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President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau, a deranged federal office-seeker. Garfield will die on 19 September. Vice-President Chester A. Arthur will be sworn is as president one day later.
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Hoping to reduce corruption in the distribution of government jobs, the United States Congress passes the Pendleton Act, introducing an examination system for selecting federal civil servants. Only 10% of all federal appointees are made subject to this process of selection by examination.
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Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James Blaine and is elected president of the United States.
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An act named after Massachusetts Senator Henry Dawes that started the assimilation process for Native Americans. Indian children were forced to learn English, pick new names, and cut their hair in boarding schools that forced them into the American culture.
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Republican Benjamin Harrison is elected president of the United States despite polling almost 100,000 fewer votes nationwide than Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland.
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U.S. troops went to a Native American tribe to confiscate firearms. They attempted to take a rifle away from a deaf Indian and since he couldn’t understand they began fighting and the rifle went off. The troops then opened fire on the tribe, killing 300 men, women, and children
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Henry Frick, Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Steel and plant manager at Carnegie's Homestead steel plant, shuts down the factory and locks out its employees when negotiations with representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers break down.
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Workers employed at the Pullman Company, outside of Chicago, go on strike when the company's owner, George Pullman, refuses to reduce rents in the company housing to match announced wage cuts.
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President William McKinley won, with Rosevelt as vice president. McKinley died one year into his term so Rosevelt took over.
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A ship that blew up. Yellow journalism balmed the Spanish. Cause of the Spanish-American war.
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Stated that U.S. could not annex Cuba, and that we would give them thier independence.
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Also know as the "splended little war" we fought the spanish, and gained cuba, which we gianed Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean)
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A policy to break up the spheres of influence in china, and give equall oppertunity.
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A rebellion that killed American Missonaries in China.
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President Mckinley Died. Roosevelt is no president.
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The Roosevelt administration brings an antitrust suit against the Northern Securities Company, which bankers have created in order to pool the holdings of the largest railroad tycoons.
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Replaced the Teller Admendment. It stipulated the conditons of which the U.S. were to withdrawl form Cuba. Gave us legal calim to Guantanamo Bay.
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Congress passes the Elkins Act, which is intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Act.
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States that the United States will deal with the confilcts of South American, including debt. Known for Rosevelts Big Stick.
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Congress passes the Pure Food and Drug Act in response to exposés of the patent-drug, meatpacking, and food industries.
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agreement between America and Japan saying that Japan would regualted it's imagrants to America, and California would not discriminate against Japanese people.
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Elected William Taft.
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The founder of the NAACP is WEB Du Bois, and Ida B. Wells. The NAACP stands for the national association for the advancement of colored people, and they worked to get equal rights for black americans. The NAACP was a key organization in the fight for equality.
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Mexicans rebelled against the dicatator that killed the other electors.
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Wodrow willson wins, agianst 3 other canidates. One party was the Socialist party.
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A canal built by the United States as a short cut from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. We aided Panama in their revelution against columbia, but eventally paid columbia for the loss of the canal.
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Said that we would grant the Philipeans independence when they could sustain a stable government.
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This scare spread over the Labor Unions and spread the fear of anarchism and communism to the United states. This lead to several strikes, and deaths on the May Day riots in 1919.
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This describes the race riots that happened in the fall of 1919. One of the more notably cities that was attacked was Chicago.
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The Harlem renaissance was a cultural movement in the black community that put an emphasis on the arts, such as jazz and poetry. Also known as the “New Negro Movement” some key contributors were Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton
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Between FDR and Herbert Hoover. Hoover had just finished his first term and lost to FDR. The first of FDRs 4 terms.
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An economic plan from FDR that began in 1933 and ended in 1936 that was used to promote relief, recovery, and reform for the economy and the country.
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The US dropped two atomic bombs on the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Caused Japan to surrender.
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The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. It was the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion; it was a major step in beginning the Cold War.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization. An international organization that was created in 1949 in which for the purposes of collective security in North America and Western Europe. Also tried to stop communism.
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Ended Chinese Civil War with the communist party taking over. The fall of China to communism scared those in NATO.
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A war that lasted from 1950 until 1953 ending in an American defeat and the separation of North Korea being communist and South Korea being democratic. One of the proxy wars under the Truman Doctrine.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president and is also a major contributor during the ongoing Cold War during his presidency. Creates MAD and Massive Retaliation.
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A rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square in support of striking workers from McCormick Harvester Works ends when a bomb is thrown, killing six policemen and wounding more than 60 others.
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Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected president of the United States, returning to a second term in the White House after a four-year hiatus.
