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A historical timeline of the United States political political landscape from 1784 through 2017
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dams negotiated peace treaty. This splitted up the federalists
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Vice President Arron Burr voted with Federalist.Ended Republican alleigances.
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Treaty drawn to purchase Louisiana Territory
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Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteThomas Jefferson (D-Republican) 162
Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist) 14 -
Jefferson nominates James Monroe and William Pinckney as joint commissioners to Great Britain. British warships have been boarding and searching American ships and seizing American as well as British seamen, claiming that they are British deserters.
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Aaron Burr is captured near New Orleans. He escapes but is recaptured and imprisoned. In April, Burr is charged with treason and tried in Richmond in a federal circuit court presided over by John Marshall
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British burn Capitol building in Washington. Starts more problems
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Napoleon finally defeated at Waterloo. Napoleon's forces marched into Belgium, where separate armies of British and Prussian troops were camped.
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Georgia prohibits Manumission -- Karl Marx born in Germany
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Alabama admitted as slave state.Bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers
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Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine immediately gives right to vote and education to all male citizens.
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote.Blacks start getting more rights
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Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He is eighty-three years old.
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Slavery illegal in New York. More states start banning slavery
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Election of Andrew Jackson.Was the 11th quadrennial presidential election
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“Underground Railroad” established. Goods can now be transported.
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Texas declares independence from Mexico
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Martin van Buren elected President
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Depression begins with "Panic of 1837"
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Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico. Overthrown by liberal revolution .
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 - Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto
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Compromise of 1850 admits California as free state but Fugitive Slave Law enacted.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin published - Jossiah Priest publishes Bible defense of slavery
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President Filmore dies in office, succeeded by Franklin Pierce
- America and Mexico sign Gadsden Treaty; Vice President William King dies; Arctic explorer Elisha Kane ventures farther north than any man has before.
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Franklin Pierce re-elected President.Re-nominated by the demcorats
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Free Soilers establish government banning slavery and blacks from Kansas; David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls; Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass."
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Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision, Dred Scott 1857 slavery case
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South Carolina Secedes.South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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Lincoln Inaugurated.16th president inauguarated
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Union loses Battle of Fredericksburg and over 12,600 men, South loses about 5,300.
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Battle of Gettysburg was a major Union victory.It was a defensive battle
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“Presidential Reconstruction” Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, was pro-slavery throughout his career in the Senate and as the Military Governor of Tennessee. Republican Abraham Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson, a Democratic senator from Tennessee, as his Vice Presidential candidate.
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President Johnson impeached, acquitted.The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act.
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15th Amendment gets Ratified.Giving Blacks but not women the right to vote.
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KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi. Grant suspends habeas corpus and declared martial law in 9 So. Carolina counties. Many Blacks elected to political office.
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43rd Congress has seven Black members.
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“Jim Crow” laws enacted in Tennessee.Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional.Also known as the enforcement act
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DISPUTED ELECTION – DEAL MADE TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM SOUTH. 23rd quadrennial presidential election.
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50th Congress has no Black members. Intimidation kept Black voters from polls.
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HITLER is BORN.German politician of the Nazi Party. Huge threat towards the US.
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December, Battle of Wounded Knee. 200 Native American women and children massacred by U.S. troops. Wounde Knee
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SOUTHERN STATES PASS LAWS TO DISENFRANCISE BLACKS
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TR ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT.Was also an author and explorer.
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MCKINLEY ASSONATED – TR BECOMES PRESIDENT
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TAFT ELECTED PRESIDENT. Becomes 27th president.
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TR RUNS AS PROGRESSIVE… WILSON WINS.32nd quadrennial presidential election.
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WORLD WAR I BEGINS IN EUROPE. Was a global War
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U.S. ENTERS WORLD WAR I.Biggest warshed in the centeruy.
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WORLD WAR I ENDS. Ended with the treaty of Versailles
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TR DIES – CARNEGIE DIES.TR dies from Cardiovascular disease
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HITLER SENTENCED TO JAIL, BEGINS MEIN KAMPF. Book about his life
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HITLER’S BEER HALL COUP ATTEMPT FAILS.Failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler — along with Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders,to seize power in Munich
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HINDENBURG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GERMANY.second time being reelected
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STOCK MARKET CRASHES, DEPRESSION BEGINS. Biggest depression in History
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HITLER’S NAZI PARTY GAINS MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT. STart gaining more and more power through Europe.
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WORST OF DEPRESSION,ALMOST 25% UNEMPLOYED. America is in debt
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FDR INAUGURATED “100 DAYS”.
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FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT ELECTED PRESIDEnt. Turns out to e only president elected 4 times
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HINDENBURG DIES, HITLER APPOINTS HIMSELF PRESIDENT - “ FUEHRER”
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FDR RE-ELECTED.Had the longest tenure of any U.S. president.
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German airship HINDENBURG BURNS IN NEW JERSEY
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British P.M. Chamberlain agrees that Hitler can have Czechoslovakia.
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WORLD WAR II STARTS IN EUROPE with German Invasion of Poland. In just five weeks Poland surrenders to Germany
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Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France – Churchill becomes P.M.
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Germany invades Russia. Russia is going to be one of the harder countries to invade.
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U.S. surrenders Philippines to Japan. Hard loss for America.
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Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca, North Africa
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MacArthur’s troops land in Philippines.
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FDR Dies. DIes from Intracerebral hemorrhage
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U.S. troops in Korea, replacing Japanese.
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Marshall plan to aid Germany and Europe (originally offered to all of Europe, including USSR occupied.
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Truman defeats Dewey and is re-elected. Truman was the favorite
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NATO established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Communists in U.S. must register
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22nd Amendment is made. prohibiting more than two presidential terms
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Eisenhower and Nixon elected President and Vice President
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U.S. provides military aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters
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Brown v. Board of Education. was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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U.S. begins economic aid to South Vietnam
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Eisenhower and Nixon re-elected.
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Faubus of Arkansas uses National Guard troops to prevent de-segregation of Little Rock High School. DDE federalizes troops and forces de-segregation.
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Soviets launch “Sputnik”. Plan to get tpo the moon
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Khruschev visits U.S. became the first Soviet premier to visit the United States.
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Kennedy and Johnson elected President and Vice President
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US INCREASES INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM.auses more tension
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Military coup (with U.S. approval) overthrows Diem in Vietnam. Helps out america
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KENNEDY ASSASSINATED. SHot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Johnson defeats Republican Goldwater and remains President –Goldwater only got 52 electoral votes, perceived as a war hawk.
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Massive escalation of U.S. military effort, combined with nightly TV coverage of war and opposition of liberal news media. Anti war demonstrations become wide spread
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Vietnam war continues to escalate. HArd war for both countires economically
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Nixon defeats Humphrey and becomes President
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Vietnam peace talks start. Trying to solve a solution
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VIETNAM WAR ENDS- NIXON RESIGNS
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CLINTON ELECTED President.
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DISPUTED ELECTION OF 2000 - George Bush BECOMES PRESIDENT
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George Walker Bush inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States.
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The Department of Homeland Security is created. Made for the September 11 attacks.
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Republicans retake narrow control of the Senate following 2002 elections.
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Former U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan dies from complications resulting from Alzheimer's Disease. He lies in state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred.
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U.S. oil prices hit a record $147 per barrel in the wake of—among other factors—international tensions and the falling U.S. dollar vs. the Euro.
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Barack Obama is officially sworn into office becoming the 44th President of the United States of America. This historic event also was the first time that an African American has become President
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Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. He is also the first African-American to hold the office
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President Barack Obama is re-elected over Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the presidential election.
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“Radical” Congressional Reconstruction. The Congressional elections turned on the issue of Reconstruction, producing a sweeping Republican victory in the North, and providing the Radical Republicans with sufficient control of Congress to override Johnson's vetoes and commence their own "Radical Reconstruction".
