US historical Eras

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    Colonial Era

     Chesapeake: Jamestown (1st slaves & House of Burgesses; Bacon’s Rebellion)
     New England; Mayflower Compact & Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
     Diversity of the Middle colonies
     Salutary neglect; colonial assemblies
     Navigation Acts, mercantilism
     French and Indian war 1754-1763

  • Revolutionary Period Begins

    Treaty of Paris
    Proclomation of 1753
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    Revolutionary Period

     War debts; End to salutary neglect after French & Indian War, 1763
     Sugar & Stamp Acts; Townshend Acts
     Sons of Liberty; No taxation without representation; Committees of correspondence
     Lexington and Concord, 1775
     Second Continental Congress
     Declaration of Independence, 1776
     Saratoga; Battle of Yorktown
     Treaty of Paris, 1783

  • Early Republic Period begins

    Constitution is signed
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    Early Republic

     Articles of Confederation ratified, 1781 &
    the “Critical Period, 1781- 1788”
     Land Ordinance; NW Ordinance
     Constitution Ratified, 1789
     Washington, Adams, Jefferson presidencies
     Proclamation of Neutrality
     Marbury v Madison
     Louisiana Purchase
     War of 1812, 1812-1815
     “Era of Good Feelings,” 1816-1824
     Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Comp)

  • Antebellum Era Begins

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    Antebellum Era

  • Age of Jackson Begins

    Andrew Jackson elected President of the US
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    Age of Jackson

     Universal white manhood suffrage
     “Corrupt Bargain” of 1824
     Andrew Jackson elected, 1828
     Bank War; Specie Circular
     Nullification Crisis
     Indian removal
     2nd Great Awakening & reform movements (temperance, abolition, Seneca Falls, 1848)

  • Late Antebellum Era Begins

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    Late Antebellum Era

     Manifest Destiny, 1840s
     Mexican War, 1846-48
     Compromise of 1850
     Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
     Formation of the Republican Party
     Dred Scott case, 1857
     Lincoln Douglas Debates, 1858
     John Brown at Harpers Ferry
     Election of Lincoln, 1860

  • Civil War Begins

    South secedes
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    Civil War

     Confederate States of America, 1861
     Fort Sumter attacked, 1861
     Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Atlanta
     Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
     Confederate Surrender, 1865
     Lincoln assassinated, 1865

  • Reconstruction begins

    13th amendment abolishes slavery
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    Reconstruction

     Reconstruction Amendments
    (13th-slavery abolished, 14th-citizenship & rights, 15th-manhood suffrage)
     Weak presidents: A Johnson, Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes (2nd corrupt bargain)
     Nation reunifies
     End of Reconstruction; Jim Crow laws

  • Gilded Age Begins

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    Gilded Age

     Settlement of the West, 1877-1900
     Destruction of Native Americans, Farming, Ranching, Mining, Populism
     Industrial Revolution (ROSE)
     New forms of marketing and business organization, holding companies & trusts
     The Jim Crow South, disenfranchisement of blacks, sharecropping & crop lien
     Depression of 1893
     New Immigrants

  • Progressive Era Begins

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    Progressive Era

     Muckrakers (Tarbell, Riis, Steffens, Sinclair)
     Sherman Anti-Trust Act
     Northern Securities Co.
     “Square Deal”
     Clayton Anti-Trust Act
     Federal Reserve
     Underwood-Simmons Tariff
     Initiative, Referendum, Recall
     16th, 17th, 18th, 19th amendments

  • World War 1 begins

    Ferdinand assassinated
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    Great War (WWI)

     Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
     Zimmerman Note
     WIB & CPI
     Selective Service Act
     Great migration
     14 Points, Treaty of Versailles
     League of Nations
     Irreconcilables, Reservationists

  • US enters WW1

  • World War 1 Ends

    Treaty of Versailles signed
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    20s

     Roaring Twenties, Consumerism
     Women gain right to vote
     Harlem Renaissance
     Urban vs rural conflicts (Prohibition, evolution, immigration, KKK)
    Red Scare
    The Jazz Singer

  • Great Depression Begins

    Black Tuesday
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    Great Depression

     1929 Stock market crash
     Hoover’s “Rugged Individualism”
     1st New Deal, 2nd New Deal
     Relief, Recovery, Reform
     Court Packing

  • World War 2 Begins

    Germany and Slovakia attack Poland
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    World War Two (WWII)

     Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
     WPB, OSS, OPA
     Great Migration
     Rosie the Riveter
     D-Day, Island Hopping
     Manhattan Project
     A-bombs dropped; Japan surrenders
     Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam Conferences

  • Cold War Begins

    Yalta Conference
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    Cold War

    ▪ Containment: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, 1st peacetime alliance
    ▪ Soviets test A-bomb, 1949
    ▪ China goes communist, 1949
    ▪ Korean War, 1950-53
    ▪ HUAC, Loyalty Review Board
    ▪ McCarthyism, 1950-54
    ▪ Vietnam War, 1965-73 (Gulf of Tonkin)
    ▪ Nixon & Détente, 1972-1979
    ▪ Fall of Berlin Wall, 1989
    ▪ Collapse of Soviet Union, 1991

  • Civil Rights Movement begins

    Brown vs BOE
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    Civil Rights

    ▪ Brown v. Board of Ed. decision, 1954
    ▪ Montgomery Bus Boycott
    ▪ Birmingham
    ▪ March on Washington
    ▪ SCLC, SNCC, CORE, NAACP
    ▪ Civil Rights Act, 1964
    ▪ Voting Rights Act, 1965
    ▪ 24th Amendment, 1964
    ▪ Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated, 1968
    ▪ Stokely Carmichael; Black Power
    ▪ Malcolm X