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The period from approximately 1780-1830 saw many advances. Americans witnessed such noteworthy inventions as Ben Franklin's bifocals, Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, the suspension bridge and the mechanical reaper. In addition Robert Fulton's Steamboat modernized transportation and the building of the Erie Canal was also a transportation milestone.
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The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements 1790-1830
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Farmers refused to pay tax on whiskey and became violent. Washington personally leads 13,000 soldiers to crush the rebellion, and the rebels flee.
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In 1812, James Madison declared war on Great Britain, hoping to stop the British trade restrictions and further American expansion
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During this crucial period, the United States pursued a policy of expansion based on “manifest destiny,” the ideology that Americans were in fact destined to extend their nation across the continent. The United States even proved to be willing to go to war to secure new territories.
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The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.The era saw the collapse of the Federalist Party and an end to the bitter partisan disputes between it and the dominant Democratic-Republican Party during the First Party System.
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1817-1825 Democratic-Republican
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The temperance movement, rooted in America's Protestant churches, first urged moderation, then encouraged drinkers to help each other to resist temptation, and ultimately demanded that local, state, and national governments prohibit alcohol outright.
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1825-1829 Whigs
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1829-1837 Democratic
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Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that restructured a number of federal institutions. Originating with the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for a generation.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. few tribes went peacefully/willingly
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1837-1841 Democratic
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1841-1845 Whigs
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1845-1849 Democratic
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The 410,000 documented arrivals from Ireland in the database represent about one-third to one-quarter of the up to 1.5 million Irish who arrived in the United States during the broader Famine period of 1845–1855, including some who walked into the country after landing in Canada
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1846-1848
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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.
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1849-1850 Whigs
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1850-1853 Whigs
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1853-1857 Democratic
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organized the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska, and crucially, repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing residents to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty
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1857-1861 Democratic
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1861-1865 Republican
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Between 1861 and 1865, 10,000 battles and engagements were fought across the continent, from Vermont to the New Mexico Territory, and beyond. The four-year struggle between north and south made heroes of citizen soldiers, forever changed the role of women in society, and freed more than 3 million slaves.
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The Progressive Movement and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1890-1920s. The Progressive movement was a turn-of-the-century political movement interested in furthering social and political reform, curbing political corruption caused by political machines, and limiting the political influence of large corporations.
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1865-1869 Democratic
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ended slavery
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1869-1877 Republican
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conditions to readmit southern states after the civil war
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addresses citizenship
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1870-1965 The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order.
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voting rights
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In United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Historians saw late 19th-century economic expansion as a time of materialistic excesses marked by widespread political corruption.
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1877-1881 Republican
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The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social connection.
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1881-1881 Republican
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1881-1885 republican
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It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
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1885-1889 Democratic
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1889-1893 Republican
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1897-1901 Republican
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1901-1909 Republican
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1909-1930 Republican
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1913-1912 Democratic
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World War I, also known as the Great War, started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918.
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The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Buenos Aires, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, Paris, and Sydney.
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1921-1923 Republican
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The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921
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1923-1929 Republican
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In 1923, on the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, infamous American suffragette Alice Paul held a second national convention to begin campaigning for a new constitutional amendment, one that would guarantee the rights of women. It was then that she proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
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1929-1933
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The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty; drastic reductions in liquidity, industrial production, and trade; and widespread bank and business failures around the world.
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1933-1945 Democratic
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1933-1936
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1940-1970 The Hispanic community embarked on a social movement aimed at combating institutional racism, increasing cultural hegemony, and guaranteeing equal labor and political rights. The Chicano Movement sparked national conversations on the political and social autonomy of Hispanic groups everywhere in the United States.
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World War II[b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries participated, with many investing all available civilian resources in pursuit of total war.
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During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens
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The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents.
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1945-1953 Democratic
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The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars.
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1953-1961 Republican
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1960-1970 the Red Power movement was a social movement which was led by Native American youth who demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States
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1961-1963 Democratic
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1963-1969 Democratic
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The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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1969-1974 Republican
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1974-1977 Republican
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1977-1981 Democratic
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1981-1989 Republican
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The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on October 11, 1987. Around 750,000 people participated. Its success, size, scope, and historical importance have led to it being called, "The Great March".
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Contemporary history refers to the history of events usually within the lifetime of the historian, although sometimes, in the European or North American context, to post-1989