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    Jim Crow LAws

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  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

  • Beginning of slavery

    Beginning of slavery

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

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    Old immigrants

    Immigrants from western, northern europe before new immigrants came.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

  • Critical Period

    Critical Period

  • Land Ordinence of 1785

    Land Ordinence of 1785

  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion

  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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    Washington's Presidency

  • Judiciary act of 1789

    Judiciary act of 1789

  • Cotton Gin!

    Cotton Gin!

  • Adams Presidency

    Adams Presidency

  • Jefferson's Presidency

    Jefferson's Presidency

  • Marbury Vs. Madison

    Marbury Vs. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

  • McCulloch Vs. Maryland

    McCulloch Vs. Maryland

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    Susan B anthony

    Fighter for Women's suffrage.
  • Gibbons Vs. Ogden

    Gibbons Vs. Ogden

  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

  • Age of the common man

    Age of the common man

  • Jackson's presidency

    Jackson's presidency

  • Indian removal act of 1830

    Indian removal act of 1830

  • Battle of the Alamo

    Battle of the Alamo

  • Battle of San Jacinto

    Battle of San Jacinto

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  • Annexation of Texas

    Annexation of Texas

  • Mexican-American War

    Mexican-American War

  • Reservation system

    Reservation system

    Indians are forced to live in selected pieces of land across america.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    From Harriet Beecher Stowe came a story of slavery and hardships. Showedthe evils of slavery.
  • Dredd Scott Case

    Dredd Scott Case

    Case pleading for black rights. Was denied.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Election between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckenridge as the two primary candidates.
  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    Battle of Fort Sumter

    South Carolinian militia attack Union held Fort Sumter before the garrison retreats.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    Northern Army suffers a great defeat at the hands of the confederates but successfully halt invasion.
  • Emancipation Proclomation

    Emancipation Proclomation

    Abraham Lincoln declares all slaves within rebelling states free
  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Siege of Vicksburg

    General Grant captures Confederate town, successfully cutting the Confederacy in two.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    Turning point of the war after Virginian army was shattered.
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln gives a speech talking about american ideals and sacrifice.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Amendment giving freedom to slaves.
  • Surrender at Appamatox

    Surrender at Appamatox

    Lee surrenders to Grant, ending the war.
  • Reconstruction

    Reconstruction

    With the end of the war came time to fix the south
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln is shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth.
  • Homestead act

    Homestead act

    Acres of land are offered to willing travelers in the mid-west.
  • First reconstruction act

    First reconstruction act

    Created military occupation of the south.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    All American citizens include blacks
  • Election of 1868

    Election of 1868

    Grant becomes president.
  • Knights of Labor

    Knights of Labor

    Union of speciallized workers for the rights of workers.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Blacks can vote
  • Chinese exclusion act

    Chinese exclusion act

    The number of immigrating chinese is restricted due to overpopulation.
  • Haymarket square

    Haymarket square

    During a strike, a bomb is let off killing several policeman.
  • American Federation of labor

    American Federation of labor

    Association of multiple trade unions and specialized workers.
  • Dawes act

    Dawes act

    Indians begin to become americanized with their land being sold to americans.
  • Sherman anti-trust act.

    Sherman anti-trust act.

    Law passed to remove any boundaries to american trade.
  • Homestead strike

    Homestead strike

    Workers at a steel factory strike out against Henry Frick
  • American Railway Union

    American Railway Union

    Union founded and run by railway workers from Chicago. Led the pullman strike.
  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman Strike

    Railwayy workers strike due to unfair wages and hours.
  • Treaty of Paris 1898

    Treaty that ended S-A war and made Spain give up territories in America
  • Spanish american war

    Spanish american war

    War between Spain and US. US wins
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion

    Chinese rebels attack against european powers. Beat down mercilessly.
  • Open Door Policy

    Allowed open trade between Isolationist China and later Japan.
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    Progressive movement

    Period of reform in american society.
  • Platt Ammendment

    Ammendment that gave control over Cuban affairs.
  • Roosevelt Corollary

    Roosevelt Corollary

    Declared that all european intervention in south america will result in american attack. Reflected monroe doctrine.
  • Federal Trade Commision act

    Commision set up by Wilson in order to fight against trades.
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    Canal opened up between North and South America. This made travel to the pacific half as long.
  • WWI

    WWI

    Total war on a massive scale breaks out in europe. Kills 12 million.
  • Clayton antitrust act

    Expanded on the sherman antitrust act.
  • US enters WWI

    US enters WWI

    America joins WWI against Germany.
  • 14 points

    14 points

    Wilson's plan to keep peace in europe. It fails
  • 18th Ammendment

    18th Ammendment

    Abolished alcohal.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty ended WWI. Harsh on Germany
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    Great Migration

    African Americans from the south moved north.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Culture and arts explode in urban society.
  • Immigration restriction act

    Immigration restriction act

    Immigration into the US is restricted once more to all countries and ethnicities.
  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial

    Man trialed by Tennessee for teaching evolution
  • Black tuesday

    Black tuesday

    Stock market crashes sparking great depression
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    Great Depression

    America saw her worst economic downfall.
  • Germany becomes a fascist nation

  • New Deal

    New Deal

    Roosevelt's plan to ease out of the depression.
  • FDIC

    FDIC

    Regulated how banks operated and gave loans.
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    Drought in the midwest with huge dust storms. Many starved and died.
  • Wagner act

    Wagner act

    Allowed the creations of workers; unions
  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act

    Give benefits to unemployed
  • Non-aggression pact

    Non-aggression pact

    Germany and Russia promise to not attack another.
  • War in Europe Begins

    War in Europe Begins

    Germany invades Poland. France + Britain declare war.
  • germany invades Russia

    germany invades Russia

    German army attacks Russia
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japan sneak attacks Pearl Harbor Hawaii
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    America turns tide of Japanese invasion
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allies invade Normandy
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    Germans launch massive counter attack.
  • Division of Germany

    Germany divided by USSR and western allies
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    Germany surrenders.
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    Cold War

    Period of rivalry and tension between Us and the Soviet Union
  • Hiroshima Bomb

    Hiroshima Bomb

    First nuclear attack ever launched on Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki A Bomb

    Nagasaki A Bomb

    Second nuclear attack ever dropped on Nagasaki
  • Nuremburg trials

    Nuremburg trials

    German and Japanese war criminals tried for crimes against humanity.
  • Marshall Plan

    Give financial aid to europe to combat communism.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Air dropped supplies to west berlin after Stalin blockades it.
  • NATO

    NATO

    Alliances made to combat the soviet union
  • Communist takeover of China

    Moa Zedong establishes communism throughout China
  • Korean War

    North Korea invades South korea. America stops communist advance but does not destroy it.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Alliance of communist states under Russia
  • Sputnik

    First manmade satellite launched into space.
  • U2 incident

    U2 spyplane with Gary Powers shot down over Soviet union.
  • Cuban missile crisis

    closest ever to nuclear war. Russia hides nukes in cuba
  • JFK assassination

    President JFK shot and killed in his motorcade in Dallas.
  • I WAS BORN!!!

    YAY!!!
  • IT'S NO USE

    IT'S NO USE

    Sonic the Hedgehog is released on the XBox 36. It is widely regarded as one of the worst games ever made.
  • 17th amendment

    Allows election of senators by the people.
  • 19th amendment

    Gave women the right to vote.
  • 16th amendment

    Established income tax