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Term
1492
Definition
-Columbus sails the ocean blue
Term
1494
Definition
-Treaty of Tordesillas (divides the world between Portugal and Spain)
Term
1584-1587
Definition
-Roanoke ("the lost colony"; first settlement in America)
Term
1607
Definition
-Jamestown (first permanent British settlement)

-Headright System (land for population, people spread out)
Term
1614
Definition
-John Rolfe introduces tobacco cultivation (first American cash crop)
Term
1619
Definition
-House of Burgesses (Virginia; 1st representative assembly)
Term
1620
Definition
-Plymouth Colony

-Mayflower Compact (agreed rule by majority)
Term
1629
Definition
-Massachusetts Bay ("City Upon a Hill")

-First governor (Winthrop)
Term
1630
Definition
-Puritan Migration
Term
1634
Definition
-Roger Williams banished from Ma. Bay Colony
Term
1636
Definition
-Roger Williams founds Rhode Island
Term
1649
Definition
-Maryland Toleration Act
Term
1650-1696
Definition
-Navigation Acts (limited trade, taxes on various items, established mercantilism)
Term
1660
Definition
-Half Way Covenant (aims to get people back into church; erosion of Puritanism)
Term
1670
Definition
-Restoration Colony (charter granted by Charles II; for Carolina colonies)
Term
1672
Definition
-Blue Laws (Connecticut; death for disagreeing with parents or bible)
Term
1676
Definition
-Bacon's Rebellion (Virginia; indentured servants, first uprising against the British)
Term
1682
Definition
-William Penn founds Pennsylvania (Quaker)
Term
1686
Definition
-Dominion of New England (attempt to unify northern colonies, suspends liberties like town meetings)
Term
1692
Definition
-Salem Witchcraft Trials (lol Christians you so silly)
Term
1696
Definition
-Parliamentary Act (more enforcement of the Navigation Acts)
Term
1700's
Definition
-The Enlightenment Era (natural rights, diesm, John Locke, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau etc.)
Term
1720-1740
Definition
-Great Awakening (salvation for all, extreme piety, in response to the Enlightement)
Term
1733
Definition
-Molasses Act (import taxes on molasses, sugar, rum)
Term
1735
Definition
-Zenger Trial (victory for freedom of the press)
Term
1754-1763
Definition
-French and Indian War (France vs. Britain, Britain wins, in debt -> taxes colonies)
Term
1754
Definition
-Albany Plan of Union (for defense; shows disunity of colonies)
Term
1761
Definition
-Writs of Assistance (search warrants to enforce Navigation Acts)
Term
1763
Definition
-Treaty of Paris (ends F&I War)
-Paxton Boys Rebellion
-Proclamation of 1763 (restricts settlement left of Apps)
-Pontiac's Rebellion (salutary neglect ends)
Term
1764
Definition
-Sugar Act (cuts Molasses Act in half, 1st direct tax; "No taxation without representation")
-Currency Acts (prevent printing of colonial money)
Term
1765
Definition
-Stamp Act (tax on printed materials + standing army in colonies)
-Sons of Liberty enforce non-importation
-Stamp Act Congress (protests Stamp Act)
Term
1766
Definition
-Quartering Act (colonies must support troops)
Term
1767
Definition
-Townshend Acts (tax lead, paint, paper, glass, tea)
Term
1770
Definition
-Boston Massacre (first deaths over conflict, propaganda for colonies)
Term
1772
Definition
-Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence
Term
1773
Definition
-Tea Act (gives England a monopoly, leads to Boston Tea Party)
-Boston Tea Party (colonists dump tea into the sea while wearing fashionably attire)
Term
1774
Definition
-Intolerable Acts (passes to punish for Boston Tea Party)
-Boston Port Act (closes ports)
-First Continental Congress (in response to Intolerable Acts)
Term
1775
Definition
-Battles of Lexington and Concord (first battle)

-Second Continental Congress convenes
Term
1776
Definition
-Declaration of Independence
-R.H. Lee's Resolution (independent states)
-Thomas Paine's Common Sense (rallying cry for colonists)
Term
1777
Definition
-Battle of Saratoga (turning point in Revolution; leads to France as an ally)
-Articles of Confederation adopted by Congress
Term
1778
Definition
-Treaty of Alliance (U.S. and France; France joins war)
Term
1781
Definition
-British surrender at Yorktown (Cornwallis loses)
Term
1783
Definition
-Treaty of Peace with Britain (Independence recognized)

-Articles of Confederation revealed to be weak
Term
1785
Definition
-Land Ordinance of 1785 (govt. responsible over territory)

-Treaty of Hopewell (ends hostilities with Cherokee Indians)
Term
1786
Definition
-Shay's Rebellion (farmer revolt; put down by donations, Articles of Confederation weak)
-Annapolis Convention (agreement with states; fails)
Term
1787
Definition
-Constitutional Convention (revise Articles of Confederation)
-Great Compromise (bi-cameral legislature)
-3/5 Compromise
Term
1789
Definition
-George Washington as president
-Judiciary Act (courts beneath Supreme Court)
-French Revolution (U.S. stays out)
Term
1791
Definition
-Bill of Rights ratified

-First bank of U.S.
Term
1793
Definition
-Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney, interchangeable parts, increased productivity of the cotton industry)
Term
1794
Definition
-Whiskey Rebellion (farmers don't want to pay excise tax, Washington uses troops to put down)
Term
1795
Definition
-Jay Treaty [with Britain, port trading changed, Britain says it will leave forts and allow U.S. to trade in Asia (not really)]
-Pinckney's Treaty (Spain; free navigation of Mississippi)
Term
1796
Definition
-Washington's Farewell Address (strong central govt. and foreign neutrality; against political parties)
-John Adams elected (Federalist), Jefferson (Rep.) VP
-XYZ Affair - France attacks U.S. ships (no money, no war)
Term
1798
Definition
-Alien and Sedition Acts (illegal to publish anything against govt.)
Term
1798-1799
Definition
-Virginia and Kentucky Resolution (gives states rights to nullify laws)
Term
1799
Definition
-Fries Uprising (opposes federal tax on property)

-Logan Act (a citizen cannot represent govt.)
Term
1800
Definition
-Convention of 1800 (ends hostilities after XYZ Affair)
-Thomas Jefferson (Rep.) elected (govt. changes to Democratic-Republican)
-Midnight Judges (Adams appoints officials before leave)
Term
1803
Definition
-Louisiana Purchase (doubled size of U.S., Manifest Destiny)

-Marbury vs. Madison (establishes Judicial Review)
Term
1804
Definition
-12th Amendment (separate ballots for Pres. and VP)

-Essex Junto (Federalists try to secede; fails)
Term
1804-1806
Definition
-Lewis and Clark Expedition (Manifest Destiny)
Term
1805
Definition
-Tipoli war ends (defeat of the Barbary pirates)
Term
1807
Definition
-Steamboat (Robert Fulton)
-Embargo Act (stops exports)
-James Madison (Rep.) elected
Term
1809
Definition
-Nonintercourse Act (resumes trade with France and Britain)
Term
1810
Definition
-Fletcher vs. Pack (action of state can be declared unconstitutional)
Term
1811
Definition
-Battle of Tippecanoe (Harrison defeats Tecumseh)
Term
1812-1814
Definition
-War of 1812 (U.S. vs. Britain; stop impressment)
Term
1814
Definition
-Treaty of Ghent (ends war of 1812 with a status-quo)

-Hartford Convention (Federalists against war of 1812)
Term
1816
Definition
-American Colonization Society (free blacks -> Liberia)
-Monroe (Rep.) elected
-Henry Clay's American System (domestic improvements and protective tariff)
Term
1817
Definition
-Rush-Bagot disarmament (U.S. and Britain; fishing rights)
Term
1818
Definition
-Convention of 1818 (enforcement of fishing rights, 49th parallel)
Term
1819
Definition
-Transcontinental Treaty (U.S. gets Florida from Spain
-Panic of 1817 (banks can't pay loans of Bank of U.S.)
-Mculloch vs. Maryland (power to tax and destroy)
Term
1820
Definition
-Missouri Compromise (no slavery north of 36"30' line)

-Land Act (reduces price of land, encourages development)
Term
1822
Definition
-Cumberland Road Bill
Term
1823
Definition
-Monroe Doctrine declared (no future colonization of Western hemisphere)
Term
1824
Definition
-Jackson's "Corrupt Bargain" (took advantage of friends in the House to get elected)
-Gibbons vs. Ogden (interstate trade controlled by fed. courts)
Term
1825
Definition
-Erie Canal opens (connects East and MidWest, trade and transportation)
Term
1826
Definition
-Panama Conference (congress does not send an ambassador and avoids slavery issue)
Term
1828
Definition
-Tariff of Abominations (protective tariff)
-South Carolina Exposition and Protest (right of state to nullify laws)
-Andrew Jackson (Dem.) elected, "Kitchen Cabinet"
Term
1830s
Definition
-Second Great Awakening
Term
1831
Definition
-"The Liberator" begins publication

-Nat Turner rebellion (slave revolt)
Term
1831-1838
Definition
-Trail of Tears (Southern Indians moved to Oklahoma)
Term
1832
Definition
-Tariff of 1832 (raises tariffs)
-Force Bill (allows president power to enforce tariff)
-Ordinance of Nullification (S. Carolina nullifies tariff)
Term
1833
Definition
-Roger Taney (removes federal funds from U.S. Bank)
Term
1835-1836
Definition
-Texas War for Independence; "Lone Star Republic"
Term
1836
Definition
-Specie Circular (Western land must be paid by hard currency)
-Van Buren (Dem.) elected
Term
1837
Definition
-Panic of 1837 (due to Jackson's withdrawal of funds from the Bank of the U.S.)
Term
1838-1839
Definition
-Aroostook "War" (boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick)
Term
1842
Definition
-Dorr Rebellion (RI; against land qualifications for voting)
-Webster-Ashburton Treaty (ends boundary disputs of Aroostook "War"
Term
1843
Definition
-Oregon Trail opens (Manifest Destiny)
Term
1844
Definition
-Polk (Dem.) elected (54" 40’ or Fight campaign slogan)
Term
1846
Definition
-Wilmot Proviso (no slavery in new stats from Mexican land; fails)
-Walker Tariff Bill (lowered tariff)
Term
1846-1848
Definition
-Mexican-American War
Term
1847
Definition
-Polk Doctrine (resurrection of Monroe Doctrine concerning new states)
Term
1848
Definition
-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (ends Mex-Am. War)
-Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill in California (gold rush)
-Seneca Falls convention (Women's Rights)
Term
1850
Definition
-Clay's Compromise of 1850 (California free state, U.S. takes Texas debts, slave trade banned in Washington, Fugitive Slave Law strengthened)
Term
1852
Definition
-Commodore Matthew Perry (opened Japan to U.S. trade)

-Uncle Tom's Cabin published (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Term
1853
Definition
-Gadsen Purchase (U.S. buys land from Mexico to build RR)
Term
1854
Definition
-Kansas-Nebraska Act (slavery determined by popular sovereignty, passed to create RR to go West)
Term
1856
Definition
-Pottawatomie Massacre (John Brown kills four pro-slavery people like a baws)
Term
1857
Definition
-Dred Scott decision (slaves are property)

-Panic of 1857 (economic depression)
Term
1858
Definition
-Lincoln-Douglas Debates (on extension of slavery into new territories)
-"A house divided against itself can't stand" (Lincoln speech)
Term
1859
Definition
-John Brown's Raid (Harpers Ferry; to free slaves)
Term
1860
Definition
-Crittenden Compromise (last attempt to bar slavery below 36' 30 line; fails)
-Lincoln (Rep.) elected
Term
1860-1865
Definition
-The Civil War
-Beginning of Industrial Revolution (Guilded Age)
Term
1861
Definition
-Fort Sumter (first battle of Civil War)

-1st income tax
Term
1862
Definition
-Homestead Act (govt. land grants for agricultural college)
Term
1863
Definition
-Battle of Gettysburg (turning point of the war)
-Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves free (didn't actually free any; war is now for slavery, stops Britain from intervening)
Term
1864
Definition
-Lincoln (Rep.) is elected
-Wade-Davis Bill (South divided into units until majority pledges and bans slavery; Manifesto lets Congress control reconstruction, not executive branch)
Term
1865
Definition
-Civil War Ends (Appomattox, VA)
-Freedman's Bureau established (education and food)
-13th amendment (abolishes slavery)
Term
1866
Definition
-Civil Rights Act (gives blacks equal rights)
Term
1867
Definition
-Reconstruction Acts (divide south into 5 military units, protect black voting, establish new constitutions)
Term
1868
Definition
-14th Amendment (born/naturalized in US are citizens)
-Klu Klux Klan begins
Term
1869
Definition
-Transcontinental RR completed

-Knights of Labor formed
Term
1870
Definition
-15th Amendment (right to vote can't be determined by race)

-Force Acts (protect constitutional rights to blacks)
Term
1872
Definition
-Credit Mobilier Scandal (stockholders of RR overcharge govt.)
Term
1873
Definition
-Slaughterhouse Cases (14th Amendment doesn't place fed. govt. under obligation to protect basic rights concerning monopolies)
Term
1874
Definition
-Red River Wars (NA's last attempt to resist reservationists)
-Farmers Alliances (Anti-RR pools, rebates, Granger laws)
Term
1876
Definition
-Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer)

-Telephone (Alex Graham Bell)
Term
1877
Definition
-Compromise of 1877 (troops withdraw from South in exchange for Hayes as president; ends reconstruction)
Term
1878
Definition
-Hall vs. DeCuir (allowed segregation)

-Treaty of 1878 (U.S. gets rights to Pago-Pago, Samoa)
Term
1879
Definition
-Lightbulb (Thomas Edison)
Term
1880's
Definition
-Dust Bowl
Term
1881
Definition
-"A Century of Dishonor" (Helen Hunt Jackson on NA's)
Term
1882
Definition
-Chinese Exclusion Act (Chinese taking American jobs)

-European Restriction Act
Term
1886
Definition
-American Federation of Labor founded
-Interstate Commerce Act (regulates RR + private business)
-Haymarket Incident (people think unions are radical)
Term
1887
Definition
-Interstate Commerce Commission (forbids long/short haul practices)
-Dawes Severalty Act (govt. breaks up land individually)
Term
1889
Definition
-Hull House founded (Jane Addams)
Term
1890
Definition
-Sherman Antitrust Act
-Wounded Knee (Indian revolt, lat Indian war)
-McKinley Tariff Act (raises tariffs)
Term
1892
Definition
-Homestead Strike
-Populist Platform (8hr work day, nationalization of RR, silver coinage, anti-rich capitalist, decrease tariff)
Term
1893
Definition
-Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed
Term
1894
Definition
-Pullman strike (worker unions)
Term
1896
Definition
-Plessy vs. Ferguson (blacks are "separate but equal")

-Cross of Gold Speech (Bryan)
Term
1898
Definition
-Spanish-American War (over Cuba)
-Peace of Paris (Cuba independence, U.S. gets Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam)
Term
1899
Definition
-Teller Amendment (gives Cuba freedom)
Term
1900
Definition
-National Negro Business League (Booker T. Washington)
-Gold Standard Act (gold = standard unit of value)
-Progressive Era begins & Boxer Rebellion (Chinese)
Term
1901
Definition
-Platt Amendment (U.S. given a base in Cuba and permission to intervene and consent to treaties)
Term
1903
Definition
-Hay-Buena Varilla Treaty (gives U.S. land in Panama)

-Elkins Act (deals with RR rebates, "Square Deal" policy)
Term
1904
Definition
-Roosevelt Corollary (Addition to Monroe Doctrine; made U.S. "Team America - World Police" over the Western Hemisphere)
Term
1905
Definition
-Industrial Workers of the World formed
Term
1906
Definition
-The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

-Pure Food and Drug Act (establishes the FDA)
Term
1909
Definition
-NAACP founded
-Dollar Diplomacy (Taft; further aims at Latin America by guaranteeing loans to foreign countries)
Term
1913
Definition
-16th Amendment (income taxes)
-17th Amendment (direct popular election of Senate)
-Federal Reserve Act (creates federal reserve system)
Term
1914
Definition
-Federal Trade Commission established
-Clayton Antitrust Act (strengthens anti-monopolistic reform)
Term
1915
Definition
-USS Lusitania sunk by German submarine
Term
1916
Definition
-Adamson Act (allows govt. to take over RR)
-War Industries Board (help coordinate production)
-Fuel Administration (controls fuel prices)
Term
1917
Definition
-U.S. enters WWI
-Great Migration (blacks move from South to North)
-Creel Committee (propaganda)
Term
1918
Definition
-National War Labor Board (prevents strikes)
-Treaty of Versailles (Ends WWI, Germany accepts blame)
-Wilson's 14 Points (outline ideal terms for Germany surrender)
Term
1919
Definition
-Palmer Raids (target liber radicals/anarchists; Communist radicalism)
-18th Amendment (prohibits alcoholic beverages)
Term
1921
Definition
-Birth Control League (women's rights)
-Revenue Act (decrease taxes)
-Immigration Act (restricts immigration)
Term
1922
Definition
-Fordney-McCumber Tariff (high increase in duties)
Term
1923
Definition
-Teapot Dome Scandal (secretary of Interior Fall sells oil reserves to private industry)
Term
1924
Definition
-Dawes Plan (helps Germany with reparation; loans)
Term
1925
Definition
-Scopes "Monkey" Trial (religion vs. evolution in schools)
Term
1929
Definition
-Kellog-Briand Pact (peace alliance between Japan, Italy, France, U.S., U.K. and Germany)
Term
1883
Definition
-Jim Crow laws (racial discrimination)
Term
1929
Definition
-The Great Stock Market Crash
-Agricultural Market Act (establishes federal farm board)
Term
1930
Definition
-Smoot-Hawley Tariff (protective tariff, makes it harder for countries to trade with U.S. and creates a worldwide economic depression)
Term
1931
Definition
-Japan invades Manchuria
Term
1932
Definition
-Federal Home Loan Bank Act (assists with mortgages)
-Public Works Project
-Bonus Army (veterans march on DC to receive bonus)
Term
1933
Definition
-New Deal Begins
-WPA (works progress administration employs artists)
-CCC (civilian conservation corps)
Term
1933
Definition
-NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act; min. wages)
-Glass-Steagall Banking Act (keeps gold standard)
-SEC (Securities and Exchange Commision; watch market $)
Term
1933
Definition
-AAA (Agricultural Exchange Commission; farming produce)
-TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
-"Good Neighbor" Policy (U.S. no longer police of West)
Term
1933
Definition
-20th Amendment (presidential term starts on Jan. 20)
Term
1934
Definition
-Indian Reorganization Act (restore tribal ownership of land)
-Share the Wealth Society (communism bro)
Term
1935
Definition
-Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Board)
-Fair Labor Standard Act (min. wage and hours)
-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organization; labor unions)
Term
1935
Definition
-Social Security Acts (benefits to old and unemployed)
-1st Neutrality Act (stop selling munitions to belligerents)
Term
1936
Definition
-2nd Neutrality Act (no lending money to belligerent nations)
Term
1937
Definition
-3rd Neutrality Act (nations at war pay and transport $)
-Quarantine Speech (isolate belligerent nations)
-Panay Incident (Japanese bombs U.S. ship; we demands $)
Term
1938
Definition
-End of New Deal Reforms
-Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Term
1940
Definition
-Selective Service (peace time draft)
-Smith Act (fingerprinting of aliens)
Term
1941
Definition
-Pearl Harbor (directly contributes to US entering WW2)
-Lend Lease (lend materials for war)
-US enters WW2, Japanese relocation camps
Term
1942
Definition
-Congress of Racial Equality (prevent segregation and discrimination)
-Revenue Act of 1942 (increase tax revenues for WW2)
Term
1943
Definition
-Office of Price Administration(seals prices, ration food)
-Detroit race riots (govt. does nothing)
-Casablanca Conference (FDR and Churchill meet to discuss strategy against Germany)
-Cairo Conference (conference of allied leaders to seek Japan's unconditional surrender)
-Tehran Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill to discuss strategy vs Germany)
Term
1944
Definition
-GI Bill (benefits for veterans, $ for education, creates middle class)
-D-Day (July 6, invasion for liberation of france on the beaches of Normandy)
Term
1945
Definition
-Yalta Conference (allies meet to decide on final war plans)
-US joins the United Nations
-Germany and Japan Surrender (ends WW2)
-Roosevelt dies, Truman president
-Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin meet in Germany to set up zones)
Term
1946
Definition
-Kennan containment (prevent spread of communism)
-Employment Act (goal to have full employment)
-Atomic Energy Act (develop better bombs)
-President's commission on Civil Rights (advocate rights)
Term
1947
Definition
-The Marshall Plan (economic aid to Europe after WW2)
-Taft-Hartley Act (80 day cooling period not to strike, labor leaders must sign non-communist oath)
-Truman Doctrine (financial commitment to nations fighting communism)
-Federal Employee Loyalty Program (anti-communistic oaths)
-National Security Act (creates CIA)
Term
1948
Definition
-Truman desegregates armed forces
-Berlin Blockade (Berlin airlift)
-Nuremberg trials (convict war criminals in Germany)
Term
1949
Definition
-NATO formed
-Fair Deal (most don't pass, housing act for construction, minimum wage increase)
Term
1949
Definition
Fair Deal Policies (Truman, minimum wage increase, construction increases)
Term
1950
Definition
Korean War begins (US enters for containment of communism)
Term
1950
Definition
McCarthyism (fear of communism's wide spread)
Term
1951
Definition
22nd Amendment (president can only serve 2 terms or up to 10 years)
Term
1952
Definition
Eisenhower elected (will end Korean war)
Term
1953
Definition
Rosenbergs executed for treason against US (gave info to Soviet Union)
Term
1954
Definition
Fall of Dien Bien Phu (French lose in Vietnam)
Term
1954
Definition
Geneva Conference (reduce nukes, divide Vietnam along 17th parallel - elections in a year)
Term
1955
Definition
Montgomery bus boycott begins (Rosa Parks)
Term
1955
Definition
Warsaw Pact (USSR and Eastern European allies unite to counter NATO)
Term
1956
Definition
Suez Crisis (Egyptian prez rationalizes canal)
Term
1956
Definition
Interstate Highway Act (build federal roads, movement into rural areas, creation of suburbs)
Term
1956
Definition
US puts Diem in power in South Vietnam
Term
1957
Definition
Eisenhower Doctrine (extends Truman Doctrine to Middle Earth to help fight Mordor's armies and their communist ways)
Term
1957
Definition
Domino Theory (if one country falls to Communism, it will undermine another that will fall)
Term
1957
Definition
Civil Rights Act (creates permanent civil rights commission to supervise voting)
Term
1957
Definition
Russians launch Sputnik satellite (space race begins)
Term
1957
Definition
1st nuclear power plant
Term
1958
Definition
National Defense Education Act (fund math, science, and language programs)
Term
1959
Definition
Cuban Revolution (Castro invades)
Term
1960
Definition
U-2 incident (US spy plane goes down in USSR - Covert operation discovered)
Term
1960
Definition
Civil Rights Act part deux (federal govt. registers black voters)
Term
1960
Definition
Kennedy elected
Term
1961
Definition
Bay of Pigs invasion (attempt to overthrow Castro; fails)
Term
1961
Definition
Alliance for Progress (build up Third World nations so the can manage their own affairs)
Term
1961
Definition
Berlin wall built (stop citizens from crossing East/West boundary line)
Term
1961
Definition
Peace Corps (encourage US citizens to help third world countries)
Term
1961
Definition
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - Arab majority, oil trade, join together to protest; oil prices go up, US fuel shortage
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