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45 Cards in this Set
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1607
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establishment of Jamestown
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1619
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house of burgesses first convenes
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1620
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Mayflower arrives at Cape Cod and the Mayflower Compact is formed
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1763
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end of French and Indian War with the Treaty of Paris; Pontiac's Rebellion; Declaration of 1763
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1775
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Battle of Lexington and Concord; Second Continental Congress; Battle of Bunker Hill
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1776
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Common Sense published; Second Continental Congress declares DOI
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1781
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Yorktown; Cornwallis surrenders
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1787
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Shays' Rebellion; Constitution ratified
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1789
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George Washington elected president
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1803
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Marbury v Madison; Louisiana Purchase; 12th amendment (separate ballot for prez and vp)
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1812-1815
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Madison acts for declaration of war because of the impressment of soldiers and the blockade of American ports; embargo placed on Britain and then repealed; Treaty of Ghent passed (1814); Battle of New Orleans, Jackson
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1820
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James Monroe elected; Missouri Compromise
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1846
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Congress declares war on Mexico at Polk's request; Treaty with Great Britain expanding Oregon Territory; California annexed
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1849
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first gold seekers in SF; Zachary Taylor elected; Harriet Tubman
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1850
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Millard Fillmore elected; Compromise of 1850: admits CA as a free state, popular sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Law; National Women's Rights Convention
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1860
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Abe Lincoln elected; SC secedes
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1861-1865
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Attack on Fort Sumter: beginning of Civil War (1861); Homestead Act (1862); Emancipation Proclamation (1863); Lincoln re-elected; Sherman's march to the sea (1864); Civil War officially ends when Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House; Lincoln assassinated; 13th amendment abolishes slavery (1865)
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1890
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Sherman Anti-Trust Law; Jane Addams sets up Hull House; Riis: How the other Half Lives
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1898
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explosion of the Maine: Remember the Maine; TR sends fleet to the Philippines; annexation of Hawaii; the Spanish-American War; rise of Yellow Journalism
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1917-1918
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immigration act passed requiring literacy tests and banning asians from immigrating to the US; Wilson asks Congress to declare war on Germany (1917); Wilson proposes the Fourteen Points; Germany signs armistice
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1929
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2% of existing nationalities at 1920 (The immigration act of 1924) is enforced
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1933
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FDR elected; the New Deal; Bureau of Indian Affairs formed; sales of Indian lands halted
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1941-1945
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Pearl Harbor attack; WWII; US atomic bombs Japan
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1947
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Marshall Plan
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1954
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Berlin Conference; Ike gives his domino theory speech; McCarthy begins his "witch-hunts"; Brown v Board of Ed; SEATO; Vietnam War;
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1957
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Ike re-elected; Eisenhower Doctrine; Little Rock Nine; Cold War
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1964
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Lyndon Johnson: War on Poverty; 24th amendment prohibits the poll tax; Malcolm X; Start of Vietnam War; Berkeley Free Speech Mvmt;
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1973
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Nixon suspends offensive action in Vietnam; Roe v Wade; Paris Peace Accords; Watergate Scandal
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1975
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OPEC raises oil prices 10%;
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1607-1775
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Colonial
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1828-1836
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Age of Jackson
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1830-1850
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Reforms
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1865-1877
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Reconstruction
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1870-1880
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Gilded Age
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1870-1890-1900
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Age of Industrialism
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1880-1890
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Populism
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1900-1914
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Progressivism
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1933-1939
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the New Deal
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1960-1968
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New Frontier and Great Society
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colonies: industry
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northernmost: more mountainous; cattle and grain; chesapeake colonies and north carlina more depndent on tobacco; suthernmost colonies grwo mostly rice and indigo; otton does not become important til the 19th century
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north america after 1763
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french kicked off the n am contnent; only the spanish and the english occupy it; division at the mississippi river; spanish get new orleans; britain has canada as well as far as hudson bay
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pattern of ratification in the colonies of the constitution
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federalists tend to cluster around the coastal areas, which enjoyed proftable commerce witht hte outside world including the export of grain and tobacco; impoverished frontiersmen, suspicious of a powerful new central govt; generally antifederalists; antifederalist majority in North Carolina; New York
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missouri compromise
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36 degrees 30 line
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removal of indian tribes
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seminoe; shicasaw; choctaw; creek and cherokee move to indianresercations in oklahoma; 1830 Indian removal act
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1860 Industry and agriculture
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south: cotton north: dairy cattle and hay; middle: corn and wheat, tobacco and hemp; west: silver and gold
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