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Declaration of independence 🟧
The American colonies wanted to be free from Great Britain. -
French join the war against British 🟥
The French join the American revolution and end it -
Constitution is approved 🟧
Constitution was approved at the Philadelphia convention. -
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Early Republic
Early days in the US were unorganized and a very conflicting time. -
Treaty of Paris 🟥
Treaty ending the Revolutionary war -
George Washington
George Washington was elected as the first president of the US. -
Hamilton's Financial plan
plan designed to stabilize the new American economy, included funding the national debt -
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The Second Great Awakening
period of antebellum social reform and an emphasis on salvation by institutions -
John Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
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James Madison
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Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion
belief in the United States that Americans were divinely ordained to expand westward -
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Era Of Good Feelings
era marked by a strong sense of national unity and purpose -
James Monroe
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Temperance movement
social movement advocating lower alcohol consumption -
John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson
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Jacksonian
era associated with President Andrew Jackson and his focus on expanding political participation for the "common man" -
Indian Removal act
a law that allowed the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to move west -
Jackson Vetoes the Second National Bank
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Martin Van Buren
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William Henry Harrison
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John Tyler
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The Great Famine and Irish Immigration
Great famine caused irish to immigrate -
James K. Polk
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Seneca Falls Convention
launched the women's rights and suffrage movements in the United States -
Zachary Taylor
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Millard Filmore
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Franklin Pierce
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Kansas- Nebraska act
legislation that repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories (Kansas and Nebraska) -
James Buchanan
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Abraham Lincoln election
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Abraham Lincoln
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Civil war
North v South -
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Progressive era
widespread social and political reform movements -
Abraham Lincoln Assassination
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Andrew Johnson
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13th amendment
abolished slavery -
14th amendment
guarantees citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US -
reconstruction acts
series of US laws passed between 1867 and 1868 that aimed to rebuild the South after the Civil War -
Ulysses S. Grant
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15th amendment
prohibits the denial of voting rights based on race, or color -
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Jim Crow
state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation -
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Gilded age
flashy materialism and overt political corruption -
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Settlement House Movement
pivotal role in addressing poverty and inequality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -
James A. Garfield
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Chester A. Arthur
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Chinese Exclusion Act
restricting immigration into the United States -
Grover Cleveland
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Benjamin Harrison
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William Mckinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
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William Howard Taft
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Woodrow Wilson
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WW1
a global conflict -
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Roaring 20's
period characterized by rapid social, economic, and cultural change -
Warren G. Harding
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Tulsa Race Massacre
two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre -
Introduction of the ERA
seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters -
Calvin Coolidge
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Herbert Hoover
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Great depression
a severe global economic downturn -
The Dust Bowl
period of severe drought and dust storms that ravaged the American Great Plains -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The New Deal
series of programs made to combat the great depression -
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Chicago Movement
intention to end slums in the city. It organized tenants' unions, held rent strikes, assumed control of a slum tenement -
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WW2
global war -
Japanese Internment
the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated Japanese -
Zoot Suit Riots
Series of riots in LA involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents -
Harry S. Truman
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Cold war
tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Red Power Movement
Gave rights to Native Americans -
John F. Kennedy
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Stonewall riots
series of riots and demonstrations against a police raid -
Richard M. Nixon
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Gerald R. Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan
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Second National March on Washington
March for gay and lesbian rights -
George Bush
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Contemporary history
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William Clinton
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George Bush
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Barack Obama
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Donald Trump
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Joe Biden