American history

  • 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
    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

    John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison

    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

    James Monroe
  • Temperance movement

    social movement advocating lower alcohol consumption
  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams
  • Andrew Jackson

    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

  • Martin Van Buren

  • William Henry Harrison

  • John Tyler

  • The Great Famine and Irish Immigration

    Great famine caused irish to immigrate
  • James K. Polk

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    launched the women's rights and suffrage movements in the United States
  • Zachary Taylor

  • Millard Filmore

  • Franklin Pierce

  • Kansas- Nebraska act

    legislation that repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories (Kansas and Nebraska)
  • James Buchanan

  • Abraham Lincoln election

  • 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

  • Andrew Johnson

  • 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

  • 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

  • Settlement House Movement

    pivotal role in addressing poverty and inequality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • James A. Garfield

  • Chester A. Arthur

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    restricting immigration into the United States
  • Grover Cleveland

  • Benjamin Harrison

  • William Mckinley

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • William Howard Taft

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Stonewall riots

    series of riots and demonstrations against a police raid
  • Richard M. Nixon

  • Gerald R. Ford

  • Jimmy Carter

  • Ronald Reagan

  • Second National March on Washington

    March for gay and lesbian rights
  • George Bush

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    Contemporary history

  • William Clinton

  • George Bush

  • Barack Obama

  • Donald Trump

  • Joe Biden