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44 Cards in this Set
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1607 |
Jamestown colony founded in Virginia |
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1688 |
Glorious Revolution in England |
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1757-1763 |
7 years war French and Indian war |
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1765 |
Stamp act |
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1775-1783 |
American Revolution |
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1776 |
Declaration of independence Common sense Battle of Trenton |
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1787 |
Constitutional Convention |
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1800 |
Peaceful Revolution Thomas Jefferson elected |
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1803 |
Louisiana Purchase Marbury vs Madison. Judicial review |
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1814 |
Hartford Convention |
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1820 |
Missouri Compromise/established the 36-30 line dividing slave and free states |
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1824 |
J.Q. Adams elected |
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1828 |
Andrew Jackson's election |
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1846-1848 |
Mexican American War Treaty of Guadalupe Hodalgo (1849) |
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1848 |
Seneca falls convention |
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1850 |
Compromise of 1850/made California a free state and fugitive slave law passed |
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1860 |
Lincoln elected president South Carolina seceded from union |
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1861-1865 |
Civil war |
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1865-1877 |
Reconstruction |
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1898 |
Spanish American War Hawaii annexed Beginning of American Imperialism |
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1906 |
Upton Sinclair's the Jungle Pure Food & drug act passed |
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1912 |
Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson elected president |
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1916-1918 |
Us involvement in WW1 |
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1919 |
Treaty of Versailles Wilson's 14 points |
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1920 |
Prohibition 19th ammendment secures voting rights for women |
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1929 |
Stock market crash |
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1932 |
Franklin D Roosevelt elected president |
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1933 |
New deal/repeal of prohibition |
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1929-1941 |
Great depression |
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1941-1945 |
WW2 |
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1947 |
Marshall plan Beginning of cold war |
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1950-1953 |
Korean War |
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1954 |
Brown vs Board of education supreme court strikes down separate but equal |
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1962 |
Cuban missile crisis world avoids nuclear war |
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1963 |
March on Washington JFK assassinated |
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1964-1975 |
Vietnam War |
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1968 |
Tet offensive in Vietnam MFK and RFK assassinated Nixon elected |
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1972-1974 |
Water gate scandal Nixon elected in 1972 resigns office 1974 |
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1989 |
Berlin wall falls |
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1991 |
Soviet Union collapses End of cold war |
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1998 |
Bill Clinton impeached by house of reps Senate acquits |
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2000 |
Contested presidential election Bush becomes president |
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2001 |
World trade center collapsed War against terrorism |
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2004 |
First African American president Barack Obama elected |