U.S. HISTORY

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Colonies &  American Revolution

• 1586 Roanoke - Lost Colony

• 1607 Jamestown Colony 

• 1620 Pilgrims

• 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony

• 1636 Roger Williams  & R.I.

• 1637 Anne Hutchinson

• 1675 King Phillip's War

• 1692 Salem Witch Trials

• 1730's Great Awakening

• 1754 7 Year War

• The 13 Colonies

• Road to Revolution

• Sugar Act

• Currency Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts

• First Continental Congress

• Declaration of Independence

• American Revolution Battles

• French Revolution 

U.S. Government & Economy

• 1781 Articles of Confederation

• 1787 Great Compromise

• 1781 Northwest Ordinance

• 1787 U.S. Constitution

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch 

• Checks and Balances

• Article 5 of U.S. Constitution

• Federalists & Anti-Federalists

• 1791 Bill of Rights

• due process of law

• popular sovereignty

• democracy 

• free enterprise

• market economy

• capitalism

• entrepreneur

 

Western Expansion

• 1803 Louisiana Purchase

• War of 1812

• 1823 Erie Canal

• 1830 Indian Removal Act 

• 1838 Trail of Tears

• 1845 Potato Famines 

• 1845 Texas Annexation 

• 1846 Mexican American War

• 1848 The Gold Rush

• 1869 Transcontinental  Railroad 

Industrial Revolution

• textile

• steam engine

• Lowell Mills

• Seneca Falls 

 

Pre & Post Civil War

• 1794 Cotton Gin

• 1820 Missouri Compromise

• 1850 Fugitive Slave Act

• 1857 Dred Scott Case

• 1845 Frederick Douglas

• 1846 Henry David Thoreau

• 1849 Harriet Tubman

• 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe 

• 1860-1865 Abraham Lincoln

• 1861-1864: Civil War

• Confederacy & Union

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 1865- 1877: Reconstruction 

• Black Codes

• KKK

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendments

• Sharecropping

• 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson

 

The Gilded Age

• Alexander Bell

• Thomas Edison 

• Monopolies

• Rise of Labor

 

20th Century 

• Progressive Era 

• Ford & Wright Brothers

• W.E.B. Duois 

• Upton Sinclair

• World War 1 

• Central & Allied Powers 

• Russian Revolution

• 19th Amendment

• The Roaring Twenties

• 1929: Black Tuesday

• 1929-41 Great Depression

• 1933-39 FDR & The New Deal

• FDIC

• SEC

• WPA

• Dust Bowl

 

Rise of Totalitarianism 1920-45

• Treaty of Versailles

• Causes of Rise of Fascism

• Italian Fascism

• German National Socialism

• Communist Totalitarianism

• Extreme nationalism

• Propaganda

• Secrete Police

• Scapegoating

• Causes of WWII

• Holocaust 1933-1945

• World War II 1941-1945

• Pearl Harbor 1941

• FDR, Stalin, Churchill

• D-DAY 1944

• Atomic Bomb 1945

 

Cold War & US Policies 1946-80s

• 1946 Iron Curtain

• 1946 The Truman Doctrine

• 1948 Chinese Civil War

• 1950-53 Korean War 

• 1954 Red Scare & McCarthyism

• 1954  Domino Theory

• 1957-1975 Vietnam War 

• 1960-1963 JFK

• 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis

• LBJ & Great Society

• 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• 1959 -1969 NASA & Moon Walk

 

The Civil Rights Movement

• 1954 Brown v. Board of Education

• 1955 Emmett Till

• 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 1960 Greensboro sit-ins

• 1963 "I have a dream" speech

• 1964 Civil Rights Act

• 1965 Selma march 

• 1965 The Voting Rights Act 

• 70's Women's Suffrage Movement

 

The 80's 

• Reagan Administration

• Reaganomics

• Rust Belt

• Post Cold War US Policy

• Start of the Gulf Wars