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Timeline of American History
Dates
John Cabot
1497 - 1499
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Spanish Armada
August 8, 1588
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Salutary Neglect
1607 - 1763
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Colonial Era
May 14, 1607 - February 10, 1763
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Jamestown founded- 1607
May 14, 1607
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Mayflower Compact
November 21, 1620
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Pilgrims land- 1620
November 21, 1620
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Roger Williams
March 1636 - March 1683
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Anne Hutchinson
October 21, 1636 - August 1643
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Massachusetts General School Act of 1647
1647
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Maryland Toleration Act
April 21, 1649
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Acts of Trade and Navigation
October 9, 1651 - July 4, 1776
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John Locke
1671 - October 28, 1704
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Peter Zenger
1734 - 1735
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Albany Plan of Union
1754
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French & Indian War- 1754-1763
May 28, 1754 - February 10, 1763
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Wolfe
1756 - September 13, 1759
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Pitt
June 1757 - April 7, 1778
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Fort Duquesne
September 14, 1758
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Quebec
September 13, 1759
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Writs of Assistance
1760 - 1766
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Peace of Paris, 1763
February 10, 1763
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Pre-Revolutionary Era
February 10, 1763 - July 4, 1776
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Grenville
16 April 1763 - 13 July 1765
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Pontiac
April 27, 1763 - April 20, 1769
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Proclamation of 1763
October 7, 1763
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Committees of Correspondence
1764 - 1776
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Sam Adams
1764 - 1797
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Sugar Act, 1764
April 5, 1764 - 1766
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John Adams
1765 - 1800
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Patrick Henry
1765 - 1794
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Stamp Act
March 22, 1765 - March 18, 1766
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Sons of Liberty
August 1765 - 1776
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Stamp Act Congress
October 7, 1765 - October 25, 1765
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Townshend Acts
June 29, 1767 - April 12, 1770
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Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
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Boston Tea Party- 1773
December 16, 1773
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First Continental Congress- 1774
September 5, 1774 - October 26, 1774
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Lexington- Concord- 1775
April 19, 1775
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Second Continental Congress- 1775-1781
May 10, 1775 - March 1, 1781
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Thomas Jefferson
June 1775 - March 4, 1809
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Bunker Hill
June 17, 1775
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Loyalists
October 28, 1775 - 1783
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American Revolution
July 4, 1776 - September 3, 1783
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Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
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Trenton
December 26, 1776
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Burgoyne
June 14, 1777 - October 17, 1777
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Saratoga- 1777
September 19, 1777 - October 7, 1777
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Valley Forge
December 19, 1777 - June 18, 1778
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Articles of Confederation
March 1, 1781 - March 4, 1789
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Surrender at Yorktown- 1781
October 19, 1781
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Articles of Confederation Period
September 3, 1783 - January 1, 1789
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Land Ordinance- 1785
May 20, 1785
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Shay's Rebellion- 1786-1787
August 29, 1786 - June 1787
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Alexander Hamilton
September 11, 1786 - July 12, 1804
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Annapolis Convention
September 11, 1786 - September 14, 1786
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Anti-Federalists
1787 - 1791
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Federalists
1787 - 1791
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Great Compromise
July 12, 1787
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Northwest Ordinance- 1787
July 13, 1787
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The Federalist
October 1787 - August 1788
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Ratification of the Constitution- 1788
June 21, 1788
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New Nation Era
January 1, 1789 - December 24, 1814
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George Washington
April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797
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First president
Oversaw creation of strong federal government
Set precedents
Tariff of 1789
July 4, 1789
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Judiciary Act of 1789
September 24, 1789
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Nonintercourse Act
July 22, 1790 - June 30, 1834
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Democratic-Republican Party
1791 - 1825
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Whiskey Rebellion
1791 - 1794
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Bank of the United States
February 25, 1791 - February 1836
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
August 1791 - August 25, 1802
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Federalist Party
1792 - 1824
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Cotton Gin Invented- 1793
1793
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Impressment
1793 - 1814
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Citizen Genet
April 8, 1793 - January 1794
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Neutrality Proclamation, 1793
April 22, 1793
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Eli Whitney
March 14, 1794 - 1801
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Washington's Farewell Address
September 19, 1796
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John Adams
March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801
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Only Federalist president
Signed Alien and Sedition Acts
Kept nation at peace
XYZ Affair
July 1797 - October 1798
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Naturalization Act
June 18, 1798 - April 14, 1802
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Alien and Sedition Acts
June 25, 1798 - March 3, 1801
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
November 16, 1798 - December 3, 1799
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John Marshall
January 31, 1801 - July 6, 1835
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Midnight Judges
February 13, 1801 - March 3, 1801
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Thomas Jefferson
March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1809
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Elected in "Revolution of 1800"
Aquired Louisiana
Set up Embargo Act
Marbury v. Madison
February 24, 1803
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Louisiana Purchase- 1803
July 4, 1803
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Lewis and Clark
May 14, 1804 - September 23, 1806
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Embargo Act- 1807-1809
December 22, 1807 - March 1, 1809
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James Madison
March 4, 1809 - March 4, 1817
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Led the Nation in the War of 1812
Nation entered Era of Good Feelings under him
Supported some of the American System
John C. Calhoun
1810 - March 31, 1850
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National Road
1811
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Old Hickory
1813 - 1837
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White House Burned- 1814
August 24, 1814
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"The Star-Spangled Banner"
September 15, 1814
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Hartford Convention
December 15, 1814 - January 5, 1815
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Era of Good Feelings
December 24, 1814 - December 3, 1828
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Battle of New Orleans- 1815
January 8, 1815
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American System
1816 - 1830
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James Monroe
March 4, 1817 - March 4, 1825
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Last Founding Father President
Bought Florida from Spain
President durring Era of Good Feelings
Missouri Compromise
March 6, 1820
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Stephen Austin
June 30, 1821 - January 1834
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Nicholas Biddle
1822 - 1839
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Monroe Doctrine- 1823
December 2, 1823
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John Quincy Adams
March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829
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Reduced national debt
Advocated American System
Attacked by political enemies
Erie Canal
October 26, 1825
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Tariff of Abominations- 1828-1832
May 19, 1828 - July 14, 1832
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Election of 1828
December 2, 1828
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Age of Jackson
December 3, 1828 - November 4, 1840
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South Carolina Exposition
December 19, 1828
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Andrew Jackson
March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837
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Ended Nullification Crisis
Destroyed the BUS
Removed the Indians in the Trial of Tears
Spoils system
March 8, 1829 - January 16, 1883
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Webster–Hayne debate
January 19, 1830 - January 27, 1830
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Indian Removal Act- 1830
May 28, 1830
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Sam Houston
December 1832 - March 16, 1861
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Compromise of 1833
1833
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Alamo- 1836
February 23, 1836 - March 6, 1836
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Panic of 1837
1837 - 1843
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Martin Van Buren
March 4, 1837 - March 4, 1841
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Jackson's chosen successor
Failed to solve Panic of 1837
Refused to annex Texas
Dorothea Dix
1840 - 1881
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Manifest Destiny Era
November 4, 1840 - January 29, 1850
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William Henry Harrison
March 4, 1841 - April 4, 1841
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First president to die in office
Shortest tenure of any president
Gave longest inaugural address in American history
John Tyler
April 4, 1841 - March 4, 1845
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First nonelected president
Ejected from party
Sought to annex Texas
Stephen Douglas
1843 - June 3, 1861
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54°40′ or Fight
1844 - June 18, 1846
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Francis Parkman
1844 - November 8, 1893
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James K. Polk
March 4, 1845 - March 4, 1849
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Acquired Oregon and the Southwest
Led nation during Mexican American War
Last strong pre-Civil War president
Mormon Migration- 1847-1869
April 5, 1847 - May 10, 1869
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1848 - October 26, 1902
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Seneca Falls Convention
July 19, 1848 - July 20, 1848
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Forty-niners
1849 - 1855
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Zachary Taylor
March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850
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Didn't do much to check growing sectional crisis
Proposed admitting California directly as a state instead of as a territory
Died in office
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1850 - 1862
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Pre-Civil War Era
January 29, 1850 - April 12, 1861
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Millard Fillmore
July 9, 1850 - March 4, 1853
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Supported Compromise of 1850
Ordered the opening of Japan
Failed to stop downward spiral to Civil War
Compromise of 1850
September 9, 1850 - September 20, 1850
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Franklin Pierce
March 4, 1853 - March 4, 1857
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Signed Gadsden Purchase
Supported Kansas–Nebraska Act
Actions contributed to the coming of Civil War
Gadsden Purchase- 1853
December 30, 1853
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Kansas–Nebraska Act
May 30, 1854
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James Buchanan
March 4, 1857 - March 4, 1861
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Alienated both North and South
Failed to stop secession
Did nothing about secession
Dred Scott Decision
March 6, 1857
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Lincoln–Douglas Debates
August 21, 1858 - October 15, 1858
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Crittenden Compromise
December 18, 1860
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Copperheads
1861 - September 1864
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Abraham Lincoln
March 4, 1861 - April 14, 1865
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Led nation during Civil War
Abolished Slavery
Began Reconstruction
Civil War
April 12, 1861 - May 9, 1865
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Fort Sumter- 1861
April 12, 1861 - April 14, 1861
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Outbreak of the Civil War
April 12, 1861
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Robert E. Lee
April 23, 1861 - April 10, 1865
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Ulysses Grant
August 1861 - March 4, 1877
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Monitor vs. Merrimack
March 8, 1862 - March 9, 1862
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Homestead Act
May 20, 1862
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Antietam- 1862
September 17, 1862
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Emancipation Proclamation- 1863
January 1, 1863
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Boss Tweed
April, 1863 - November 23, 1876
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Gettysburg- 1863
July 1, 1863 - July 3, 1863
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Andrew Carnegie
1864 - August 11, 1919
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Sherman's March- 1864
November 15, 1864 - December 21, 1864
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William T. Sherman
November 15, 1864 - December 21, 1864
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Sand Creek Massacre
November 29, 1864
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Carpetbag Governments
1865 - 1877
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Appomattox- 1865
April 9, 1865
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Andrew Johnson
April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869
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Favored quick reconstruction
Failed to protect freedmen
Impeached
Gilded Age
May 9, 1865 - January 1, 1900
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Reconstruction
May 9, 1865 - March 31, 1877
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
December 18, 1865 - February 3, 1870
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1st Ku Klux Klan
December 24, 1865 - 1874
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Cowboy Era- 1866-1886
1866 - 1886
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Radical Reconstruction
April 9, 1866 - March 31, 1877
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Crédit Mobilier
1867 - 1872
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The Grange
1867
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Alaska Purchase- 1867
October 18, 1867
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
February 24, 1868
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Knights of Labor
1869 - 1887
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Ulysses S. Grant
March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877
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Led strong Reconstruction
Implemented a gold standard
His administration was very corrupt
Transcontinental RR- 1869
May 10, 1869
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Sharecropping
1870 - 1940
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John D Rockefeller
June 1870 - 1918
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Free Silver
February 12, 1873 - December 23, 1913
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Battle of the Little Bighorn- 1876
June 25, 1876 - June 26, 1876
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Rutherford B. Hayes
March 4, 1877 - March 4, 1881
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Ended Reconstruction
Began Civil Service Reform
Opposed free silver
James A. Garfield
March 4, 1881 - September 19, 1881
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Advocated Civil Service reform
Advocated Civil Rights for African-Americans
Assassinated
Chester A. Arthur
September 19, 1881 - March 4, 1885
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Advocated and enforced Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Strengthen the Navy
Signed the Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act- 1882
May 6, 1882
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Triple Alliance
May 20, 1882 - June 28, 1914
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Pendleton Act- 1883
January 16, 1883
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Alfred T. Mahan
1885 - December 1, 1914
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Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1885 - March 4, 1889
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Fiscally conservative
Pro-business
Fought corruption
Josiah Strong
1886 - 1916
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Haymarket Square Riot- 1886
May 4, 1886
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Dawes Act
February 8, 1887
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Jacob Riis
February 12, 1888 - 1900
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Jane Addams
1889 - 1931
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Benjamin Harrison
March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1893
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Oversaw Billion Dollar Congress
Oversaw raising of the tariff
Oversaw creation of Sherman Antitrust Act
Booker T. Washington
1890 - November 14, 1915
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Closing of Frontier- 1890
1890
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Sherman Antitrust Act
July 2, 1890
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Wounded Knee- 1890
December 29, 1890
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Populist Party
1891 - 1908
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Omaha Platform
July 4, 1892
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Homestead Strike
July 6, 1892
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Eugene Debs
1893 - 1920
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Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1893 - March 4, 1897
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Only president elected to two nonconsecutive terms
Pullman Strike- 1894
May 11, 1894
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Yellow Press
1895 - 1898
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Walter Reed
1896 - 1901
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William Jennings Bryan
1896 - July 26, 1925
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Plessy v. Ferguson
May 18, 1896
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Cross of Gold Speech
July 9, 1896
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William McKinley
March 4, 1897 - September 14, 1901
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Led nation during Spanish-American War
Raised the tariff
Maintained gold standard
Emilio Aguinaldo
March 22, 1897 - April 19, 1901
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Sinking of the Maine- 1898
February 15, 1898
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USS Oregon
March 19, 1898 - May 24, 1898
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Rough Riders
May 29, 1898 - September 15, 1898
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John Hay
September 30, 1898 - July 1, 1905
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The White Man's Burden
February 5, 1899
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Open Door Policy
September 6, 1899
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Muckrakers
1900 - 1917
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Progressive Era
January 1, 1900 - November 2, 1920
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Square Deal
1901 - 1909
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Big Stick
September 2, 1901 - March 4, 1909
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Theodore Roosevelt
September 14, 1901 - March 4, 1909
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Enacted Progressive Square Deal
Supported conservation
Ordered construction of Panama Canal
Coal Strike 1902
May 12, 1902 - October 23, 1902
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Henry Ford
June 16, 1903 - 1931
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Joe Cannon
November 9, 1903 - March 4, 1911
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Russo-Japanese War
February 8, 1904 - September 5, 1905
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William Gorgas
March 1904 - 1906
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IWW or Wobblies
June 27, 1905 - 1924
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W. E. B. Du Bois
July 1905 - 1943
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Pure Food and Drug Act- 1906
June 30, 1906
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George Goethals
1907 - August 15, 1914
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Triple Entente
August 31, 1907 - November 11, 1918
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William Howard Taft
March 4, 1909 - March 4, 1913
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Trust Buster
Enacted Dollar Diplomacy
Given then rejected TR's policies
Ballinger-Pinchot
July 1909 - January 1910
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Bull Moose Party
1912 - 1916
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16th Amendment
February 3, 1913
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Woodrow Wilson
March 4, 1913 - March 4, 1921
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Supported Progressive legislation
Led nation in World War I
Championed morally idealistic League of Nations
17th Amendment
May 31, 1913
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Federal Reserve Act
December 23, 1913
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Archduke Ferdinand Shot- 1914
June 28, 1914
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Herbert Hoover
August 1914 - March 4, 1933
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Panama Canal Starts- 1914
August 15, 1914
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U-Boats
September 5, 1914 - November 11, 1918
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2nd Ku Klux Klan
1915 - 1944
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Lusitania Sunk- 1915
May 7, 1915
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Bernard Baruch
1916 - 1947
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Sussex Pledge
May 4, 1916
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Zimmerman Telegram- 1917
January 16, 1917
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George Creel
April 13, 1917 - November 11, 1918
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Doughboys
May 1917 - November 11, 1918
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Harlem Renaissance
1918 - 1937
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Fourteen Points
January 8, 1918
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Sergeant York
October 8, 1918
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Red Scare
1919 - 1920
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Big Four
January 18, 1919 - January 21, 1920
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Versailles Treaty
28 June 1919
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18th Amendment
January 17, 1920
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Prohibition
January 17, 1920 - December 5, 1933
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Sacco & Vanzetti
April 15, 1920 - August 23, 1927
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19th Amendment
August 18, 1920
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Roaring Twenties
November 2, 1920 - October 29, 1929
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Teapot Dome
1921 - 1924
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Warren G. Harding
March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923
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Advocated return to normalcy
Supported Civil rights
Administration very corrupt
Calvin Coolidge
August 2, 1923 - March 4, 1929
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Supported a laissez-faire government
Said very little
Lead nation during Roaring Twenties
5:5:3 Ratio
August 17, 1923
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Scopes Monkey Trial
July 21, 1925
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Huey Long
May 21, 1928 - January 25, 1932
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Amelia Earhart
June 17, 1928 - July 2, 1937
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Herbert Hoover
March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933
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Led nation during beginning of Depression
Fail to cure Depression
Advocated laissez-faire approach to fixing Depression
Rugged Individualism
March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933
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Wickersham Commission
May 20, 1929
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Agricultural Marketing Act
June 15, 1929
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Crash & Depression
October 29, 1929 - December 8, 1941
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Stock Market Crash- 1929
October 29, 1929
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Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
January 7, 1932
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Brain Trust
March 1932 - 1936
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Bonus Army
July 28, 1932
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Election of 1832
November 8, 1932
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Frances Perkins
March 4, 1933 - June 30, 1945
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945
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Led nation during Depression
Enacted the New Deal
Led nation during World War II
100 Days- 1933
March 9, 1933 - June 16, 1933
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Fireside Chats
March 12, 1933 - June 12, 1944
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London Economic Conference
June 12, 1933 - July 27, 1933
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Twenty-first Amendment
December 5, 1933
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Dust Bowl
1934 - 1940
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Nye Investigation
April 12, 1934 - February 1936
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Johnson Act
April 13, 1934
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Neutrality Acts
August 31, 1935 - November 4, 1939
% complete
Appeasment
May 28, 1937 - September 1, 1939
% complete
Quarantine of Aggressors
October 5, 1937
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Panay
December 12, 1937
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Phoney War
September 3, 1939 - May 10, 1940
% complete
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
May 1940 - October 1942
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Dunkirk
May 26, 1940 - June 4, 1940
% complete
America First Committee
September 4, 1940 - December 10, 1941
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Pearl Harbor Attack- 1941
December 7, 1941
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WWII Era
December 8, 1941 - September 2, 1945
% complete
D-Day Landings- 1944
June 6, 1944
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki- 1945
August 6, 1945 - August 9, 1945
% complete
Philippine Independence
July 4, 1946
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