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Period: 1491 to
period 1 - columbian exchange
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1492
Columbus 1st voyage
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Jamestown established
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period 2 - colonies and salutary neglect
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Toleration Act
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Glorious Revolution
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Salem Witch Trials
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period 3 - revolution and independence
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7 years war
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Proclamation of 1763
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Stamp Act
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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Lexington & Concord
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American revolution
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Declaration of Independence
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Battle of Saratoga
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Battle of Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris
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Constitutional Convention
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George Washington
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John Adams
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XYZ affair, Alien and Sedition Acts
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period 4 - manifest destiny and industrialization
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Thomas Jefferson
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Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison
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James Madison
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Fletcher v. peck
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war of 1812
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Battle of New Orleans
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Era of Good Feelings
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James Monroe
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McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth v. Woodward
-state govs cant take the fed gov and US national bank is const
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Missouri Compromise
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Monroe Doctrine, Johnson v. McIntosh
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-Established that Indian tribes had rights to tribal lands that preceded all other American law; only the federal government could take land from the tribes. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
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JQA
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Andrew Jackson
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Indian Removal Act
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Worcester v. Georgia
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The Alamo
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Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
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Martin Van Buren
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William Henry Harrison/John Tyler
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Commonwealth v Hunt
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period 5 - civil war and reconstruction
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Annexation of Texas
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James Polk
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Mexican American war
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Seneca Falls Convention
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Zachary Taylor
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Fugitive Slave Act/Compromise of 1850
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Millard Fillmore
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Franklin Pierce
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Bleeding Kansas
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
- Dred Scott was not a citizen and had no standing in court; Scott’s residence in a free state and territory had not made him free since he returned to Missouri; Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in a territory (based on the 5th Amendment right of a person to be secure from seizure of property), thus voiding the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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James Buchanan
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US civil war
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Abraham Lincoln
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Homestead Act
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Gettysburg
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period 6 - gilded age
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Andrew Johnson
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Ex parte Milligan
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Reconstruction Acts, Purchase of Alaska
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Ulysses Grant
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Little Bighorn
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Compromise of 1877
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Rutherford Hayes
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James Garfield/Chester Arthur
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Civil Rights Case
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Grover Cleveland
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Haymarket Sq Riot, Wabash v. Illinois
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Dawes Act, Interstate Commerce
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Ben Harrison
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Wounded Knee, Sherman Antitrust Act, Milwaukee v. Minnesota
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Grover Cleveland
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Pullman Strike
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Pollock v. Farmers, US v. EC Knight
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"Cross of Gold Speech", Plessy v. Fergusen
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William McKinley
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Spanish American War, Annexation of Hawaii
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period 7 - global conflict
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"Insular Case"/Dowes v. Bidwell
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Wright Brothers
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Northern Securities co. v. US
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Lochner v. NY
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Muller v. Oregon
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William Taft
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Woodrow Wilson
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WW1
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US enters WW1
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Hammer v. Dagenheart
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Schenck v. US
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Women's Suffrage, Red Scare
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Warren Harding
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Adkins v. Childrens Hospital
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Calvin Coolidge
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Stock Market Crash
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Herbert Hoover
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Bonus Army
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FDR
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Social Security Act
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Schechter v US
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WW2
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Pearl Harbor, Korematsu v. US
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D Day, Ex parte Endo
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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Harry Truman
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period 8 - the cold war and civil rights
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Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
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McCarthyism
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Korean War
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Brown v Board
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Sputnik
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JFK
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Vietnam War
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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March on Washington, JFK killed, Gideon v. Wainwright
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Lyndon Johnson
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1964 civil rights act, Escobedo v. Illinois
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Miranda v. Arizona
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MLK killed, RFK killed, Tet Offensive, Chicago Convention
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Moon Landing
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Richard Nixon
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Watergate Break-in
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Roe v Wade,
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US v Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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Bakke v UC
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
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period 9 - war on terrorism
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Ronald Reagan
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George Bush
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Persian Gulf War
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Bill Clinton
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Contract with America
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OKC bombing
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Clinton v Jones
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Bush v Gore, Boy Scouts v Dale
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9/11
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George W. Bush
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Great Recession
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Barack Obama
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Affordable Care Act