Battles/Wars US history Flashcards

(57 cards)

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1492

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Columbus

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1607

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1st Pilgrim settlement = Jamestown Virginia

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1608

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Pilgrims go to Leyden

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1620

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Mayflower sails for America with Pilgrims

= Cape Cod Massachusets

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5
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October 1621

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1st Thanksgiving

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6
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winter 1692-1693

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Salem Witch Trail

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1876

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Battle of Little Big Horn = General Custer vs Lakota + Cheyene = Sitting Bull + Crazy Horse

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1865-1890

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Conflicts between NA and settlers

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1880-1890

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NA children forcibly removed + placed in boarding schools

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1887

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Dawes Act
= divide tribal land in allotments = US citizenship
= surpluse sold to white settlers

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1934

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New Indian Deal = Franklin D Roosevelt

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1950-1975

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New Deal reversed

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1975

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Indian Self Determination Act = tribal authority re-established

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1756-1763

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French - Indian Wars

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1775 - 1783

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War of Independence

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1773

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Boston Tea Party

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4th July 1776

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Declaration of Indepence = Thomas Jefferson

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late 1840s

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period of expansionism

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19
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1846-1848

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Mexican War

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20
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1862

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Homestead Act

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21
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1619

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Dutch ship with 20 African slaves arrived at Jamestown

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22
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1793

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Invention of Cotton gin

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23
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1845-1852

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Irish potato famine

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1857

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Supreme Court ruling all territories open to slavery

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1860
Abraham Lincoln elected president
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1861-1865
Civil War
27
1865
13th Amendment = abolishing slavery
28
1870-1914
Second Industrial revolution
29
1915
sinking Lusitania
30
January 1917
Zimmerman Telegram
31
1918
Spanish Flu pandemic
32
1914-1918
WWI
33
1920
Women allowed to vote
34
1927
first transatlantic flight (US - Europe)
35
October 1929
Stock market crash
36
1920-1933
Prohibition
37
1940-1945
WWII
38
1929-1939
Great Depression
39
1930s
Dust bowl
40
1932
New Deal = Franklin D. Roosevelt
41
1935
Social Security Act
42
1950s
Marshall plan | Eisenhower
43
1980s
Reagonomics
44
1970s
unstable economy
45
2008
Financial crisis (Lehman Brothers)
46
1882-1968
lynching = KKK
47
2016
elections Clinton/Trump
48
1865-1877
Reconstruction Era
49
1954
desegregation public schools
50
1955
Rosa Parks arrested
51
1957
Martin Luther King Jr Southern Christian Leadership Conference
52
1963
assassination of John F Kennedy
53
1964
Civil Rights Act = prohibiting discrimination
54
1965
Voting Rights Act
55
1968
assassination Martin Luther King Jr
56
2001
9/11
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1763
Treaty of Paris = British get Canada from France + California from Spain.