Module 3 and 4 timeline Flashcards
(85 cards)
1
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to General U.S Grant
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1865 (April 9, 1865 civil war ends)
2
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Reconstruction
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1865-1877
3
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General Sherman issues Special Field Order No.15
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January 16, 1865
4
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President Lincoln is assassinated
A
April 14, 1865
5
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Civil Rights Act passed by congress
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1866
6
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Ku Klux Klan is organized
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1866
7
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14th amendment passed by congress
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June 8, 1866
8
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Ulysses Grant elected president
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1868
9
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14th amendment ratified
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July 9, 1868
10
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15th amendment passed by congress
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February 26, 1869
11
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15th amendment ratified
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February 3, 1870
12
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Depression of 1873
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1873
13
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Page Act passed by congress
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1875
14
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Compromise of 1877
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1877
15
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Reconstruction ends
A
1877
16
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Immigration Act passed by congress
A
1882
17
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Chinese Exclusion Act passed by congress
A
May 1882
18
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Progressive Era
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1896-1916
19
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Spanish-American War
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1898
20
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U.S.S. Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
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February 15, 1898
21
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Open door policy presented
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1899
22
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Philippine-American War
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1899-1902
23
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Boxer Rebellion
A
1900
24
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President Theodore Roosevelt adds Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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1904
25
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
1911
26
American troops seize Veracruz, Mexico
April 21,1914
27
Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie are assassinated
June 8, 1914
28
Austria declares war in Serbia, starting World War I
July 28, 1914
29
Zimmerman Telegram is exposed
January 1917
30
Tsar Nicholas II regime collapses in Russia
1917
31
Congress declares war on Germany
April 4, 1917
32
Spanish flu (influenza) strikes, killing hundreds of thousands worldwide
1918
33
Bolshevik Revolution
1918-1923
34
Germany launches Kaiserschlacht (Spring Offensive)
May 1918
35
Armistice signed ending World War I
November 11,1918
36
King-Crane commission formed
1919
37
Red Summer of 1919 racial unrest sweeps the United States
1919
38
Stock Market crash known as Black Tuesday
1929 (October 29th)
39
Great Depression
1929-1939
40
Smoot-Hawley Tariff signed into law by President Hoover
1930
41
President Hoover orders the Bonus Army be removed by force
1932
42
Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president
1932
43
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) is created
1933
44
National Recovery Administration (NRA) us created
1933
45
The Germans elect Adolf Hitler as chancellor
1933
46
Senator Huey Long is assassinated
1935
47
Fair Labor Standards Act passed by Congress
1938
48
Germany invades Poland, starting World War II
1939 (September 1st)
49
Japan bombs the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1941 (December 7th)
50
The United States declares war on Japan and her allies
1941
51
President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802
-Order 8802 banned racial and religious discrimination in defense industries
1941
52
President Roosevelt signs the Atlantic Charter
1941
53
President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066
-Executive Order 9066 authorized the removal of people from certain exclusion zones
1942
54
Bataan Death March in the Philippines
April 1942
55
D-day landing at Normandy
1944 (June 6th)
56
U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
-Hiroshima: August 6th
-Nagasaki: August 9th
April 6, 1945
57
President Roosevelt dies
April 12,1945
-(April 12. Vice President Harry Truman becomes president after President Roosevelt's death)
58
Victory in Europe Day
May 8, 1945
59
50 nations sign the United Nations charter
June 26, 1945
60
Japan surrenders
August 15, 1945
61
President Truman announces $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey
1947
62
President Truman announces the Truman Doctrine
1947
63
The European Recovery Program, or Marshall plan is in effect
1948-1952
64
NSC-68 is issued
1950
65
First sit-ins
1960
66
Freedom Rides
1961
67
Albany Movement
1961
68
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
69
Rachel Carson published Silent Spring
1962
70
President Johnson announces his Great Society plan
1964
71
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed by Congress
1964
72
Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed by Congress
1965
73
Bloody Sunday
May 1965
74
Tet Offensive
1968
75
President Nixon announces the Nixon Doctrine
1969
76
Watergate
1972
77
Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade
1973
78
Supreme Court rules on Miller v. California
1973
79
President Nixon resigns. Vice President Ford becomes president
1974
80
Ronald Reagan is elected president
1980
81
Operation Desert Storm begins
1991
82
The Supreme Court rules counting votes in Florida must end. George W. Bush elected president
2000
83
al Qaeda terrorists crash planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
September 11, 2001
(A 4th plane crashed in a field outside Shanksville, PA on September 11th)
84
President George W. Bush announces the Bush Doctrine
2002
85
The United States invaded Iraq
2003
