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Most Important Dates and Presidencies in USA/American history - 2016 Flashcards

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1607

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Jamestown founded

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1492

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Columbus comes to the Americas

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1676

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Bacon’s Rebellion & King Philip’s War

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1754 to 1763

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French and Indian/Seven Years’ War

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1776

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Declaration of Independence

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1783

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end of the war of the American Revolution

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1787 to 1788

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Constitution created & ratified

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1789 to 1797

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President George Washington

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1797 to 1801

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President John Adams

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1800

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Election of 1800

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1801 to 1809

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President Thomas Jefferson

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1809 to 1817

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President James Madison

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1812 to 1815

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War of 1812

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1819 to 1821

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Missouri Crisis and Compromise

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1823

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Monroe Doctrine

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1828

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Election of 1828

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1829 to 1837

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President Andrew Jackson

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1831

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“The Liberator’s” initial publication & Nat Turner rebellion

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1845 to 1849

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President James K. Polk

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1846 to 1848

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Mexican War

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1848

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Seneca Falls Convention

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1860

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Election of 1860

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1861 to 1865

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President Abraham Lincoln

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1861 to 1865

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The Civil War

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1865
abolition of slavery/13th Amendment ratified
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1868
definition of citizenship & equal protection of the laws/ 14th Amendment ratified
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1870
black male suffrage/ 15th Amendment ratified
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1877
Compromise of 1877
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1893 to 1897
Economic depression
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1896
Election of 1896
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1897 to 1901
President William McKinley
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1898 to 1902
Spanish-American-Filipino War
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1901
J.P. Morgan bought Carnegie Steel -> U.S. Steel
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1901 to 1909
President Theodore Roosevelt
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1913 to 1921
President Woodrow Wilson
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1917 to 1918
USA military involvement in World War I
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1920
women's suffrage/19th Amendment ratified
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1929
Great Depression began
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1933 to 1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
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1935
Social Security created
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1941
Pearl Harbor attacked
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1941 to 1945
U.S.A. involvement in World War II (ended during Truman Presidency)
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1945 to 1953
President Harry Truman
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1947
Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
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1950 to 1953
Korean War (ended during Eisenhower Presidency)
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1953 to 1961
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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1954
"Brown" decision
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1955 to 1956
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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1963
Birmingham protests
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1963
JFK Assassination
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1963 to 1969
President Lyndon B. Johnson
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1964 to 1968
civil rights legislation (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Open Housing Act of 1968) -> end of legalized racism
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1965 to 1973
Vietnam War with U.S. ground troops
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1968
foreign (Tet Offensive) and domestic turmoil; presidential election
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1969 to 1974
President Richard Nixon
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1972
President Nixon visited Communist China
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1973
Watergate scandal escalates; oil shocks -> stagflation: end of post-WWII mass prosperity
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1974
Nixon resigns from the Presidency
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1979
stagflation & foreign policy turmoil: Iranian hostage crisis
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1980
Election of 1980
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1981 to 1989
President Ronald Reagan
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1987
INF Treaty
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1989
Fall of Berlin Wall
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1990s
Internet as a mass product
64
2001
Terrorist attacks on NYC and Washington D.C./ 9-11
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2001 to current
Afghanistan War
66
2003 to 2011
Iraq War
67
2008
Election of 2008

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