Timeline

Question 1

• Pre 1865-1877: Civil War & Reconstruction

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• 1820: Missouri Compromise (balances free/slave states)

Question 3

• 1823: Monroe Doctrine (warns Europe to stay out of Western Hemisphere)

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• 1830: Indian Removal Act - Trail of Tears (1838)

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• 1850: Compromise of 1850 (Fugitive Slave Act)

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• 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act - “Bleeding Kansas”

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1857: Dred Scott decision (enslaved people are not citizens)

Question 8

1860: Abraham Lincoln elected - Souther states secede

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1861-1865: Civil War

Question 10

1863: Emancipation Proclamation

Question 11

• 1865: 13th Amendment (abolishes slavery)

Question 12

• 1868: 14th Amendment (citizenship for African Americans)

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• 1870: 15th Amendment (Black men gain the right to vote)

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1877: Compromise of 1877 - ended Reconstruction

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• 1877-1898: Industrialization & Gilded Age

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• 1877: Great Railroad Strike

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• 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act

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• 1890: Sherman Antitrust Act (limits monopolies)

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• 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson (“separate but equal” legalized segregation)

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• 1898-1945: Imperialism, World Wars & Great Depression

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• 1898: Spanish-American War - U.S. gained territories

Question 22

• 1914-1918: World War I

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• 1919: Treaty of Versailles

Answer 23

Red Scare (fear of communism)

Question 24

• 1920: 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage)

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• 1929: Stock Market Crash - Great Depression

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• 1933: New Deal programs begin (FDR)

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• 1941-1945: World War II (Pearl Harbor attack - U.S. enters)

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• 1945: Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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• 1945-1980: Cold War & Civil Rights

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• 1947: Truman Doctrine (containment of communism)

Question 31

• 1950-1953: Korean War

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• 1954: Brown v. Board of Education (ends school segregation)

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• 1964: Civil Rights Act (outlaws discrimination)

Question 34

• 1965: Voting Rights Act

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• 1968: MLK assassinated

Answer 35

Tet Offensive (Vietnam War)

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• 1972: Watergate Scandal → Nixon resigns (1974)

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• 1980-Present: Modern America

Question 38

• 1980: Reagan elected - conservative movement

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1991: Cold War ends (USSR collapses)

Question 40

• 2001: 9/11 attacks - War on Terror

Question 41

• 2008: Barack Obama elected first Black president