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APUSH Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1492 | Columbus's first voyage |
| 1607 | Jamestown, Virginia (first English colony) |
| 1649 | Toleration Act- The act was meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony. |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution- is the term first used in 1689 to summarise events leading to the deposition of James II and VII of England (bloodless) |
| 1692 | Salem Witch Trials- The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. |
| 1754–1763 | The Seven Years' War was a conflict between France and Great Britain that began as a dispute over North American land claims in the region around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This conflict spread into Europe, Africa, and Asia. |
| 1763 | Proclamation of 1763- The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October. It followed the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. |
| 1765 | Stamp Act- an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents). |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre- The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, in which a group of nine British soldiers killed five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party-a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, in the harbor |
| 1775 | The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence- officially The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America |
| 1777 | Battle of Saratoga- The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. |
| 1781 | Battle of Yorktown- The siege of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle because of the presence of Germans in all three armies, began September 28, 1781 and ended on October 19, 1781, in Yorktown, Virginia. |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris- signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and overall state of conflict between the two countries |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention- The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. |
| 1788 | Washington’s Election- the first presidential election, George Washington was unanimously elected president of the United States. With 69 electoral votes, |
| 1798 1 | XYZ Affair- a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S. and French negotiators restored peace with the Convention of 1800 (John Adams) |
| 1798 2 | Alien & Sedition Acts- were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States |
| 1800 | Jefferson’s Election- "Revolution of 1800", the Democratic-Republican Party candidate, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, defeated the Federalist Party candidate, incumbent president John Adams. |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase- encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. |
| 1812–1815 | War of 1812- In Britain's effort to control the world's ocean the British Royal Navy encroached upon American maritime rights and cut into American trade during the Napoleonic Wars. In response, the young republic declared war on Britain on June 18, 1812. |
| 1814 | Battle of New Orleans- The American victory forced the British to recognize USA claims to Louisiana and West Florida and to ratify the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war. also marked the state's political incorporation into the Union. |
| 1816–1824 | The Era of Good Feelings- marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812 (James Monroe) |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise-consisted of three large parts: Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, Maine entered as a free state, and the 36'30” line was established as the dividing line regarding slavery for the remainder of the Louisiana Territory. |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine-U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere in a routine message delivered to Congress by James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. |
| 1820s | Sectionalism- drew on new political parties, new religious organizations, and new reform movements. As politics grew more democratic, leaders attacked old inequalities of wealth and power, but in doing so many pandered to a unity under white supremacy. |
| 1828 | Jackson’s Election- The campaign was a crucial event that saw the development of a two-party system akin to our modern system, bearing a closer resemblance to modern political campaigning, and the strengthening of the power of the executive branch. |
| 1830 | Indian Removal Act- authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. |
| 1832 | Nat Turner’s Rebellion- the rebels killed between 55 and 65 White people, making it the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history |
| 1830–1850 | Manifest Destiny- the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. (westward) |
| 1836 | Battle of the Alamo- part of the Texas Revolution in which the Mexican state of Tejas won independence and became a self-governing republic: Texas. |
| 1845 | Annexation of Texas- On December 29, Texas entered the US as a slave state, broadening the differences in the US over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War. Polk signed the bill into law and Texas was the 28th state of the Union. |
| 1845–1848 | Mexican-American War-a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip. Mexico did not recognize Texas as legitimate American territory and Texas admission to the United States antagonized Mexican officials and citizens. |
| 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention- was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York |
| 1850 | Fugitive Slave Act- The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. |
| 1852 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin- struggles of a slave, Tom, who has been sold numerous times and has to endure physical brutality by slave drivers and his masters. One central theme is that Tom, despite his suffering, remained steadfast to his Christian beliefs. |
| 1854 | Bleeding Kansas- Three political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. |
| 1857 | Dred Scott Case- decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. |
| 1860 | Lincoln’s Election- A former Whig, his platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the start for the outbreak of the Civil War. Lincoln refused to accept any resolution that would result in Southern secession |
| 1861–1865 | Civil War-A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. South vs north. |
| 1862 | Homestead Act- provided that any adult citizen, or intended citiz who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were required to live on and “improve” their plot by cultivating the land. |
| 1863 | Gettysburg- The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. |
| 1867 1 | Reconstruction Acts- outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts. |
| 1867 2 | Purchase of Alaska-US reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. |
| 1877 | Compromise of 1877-an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Re. R B. Hayes was awarded the White House;he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. |
| 1876 | Little Bighorn-also called Custer's Last Stand, the most decisive N.A victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. Custer and his men outraged many Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. |
| 1886 | Haymarket Square Riot- was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration...it led to the formation of the American Federation of Labor, thus reforming labor and unionism in America, and inspiring a passion for labor |
| 1887 1 | Dawes Act- the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. Thus, Native Americans registering on a tribal "roll" were granted |
| 1887 2 | Interstate Commerce- transacting or transportation of products, services, or money across state borders. Article I section 8 clause of the U.S. Constitution, the commerce clause, grants Congress the power to “regulate commerce. . . |
| 1890 1 | Wounded Knee- U.S. soldiers surrounded and slaughtered about 300 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Although the soldiers were celebrated at the time, Wounded Knee is now remembered as a terrible atrocity. |
| 1890 2 | Sherman Antitrust Act- prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. It was passed by Congress and is named for Senator John Sherman, its principal author. stop monopolies |
| 1894 | Pullman Strike- widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States. The federal government's response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike. |
| 1896 1 | “Cross of Gold” speech- delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former US Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In his address, Bryan supported "free silver", which he believed would bring the nation prosperity. |
| 1896 2 | Plessy v. Ferguson- U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. 1892 incident in which A.A train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for Black people. |
| 1898 1 | Annexation of Hawaii- When the Hawaiian islands were formally annexed by the US, the event marked the end of a lengthy internal struggle between native Hawaiians and non-native American businessmen for control of the Hawaiian government. |
| 1898 2 | Spanish American War- explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The war ended a Treaty of Paris, negotiated on terms favorable to the US (Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines ) |
| 1903 | Wright Brothers- Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. |
| 1917 | US enters WWI- The US s was justified in entering the first world war against Germany morally, bc Germany was attacking innocent people. The British passenger ship, Lusitania was torpedo by U-boat of Germany on May 7, 1915. |
| 1920 | Women’s Suffrage- the right of women to vote in elections. In the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting law.. the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. |
| 1920s 1 | Red Scare- many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology. |
| 1920s 2 | Prohibition- In the United States, a nationwide constitutional law prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash- The Wall Street Crash , also known as the Great Crash, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autum. It started in September and ended in mid November, when share prices collapsed |
| 1932 | Bonus Army- was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. |
| 1935 | Social Security Act- is a law enacted by the 74th US Congress and signed into law by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The law created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment. The law was part of New Deal domestic program. |
| 1939 | WWII starts in Europe- Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. September 3, 1939 Honoring their guarantee of Poland's borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. |
| 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor- was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, |
| 1944 | D-Day- brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest invasion force in human history. The operation, OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. |
| 1945 | Atomic Bomb dropped- The firstbomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, at 8:15 AM on August 6 The second bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki from the Bockscar, also a B-29 bomber, at 11:02 AM on August 9 |
| 1945–1991 | Cold War- an ongoing political rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945. |
| 1947 | Truman Doctrine- is an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." The doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. |
| 1950–1953 | Korean War- America wanted not just to contain communism - they also wanted to prevent the domino effect. Truman was worried that if Korea fell, the next country to fall would be Japan, which was very important for American trade. North invaded South. |
| 1950s | McCarthyism- also known as the second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and socialist influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Ed.- was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. |
| 1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott- was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks |
| 1957 | Sputnik- was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis- an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. |
| 1963 1 | March on Washington- The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. |
| 1963 1 | JFK assassinated- he was shot in the head while riding in a motorcade through Texas |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act- prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. |
| 1968 1 | MLK killed, RFK killed- Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Tennesse RFK-Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles |
| 1968 2 | Tet Offensive- North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault. |
| 1968 3 | Chicago Convention- this landmark agreement established the core principles permitting international transport by air, and led to the creation of the specialized agency which has overseen it ever since –ICAO. |
| 1969 | moon landing- A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, on 13 September 1959. |
| 1972 | Watergate break-in- The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's persistent attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building. |
| 1973 | Roe v. Wade- was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant individual's liberty to have an abortion. |
| 1979 | Iranian hostage crisis- an international crisis that began in November when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. The crisis took place in the wake of Iranian Revolution. |
| 1980 | Reagan elected- won the election by a landslide, taking 489 votes in the Electoral College and 50.8% of the popular vote with a margin of 9.7%. Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. |
| 1989 | Cold War ends- the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. the USSR itself dissolved into its component republics. the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end. |
| 1991 | Persian Gulf War- The invasion of Kuwait led to a United Nations Security Council embargo and sanctions on Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition air and ground war, which began on January 16 and ended with an Iraqi defeat and retreat from Kuwait on February 28 |
| 1994 | Contract with America- the R plan in the election, calling for welfare reform, term limits, and a budget amendment. In the mid-1990s, the Clinton administration sent $ in aid to Russia, which saw rising levels of private business and foreign trade. |
| 1995 | The Oklahoma City bombing- was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, the second anniversary of the fiery end to the Waco siege. |
| 2000 | Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. |
| 2001 | 9/11 Attacks- The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamist extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States (Twin towers) |
| 2008 1 | Great Recession- a period of marked general decline observed in national economies globally, i.e. a recession, that occurred from late 2007 to 2009. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country. |
| 2008 2 | Obama elected- The US elections were held on November 4. Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won the election, by defeating, Senator John McCain, by a wide margin, and the Democrats bolstered their majorities in both chambers of Congress. |
| 2011 | Affordable Care Act- is a comprehensive reform law, enacted in 2010, that increases health insurance coverage for the uninsured and implements reforms to the health insurance market. (Obamacare) |
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