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DatesPrinciples
Of Democracy
Govt Amendments Wars
Next Round
Spanish-American War
1898
Louisiana Purchase
1803
Jamestown founded
1607
Beginning of Great Depression
1929
Terror attack on New York
World Trade Center
2001
Government plan for Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact
Essays written to argue in favor of ratification of the US
Constitution
Federalist Papers
First government of the US
Articles of Confederation
Document that limited the power of the English King
Magna Carta
The right to vote
suffrage
Branch tasked with making and enacting laws
Legislative
Branch that executes the laws
Executive
Branch that interprets laws through court system
Judicial
Idea that one branch can act upon another to keep one branch from becoming too
pwoerful
Checks and Balances
The idea that each branch has its own powers and
responsibilities
Separation of powers
Established the income tax
16th
Prohibited sale and distribution of alcohol
18th
Freedom of the press
1st
Abolishment of Slavery
13th
Voting rights for women
19th
War caused in part by Germany’s unrestricted
submarine warfare
WW I
War sparked by the sinking of the USS Maine
Spanish-American War
Pearl Harbor
WW II
War in which US fought under the command of the
United Nations
Korean War
George Washington commander of the army
American Revolution
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Years of Korean War
1950-1953
American declare independence
1776
WW I
1914-1918
WW II
1941-1945
Vietnam War
1954-1975
First democratic governing body in
America
Virginia House of Burgesses
Document listing American grievances against the
English King
Declaration of Independence
System where power is shared between states and the
central government
Federalism
Document that established the framework for our current
government
US Constitution
First ten amendments to the Constitution
Bill of Rights
Direct election of senators
17th
Defines American citizenship
14th
Right to bear arms
2nd
Right for all men to vote regardless of race
15th
Powers not reserved to the federal government are given to the states and the people
10th
War caused by tension between democratic West and
Communits
Cold War
Rough Riders led by Leonard Wood and
Theodore Roosevelt
Spanish-American War
Battles of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown
American Revolution
Battles of Antietam, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg
US Civil War
The Tet Offensive
Vietnam War
Cuba Missile Crisis
The 1960’s
Anti-communist and anti-radical periods following both world
wars
Red Scare
Noted for its many reform laws
Progressive Era
America gained overseas colonies
Imperialism
The Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Eras & Movements
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The Cold War
1945-1991
US Constitution written
1787
US Civil War
1861-1865
US gain of Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico
1898
Lincoln Presidency
1861-1865
Robber Barons and Industrialization
Gilded Age
Flappers and booming economy
Roaring Twenties
Bus boycotts, sit-ins, and Freedom Riders
Civil Rights Movement
Hippies, protesters, and assassinations of Kennedy and King
1960’s
16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments
Progressive Era
Presided over the Spanish-American War
McKinley
First Catholic president
Kennedy
Credited with ending the Cold War
Reagan
Presided over US in WWI
Wilson
The Great Society
Lyndon Johnson
Mass produced cars using assembly line
Henry Ford
Leader of American Women’s Suffrage
Movement
Susan B. Anthony
Organized Hispanic farm workers
Cesar Chavez
Her arrest sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
He invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Programs enacted by Franklin Roosevelt to fight
the Great Depression
New Deal
Brought Martin Luther King into national
prominence
Montgomery bus boycott
Reached its high point with manned landings on the moon
Apollo Program
Established in principle the creation of the United Nations
Yalta Conference
Developed the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
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Texas is bordered by what states?
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana
The last two states added to the union
Alaska and Hawaii
What states border on Mexico?
California, New Mexico, and Texas
The northern most state
Alaska
The eastern most state
Maine
He was behind the creation of the US Interstate Highway
system
Eisenhower
He began the construction of the Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt
He was only president elected to four terms
Franklin Roosevelt
He established America’s containment policy against
the communists
Truman
Because of Watergate, he was only president to
resign
Nixon
He was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic
Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
He helped found the NAACP
W.E.B. Dubois
She was the first female Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor
He was a symbol of the Black Power Movement
Malcolm X
His inventions included the light bulb
and phonograph
Thomas Edison
This tragedy led to strong workplace
safety reforms
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Conflict between Creationism and Evolution
led to this court case
The Scopes Trial
The failed CIA plan to begin an anti-
communist revolution in Cuba
Bay of Pigs
This ended World War I
Treaty of Versailles
Communist attacks in Vietnam that turned
much of the American public against the war
The Tet Offensive
Fire trucks
Dalmatian
Taco Bell
Chihuahua
Race track
Grey Hound
Tracking escaped prisoners
Blood Hound
Seeing Eye Dogs
Labrador Retrievers
