Mental Filing Cabinet for important US History dates
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| Colonial Period | 1607-1763
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| Jamestown | 1607. 1st permanent English colony in the new world
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| Georgia | 1733. buffer to protect Charleston from Spanish Florida
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| End of Colonial Period | 1763. With the end of the French and Indian War, Britain reorganized the colonial governments and ended the period of salutary neglect
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| Revolutionary War and Critical Period | 1775-1789
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| Revolutionary War | 1775-1783
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| Declaration of Independence | July 4, 1776
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| Articles of Confederation | ratified 1781
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| Federalist Era | 1789-1801
Presidents Washington and Adams
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| Age of Jefferson | 1801-1816
Presidents Jefferson and Madison
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| War of 1812 | Ended in 1814 with stalemate with Great Britain
1812-1814
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| Era of Good Feelings | 1816-1824
President Monroe
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| Missouri Compromise | 1820
Declares MO will come in as a slave state, ME as a free state, and states formed north of MO's southern border will be closed to slavery while those south of line will be open to slavery
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| Monroe Doctrine | 1823
Acts as a "Keep Out" sign on the Western Hemisphere
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| Jacksonian Democracy or the Age of the Common Man | 1824-1844
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| Manifest Destiny | 1830s and 1840s
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| Mexican-American War | 1846-1848
Conflict triggered by the US annexation of Texas and America's belief that its "manifest destiny" was to control the american continent from coast to coast
President James K. Polk
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| California Gold Rush | 1849
Surge of miners westward which gave California enough population to apply for statehood in 1850
Zachary Taylor
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| Compromise of 1850 | Compromise over admission of territories gained form the Mexican Cession
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| Antebellum Period | 1840-1861
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| Civil War | 1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln
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| Reconstruction | 1865-1877
Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant
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| End of Reconstruction | 1877
Resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the gradual abandonment by Republicans of the freedom there; the "Solid South" resulted.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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| Gilded Age, Age of Industrialism, Farmer Discontent | 1865-1900
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| Frontier Declared Officially Closed | 1890
the census report stated that a line dividing settled territory from unsettled areas no longer existed in the continental US
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| Spanish-American War | 1898
Short, imperialistic war which projected the US into world politics as a major power
William McKinley
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| Progressive Era | 1900-1920
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
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| 19th Amendment | 1920
Women gain the right to vote
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| World War I | 1914-1918
Woodrow Wilson
US entered in 1917
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| Great Depression | 1929-1941
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal
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| World War II | 1939-1945
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| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941
FDR
Harry Truman
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| The Cold War | 1945-1989
Presidents in order: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George HW Bush
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| Korean War | 1950-1953
Undeclared war fought under UN mandate which left the country divided to this day
Truman
Eisenhower
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| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954
Resulted in the integration of public schools and was a major step toward integrating American society
Chief Justice Earl Warren
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| Vietnam Involvement | 1954-1975
Undeclared war fought in Indochina in order to contain communism' US withdrew and the area became communist
JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford
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| The Great Society | 1964-1969
LBJ
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| Nixon's Resignation | 1974
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| Reagan Elected | 1980
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