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Bill of Rights; Fugitive slave act; Republican and Federalist party formed George Washington 1789-1797
Lewis and Clark Expedition; Louisiana Purchase and expansion of the Nation. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
Missouri Compromise (1820)Missouri entered as slave, Maine entered as free, slavery forever prohibited in rest of Louisiana purchase-North of 36 deg 30 min N. Latititude- James Monroe 1817-1825
Compromise of 1850 - Fugitive slae act amended enforcing penalties with regard to runaways; CA admitted as Free, abolition of slave trade; UT territory created; NM territory created; TX annexed. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854; Bleeding Kansas-Antislavery extremist - John Brown and his followers took 5 proslavery men from cabinsin Kansas and murdered them. Dred-Scott Case 1857 Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
Events leading to Civil war - territorial exp (Comp1850),Fugitive Slave Act, KS-NE Act, Bleeding KS, Dred-Scott Case. Civil War-1861; Emancipation Proclamation 9/22/1862; Chivington Massacre-slaughter of indians for Land in Sand Creek CO; Lee sur Grant Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
Black Codes; Jim Crow laws; CRA 1866; 14th Amendment Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
15th Amendment Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877
JP Morgan rased $62 mil in Gold for Treasury; Plessy vs. Ferguson-seperate but equal, upheld separate. Stephen Grover Cleveland 1893-1897
Maine explodes in Cuba harbor and Spain is blamed; 1898 begins Spanish/American War William McKinley 1897-1901
Organized US steel Corp(1901); International Harvest Corp(1902); Northern Securities Corp; Rockefeller OIL; Vanderbilt RAILROAD; Carnegie STEEL; Panama Canal; Industrial workers for WWI; Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
Great Depression; Refused to do too much,thought the Government should not interfere. Federal Farm board; lent money to farmers in S, but would not permit relief. 1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corp. Banking Act of 1932 Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933
4 terms; New Deal;Administrations:(CCC),(AAA),(TVA),(HLC),National Recovery Admin,FDIC,(PWA),(CWA),(SEC),FHA,(WPA),(RA); Ended Depression, Entered WWII, New roads and buildings; Neutrality Act; CASH and CARRY; After attack on Pearl Harbor, was declared Franklin Delanor Roosevelt 1933-1945
Dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki;Japan surrendered in 1945;Truman Doctrine-$400 Mil in military aid to Greece and Turkey to keep communism out; Marshall Plan - to rebuild Europe. Harry S. Truman 1945-1953
Hawaii and Alaska admitted as states; Brown vs. Board of education (desegregation of schools); Yates vs. US -Supreme Court reinstates clear and present danger, standard in 1st amendment cases. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
Civil Rights/Vietnam/Cuba; challenge to put a man on the moon; Cuban Missle Crisis; Berlin wall erected; threatenend war against Russia, missle treaty to outlaw nuclear testing in atmosphere; he was assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963
civil rights/vietnam/war on poverty; 24th amendment - abolished poll tax; 1968 MLK murdered Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969
Watergate/opening of China; only president to resign; Ceasar Chevez-mex immigrant fought for = pay for imm. workers; NFWA later changed to UFW; he eventually gained bargaining agreements for workers.; 27th Amendment; Roe v Wade; Last troops return from VN Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974
End of Cold War; Berllin wall came down Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989
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