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1492
Answer:• Christopher Columbus sails West to find a
faster all-water route to Asia and lands in the Caribbean (Hispaniola).
1494
Answer:• Treaty of Tordesillas = Pope divides the
New World with the Line of Demarcation. – Spain gets land west of the line.– Portugal gets the eastern land (Brazil) and
Africa.
1587-1590
Answer:• Roanoke Colony is founded and LOST.
– 1st English Colony off coast of N. Carolina– Founder = Sir Walter Raleigh– Lost during Spanish Armada attack.– Only clue = “Croatoan” carved into tree.
1588
Answer:
• Spanish Armada is defeated by the English navy.
1607
Answer:
• Jamestown founded– VA Company = joint-stock company– Captain John Smith
1619
Answer:• Boat of women• Boat of slaves (Portugal)• Headright system
– 50 acres of land if you paid for indentured servant trip to American colonies + keep indentured servant for ~7 years until debt paid back
• House of Burgesses– 1st representative assembly of
landed colonists
1620
Answer:• Plymouth Colony is founded by mostly
Pilgrims.– Mayflower Compact = majority rules– Separatist Gov. William Bradford– Squanto– Thanksgiving
1624
Answer:• VA becomes a royal colony b/c of financial
difficulties.– Tobacco saves the colony soon after & royal
government benefits financially.
1630
Answer:• Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded by
the Puritans.– Non-Separatist Gov. Winthrop = “build a city
upon a hill”
1636
Answer:
• Pequot War = Pequots attacked Plymouth and Mass. Bay because their land was being encroached upon. Pequot lose.
1675
Answer:• King Phillip’s War = Metacomet, leader of
the Wampanoag, attacked Plymouth and Mass. Bay because their land was being encroached upon. Indians lose.
1676
Answer:Bacon’s Rebellion• stops indentured
servants & starts slavery boom!
1680
Answer:
• Pope’s Rebellion = Indians in New Mexico attack Spanish over land encroachment and lose.
1688
Answer:• Glorious Revolution:
– Bloodless revolution to restore English rights & get rid of Catholic king.
– James II removed from the thrown– English Bill of Rights passed– William III & Mary II jointly rule
1689
Answer:
• Coode’s Rebllion = rebellion over religion in Maryland; Protestants take control from Catholics.
• Leisler’s Rebellion = rebellion over rights of Englishmen in NY; English men fight & win rights.
• Dominion of New England is broken up.– Sir Edmund Andros escapes.
1692
Answer:
• Salem Witch Trials
1713
Answer:• Salutary neglect begins = British are
not strictly enforcing the Navigation Acts.
1700’s
Answer:• Enlightenment Movement
1730s-1740s
Answer:• 1st Great Awakening• Leaders:
– Jonathan Edwards • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
– George Whitefield
1739
Answer:
• Stono Rebellion
1754
Answer:• Albany Plan of Union
– for defense against Indians & French; it fails; shows disunity of colonies
• The French and Indian War begins: – Over Ohio River Valley – trade / settlement– French build forts in Ohio Valley– Fort Duquesne – and friendly with
the Indians– Washington sent to expel the French; attacks Fort Dusquene– British declare war on France
1763
Hint:
Answer:• Treaty of Paris of 1763
– Ends the French and Indian War - French loose all territory• Pontiac’s Rebellion
– Indians rebel against the British in the NW territory after the FIW; had been loyal to the French; British didn’t respect their culture or trade with them as equals = ANGER
• Proclamation of 1763 – Colonials temporarily can’t settle west of the Appalachians
• Paxton Boys Rebellion– A group of Western Pennsylvania backcountry Scotch-Irish “nur nurs”
decide to take the law into their own hands and get even with the Indians for Pontiac’s Rebellion in the NW Territory. They disobey the pacifist Mass. state government & attack innocent Christian Indian tribes nearby murdering women & children; never punished.
• SALUTORY NEGLECT ENDS– British need revenue ($) to pay off FIW debt; now going to enforce
Nav. Acts (regulations) & stop ignoring the smuggling; going to enforce mercantilist policy
1764
Answer:
• Sugar Act:• Purpose: to raise revenue ($) to pay off FIW debt by getting
Americans to stop smuggling French molasses & buy British in the Caribbean
• indirect tax (pre-added tax) on molasses & sugar imported into the colonies from Britain;
• it actually lowered the tax to make British goods cheaper than competitors BUT strictly enforced = end of salutary neglect
• Currency Act:– Colonies can only use British currency & can’t print their own.
Massachusetts, Three Shilling Note, 1775
1765
Answer: S3V• Stamp Act
– Direct tax on internal goods of the colonies (previously taxed by only by the colonial assemblies) including: legal documents, paper, cards, newspapers, dice
– purpose of tax: to raise revenue to pay off FIW war debt
• Sons of Liberty– Massachusetts colonials against direct taxes w/o actual representation
(like the colonial assemblies had)
• Stamp Act Congress– Delegates from several colonies met in NY & agree to boycott (non-
consumption) stamped products– Purpose: to hurt Britain economically, so they repeal the vile act
• Virginia Resolves– Patrick Henry; VA resolved that Britain could not directly tax the colonies
internally w/o colonial assembly approval b/c they don’t have actual representation in Parliament.
1766
Answer:• Stamp Act repealed by Parliament
– New Prime Minister Rockingham Rocks!
• Declaratory Act:– Parliament has unlimited power of taxation/legislation over
colonies – & complete sovereignty over the colonies
This cartoon depicts the repeal of the Stamp Act as a funeral, with Grenville carrying a child's coffin marked "born 1765, died 1766".
1767
Answer: TDC• Townshend Acts
– Indirect tax on lead, paint, glass, silk, paper & tea imported from Britain– Purpose: to raise revenue to pay Brit officials’ salaries in colonies
(which irritates colonists b/c that used to be a power of the colonial assemblies used to control the officials, especially Governors) & to pay off FIW debt
• Dickinson’s “Letters of a PA Farmer”– Unites the colonists together against the Townshend Acts– Parliament can’t tax internal goods in the colonies (direct taxes) & it can’t tax for the sole
purpose of raising revenue it must be to regulate trade like the Nav. Acts
• Circular Letter - (Sam Adams & James Otis)– Mass. Assembly adopted this resolution & sent to other colonial assemblies & they
adopted it as well– It stated Am. Colonies had rights! Like to assemble, to tax themselves, right to
representation, liberties…
• Colonies boycott (non-importation agreements) British Townshend taxed goods
1770
Answer:• Lord North new Prime Minister of Parliament• Townshend Acts repealed EXCEPT tax on tea!• Boston Massacre:
• Crispus Attacks; mob attacks custom house; hatred of taxes & British standing army in Boston; Sons of Liberty led propaganda
1772
Answer:
• Gaspee Incident– British smuggler catcher
boat burned off the coast of RI by the Sons of Liberty
1773
Answer:• Tea Act:
– reduces price of British East India Co. tea to give it a monopoly, so it doesn’t go bankrupt
• Boston Tea Party:– Sons of Liberty dump B.E.I.C. tea into Boston
Harbor (iced tea)
1774
Answer:• Coercive/Intolerable Acts:
– Purpose: punish Boston/Mass. for Tea Party– Boston Port Act = closes ports to all trade until tea repaid– Massachusetts Government Act = no town meetings, no trial by jury,
military rule, trials in England– Quartering Act, new Governor appt, Gen. Gage in charge– No stock piling of weapons
• Quebec Act: – Quebec extended to Ohio River Valley& Catholicism tolerated
• 1st Continental Congress – convenes in Philadelphia to discuss Coercive Acts– Passes the Declaration of Rights & Grievances and the Suffolk
Resolves• Declaration of Rights & Grievances = declares Am. Colonies rights (to
assemble, have juries…) & tells Parliament & King our grievances/problems with Intolerable Acts
• Suffolk Resolves = agree to NOT to buy Brit. Goods (non-import/non-consume) to hurt Brit. Econ. For Intolerable Acts
1775
Answer:• April = Lexington & Concord
– Gage sent troops to find militias & stockpiling of weapons outside of Boston; British were going to Concord by sea (2 lanterns); Revere & William Dawes warn that British are coming by sea
– Lex. the colonials & British meet up: “Shot heard ‘round the world”; starts the Am. Revolt.– Minutemen arrive at Concord & shoot British all the way back to Boston & surround the city
• May = 2nd Continental Congress – convenes b/c of Lex & Concord; U.S. gov’t until 1781 (Articles ratified)– Olive Branch Petition = written by Dickinson; last effort to avoid war; asked king to redress
grievances; king rejected the petition Turning point for declaring war (unites colonists in cause)
– Declaration of Necessity of Taking Up Arms• Continental Army created -> GW commander-in-chief
• June = Battle of Bunker/Breed’s Hill– Bloodiest battle of the Am. Revolution; proves it will not be a short, easy war;
colonials have the high ground outside Boston
• Aug. = Geo. declares the colonies in rebellion– 18,000 Hessian mercenaries hired
1776
Answer:• Jan. = Common Sense
• Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine• Should an island govern a continent?
• June = Richard Henry Lee’s Resolution• July 4, 1776 = Declaration of Independence
• Purpose: to gain foreign alliances (France)• Declared our natural rights of life, liberty & property had been
violated• Declared we had the right to abolish our government b/c of
violations• Lists 27 grievances with the king that he never remedied• Declares us an independent nation called the USA
• Dec. 26, 1776 = Battle of Trenton• 1st “battle” the Continental Army under GW won; • sneaked up on drunk Hessian mercenaries • by crossing Delaware River into NJ Xmas night • Motivates soldiers to keep fighting
1777
Answer:• Battle of Saratoga:
• Turning point = Brits lose big battle & surrender 5,800, French now will help
• Winter at Valley Forge: (outside Philadelphia)• British take over Philadelphia & Continental Congress runs & hides
• US Continental Army spends winter outside Philly at Valley Forge
freezing, while Brits are warm in our beds in Philly • Prussian Baron von Stuben trains soldiers
• Articles of Confederation adopted but NOT ratified:
• Not ratified until 1781 b/c ALL 13 states had to ratify it & they disagreed over the state borders; MD, Del & RI landlocked and borders didn’t extend into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains like other 10 states, so they refused to ratify it until they got land or others lost land.
• Written by John Dickinson
1778
Answer:• Franco-American Alliance
• France agrees to fight Britain until she acknowledges our sovereignty AND
• U.S. agrees to help France out when she asks in future
• British begin Southern strategy • Why? Need Loyalists to help now that the war is being fought
in Europe (France) and in America
1781
Answer:• Articles of Confederation is ratified by all
13 states. – Confederation = states are sovereign and more powerful
than the federal gov’t; loose “League of friendship” among the states
– Powers of the unicameral Federal Congress:•Make laws, declare war, make treaties (Treaty of Paris
1783; proposed the Jay-Gardoqui Treaty), print money, borrow money, each state got one vote regardless of size, its supposed to solve disputes b-w states, & all 13 states are needed to amend the Articles
• Battle of Yorktown– French arrive blocking off Chesapeake Bay; – Cornwallis surrenders; – Last major battle.
1783
Answer:• Treaty of Paris (1783)
– Set some of the boundaries between the US & British N. America (Canada)
– US got fishing rights in Newfoundland and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
– US & Britain agreed to pay pre-war debts to private creditors
– State legislatures were supposed to return property & land to Loyalists confiscated after the war (This NEVER happens)
– Prisoners of war on both sides were to be released and all property left by the British army in the United States unmolested (including slaves); British were to leave forts in NW territory
– Great Britain and the United States were to share access to the Miss. River
Newburgh Conspiracy of Continental Army officers:•Planned to use force to make states relinquish power to tax to the national government, so veterans could get paid; GW prevents it with guilt.
1784
Answer:
• Spain closes off port of New Orleans! – U.S. sends Jay to negotiate treaty w/Spain to open port.
• US Army = 100 men; we can’t do anything to stop Spanish
1785
Answer:
• Land Ordinance of 1785– Passed by the Confederation Congress. – Purpose: To sell land to speculators &
westerners to raise $ for the fed’l gov’t – 1. Surveys & divides NW territory (Ohio
River Valley) into 5 possible territories; – 2. Divides into towns of 6X6 square
mile blocks; the blocks could be divided up further if necessary and sold for revenue for the federal gov’t;
– 3. The 16th square was not sold but instead saved for public education
1786
Answer:• Jay-Gardoqui Treaty
– Proposed but NOT ratified by Confederation Congress!!!!– Spain would have sole use of the Miss. River for 25 years and in
return the New Englanders would have a commercial advantage in trade
• Annapolis Convention– Wanted to amend Articles to help trade or commerce between the
largely independent states; not enough representatives came; rescheduled for Philadelphia the next year
• Shay’s Rebellion– W. Mass. Farmers rebel against Mass. state gov’t b/c of economic
depression, state gov’t taxing and foreclosing on farms – Federal gov’t can’t help b/c no money or army! – The events revealed weaknesses under the Articles of
Confederation and helped lead to adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1787
Answer:
• Constitutional Convention– Met in Philadelphia to revise/amend the Articles (Madison = Father)– Great Compromise = bi-cameral legislature (equality in Senate, population in
House)– Commerce Compromise = federal gov’t controls interstate commerce & taxes
on imports (tariffs) BUT not on exports or intrastate! – 3/5 Compromise = 3/5th of slaves counted as pop. for determining
representation in House of Rep. & for determining taxation.– Importation of slaves can’t be legislated away earlier than 1808– Presidency Compromise =indirect election of Pres. by Electoral College with
4 year terms.
Northwest Ordinance (1787)•Organized the territory north west of the Ohio River into max. of 5 territories•Legislated away slavery in NW territory•All states to be admitted on equal status•60,000 pop. + state Constitution = Congress decides whether to admit territory as a state
Great CompromiseOne of the first issues to be resolved was representation to the new government. The Articles of Confederation had allowed each state equal representation and equal say, despite size or population and this did not sit well with the largest states (Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania). The smaller states feared losing say in the federal government and so continued to support equality in representation.
3/5ths CompromiseA fundamental economic and social division began to erupt over the issue of slavery. The southern, agriculturally based states relied heavily on slavery and slaves constituted a significant portion of their populations. The northern states opposed counting slaves for representation in government because they were not citizens and their population could easily be increased, tipping control of the federal legislature to the southern states.
Commerce CompromiseAgain a regional disagreement arose, in this case over the issue of trade and its regulation. The northern, more industrial states saw the regulation of trade by the federal government as essential to the smooth working of a national economy. The southern states feared regulation of trade would not only threaten the sale of slaves, but also the essential export of their agricultural products (chiefly cotton and tobacco).
Presidency CompromiseNearly all of the delegates could agree on the need for a president, to serve as a central figure and executive of the new nation. The disagreement arose over the power and service of such an office. Some delegates, fearing the rise of king-like president advocated for a weak official, who would be limited to a single one-year term. Others argued the need for a powerful figure who would be elected, but serve for life. Debates also raged about how best to elect the president and what role the people of the nation should serve in his selection.
1788
Answer:• Constitution is ratified
– by 9 of 13 states in June.
• Federalist Papers – Purpose = published in NY to get NY
and VA to ratify it.– These papers were written by
Hamilton, Madison & Jay under the pseudonym Publius to convince the people of NY that a strong central gov’t was needed & well thought out.
– Anti-Federalists (people against a strong federal gov’t at the expense of the states; want a Bill of Rights) persuaded NY & VA not to ratify it. (e.g. Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, Elbridge Gerry, and George Mason)
– VA ratifies it in June 1788 with help of George Washington.
– NY finally ratifies it in July 1789.
1789
Answer:• 1st session of Congress convenes in NYC March 4th.• Georgia Washington is unanimously elected President & John
Adams VP by electoral college April 30th.– N. Carolina and Rhode Island refused to approve the Constitution or take part in the new
government until Congress agreed to add a bill of rights.
• Congress creates Departments of State, Treasury, War & Justice• GW selects cabinet = Secretaries for Departments w/ majority of
Senate’s approval:– Sec. of State = Thomas Jefferson (VA)– Sec. of Treasury = Alexander Hamilton (NY)– Sec. of War = Henry Knox (Mass.)– Attorney General = Edmund Randolph (VA)
• Judiciary Act of 1789 passed by Congress.• French Revolution begins • July 4th = Congress passed 1st Tariff = led by Madison (loved by Hamilton),
enacted a 5% tax on imports to raise revenue.
End OF Material for
Unit 2
1789-1793
Answer:
• George Washington’s 1st term as President
1790
Answer:• 1st national census = 4 million population• R.I. ratifies the Constitution & joins the U.S. • Hamilton issued his Report on Public Credit to Congress:
– “B.E. F.A.T.” = • Bank of the U.S. • Excise Tax on whiskey,• Funding at par (original value of the debt) • Assumption of state debts• Tariffs.
• July 16th =District of Columbia created.– Wash. signed bill that permanently placed the nation’s capital along
the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland.– This bill was the Southern states’ reward in exchange for passing
the assumption of states’ debts bill.*****
• Dec. 1790= capital moved from NYC to Philadelphia where it remained until 1800.
1791
Answer:• 1st B.U.S. is chartered by Congress for 20 yrs.
• Ham. wanted a B.U.S. to stabilize the national economic system.• Wash. asks his cabinet for their opinion on the B.U.S.!
– Sec. of State Jeff. says it is unconstitutional b/c not strictly enumerated. • Wash. sided with Ham. even though he wasn’t completely convinced.
– Why? If can’t decide, go with the person/department involved, they hopefully know more.
• In the doctrine of implied powers, Ham. used a loose construction of the Constitution to defend his proposal for a central BUS. He argued that the B.U.S. was a means by which Congress could exercise its constitutional power to collect taxes and regulate trade.
• According to Ham., b/c that power (trade) is specifically enumerated in the Constitution, the creation of the BUS was a means toward that end & thus constitutional.
• 1st Internal Revenue Law passed = excise tax on whiskey• Framers in the West HATE the tax b/c they rely on distilling whiskey in order to
use up surplus rye and corn crops. Federal law allows tax agents to enter homes and collect taxes from whiskey producers!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Miami Indians beat a US military force of 1400 men led by Gen. St. Clair (900 US lives lost). Wash. had sent the Gen. to the Ohio territory with the hope that his presence would clear the way for US settlers. Oops. (Nov.)
• Bill of Rights ratified by 2/3 of the states. (Dec.)• Congress rejects Hamilton’s Manufacturing Plan.
1st Bank of the United States
• The 1st Bank of the United States (B.U.S.) began operation in 1791 and was jointly funded by private and government monies.
• The Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton modeled it after the Bank of England as an institution meant to promote private commerce and support government funding of debts.
• The Bank was the nation's largest business enterprise of the time, capitalized at $10 million. Its shares, at $400 each, sold out within hours of being offered to the public on the 4th of July.
• By 1805, the Bank had 7 branches which circulated an acceptable form of paper currency throughout the country, although it was used mainly for wholesale rather than retail purchases.
• Critics of the Bank (D-Rs) feared that national finances would be controlled by only the very wealthy, who owned 80% of the shares, while supporters felt it was important to have a bank that allowed the federal government ready access to large reserves of deposits.
• Thomas Jefferson, who had argued that the Bank was unconstitutional, got rid of the remaining 2,200 shares of government stock in 1802 after becoming president.
• Congress allowed the Bank's charter to expire in 1811 (20 yrs later.)
1792
Answer:
• Jan. = Thomas Pinckney appointed 1st US Minister/Ambassador to England by Washington.
• He’s told to convey a spirit of “sincere friendship” and• To seek liberation of US commerce from British
regulations.
• The Militia Act is passed.• Passed b/c of growing resistance from Indians in the NW
Territory.• It commissioned Gen. Anthony Wayne as Commander in
Chief of the Army & authorized that all white males b-w 18 & 45 be enrolled for military service.
• Nov. = Wash. re-elected to 2nd term as President!!!
1793-1797
Answer:
• George Washington’s 2nd term as President.
1793
Answer:• Jan. = French King Louis XVI beheaded• April = France declares war on England, Spain, Prussia &
Austria.• France sends over Citizen Genet• Wash. issues the Neutrality Proclamation unilaterally• Citizen Genet/France angers Wash. threatening our neutrality
• June = Britain blockades French ports to all Neutral shipping • spread of D-R clubs freak out Federalists
• July = Jefferson turns in his letter of resignation after Wash. begins to heed Ham.’s advise on foreign affairs.
• Not effective until Dec. 31st, though• Oct. = Reign of Terror begins in France (lasts until July 1794)• Nov. = Great Britain issues Order of Council that allow for the
seizure of American ships carrying French goods in the West Indies & the impressments of American sailors.
• England then captures several hundred US vessels w/o warning US. • Jeff. wants a U.S. embargo against Brit. but it doesn’t happen!! • Result = tension b-w US & GB rises to the verge of war.
• Dec. = Jefferson resigns as Sec. of State; Edmund Randolph replaces him.
• ****1793 = Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin increasing slave demand in the South****
1794
Answer:• Jan. = 1,000 Brit. Soldiers still occupy NW Territory violating 1783 Treaty
• April = Senate confirms Wash.’s choice of John Jay, Chief Justice of
S.Ct., as special envoy to Britain. • Jay’s assignment is to seek British withdrawal from the NW Territory, reparations
for US ships seized by Brit., an end to impressments of US sailors, compensation for slaves seized during Am. Revolt., & restoration of trade rights in the West Indies.
• June = Neutrality Act passed by Congress.• The Act forbade US citizens from enlisting in service of a foreign god’s & bans the
outfitting of armed foreign vessels in US ports.• July-Nov. = Whiskey Rebellion
• Small farmers in western Penn. break into an open revolt against a 1791 federal excise tax on whiskey producers, comparing the tax to the Stamp Act of 1765.
• In response, Wash. calls up 15,000 militia from VA, MD, NJ & PA. After attempts to reach a negotiated settlement fail, he follows Ham.’s advice & orders the militia to forcibly put down the rebellion
• Important b/c it displays the use of federal power to enforce federal law w/in a state.
• Aug. = Battle of Fallen Timber• Treaty of Greenville
1795
Answer:• Jan. = Naturalization Act passed = non-citizens must live in US for 5 years
before they apply for naturalized citizenship.– Ham. resigns as Sec. of Treasury!!! Still active politically & influences Wash.
• March = Opposition to Jay’s Treaty after it’s terms become public. D-Rs insist better terms could have been reached if embargo had occurred.
– Southern planter’s angry over not being reimbursed for slaves. Northern merchants angry, too.
• June = Jay’s Treaty = Senate ratifies & Wash. reluctantly signs. Political humiliation for US
– GB agrees to withdraw its troops from NW Territory by 1796– GB agrees to pay US $10 million in reparations for seized ships– GB agrees to open ports in Brit. West Indies to very limited US trade.– US agrees to settle pre-Revolt. War debts owed to Brit. creditors– US agrees to allow Brit. subjects to continue trading fur on US soil.– ****GB does NOT agree to stop impressing Am. Sailors*****– ****France/Spain see this as an act defying neutrality = Anglo-American
Alliance****• ****NOT TRUE OF COURSE****
• Oct. = Pickney’s Treaty (officially Treaty of San Lorenzo) = Awesome treaty for US It helps US gain control over its vast western lands.
– Spain recognizes the Miss. River to be the U.S. western border. – Spain recognizes the 31st parallel to be US southern border. – Spain gives US right to deposit goods at the Port of New Orleans w/o having to
pay. – US have access to Miss. River (sharing w/ Spain.)
1796
Answer:• Sept. = Washington’s Farewell Address:
– Madison, Ham. & Jay helped him write it.– Published in the newspaper in Philadelphia– Announces:
• 1. Not running for a 3rd term• 2. Beware of political factions/parties, especially along regional lines• 3. Protect nation’s public credit• 4. Stay clear of permanent foreign political alliances = isolationalism
• Nov.-Dec.= Election of 1796– 1st election w/ Political Parties: Federalists pick Adams for Pres.&
Pinckney for VP; D-R pick Jefferson for Pres. & Burr for VP.– Choosing b-w Adams & Jeff. was like choosing b-w the head & the heart
of the Am. Revolt.– Mudslinging campaign by party not candidates– Candidate w/ most electoral votes = Pres. & 2nd place =VP regardless of
party– Hamilton (Federalist) tries to manipulate the Electoral College so that
Pinckney (Federalist) becomes President instead of VP and Adams (Federalist) becomes VP instead of Pres.
– This backfires & Adams wins Presidency BUT Jefferson becomes VP instead of Pinckney. (Wash. put support behind Adams.)
– So, President=Adams=Federalist and VP=Jefferson=D-R
1797
Answer:• March = Adams inaugurated as 2nd Pres. of US
– Out of the 1st six presidents, Adams is the only one to have a male heir & his son becomes Pres.
– Adams asks Jeff. to be his partner as VP & part of his cabinet. Adams was fighting the Federalists for this bipartisan relationship. Jeff. refuses. Jeff. & Adams stop speaking after this. Party politics & lines now too strong.
• April = Relations w/ France deteriorate! Quasi-War begins!!! – French become enraged when the Anglo-American Jay Treaty takes affect b/c it does
not guarantee US trade rights w/ France. – France begins seizing US ships & cargoes – France refuses to receive US minister, Charles Cotesworth Pickney, who Pres.
Adams had sent to Paris to secure friendly relations. • October = XYZ Affair
– To avoid a war w/ France over whether the US should take France’s side in its war w/ Britain, Adams sent a US delegation to France to negotiate.
– France’s foreign minister, Tallyrand, sent 3 agents to greet the US delegation upon arrival.
– The agents asked for a $250,000 bribe + a $12 million dollar loan for the French gov’t before the US delegates could speak w/ Tallyrand.
– Insulted the US delegation returned to the US.– Adams tried to keep the insult quiet b/c he knew Americans would demand war.– Adams released it to the public though, when Jeff. & the D-Rs blasted HIM for trying to
start a war w/ France. However, the names of the 3 French diplomats were not released; Adams used the pseudonym XYZ to describe them.
– Public opinion of XYZ then hurt the D-Rs****
1798
Answer:• January = 11th Amend. passed
– fed’l cts. decide cases involving people from diff. states• May = Department of the Navy & Provisional Army created
– Congress creates Dept. of the Navy in preparation for war w/ France.– Provisional Army (New Army) gave Adams power to enlist 10,000 men for service. Authorized
Adams to instruct commanders of ships-of-war to seize armed French vessels attacking US merchants along the coast.
• June = Naturalization & Alien Acts passed by Congress.• Naturalization Act:
– Must live 14 years in US & declare intent to be US citizen 5 years ahead of time.– Most recent immigrants were D-Rs.
• Alien Act granted Adams the power to deport any foreigner he deemed potentially dangerous to the country’s safety.
• July = Adams appoints Washington commanding general of the US military. Wash. accepts on the condition that Ham. Is appointed 2nd in command.
– Alien Enemies Act is passed = allows the US gov’t to arrest any citizen of an enemy power who resides in, or visits the US in times of declared war.
– Sedition Act passed= virtually nullifies the 1st Amend. freedoms of speech & press. It makes all US citizens subject to fines (up to $5,000) or prison if found to be “obstructing the implementation of federal law, or for publishing malicious or false writings against Congress, the pres., or the gov’t.”
• Passed by Federalists b/c of D-R’s criticism**• Adams never enthusiastically enforced the Alien Acts BUT he & his party used the Sedition Act to send
reporters, newspaper publishers & even a congressman to jail.• When Jefferson’s president, the D-Rs will repeal the Naturalization Act, and the other acts expire at the
beginning of his presidency. • Sedition Act KILLS Federalist Party. Why? “reign of witches” makes D-Rs arrested into martyrs.• Became a joke = D-R arrested for saying Adams had a big butt. Found NOT GUILTY b/c it was true. • D-R’s stood back & let the Feds KILL themselves.
Answer continued:• Nov.-Dec= Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions – statements by
these states refusing to enforce the acts & even threatening to nullify them.– Ky Resolution: Jeff. wrote it in response to the Sedition Act.
• State’s rights argument: Sedition Act is unconstitutional b/c it violates the natural rights of the citizens of each state to control their own domestic affairs. (violates 10th Amend.)
• Nullification doctrine = fed’l law can be nullified by states. States have the right to secede if fed’l courts refuse to uphold the states’ decisions.
• KY passes the resolution after deleting the nullification section. Too radical. Madison collaborates w/ Jeff. & convinces him to chill on the succession idea.
– Virginia Resolution: Madison wrote in response to the Sedition Act.• Sedition Act is unconstitutional b/c it violates the 1st freedoms of speech &
press.• Judicial Review = Fed’l Courts should be in charge of reviewing laws &
declaring them constitutional or unconstitutional.– VA, feared a federal attack & mobilized its state militia after publishing
the resolution for a possible showdown w/ Adams. Federalist Hamilton, now in charge of the federal military was ready to send in troops.
– Adams did NOT want a civil war!!!! He looked for a political solution & decided to make peace w/ France himself. He ignored Congress, his cabinet, and sent one last envoy to France to negotiate peace.
1799
Answer:• Feb. = Adams separates from Hamiltonian Federalists
• US has 1st naval victory in the Quasi-War • March = Adams sends envoy to France to have peace w/ France &
not an all-out war. • Why did he send it?
– 1. Adams hated & distrusted Hamilton.» Ham. manipulated his cabinet against him. » Ham. had convinced the Congress to create a dangerous/expensive
Provisional Army against Adam’s wishes. Adams loved the Navy.» If no war w/ France, then Ham.’s Provisional Army was no longer needed &
Ham. would lose power & never be a military dictator. – 2. John Quincy reports from Prussia say Tallyrand will receive US with respect &
eager for peace. – 3. Adams is personally declaring his independence from the Federalist Party. It’s
the virtuous/right thing to do; it’s what’s best for the country.» Adams will change parties in 1812 b/c of his hatred for Ham. & betrayal of the
Federalists. He will become a D-R, and his son will win the presidency as a D-R. (1812 Adams will renew correspondence/friendship w/ Jeff. as well)
• April-Nov. = Adams demobilized the Provisional Army. • Wanted to prevent a confrontation w/ VA. Hamilton was furious!!• Adams fired two members of his cabinet b/c he couldn’t trust them; they were
loyal to Hamilton. Hamilton gets his revenge in the upcoming election. • Nov. = Napoleon Bonaparte now in control of France: military
dictatorship. • Dec. = Washington died at Mount Vernon.
1800
Answer:
• Convention of 1800/Treaty of Mortfontaine = ends Quasi-War and Franco-American Alliance
• Election of 1800 = TJ & Burr tie• Revolution of 1800
– “We are all federalists, we are all republicans”– Government for the people
1803
Answer:
• Louisiana Purchase – Federalists oppose – establish loose construction of the Constitution
• Marbury vs. Madison - Supreme Court declares parts of the Judiciary Act of 1789 – Supreme Court could declare law unconstitutional and powers of Court only given in Constitution
1807
Answer:
• Robert Fulton builds his first steamboat.
• Chesapeake-Leopard Incident: US ship Leopard sunk by Br. for refusal to be searched
• Embargo Act – stop exports – no war, no impressments – Federalist object to cut off trade
1812-1815
Answer:
• War of 1812 – to protest trade, stop impressments, protect mercantilism
• War Hawks – want Canada to join
• Hartford Convention: Federalist against war in New England b/c hurts trade
• Battle of New Orleans
1814
Answer:
• Hartford Convention = Federalists against War of 1812 and mercantile practices of Madison
• Treaty of Ghent – ends war with a status-quo
• Era of Good Feelings begins
1816
Answer:
• American Colonization Society founded – to relocate free blacks to Liberia
• Election of Madison (Rep) vs. King (Fed)
• Henry Clay’s American System – federally founded domestic improvements, protective tariff, 2nd B.U.S.
1817
Answer:
• Rush-Bagot Agreement: demilitarizes the Great Lakes
1818
Answer:
• Convention of 1818:– Border between U.S. & Canada set at the 49th
parallel from Great Lakes to the Rocky Mtns– US & Great Britain will share the Oregon
country for 10 years.
1819
Answer:
• Adams-Onis Treaty
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Tallmadge Amendment
1820
Answer:
• Missouri Compromise – Congress legislates territory North of 36-30 to be free TERRITORY, Maine admitted as free state and Missouri a slave state.
1823
• Monroe Doctrine
1824
• Tariff of 1824
• Corrupt Bargain #1
• JQAdams elected president by the HR
• Gibbons v. Ogden
1825
• Erie Canal completed
1828
• Tariff of 1828 = “abominations” 45%
• Jackson v. Clay for president = Jackson wins as a Democrat
• Era of the Common Man or Jacksonian Democracy begins
1829-1833
• Jackson’s 1st term
• Re-creation of the two party system
• Spoils System & rotation in office
• Cabinet Crisis = Peggy Eaton Affair
• Kitchen Cabinet
• Indian Removal Act (1830)
• Nat Turner Rebellion (1831)
• Worchester v. GA (1832)
1833-1837
• Tariff of 1832
• Election of 1832 = Jackson v. Clay– Issue = re-chartering the 2nd B.U.S. 4 years
early. Jackson vetoes Clay’s bill.
• Bank War (1833)
• Nullification Crisis (1832-1833)
1835-1836
Answer:• Texas War for Independence – “Lone
Star Republic”
1837-1841
Answer:
• Van Buren’s only term as president
• Panic of 1837
• Independent Treasury System
1840-1841
Answer:
• William Henry Harrison campaigns for pres. & wins.
– Tippecanoe & Tyler too– Log Cabin & Hard Cider
• Campaigning for the common man’s vote
• Harrison appoints a true Whig cabinet and dies 30 days later. Tyler assumes the presidency.
1841-1845
Answer:
• Tyler is president.
• Whiggish = A Whig only because he hates Jackson’s stand on nullification. Otherwise he believes all the same things as a Democrat.
• Vetoes Clay’s 3rd BUS, cabinet resigns, man with no party
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty
• Texas is annexed into Union at end of his administration.
1844-1849
Answer:
• Polk campaigns for president:
• Texas + C.O.I.L.
• Mexican-American War– California– Mexican Cession
• Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Restores Independent Treasury System
• Walker Tariff lowers tariff
1846-1848
Answer:
• 54” 40’ or Fight – Compromise to get Oregon below 49th parallel w/ Oregon Treaty
• Slidell Mission –Slidell sent to negotiate buying CA from Mexico– rejected by Mexico
• Mexican-American War- Gen. Taylor provokes Mexicans by moving into disputed Rio-Grande / Neuces River
• Wilmot Proviso – no slavery in new states formed from Mexican land – rejected in Senate b/c balanced
1848
Answer:• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California.
• Women's Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY – headed by Mott and Stanton
• Election of 1848 = Taylor (Whig) defeats Cass (Dem. – father of pop. sovereignty) and Van Buren(Free-Soil – abolitionists)
1849
Answer:
• California petitions to be a free state.
1850
Answer:• Clay’s Compromise of 1850 – passes as
separate acts during Fillmore – California free state– Mexican Cession – popular sovereignty – TX get $10 million for Western land– Slave trade banned in Washington D.C.– Fugitive Slave Law strengthened
• Clayton – Bulwer Treaty = U.S. and Britain agree to neutrality of a canal in Central America
1854
Answer:
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act - passed to create two territories for a north transcontinental RR to go to west – slavery in territories to be determined by popular sovereignty
• Republican Party created =North fears overturn of Missouri Compromise
• 1854-1859 = Bleeding Kansas – Topeka (Free Soilers) government vs. LeCompton (slavery) gov.
• Ostend Manifesto – Southern Democrats plan to take Cuba – rejected
1857
Answer:• The Dred Scott decision:
– slaves are property to be taken anywhere – allows for slavery in North
– Missouri Compromise unconstitutional– Congress can NOT legislate away slavery in
a territory
• LeCompton Constitution rejected by Congress; Compromise
• Panic of 1857 – depression – Buchanan does nothing
1858
Answer:• Mid-term election.
• Lincoln v. Douglas for Illinois Senate seat– Debate: whether constitutionality of popular
sovereignty after Dred Scott decision.– Freeport Doctrine = territories and states
can still vote to not have slavery. This statement angers Southern Democrats.
1859
Answer:• John Brown’s Raid – Harpers Ferry to
free slaves
1860
Answer:
• Election:– GOP = Lincoln– Southern Demo. Party = Breckinridge– Northern Demo. Party = Douglas– Constitutional Party = Bell
• Lincoln wins & South Carolina secedes
• C.S.A. formed
1862
Answer:
• Battle of Antietam– Lee invades Maryland– Bloodiest single day battle of Civil War
• Emancipation Proclamation– African Americans can now join Union
military to fight. – 54th Massachusetts Regiment
1863
Answer:• National Banking Act – establish central
banking system• Draft Riot - NY• Battle of Gettysburg – turning point• Battle of Vicksburg = Grant takes Miss.
River• Lincoln announces "10 Percent Plan" –
lenient plan – must swear allegiance to US
1864
Answer:
• Sherman’s March to the Sea• Election:
– Lincoln v. McClellan
1865
Answer:• Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address:
– “Malice towards none charity towards all”
• Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House in VA
• Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe 4/15/1865
• Andrew Johnson becomes president & implements his reconstruction plan:
– 10% + 13th Amend + Presidential pardons for CSA officers and people over $20,000
1866
Answer:
• Midterm Elections:– Radical Republicans gain 2/3 majorities in
both houses of Congress– Speaker of the House & President Pro:
• Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner
1867
Answer:
• Military Reconstruction Act• Tenure of Office Act to protect Sec. of
War Stanton• 14th Amendment (?)
1868
Answer:
• AJ is impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act by firing Stanton without the Senate’s approval.
• U.S. Grant is elected president– New black voters vote for him ”Waving the
bloody shirt” campaign.
1869-1877
Answer:
• Grant’s 2 terms.• KKK formed.
– KKK/Force Acts destroy it.
• 15th Amendment• Scandals:
– Credit Mobilier– Gold Scandal– Whiskey Ring
• Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)
1876
Answer:
• Battle of Little Bighorn. – Custer killed
• U.S. vs. Reese - allows voting qualifications – literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clause
• Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
• Election 1876: Hayes (Rep) defeats Tilden (Dem)
1877
Answer:
• Corrupt Bargain #2:– North/GOP = Pres. Hayes– South/Democrats = end of military
reconstruction Redeemers take over.
• Great Railroad Strike– Pres. Hayes deploys military to end strike
1890
Answer:• North American Women's Suffrage Association
is founded = NAWSA• Sherman Antitrust Act = “Trusts in restraint
of trade are illegal”• 1890-1900: Blacks are deprived of the vote in
the South.• Battle of Wounded Knee = Indians revolt to
outlawing the sacred ghost dance – Last Indian war
• Sherman Silver Purchase Act – gov’t buys silver but doesn’t coin – curb inflation
• McKinley Tariff Act – raises tariffs• Census of 1890 = frontier is closed
1895
Answer:• U.S. vs. E. C. Knight Co. = difference
between manufacturing and commerce – manufacturing doesn’t violate the Sherman Antitrust Act
• In reDebs – strikes are a restraint of trade under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Pollack vs. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. = income tax is unconstitutional
• Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech = both races must accept and help each other – blacks have to earn rights
1896
Answer:
• Plessy vs. Ferguson – “Separate but Equal”
• Election of 1896: McKinley (Rep) defeats Bryan (Dem)
• Cross of Gold Speech by Bryan
1898
Answer:
• Gen. Weyler’s reconcentration policy in Cuba
• DeLome Letter• Yellow journalism – Pulitzer & Hearst• U.S.S. Maine blows up off coast of Cuba• Teller Amendment• Spanish American War• U.S. annex Hawaii
1899
Answer:
• Treaty of Paris 1899– U.S. gets Puerto Rico, Guam & buys Philippines
for $20 million
• Platt Amendment• Hay’s Open Door policy announced• Philippine-American War begins (ends in
1901).
1900
Answer:• Election: McKinley defeats W. Jennings
Bryan again• Teddy Roosevelt is McKinley’s new VP
• Gold Standard Act – gold standard unit of value
• Boxer Rebellion – Chinese nationalist rebel – foreign nations unite to put down rebellion
1901-1920
Answer:• Progressive Era = cure corruption, anti-
monopolies, temperance, help immigrants and labor, building codes, public utilities
1901
Answer:• US Steel Corporation formed
• Platt Amendment – gave US a base in Cuba and permission for troops to intervene and consent to treaties
• Insular Cases – Constitution does not follow the flag
1906
Answer:• Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle
– Promotes meat packing reform resulting in Meat Inspection Act
• Gentleman’s Agreement– Japanese can return to integrated schools if Japan
limits immigration• T. Roosevelt negotiates Treaty of Portsmouth
– For negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War
– He receives Nobel Peace Prize• Hepburn Act
– strengthened the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
• Pure Food and Drug Act– Established Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
1909
Answer:• NAACP is founded.
• Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy (Haiti, Nicaragua)
• Payne-Aldrich Tariff = lowered tariffs
• Ballinger - Pinchot Controversy = Ballinger, Sec. of Interior, dismissed – charged with not following nation’s conservation policy
1914
Answer:• WWI begins in Europe
• The Clayton Antitrust Act – amendment to Sherman Anti-Trust Act – strengthen anti-monopolistic reform
• Federal Trade Commission created to enforce anti-trust legislation
• United States invades Vera Cruz in Mexico
1917
Answer:• US enters WWI
• Great Migration = blacks move from South to North – causes race riots – Harlem Renaissance – Garvey back to Africa movement
• Creel Committee: Public Info. – spread propaganda – formed Liberty Leagues
1919
Answer:• Treaty of Versailles = Germany accepts full blame,
demilitarize Rhineland, Ger. Looses all colonies, reparations
• Red Scare =Palmer Raids• Shenck vs. US – “clear and present danger” – open
opposition to war will undermine war effort• Senate rejects Versailles Treaty and League of
Nations – Irreconcilables – Borah – disagree with Article X = involvement
in foreign affairs– Reservationists – Lodge – accept treaty if Article X is clarified
– only Congress can commit troops• 18th Amendment is ratified prohibiting sale,
manufacturing of alcoholic beverages.• Volstead Act = enforced 18th Amendment • Race riots - Chicago
1920
Answer:
• Election: Harding (GOP) wins = Return to Normalcy
• 19th Amendment grants Women Suffrage.
• Women vote 1st time
• KDKA – 1st radio station
• First Commercial radio broadcast.
1947
Answer:
• Marshall Plan = economic aid to Europe after WWII
• Taft –Hartley Act = 80 cooling period not to strike – labor leaders must sign Non-Communist oath
• Truman Doctrine = financial commitment to nations fighting Communism
• Federal Employee Loyalty Program – anti-communistic oaths
• National Security Act = created CIA• Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in major
league baseball
1948
Answer:
• Election of 1948 =Truman defeats Dewey and Strom Thurman (DixieCrat)
• Truman desegregates armed forces
• Berlin Blockade - Berlin Airlift starts
• OAS = Alliance of North America and South America
• Alger Hiss Case = convicted of perjury– HUAC; Nixon; Pumpkin Papers
• Nuremberg trials begin
1949
Answer:• NATO formed
• China becomes communist under Mao
• Russia’s gets 1st A-Bomb
• National Security Act: creates Department of Defense, Air Force, CIA & NSC
• West Germany created
• Fair Deal: most don’t pass; Housing Act (construction increases); minimum wage increases
• Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
1950
Answer:
• Korean War begins – enter because of containment
• McCarren Internal Security Act – illegal to contribute to Communism
• McCarthyism – fear of communism wide spread
• National Security Council Memo 68 – beginning of massive defense spending to stop communism
1953
Answer:
• Rosenbergs executed
• Armistice in Korea – 38th parallel
• Shah of Iran returns to power in coup – to keep Iran from going Communistic
• Krushchev takes control of USSR
• USSR gets the H-Bomb
1954
Answer:• Army – McCarthy hearings = brought down Joseph
McCarthy• Brown vs. Board of Education = overturns Plessy vs.
Ferguson decision• SEATO = alliance Turkey, US, Iraq, and Iran• Fall of Dien Bien Phu = French loose in Vietnam• Geneva Accords = reduction of nuclear weapons,
divide Vietnam along 17th parallel for 2 years until free elections
• China (Mao) bombs Taiwan = Eisenhower threatens to send troops in and the A-bomb = brinkmanship
– Eisenhower sends troops to Taiwan & China backs off. Brinkmanship worked.
1955
Answer:• Brown v. Board of Education II =
South must integrate “with all deliberate speed”
– Due to “Massive Resistance” of the South
• Montgomery Bus Boycott starts– Rosa Parks– NAACP– MLK– SCLC
1956
Answer:• Hungarian Crisis = Hungary was a USSR satellite. Hungarians
launched a uprising to demand democratic reforms. For several days they had control of the government but Soviet troops soon took over again. U.S. did not send in military troops, $, or arms to help.
– Why? USSR had H-Bomb. Massive Retaliation no longer a possibility.
• Interstate Highway Act • Suez Crisis:
– Egyptian leader Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal– Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula & push Egyptian forces back
toward the Suez Canal.– The UK & France begin bombing Egypt– The United Nations GA adopts a resolution calling for the UK,
France, and Israel to withdraw their troops from Arab lands immediately.
• Montgomery Bus boycott ends = Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal.
1957
Answer:• Little Rock 9: Arkansas: Gov. Orville Faubus calls out
the National Guard, to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock. Ike wins.
• Eisenhower Doctrine approved by Congress to save Lebanon from Communism.
• Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl seized on grounds of obscenity.
• Jack Kerouac's On the Road goes on sale• American Bandstand & Leave it to Beaver begin airing
on TV• Strom Thurmond longest filibuster against Civil Rights
Act of 1957• Sputnik launched
1960
Answer:• U-2 incident – US spy plane goes down
in USSR – convert operation discovered
• Greensboro sit -in
• Election 1960: Kennedy (Dem) defeats Nixon (Rep) – 1st TV debate
1961
Answer:• Bay of Pigs Invasion: attempt to overthrow
Castro – fails• U.S. trade embargo on Cuba• Alliance for Progress - to build up Third
World nations to the point where they could manage their own affairs.
• Berlin wall built to stop crossing• Peace Corps – encouraged US citizens to
help third world countries• Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) - an Arab majority - oil trade - joined together to protect themselves.
1962
Answer:• Cuban Missile Crisis – USSR sends missiles
to Cuba – US removes missiles from Turkey and USSR from Cuba.
• Baker vs. Carr – end of gerrymandering – manipulating voting districts
• Engel v. Vitale - prayer in public schools were banned on violation the First Amendment.
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – on pollution• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
created - condemned anti-Democratic tendencies of large corporations, racism and poverty
1963
Answer:
• March on Birmingham, AL– Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• March on Washington:– MLK’s I have a Dream Speech
• Limited Test Ban Treaty – no testing in atmosphere or ocean – US, USSR, Br
• Kennedy assassinated by Oswald – Johnson becomes President
• The Feminine Mystique , Betty Freidan
1964
Answer:• Civil Rights Act of 1964
– No discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity or gender in public places or employment.
• Gulf of Tonkin Incident– U.S.S. Maddox allegedly attacked off coast
of N. Vietnam
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed
• LBJ defeats GOP Barry Goldwater (“father of conservatism”) for president.
1965
Answer:• “Great Society” legislation begins:
– Medicare and Medicaid – aid to elderly & poor for healthcare
• Ralph Nader's Unsafe at any Speed -criticized poor construction & design of cars
• Watts, Detroit race riots - army sent in• March on Selma, Alabama• Voting Rights Act of 1965 - it allowed for
federal registers to register Blacks to vote in places where they had not been allowed to vote before
• Malcolm X assassinated
1968
Answer:
• Election of 1968 – RFK shot; Demo. National Convention riots in Chicago; Nixon elected
• Nixon's "New Federalism" - returning power to the states
• TET – Viet Cong attacks during Vietnamese holiday
• MLK assassinated • Civil Rights Act attempted to provide
Blacks with equal-opportunity housing.
1969
Answer:
• Vietnamization begins – slow withdrawal of troops from Vietnam
• Nixon Doctrine – reducing number of troops abroad by helping nations economically and militarily
• Neil Armstrong walks on the moon• Warren E. Burger appointed - a conservative
to fill Earl Warren's liberal spot.]• U.S. bombed North Vietnamese positions in
Cambodia and Laos. Technically illegal because Cambodia and Laos were neutral
1970
Answer:
• Kent State Massacre= Students protest war & invasion of Cambodia by attacking ROTC building– troops sent in & 4 students die
1972
Answer:• Nixon visits Red China and Russia: eases
tensions/détente working • SALT1: Nuclear arms limitation agreement b-w
USSR & US (détente)• Watergate Scandal begins: CREEP burglarizes
& wiretaps the national headquarters of the Democratic Party -- investigation headed by Baker
• Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) - proposed the 27th Amendment, calling for equal rights for both sexes
• Election of 1972: Nixon re-elected defeating McGovern in largest landslide victory
1973
Answer:• Paris Peace Accords: Ends Vietnam –
U.S. troops withdrawn – Vietnam temp. divided again @ 17th
• Gideon vs. Wainwright - court decided that state and local courts must provide counsel for defendants in felony cases
• Roe vs. Wade - states can’t restrict abortions during the 1st trimester. It’s a constitutional privacy right implied in Bill of Rights.
• VP Agnew resigns: Ford replaces him 25th Amend.
1974
Answer:
• Nixon resigns
• Ford pardons Nixon
1975
Answer:
• US ship Mayaquez attacked by Cambodia - crew rescued
• North Vietnam attacks South Vietnam; South becomes Communist
• Tracy Ann Roden is born Nov. 14, 1975 in Houston, TX
1976
Answer:
• Election of 1976: Carter defeats Ford
1979
Answer:
• Panama Canal Treaty = US gives up rights to Panama Canal in 1999.
– Revokes the Hay-Buena Varilla Treaty of 1903.
1979
Answer:
• Department of Energy and Department of Education created
• Fuel shortage b/c of continued OPEC embargo; stagflation
• Camp David Accords: Peace between Israel and Egypt
• Shah expelled from Iran: American embassy taken hostage: Carter’s rescue mission fails
• SALT II - Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with Russia - removed after Russia attacked Afghanistan
• Three Mile Island - power plant failure emits radiation in Pennsylvania