Timeline
1607- first permanent English settlement in America
What is the founding of Jamestown?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
income tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
Louisiana Purchase
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
English Puritan lawyer and a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
1860- Election of Lincoln, South Carolina secedes
What is the Civil War begins?
Denied citizenship to African American slaves
What is Dredd Scott v Sandford?
right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
Big Stick diplomacy
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
secretary of state under John Adams who forged the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
1848- First women's rights convention in the United States
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Upheld "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
abolition of slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy?
American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer who is best known for his anti-slavery newspaper “The Liberator”
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
1941- the United States emerges as a superpower
What is the U.S. enters WWII?
What is Korematsu v. United States?
Women's right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Start of conservative politics, end of communism, Berlin Wall
Who is Ronald Reagan?
demanded immediate and full rights for blacks as guaranteed by the Constitution
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
1950s- 1970s- proxy war of the Cold War
What is the Vietnam War?
Violated the Sherman Anti Trust Act
What is Standard Oil of NJ v. United States?
popular election of senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
9/11 attacks
Who is George W. Bush?
Senator that accused many innocent individuals and institutions of being affiliated with communism
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?