Important Dates
1803
Louisiana Purchase
This Amendment gave women the right to vote, Women's Suffrage
19th Amendment
War in which the American colonists fought for independence from Great Britain
Revolutionary War
The 3rd President, a Democratic-Republican, and a believer in an "agrarian society"
Thomas Jefferson
Period of severe tension after WW2 in which NATO and the Warsaw Pact had competing ideologies, capitalist democracy and communism respectively
The Cold War
1945
End of WW2, Japan surrenders
This Amendment gave American citizenship to Black Americans
14th Amendment
The two sides of the American Civil War were.... (give the names, not just the directions on a compass)
The North (Union) and South (Confederacy)
Progressive President who is famously remembered as a Populist trustbuster and champion of many working reforms
Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt
12 year period in which the South recovered after the Civil War, civil rights progress was made but then reversed
Reconstruction
1848
End of Mexican American War/ Mexican Cession
This Amendment established Prohibition, and this other Amendment repealed Prohibition
18th Amendment, 21st Amendment
This event demonstrated the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation
Shay's Rebellion
Muckraker author of "The Jungle"
Upton Sinclair
Time period in which muckrakers publicized the horrible working conditions in factories, and certain politicians passed major reforms
Progressive Era
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act ("Bleeding Kansas")
The first 10 Amendments of the Constitution, included to ensure Anti-Federalist support during the Constitutional Convention
Bill of Rights
This war resulted in defeat by the US and the rise of the Anti-war protest movement throughout the United States
Vietnam War
Conservative Senator who persecuted actors, artists and opponents and often framed them as Communists
Joseph McCarthy
The worst economic decline in American history, including an unemployment rate of 25% resulting in the New Deal reforms
The Great Depression
1963
Assassination of JFK, Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President
This Amendment created the Income Tax, as an attempt to raise revenue from taxing the rich
16th Amendment
Native American uprising after the French & Indian War, resulting in the Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac's Rebellion
Formerly enslaved activist and educator who believed that Black people should keep to their community and focus on improving themselves through technical education
Booker T. Washington
Period of time after the War of 1812 when Americans shared a sense of patriotism and only 1 political party dominated politics
Era of Good Feelings