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George washington

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1789-1797 born in Virginia federalist Bill of Rights Whiskey Rebellion cotton gin called father of his country

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John Adams

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1797-1801 Massachusetts federalist XYZ Affair Alien and Sedition Acts midnight appointments

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Thomas Jefferson

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1801-1809 Virginia Democratic / Republican Marbury versus Madison Barbary Pirates burr conspiracy, Burr and Hamilton duel, Louisiana Purchase ,Lewis and Clark ,Clermont Steamboat

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James Madison

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1809-1817 Virginia Democratic Republican Embargo Act War of 1812 called father of the Constitution

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John Quincy Adams

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1825-1829 Massachusetts Democratic / Republican Baltimore Ohio Railroad begins Construction Erie Canal opens photography

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Andrew Jackson

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1829-1837 South Carolina Democrats Indian Removal Alamo Falls to Santa Ana Nullification Crisis Texas Independence Black Hawk War Jackson versus Second Bank of us nicknamed Old Hickory

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Martin Van Buren

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1837-1841 New York Democrat Trails of Tears Panic of 1837 Telegraph

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William Henry Harrison

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1841 Virginia whig first president to die in office serve the shortest term in office nickname old Tippecanoe

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John Tyler

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1841-1845 Virginia whig Irish and German immigration Oregon Trail signs Texas annexation

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James K Polk

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1845-1849 North Carolina Democrats Texas annexation Manifest Destiny California Gold Rush Oregon treaty Mexican war Seneca Falls Convention

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Zachary Taylor

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1849-1850 Virginia whig Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act second president to die in office nickname old Rough and Ready

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Millard Fillmore

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1850-1853 New York whig Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Franklin Pierce

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1853-1857 New Hampshire Democrat Underground Railroad Gadsden purchase boom time for railroad building Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas

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James Buchanan

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1857-1861 Pennsylvania Democrat Dred Scott Lincoln Dash Douglas debate Pony Express John Brown’s raid Harpers Ferry

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Abraham Lincoln

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1861-1865 Kentucky Republican succession Civil War emancipation Lincoln’s assassination Gettysburg Address nickname Honest Abe

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Ulysses S Grant

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1869-1877 Ohio Republican completion of the Transcontinental Railroad telephone Susan B Anthony reconstruction ends

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1215

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Magna Carta limited the power of the king

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1607

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Jamestown Virginia first permanent English settlement

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1619

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Establishment of House of Burgesses first representative assembly in America

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1620

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Limit first English colony in the Northeast

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1639

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut first written Constitution

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1660’s

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Navigation Acts series of laws passed by England to regulate colonists trade so England would make money

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1730-40

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Great Awakening religious movement and colonies

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1754-63

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French and Indian War remove French from North America beginning of problems between England and colonies

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1763
Treaty of Paris officially ended French and Indian War Proclamation of 1763 colonists forbidden by England to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
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1764
Sugar Act tax on molasses one of many events in green colonists which led to American Revolution
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1765
Stamp Act tax on legal documents newspapers licenses diplomas dice playing cards also led to American Revolution
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1766
Quartering Act British soldiers could stay in colonist homes angered colonist
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1767
Townshend Acts text Goods such as glass paper silk lead and teeth
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1770
Boston Massacre first civilians killed by British soldiers
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1773
Boston Tea Party key symbolic Act of rebellion
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1773
Tea Act led to Boston Tea Party
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1774
Intolerable Acts Britain punishes colonists severely for the Boston Tea Party
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1774
First Continental Congress first organizing of 13 colonies
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1775
Shot heard around the world Lexington / Concord beginning of Revolutionary War
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1775
Olive Branch Petition colonists declare loyalty to King George III but ask him to cancel Intolerable Acts
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1776
Declaration of Independence colonies separate from England when in the course of human events also life liberty and pursuit of happiness
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1777
Articles of Confederation first American Constitution states had too much power
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1781
Revolutionary war ends Battle of Yorktown concludes the Revolutionary War
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1783
Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolution United States recognize as a nation
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1786
Land ordinance setup system for settling Northwest Territory
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1786
Shay's Rebellion demonstrated the need for a stronger government showed weakness of the Articles of Confederation and need for stronger federal government
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1787
Constitutional Convention meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation resulting in a new form of government Great Compromise
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1787
Great compromise compromise between Virginia plan which favored large states and New Jersey Plan favorite small states set up a two house legislature Senate to votes per state / House of Representatives seats awarded based on population
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1787
3/5 compromise 3/5 of slaves in any state counted towards population
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1787-88
Constitution created modern Constitution
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1789
Washington elected president Farewell Address set tone for international politics isolationism precedence for transition of power
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1790's
Industrial Revolution beginning of mass production interchangeable parts lower cost of goods factory system urbanization deplorable work conditions
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1791
Bill of Rights first 10 amendments which guarantee individual rights gain support for the Constitution to be ratified rights are not absolute
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1793
Neutrality proclamation Washington declares us will not support either side in war in Europe
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1795
Treaty of Greenville several Native American tribes give up land for money
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1798
Alien at allowed president to expel any Foreigner who he thought was dangerous to the country
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1798
Citizens could be fined or jail for criticizing elected officials
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1803
Marbury versus Madison Supreme Court can decide if law violates Constitution judicial review
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1803
Louisiana Territory purchase Thomas Jefferson by Louisiana from France for 15 million doubled size of us
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1807
Embargo Act forbade Americans to export or import any Goods
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1809
Non intercourse Act replaced Embargo Act American from now trade with all donations except Britain and France
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1812
War of 1812 war with England over impressment of sailors Francis Scott Key Star Spangled Banner Andrew Jackson games Fame at Battle of New Orleans
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1814
Treaty of Ghent officially ended War of 1812
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1823
Haha Monroe Doctrine Europe would not interfere in the Affairs of the Western Hemisphere / South north and Latin America's
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1830
Indian Removal Act Native Americans forced to move west of Mississippi
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1835-38
Trail of Tears Native Americans forced West by Andrew Jackson went to Oklahoma
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1845
Texas annexation / statehood President Polk and office
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1846-48 I
Mexican War Mexican session Mexico sold all of California and New Mexico to the US included president California Nevada Utah Colorado and New Mexico territories game states of California New Mexico Nevada Arizona Colorado president poke
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1848
Get off get off Seneca Falls Convention declared women's rights
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1848-49
Later on lyrics California Gold Rush settlement in West Pioneers resting across Great Plains in search of better life
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1849
Compromise of 1850 California entered union as a free state rest of Mexican session divided into territories of New Mexico and Utah voters would decide slavery question in each territory slave trade ended in Washington DC but can continue between states strike news fugitive slave law passed
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1850
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 demanded all citizens help catch runaway slaves
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1853
Gadsden purchase Mexico sold to us a strip of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico
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1854
Kansas and Nebraska at divided Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska slavery decided by voting
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1857
Dred Scott decision slavery made legal in all territories
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1860
Election of Lincoln led to Southern secession in 1861
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1861-65
Civil War Union slash North versus Confederacy / South also known as war of Northern aggression war of secession War to preserve the union war of recent unpleasantness Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy Grant Northern Lee Southern
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Jan 1 1863
Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the seceded states of rebellion change the character of the war to include ending slavery as well as preserving the Union
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1865
Lincoln's death assassinated by John W booth at Ford Theater Radical Republicans gained power military reconstruction followed
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1865
13th Amendment band slavery throughout Nation
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1866
14th amendment gave citizenship to all people born in US
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1867
Reconstruction Acts divided South into 5 military districts
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1868
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson first impeachment of a President Johnson had challenged Congressional law
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1869
15th Amendment forbade any state from denying African American males the right to vote
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1877
End of reconstruction troops moved from South President Hayes
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