Oregon Treaty established northern border with Canada

   -America acquires OR, WA, parts of ID, WY, MT

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Mexican-American War

   -the Wilmot Proviso defeated quickly

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

   -ends Mexican-American War

   -Mexican cession  $15 million for C(alifornia) A(rizona) N(evada) C(olorado) U(tah) N(ew Mexico)

Taylor dies; Fillmore takes over

Compromise of 1850 written by Stephen Douglas & Henry Clay

   -CA is a state

   -stronger fugitive slave law

   -UT & WM territory created; popular sovereignty will decide slave or free eventually

   -abolished slave trade in DC

Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

- Franklin Pierce elected

Kansas Nebraska Act

   -repealed Missouri compromise

   -championed popular sovereignty

   -ends Whig party essentially

   -Republican party emerges

   -leads to increased sectionalism

Bleeding Kansas

- Bleeding Sumner

- Dred Scott decision

Lincoln-Douglass debates

   -Freeport Doctrine

John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry

South Carolina seceded from union; 7 more join to form CSA with Jefferson Davis as President

Battle at Fort Sumter; Civil War begins

Emancipation Proclamation

Early- Freedman’s Bureau established

war ends

   Late -Lincoln assassinated

Reconstruction begins

options 

-10% Plan

               -Wade-Davis Bill   Lincoln vetoed it

               -Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan  kind of a combo of 10% + W-D Bill

               -Black Codes instituted in South

14th Amendment

Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

15th Amendment

1. scandals    Credit Mobilier& Whiskey Ring

2. Financial Panic

Compromise of 1877

   -Hayes = President

   -military reconstruction ends in South

People: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Edison, Pulitzer & Hearst (journalists; “yellow journalism”), Gompers (unions), 

               Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony (woman’s suffrage)

Forgotten Presidents: Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison

McKinley tariff

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Spanish-American War    Americans drive Spanish out of Cuba &Phillipines

Treaty of Paris ends war

Platt Amendment- removed U.S troops in Cuba

Panama Canal

-Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

   -Big Stick Policy

   -America not involved in Europe

   -involved in western hemisphere

Wilson elected

Neutrality declared

Lusitania sunk

Early- Zimmerman telegram

declared war on Germany

Espionage Act

Sedition Act

FBI created with J. Edgar Hoover in charge

- 14 Points    League of Nations made it not pass in Congress because Wilson was unwilling to compromise

Harding

   -scandals

Coolidge

   -business

   -cars

Events:  Scopes Trial, Prohibition, 18th Amendment, Jazz  Harlem Renaissance

Stock Market Crash

Great Depression begins

FDR

   -100 Days

   -New Deal implemented

Banking Act of 1933

 FDIC

-AAA (Agricultural)

-PWA (Public Works)

-SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission)

2nd New Deal

   -WPA

   -Social Security

-Good Neighbor Policy

Neutrality Act

Neutrality Act

Neutrality Act

Selective Training & Service Act of 1940

Lend-Lease Act

Atlantic Charter Conference with Churchill

Dec 7- Pearl Harbor attacked

June 6, D-Day

Early- Yalta Conference

Middle- Potsdam    determine A-bomb

FDR dies   Truman becomes President

End- Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Truman Doctrine    financial support of anti-Communist nations for containment of Communism

Marshall Plan

NATO    leads to CIA in America

McCarthyism

   -Joseph McCarthy = names of Communists in American government

Korean War; Civil Rights Movement begins

Dwight Eisenhower = President

Army-McCarthy trial ends scare

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Suez Crisis

Sputnik launched leads to NASA being established

U-2 incident

JFK becomes President

-Bay of Pigs

- Vietnam Conflict begins

Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK assassinated; LBJ becomes President

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

“Great Society” legislation

Nixon is President

- moon landing

Detente

America off gold standard

Watergate scandal

Nixon resigns

Gerald Ford is President; pardons Nixon

Nixon resigns

Gerald Ford is President; pardons Nixon

Ronald Reagan elected President

First Space shuttle launched

1983- Strategic Defense Initiative = “Star Wars”

? - Strategic Defense Initiative = “Star Wars”