APUSH DECADES
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 French and Indian War | 1750s |
| Albany Congress and Plan | 1750s |
| End of French and Indian War | 1760s |
| British treasury is empty (get tough with the colonies) | 1760s |
| End of Salutary Neglect | 1760s |
| Proclamation Line of 1763 | 1760s |
| Sugar Act | 1760s |
| Stamp Act and Stamp Act Crisis | 1760s |
| Declaratory Act | 1760s |
| Townshend Acts | 1760s |
| Boston Massacre | 1770s |
| Boston Tea Party | 1770s |
| Intolerable (Coercive) Acts | 1770s |
| First Continental Congress | 1770s |
| Lexington and Concord | 1770s |
| Second Continental Congress | 1770s |
| Thomas Paine's Common Sense | 1770s |
| Declaration of Independence | 1770s |
| Revolutionary War (Battle of Trenton, Saratoga) | 1770s |
| Franco-American Alliance | 1770s |
| Congress wrote Articles of Confederation | 1770s |
| Articles of Confederation period | 1780s |
| Land Ordinance and Northwest Ordinance | 1780s |
| Shays Rebellion | 1780s |
| Constitutional Convention | 1780s |
| Federalist Papers | 1780s |
| Constitution takes effect (Washington as President) | 1780s |
| Hamilton's Reports | 1790s |
| Hamilton vs. Jefferson (broad vs. strict construction) | 1790s |
| Proclamation of Neutrality (Not supporting France in its war with Britain) | 1790s |
| Jay's Treaty | 1790s |
| Pinckney's Treaty | 1790s |
| Development of political parties | 1790s |
| Adams becomes 2nd President | 1790s |
| undeclared war with france | 1790s |
| xyz affair | 1790s |
| alien and sedition act | 1790s |
| kentucky and virginia resolution(nullification) | 1790s |
| invention of cotton gin | 1790s |
| thomas jefferson's presidency | 1800-1809 |
| louisiana purchase | 1800-1809 |
| lewis and clark expedition | 1800-1809 |
| impressment | 1800-1809 |
| embargo act | 1800-1809 |
| chesapeake affair | 1800-1809 |
| war of 1812 | 1810-1819 |
| american system (rise of nationalism after war) | 1810-1819 |
| era of good feelings | 1810-1819 |
| hartford convention | 1810-1819 |
| battle of tippecanoe | 1810-1819 |
| battle of new orlean | 1810-1819 |
| universal manhood suffrage | 1820s |
| 1824 elections (4 candidates) | 1820s |
| corrupt bargain (clay becomes secretary of state) | 1820s |
| rise of common man (candidate=andrew jackson) | 1820s |
| missouri compromise | 1820s |
| rise of american manufacturing (protective tariff) | 1820s |
| tariff of abominations | 1820s |
| monroe doctrine | 1820s |
| age of jackson | 1830s |
| indian removal policy (trail of tears) | 1830s |
| nullification crisis | 1830s |
| clash between jackson and john c calhoun | 1830s |
| killing the national bank | 1830s |
| land speculation( specie circular) | 1830s |
| spoils system | 1830s |
| kitchen cabinet | 1830s |
| van buren succeeds jackson, panic of 1837 | 1830s |
| texas becomes independent | 1830s |
| gag rule concerning anti-slavery petitions | 1830s |
| growth of abolitionism= garrison's liberator and nat turner revolt | 1830s |
| south saw slavery as a positive good or national benefit | 1830s |
| antebellum period | 1830s |
| texas annex or not? | 1840s |
| 1844 election: polk vs clay | 1840s |
| 54 40' or Fight | 1840s |
| war with mexico | 1840s |
| mexican cessian | 1840s |
| wilmot proviso | 1840s |
| california gold rush | 1840s |
| free soil party | 1840s |
| compromise of 1850 | 1850s |
| fugitive slave act and personal liberty laws | 1850s |
| end of whig party | 1850s |
| kansas-nebraska act | 1850s |
| bleeding kansas | 1850s |
| john brown | 1850s |
| dred scott case | 1850s |
| uncle tom's cabin | 1850s |
| know nothing party | 1850s |
| immigration wave=irish and germans | 1850s |
| lincoln-douglas debates | 1850s |
| election of 1860s: Lincoln won | 1860s |
| secession and creation of confederate states of america | 1860s |
| for sumter and civil war | 1860s |
| battles: bull run, gettyburg, vicksburg, fredericksburg | 1860s |
| reconstruction plans: lincolns, wade davis bill, johnson | 1860s |
| presidential reconstruction vs. congressional reconstruction | 1860s |
| 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments | 1860s |
| military reconstruction act and black reconstruction period | 1860s |
| Ku Klux Klan | 1860s |
| completion of first transcontinental railroad | 1860s |
| gilded age | 1870s |
| corruption scandals= credit mobilier, boss tweed, whiskey ring | 1870s |
| growth of american trust and redcution in competition= carnegie and rockefeller | 1870s |
| labor unions=dark years | 1870s |
| election of 1876 and compromise of 1877 | 1870s |
| jim crow laws=segregation | 1870s |
| battle of little bighorn( custer) | 1870s |
| Panic of 1873 | 1870s |
| invention of light bulb and telephone | 1870s |
| civil service reforms=pendleton act | 1880s |
| assassination of president garfield | 1870s |
| knights of labor and american federation of labor | 1870s |
| haymarket square riot | 1870s |
| literature=realism=twain, crane, howells | 1870s |
| dawes act (indian assimilation) | 1870s |
| interstate commerce act | 1870s |
| trust, vertical integration=big business(tending toward monopoly) | 1870s |
| chinese exclusion act | 1870s |
| sherman anti trust act | 1890s |
| pullman strike and homestead strike | 1890s |
| use of unjunctions against strikes | 1890s |
| Populist Party | 1890s |
| Election of 1896=cross of gold speech | 1890s |
| panic of 1983 | 1890s |
| spanish-american war | 1890s |
| treaty of paris | 1890s |
| us annexation of hawaii | 1890s |
| new immigrants=souther and eastern europe | 1890s |
| beginning of yellow journalism | 1890s |
| Teddy and Square Deal | 1900-1909 |
| Panama Canal | 1900-1909 |
| Progressive Movement | 1900-1909 |
| Muckrakers | 1900-1909 |
| The Jungle and the Octopus | 1900-1909 |
| Conservation of natural resources | 1900-1909 |
| Coal strike of 1902 | 1900-1909 |
| teddy the trust buster | 1900-1909 |
| taft's presidency begins | 1900-1909 |
| Progressive movement under Woodrow Wilson | 1920s |
| Progressive Amendments 16th, 17th,18th, 19th | 1920s |
| Federal Reserve Act | 1920s |
| Child Labor Laws | 1920s |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire=safetly laws for worker | 1920s |
| Unrestricted submarine warfare | 1920s |
| US attempt to stay neutral during WWI | 1920s |
| Zimmermann Note | 1920s |
| WWI=consctription, government role in industry and agriculter | 1920s |
| Treat of Versailles | 1920s |
| REduction of civil liberites in US during war-espionage and sedition act | 1920s |
| ratification of treaty=wilson vs. henry cabot lodge | 1920s |
| League of nations=article x | 1920s |
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