Dates Principles Of Democracy Govt Amendments Wars Next Round

Spanish-American War

1898

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Jamestown founded

1607

Beginning of Great Depression

1929

Terror attack on New York World Trade Center

2001

Government plan for Plymouth Colony

Mayflower Compact

Essays written to argue in favor of ratification of the US Constitution

Federalist Papers

First government of the US

Articles of Confederation

Document that limited the power of the English King

Magna Carta

The right to vote

suffrage

Branch tasked with making and enacting laws

Legislative

Branch that executes the laws

Executive

Branch that interprets laws through court system

Judicial

Idea that one branch can act upon another to keep one branch from becoming too pwoerful

Checks and Balances

The idea that each branch has its own powers and responsibilities

Separation of powers

Established the income tax

16th

Prohibited sale and distribution of alcohol

18th

Freedom of the press

1st

Abolishment of Slavery

13th

Voting rights for women

19th

War caused in part by Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare

WW I

War sparked by the sinking of the USS Maine

Spanish-American War

Pearl Harbor

WW II

War in which US fought under the command of the United Nations

Korean War

George Washington commander of the army

American Revolution

Dates PrinciplesAmendments WarsEras & Movements

Years of Korean War

American declare independence

1776

WW I

WW II

Vietnam War

First democratic governing body in America

Virginia House of Burgesses

Document listing American grievances against the English King

Declaration of Independence

System where power is shared between states and the central government

Federalism

Document that established the framework for our current government

US Constitution

First ten amendments to the Constitution

Bill of Rights

Direct election of senators

17th

Defines American citizenship

14th

Right to bear arms

2nd

Right for all men to vote regardless of race

15th

Powers not reserved to the federal government are given to the states and the people

10th

War caused by tension between democratic West and Communits

Cold War

Rough Riders led by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt

Spanish-American War

Battles of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown

American Revolution

Battles of Antietam, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg

US Civil War

The Tet Offensive

Vietnam War

Cuba Missile Crisis

The 1960’s

Anti-communist and anti- radical periods following both world wars

Red Scare

Noted for its many reform laws

Progressive Era

America gained overseas colonies

Imperialism

The Dust Bowl

Great Depression

Eras & Movements PresidentsKey PeopleKey Events Dates

The Cold War

US Constitution written

1787

US Civil War

US gain of Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico

1898

Lincoln Presidency

Robber Barons and Industrialization

Gilded Age

Flappers and booming economy

Roaring Twenties

Bus boycotts, sit-ins, and Freedom Riders

Civil Rights Movement

Hippies, protesters, and assassinations of Kennedy and King

1960’s

16 th, 17 th, 18 th, and 19 th Amendments

Progressive Era

Presided over the Spanish-American War

McKinley

First Catholic president

Kennedy

Credited with ending the Cold War

Reagan

Presided over US in WWI

Wilson

The Great Society

Lyndon Johnson

Mass produced cars using assembly line

Henry Ford

Leader of American Women’s Suffrage Movement

Susan B. Anthony

Organized Hispanic farm workers

Cesar Chavez

Her arrest sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks

He invented the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

Programs enacted by Franklin Roosevelt to fight the Great Depression

New Deal

Brought Martin Luther King into national prominence

Montgomery bus boycott

Reached its high point with manned landings on the moon

Apollo Program

Established in principle the creation of the United Nations

Yalta Conference

Developed the atomic bomb

Manhattan Project

StatesPresidentsKey PeopleKey EventsDogs

Texas is bordered by what states?

New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana

The last two states added to the union

Alaska and Hawaii

What states border on Mexico?

California, New Mexico, and Texas

The northern most state

Alaska

The eastern most state

Maine

He was behind the creation of the US Interstate Highway system

Eisenhower

He began the construction of the Panama Canal

Theodore Roosevelt

He was only president elected to four terms

Franklin Roosevelt

He established America’s containment policy against the communists

Truman

Because of Watergate, he was only president to resign

Nixon

He was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Charles Lindbergh

He helped found the NAACP

W.E.B. Dubois

She was the first female Supreme Court Justice

Sandra Day O’Connor

He was a symbol of the Black Power Movement

Malcolm X

His inventions included the light bulb and phonograph

Thomas Edison

This tragedy led to strong workplace safety reforms

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Conflict between Creationism and Evolution led to this court case

The Scopes Trial

The failed CIA plan to begin an anti- communist revolution in Cuba

Bay of Pigs

This ended World War I

Treaty of Versailles

Communist attacks in Vietnam that turned much of the American public against the war

The Tet Offensive

Fire trucks

Dalmatian

Taco Bell

Chihuahua

Race track

Grey Hound

Tracking escaped prisoners

Blood Hound

Seeing Eye Dogs

Labrador Retrievers