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AP Exam Review Flashcards

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1492

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  • Columbus discovers America
  • Spanish colonization begins
  • Columbian Exchange
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1607

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First Permanent English Colony Jamestown

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1619

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House Of Burgesses established

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1620

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  • Plymouth founded
  • Puritans in New England
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5
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1676

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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1754

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French and Indian War begins

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1763

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Treaty of Paris - French and Indian War ends

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1765

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  • Acts enacted by Great Britain in full force
  • No taxation without representation!
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1775

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American Revolution begins

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1776

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  • Thomas Pained Common Sense
  • Declaration of Independence
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1783

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  • Treaty of Paris - End of American Revolution
  • Beginning of U.S. under articles of confederation
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1787

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  • Northwest Ordinance
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1789

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Constitution ratified

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1791

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Bill of Rights added to Constitution

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1790s

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First two party system (Hamilton vs. Jefferson)

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1800

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Revolution of 1800 (election of Thomas Jefferson)

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1803

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  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Marbury vs Madison (judicial review)
18
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1808

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Save importation ends (compromise of 1789)

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1812

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War of 1812 began

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1815

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  • End of federalist party and War of 1812
  • Beginning of Era of Good Feelings
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1820

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Missouri Compromise

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1823

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Monroe Doctrine (warning European power not to interfere with western affairs)

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1824

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  • Beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement)
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1828

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  • Andrew Jackson elected
  • Era of Common Man
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1820s-1830s

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2nd two party system (Jackson vs Clay)

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1844

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  • Election of Polk
  • Manifest Destiny
27
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1846

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Mexican-American War begins

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1848

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  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
  • Mexican Cession
  • End of Mexican American War
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1850

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  • Compromise of 1850 (California a free state)
  • Popular Sovereignty
30
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1854

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Kansas Nebraska Act (popular sovereignty in territories, bleeding Kansas)
- Repub party replaces Whigs which split over slavery

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1857

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  • Dred Scott vs Sanford (African American’s were enslaved or free are not citizens, therefore couldn’t sue in court)
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1860

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Election of Abe Lincoln (secession begins)

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1861

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Beginning of Civil War (battle of Fort Sumter

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1863

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  • Battle of Gettysburg
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Emancipation Proclamation
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1865

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End of Civil War

36
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1877

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End of Reconstruction
Jim Crow

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1890

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Frontier closed

38
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1892

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Populists Party starts

39
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1896

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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1898

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Spanish American War

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