The Money Years: Turning Points in American History

Flashcards from lecture notes on key events in American history.

Columbian Exchange

1492.

Battle of the Spanish Armada

1588

Jamestown

1607.

Bacon's Rebellion

1676

Metacom's War

1676,

French and Indian War Begins

1754,

End of French and Indian War

1763,

Declaration of Independence

1776,

Treaty of Paris

1783,

Revolution Election

1800,

Marbury v. Madison

1803

War of 1812

1812-1814,

Era of Good Feelings

1815-1826,

COMMON MAN’ ENTERS POLITICS, b) MARKET REVOLUTION, c) SECOND GREAT AWAKENING, d) ‘MANIFEST DESTINY’

1830s-1840s,

Seneca Falls Convention

1848,

End of the Mexican-American War

1848,

Compromise of 1850

1850,

The Civil War

1861-1865,

Compromise of 1877

1877,

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

1877,

Hull House

1889,

Panic of 1893

1893,

Spanish-American War

1898,

Era of Progressive Reform

1901-1920,

World War I

1914-1919,

Stock Market Crash

1929-1941,

World War II

1941-1945

Soviet Union A-Bomb

1949,

Cold War

1946-1991,

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1963-1964,

Vietnam War

1968,

Ronald Reagan Elected President

1980,

September 11, 2001

2001,