Turning points

What treaty ended the French and Indian War in 1763?

Treaty of Paris

It started the road to revolution. Colonial distrust of Britain and led to Britain to end salutary neglect which started taxation with representation.

The Declaration of Independence justified the separation of the colonies from the parent country base on what reasoning?

John Lockes ideas that life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness need to be upheld by government’s. Otherwise the people he’d the right to overthrow the government and on long list of grievances which the king did to the colonies (explains the unfair treatment)

What was the Revolution of 1800? Why was it considered a revolution?

Election of 1800

1. First successful peaceful transition of power between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

2. Proof our new system worked

What case was decided in 1803? What did this case establish, who gave majority opinion? Significance?

Marbury v. Madison

This case established the process of judicial review. The majority opinion was given by John Marshall. The significance was that it put the judicial branch on the same pedestal of the other two and gave the judiciary the power to define a law and deem actions unconstitutional.

What was singed in 1814, ending the War of 1812? What did this help bring about in America?

Treaty of Ghent

1. Era of Good feeling

2. Period of nationalism with industry being promoted

What treaty ended the Mexican War? What land was acquired by this? Give two outcomes of this war/treaty.

Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo

Mexican secession

Increase efforts to pursue/develop western land because of the growing idea of Manifest Destiny. Debates of California’s statehood/whether it should become a slave state or not.

_____ began in 1861 and ended in 1865. It began with the ______ and ended with surrender at Appomattox Court House. It allowed for the 13th Amendement that ______ but did little to bring about full ______. At the time, it was considered a final say on the ______ of the federal government.

Civil War, the battle at Fort Sumter, slavery was abolished, Civil Rights, power/supremacy

What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1877

Hayes becomes president and military leaves South

Reconstruction ended

Black citizens left to move to northern states

What major Supreme Court decision was overturned in 1954? What was the new ruling? What was its significance?

Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

It set a new precedent of desegregation in public places, and officially banned segregation at schools, malls, parks, anywhere public, etc.

What were three of the major events of 1968 and their significance?

1. MLK’s assassination: people lost a leader of the Civil Rights Movement and questioned if peace was the right method

2. RFK’s assassination: huge public upset and lost the interest in progression

3. Tet Offensive: Northern Attack that lost American Soldiers and as war grew U.S. citizens has a greater desire to leave the war

In 1973, ______ singed the _______ ending the longest war in our history. This was a promise he made and part of his policy of ______. Also passing this same year, was the ______, which limited the power of the president. This passed over Nixon’s __________. Although this ended the Vietnam War, we didn’t completely leave until _____.

Nixon, Paris Peace Accord, Vietnamization, War Powers Act, veto , 1975

During Clinton’s Presidency, during the ______, the Republicans won a ______ victory. They united to create the ______, which was a 10 point pan to reduce federal taxed, balance the budget, and dismantle social welfare programs established during six decades of mostly Democratic rule in Congress

Republican Revoltion, landslide, Contract with America