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Turning Points in History
Turning Points in History
Workbook 32Workbook 32
1763
• Significance: The British were attempting to stop the continuing conflict between the Natives and the colonists.
• Related Events:
A. Sugar Act (1764)
B. Stamp Act (1765)
C. Quartering Act (1765)
D.Townshend Acts (1767)
Event: Proclamation of 1763
1776
• Significance: First step into becoming an independent country.
• Related Events:
A. Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1774)
B. “Common Sense” – Thomas Paine
C. Articles of Confederation
Event: Declaration of Independence
1789
• Significance: It states the foundation for the system of law and government for the United States.
• Related Events:
A. Constitutional Convention of 1787
B. Bill of Rights approved
C. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Event: Ratification of the Constitution
1800
• Significance: Jefferson becomes the new president of the U.S.; government becomes Democratic-Republican.
• Related Events:
A. Washington’s Farewell Address
B. XYZ Affair
C. Passing of the 12th amendment
Event: The Election of 1800
1803
• Significance: Added a massive portion of land to the United States, located in the central part of the nation.
• Related Events:
A. Lewis and Clark Adventures
B. Embargo Act
C. Marbury v. Madison
Event: The Louisiana Purchase
1814
• Significance: This treaty ended the War of 1812, which was fought between the British Empire and America.
• Related Events:
A. Panic of 1819
B. McCullen vs. Maryland
C. Hartford Conventions
Event: The Treaty of Ghent
1848
• Significance: A massive amount of land is obtained from Mexico; this includes southwestern territories, including California.
• Related Events:
A. Gold Rush
B. Texas is bought for $15 million
C. Henry Clay’s Comrpomise of 1850
Event: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1861
• Significance: America splits into two separate regions and becomes involved in a war within itself; people are practically fighting against their own family members.
• Related Events:
A. Fort Sumter
B. Antietam
C. Gettysburg
Event: The Civil War
1865
• Significance: Efforts turned away from war and towards the reunification of the nation.
• Related Events:
A. Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
B. The Beginning of the Era of Reconstruction
C. 13th & 14th Amendments
Event: The End of the Civil War
1877
• Significance: Removal of troops from the Southern states and the end of efforts towards attempting to change the South’s views.
• Related Events:
A. Jim Crow Laws
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Cumming v. County Board of Education
Event: End of the Reconstruction Era
1914
• Significance: The nation enters a war that did not concern it at first; high casualty rates for every side that is involved.
• Related Events:
A. Federal Trade Commission
B. USS Lusitania
C. Zimmerman Telegram
Event: The Beginning of World War I
1919
• Significance: Ends the “Great War” and decides the reparations to be paid.
• Related Events:
A. Wilson’s Fourteen Points Plan
B. 18th & 19th Amendments
C. Mass Culture (Harlem Renaissance, Lost Generation, etc.)
Event: The Treaty of Versailles
1929
• Significance: Nation falls into a severe depression that greatly effects everyone for many years.
• Related Events:
A. The Great Depression
B. The Dust Bowl
C. The New Deal
Event: The Stock Market Crash
1941
• Significance: Pulls the United States out of the Great Depression and into a global conflict.
• Related Events:
A. Pearl Harbor
B. Harry Truman takes Office
C. Battle of Iwo Jima
Event: The U.S. Enters World War II
1945
• Significance: Efforts to maintain international peace are imposed among various nations.
• Related Events:
A. Atomic Bomb
B. Founding of the United Nations
C. Cold War
Event: The End of World War II
1954
• Significance: The nation becomes involved in a widely publicized time of turmoil.
• Related Events:
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Geneva Conference
C. SEATO Treaty (1955)
Event: The U.S. Enters the Vietnam War
1960
• Significance: The large struggle for gaining equality for people of color begins.
• Related Events:
A. Freedom Summer
B. March on Washington
C. Boynton v. Virginia
Event: Beginning of Civil Rights Movement
1964
• Significance: Segregation is outlawed; job opportunities are allowed for all races.
• Related Events:
A. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
B. Assassination of JFK (1963)
C. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Event: The Civil Rights Act is Passed
1968
• Significance: The injustices of discrimination were established; the nation’s social system was redesigned.
• Related Events:
A. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
B. Tet Offensive
C. My Lai Massacre
Event: End of the Civil Rights Movement
1973
• Significance: Marks the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; American troops were pulled out at the cost of South Vietnam suffering under the hands of North Vietnam.
• Related Events:
A. Watergate Scandal (1972)
B. Roe v. Wade (1974)
C. Presidential Elections of 1976
Event: The Paris Peace Accords
1989
• Significance: The end of the Soviet Union, which had been existent since 1922.
• Related Events:
A. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) (1987)
B. The End of the Cold War
C. First Gulf War
Event: The Fall of the Soviet Union
1994
• Significance: The Democratic Party had previously held control over Congress for at least fifty-eight of the previous sixty-two years.
• Related Events:
A. 1995-1996 Budget Crisis
B. Presidential Elections of 1996
C. First Surplus in 30 years (1998)
Event: Congressional Victory for Republicans
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