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Turning Points in History

Turning Points in History

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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