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14549651387RenaissanceIt was basically a new beginning for a bunch of new things like artist, economy, and political/government. It helped more people get into art and more artist came upon.0
14549654074Giled AgeGiled Age is the time after the civil war. More people came over during this time from other country's.1
14549654600Great AwakeningThe Great Awakening was religious revival for Christians. This helped people want to be more religious.2
14549656878Columbian ExchangeColumbian Exchange was the spread of diseases from Overseas areas, like West Africa. Plants, animals, technology, and human population was also another transportation. It affects both the people that lived and that is moving there. It brings more death and people for both groups3
14549657726Encomieda SystemIt is a spanish labor system, which would pay tributes toward someone and they would provide protection. This would allow the people to stay safe and the person to get his4
14549664738Protestant ReformationA movement in the Europeanen area to try to reform the amount of Roman Catholics. It would affected the people by making them go closer to god or annoy the people that didn't want to do it.5
14549665721Louisiana PurchaseA territory that USA bought from France in 1803. It cost USA 15 million dollars. The area was West of the Mississippi River. it affected the Indians by making them move out and it affected the people moving in and starting a new life somewhere else.6
14549666742McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)The second National Bank was made and the state it was in didn't have the authority to tax them. That affected the State of Maryland and them not getting all there tax money and the people that lived there by making the tax more.7
14549668780Marbury v. Madison (1803)Supreme court case that made American courts to adjust laws or even ban or make new ones. It affected the people that lived in that area and make them follow new rules.8
14549669831Missouri CompromiseIs when Missouri wanted to start slavery and got a comprise and then the 22 states split up evenly and half had slavery and the other half was free. That affected both sides by making the North side African Americans free and South side African Americans slaves.9
14549670550Republican MotherhoodA term in the 18th century towards the women's rule in the making of the USA and also during and after the American Revolution. It would affect the women that was trying to help build our country.10
14549685107Panic of 1819There was a financial crisis in America. This affected the people by making them lose their job,house,farm, and even there money.11
14549685847Panic of 1837Another financial crisis in America. It last until the 1840s. It affected people by making prices go up and more people lose their job and also even lose their stock.12
14549688448TranscendentalismTranscendentalism is a movement in the 1820's area. It was a protest against "General State of Intellectualism". It affected the people that was in that and made them not get into it.13
14549689570Seneca Falls ConventionThe first women's right convention. It helped get women more rights in America. It affected the women who tried to get some rights and the men that were against it. This helped the women get rights in the future.14
14549819500AbolitionismThis was a movement to let slaves free. This would let whoever is a slave became part of the town or people and work for their own.15
14549699121Chattel SlaveryIs a person that somebody "owns" and is held as property. The slaves have to do what they are told or they might get shot by their owner. This affected the whole country, because they got into a war about freeing them.16
14549699689Jim Crow LawsLaws in the South part of the country that made the people follow racial segregation. That made the whites be able to do everything and African Americans only to be able to certain stuff and hardly any stuff with whites. They made everything very hard for African Americans.17
14549702649Kansas-Nebraska ActThis act let people be able to decide in Kansas and Nebraska if they wanted slavery or not inside their borders. This let slaves become free and they finally can start an actual life. This affected all the people in the Kansas and Nebraska that had a slave. It also gives African Americans a chance to become free.18
14549703320ProgressivismIt is a movement that everything modernized so quickly and that made population go up and they feared that the government might corrupt. This affected the whole country be maybe making them on their own if the government corrupted.19
14549706426W.E.B. DuBoisHe was the first African American to get a PH.D. from Harvard. That made African Americans more confidence to get education and help spark African Americans to go to school20
14549707215Theodore RooseveltHe was the 26th President of the United States. He was also the 25th Vice President. He helped the government a lot. He made the Navy bigger, and was also a Governor of New York. He affect many people lives by making good decisions for his country.21
14549725313New NationalismIt was Theodore Roosevelt political platform speech. This helped him get the 26th president of the USA22
14549726512American ExceptionalismThis is the stuff that makes America unique. This made America looked at and more people came over from other country's23
14549728556Manifest DestinyWas a belief that they would be able to spread the whole way across North America. This made them want to see the whole country and we ended up getting the whole country.24
14549728917League of NationsA world organization to make peace in the world in 1920. It was made to talk out disputes and try not to make another war after WW1. It affected everybody in the world for world peace could become an option.25
14549733130Treaty of VersaillesThis treaty ended the war between Germany and it's powered Allies. This was important, because it ended the war and helped some of the country's become Allies.26
14549733666Red ScareA time when Americans feared that communists would come over take over the political party. This affected all the people that were already there by making them not want them there.27
14549734102ProhibitionWas a time when they banned the sale of alcohol beverage. This made people upset and more crime happened. This time frame was 1920-193328
14549735137The New DealIt was a series of programs, financial reforms, and public work projects. This helped the needs of relief, reform, and recovery. This happened because of the Great Depression. This made people come together and get needs done and it affect almost everybody in the country.29
14549735535Manhattan ProjectWas the research and development of a nuclear weapon with the help of Canada and United Kingdom. This affects the whole world by making everybody in danger of this weapon.30
14549735536Marshall PlanIt was a plan for USA to help Western Europe. They gave almost 12 billion dollars. They gave Western Europe this money to help build the economy, from the damage of WW2. This affected all the people in the area of Western Europe by making them safer. It also helped us by gaining some alliance31
14549736998Domino TheoryA theory that one country around them went under the influence of communism that they would to and all the other around them. This affected everybody around them by making them cautious.32
14549736999Cuban Missile CrisisIn 1962 America found Soviet Union army making ballistic weapons in Cuba. This affected everybody in the USA and Cuba by USA not wanting to get hit and attack Cuba or wear the Russians were.33
14549737938Potsdam ConferenceWas a conference in Potsdam. It was when all the after war talk happened. This then made us leadoff to the Cold War. The reason the Cold War happen was that they weren't agreeing on stuff and it started a war. This affected The "Three Big Nations". Those countries were USA, Soviet Union, and Germany.34

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