1. BILL OF RIGHTS 5. FIRST 10 AMMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

2. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN POPULIST CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT THREE TIMES FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE. LAWYER FOR THE PROSECUTION IN THE SCOPES TRIAL. SUPPORTED VIEWS OF FUNDAMENTALISTS THAT NO TEACHING OF EVOLUTION SHOULD OCCUR IN SCHOOLS.

3. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 7. THIS DOCUMENT WAS ADOPTED ON JULY 4, 1776. ESTABLISHED 13 COLONIES AS INDEPENDENT STATES FREE FROM BRITISH RULE. THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE THE MAJORITY OF IT.

4. CLARENCE DARROW LEADING CRIMINAL LAWYER AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY IN THE SCOPES TRIAL (ABOUT TEACHING EVOLUTION)

5. 13 TH AMENDMENT AMMENDMENT THAT FREED ALL SLAVES WITHOUT COMPENSATION MADE SLAVERY ILLEGAL IN THE US

6. 16 TH AMENDMENT 18. CREATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX PROVISIONS. SUPPORTED BY PROGRESSIVE REFORMS.

7. 1861-1865 6. DATES OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, BEGINNING WITH FIRING ON FT. SUMTER, ENDED WITH CONFEDERATE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE DURING THESE YEARS.

8. ISSUES CAUSING REVOLUTION 3. “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” PROTEST AGAINST POLICIES AND TAXES BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.

9. FEDERALIST PAPERS 11. SERIES OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY MADISON, HAMILTON, AND JOHN JAY WHO SUPPORTED A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

10. 19 TH AMENDMENT 19. RIGHT TO VOTE FOR WOMEN.

11. W.E.B. DUBOIS FOUNDER OF THE NAACP LEADER OF IMPORTANT REFORMS BENEFITING AFRICAN AMERICANS

12. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 8. THIS DOCUMENT WAS THE NATION’S FIRST CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN 1781 DURING THE REVOLUTION. IT WAS LIMITED BECAUSE THE STATES HELD MOST OF THE POWER TO TAX, REGULATE TRADE, OR CONTROL COINAGE.

13. WILSON’S 14 POINTS POINTS AND PROVISIONS FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPRESENTED PRESIDENT WILSON’S GOALS AFTER WWI US SENTATE RECUESD TO RATIFY THE TREATY AND PARTICIPATE IN THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

14. TRENDS ADRESSED DURING THE GILDED AGE INDUSTRIALIZATION MIGRATION IMMIGRATION URBANIZATION

15. FEDERALISM 9. DISTRIBUTION OF POWER BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL STATES WITHIN A UNION.

16. FEDERALISTS 13. THOSE WHO FAVORED RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

17. MAGNA CARTA 17. SIGNED BY KING JOHN OF ENGLAND, CORNERSTONE OF ENGLISH LAW. KING AND GOV ARE BOUND BY THE SAME LAW AS CITIZENS. DUE PROCESS, FAIR AND SPEEDY TRIAL, ETC.

18. TREATY OF VERSAILLES TREATY ENDING WWI REDREW THE MAP OF EUROPE AND BLAMED GERMANY FOR THE WAR, REQUIRING THEN TO PAY REPARATIONS

19. ANTI-FEDERALISTS 15. OPPOSED TO THE CONSTITUTION BECAUSE THEY FEARED THE POWER OF A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERTNMENT. WANTED A BILL OF RIGHTS.

20. NULLIFICATION CRISIS 10. SOUTH CAROLINA USED THE DOCTRINE OF STATES RIGHTS TO TRY AND IGNORE THE TARIFF LAWS IF THE us TRIED TO COLLECT DUTIES (TAXES ON IMPORTS). PRES A. JACKSON GOT CONGRESS TO PASS THE FORCE BILL. SOUTH CAROLINA BACKED DOWN AND A COMPROMISE TARIFF BILL WAS PASSED.

21. 17 TH AMENDMENT 20. DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS. THIS AMMENDMENT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE PROGRESSIVES.

22. 24 TH AMENDMENT 21. ELIMINATES THE POLL TAX AS A REQUIREMENT TO VOTE IN PROMARY ELECTIONS FOR FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS. PART OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION OF 1964

23. 1898 22. DATE OF SPANISH – AMERICAN WAR, WHICH BEGAN WITH THE SINKING OF THE BATTLESHIP MAINE IN HVANA, CUBA. US WON AND GOT PUERTO RICO, AND GUAM AS POSESSIONS, BOUGHT THE PHILIPPINES FOR $20 MILLION. THE US BECAME A WORLD POWER.

24. 26 TH AMENDMENT 23. GAVE 18 YEAR OLDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

25. COLD WAR BEGINS US CAME OUT OF WWII IN 1945 AS A WORLD POWER WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. ERA CHARACTERIZED BY THE GROWING RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND THE USSR A LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD AND THE COMMUNIST WORLD. RIVALRY LED TO THE KOREAN WAR, SPUTNIK AND THE SPACE RACE, CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.

26. 1914 - 1918 24. WWI FOUGHT BETWEEN THE CENTRAL POWERS (GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, OTTOMAN EMPIRE) AND THE ALLIED POWERS (BRITAIN, RUSSIA, FRANCE, US). ENDED WITH THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES. PRES WILSON PREPARED HIS 14 POINTS AND CALLED FOR A LEAGUE OF NATIONS. CONGRESS REJECTED THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE US BECAME MORE ISOLATIONIST.

27. 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASHED IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR WHICH LED THE US INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 30’S

28. 14 TH AMENDMENT AMMENDMENT WHICH DECLARES ALL PERSONS BORN OR NATURALIZED AS CITIZENS OF THE US ARE ENTITLED TO EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLESS OF RACE AND THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED AT THE LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVELS.

29. 15 TH AMENDMENT GRANTED BLACK MEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE

30. ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS 12. THIS DOCUMENT GUARANTEED CERTAIN RIGHTS TO ENGLISH CITIZENS, DECLARED THAT ELECTIONS FOR PARLIAMENT WOULD HAPPEN FREQUENTLY. ACCEPTING THIS DOCUMENT MEANT SUPPORTING A LIMITED MONARCHY.

31. PROGRESSIVE AND REFORM ERA DURING THIS ERA….SOME WANTED TO REFORM AMERICAN LIFE AND TO IMPROVE POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS FOR WORKERS, FARMERS, URBAN MIDDLE CLASS, WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND MINORITIES.

32. GREAT DEPRESSION ERA BEGAN WITH THE STOCK MARKET CRASH GREAT ECONOMIC DECLINE FDR LED GOVERNMENT REFORMS OF THE ECONOMY CALLED THE “NEW DEAL” TO TRY TO BRING THE US OUT OF DEPRESSION AND PUT AMERICANS BACK TO WORK.

33. STATES RIGHTS 16. THE RIGHT TO CONTROL ALL ISSUES/LAWS IN INDIVIDUAL STATES WITHOUT FEDERAL GOV INTERFERENCE. BECAME A LEADING CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR AS SOUTHERN STATES SECEDED FROM THE US AND FORMED THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IN 1861.

34. 13 COLONIES 2. ORIGINAL EAST COAST AREAS SETTLED BY GREAT BRITAIN BEGINNING IN 1607.

35. SUSAN B. ANTHONY REFORM LEADER WHICH FOUGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN FOUGHT ESPECIALLY FOR SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBITION

36. 1787 1. YEAR WHEN DELEGATES DRAFTED, DEBATED, COMPROMISED, AND FIALLY APPROVED FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE US CONSTITUTION.

37. ISSUES ADRESSED DURING GILDED AGE US EXPANSION AND IMPERIALISM LABOR UNIONS FARM ISSUES RISE OF ROBBER BARONS TREATMENT OF MINORITIES INCLUDING WOMEN CHILD LABOR

38. GILDED AGE ERA OF: WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION RICH INDUSTRIALISTS (ROBBER BARONS) CREATED A GAP BETWEEN THE RICH, THE WORKDERS, AND FARMERS WHO TRIED TO INCREAS THEIR SHARE OF THE NATIONAL WEALTH THROUGH THE POPULIST MOVEMENT. WORKERS BEGAN TO ORGANIZE LABOR UNIONS FOR BETTER WATES AND WORKING CONDITIONS.

39. US INVOLVEMENT: 1941-1945 WWII ACTUALLY BEGAN IN 1939 WHEN HITLER INVADED POLAND. THE DATES FOR WWII FOR US INVOLVEMENT JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR BEGAN US INVOLVEMENT US INVOLVEMENT ENDED WITH THE DROPPING OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS

40. GROWTH OF REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BUGESSES WAS THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY IN THE COLONIES. MAYFLOWER COPACT WAS A DOCUMENT OUTLINING PRINCIPALS OF SELF GOVERNMENT FOR COLONISTS FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT ARE ONE OF THE FIRST WRITTEN COLONIAL CONSTITUTIONS.

41. CIVIL RIGHTS AND TURBULENT 60’S ERA OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE. VIETNAM CONFLICT ASSASSINATIO OF PRES. KENNEDY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, LBJ’S GREAT SOCIETY. MLK JR LED THE WAY FOR EQUALITY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, BUT WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1968.

42. WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENT DURING WW I 14 POINTS OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES LED IDEAS WHICH LED TO THE CREATION OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

43. ROARING ’20’S PROSPERITY, TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE. AMERICA BECAME ISOLATIONIST AND BEGAN TO LIMIT IMMIGRATION. PROHIBITION, JAZZ, HARLEM RENIASSANCE’ LITTLE INTEREST IN SOCIAL REFORM

44. MODERN AMERICA: 1970’S- PRESENT VIETNAM WAR ENDS. US RETURNS TO NORMALCY COLD WAR DECLINING AMERICA MOVING TOWARD AN INFORMATION AND TECHNOLICAL AGE. US ENTERS 21 ST CENTURY AS A MAJOR WORLD LEADR.

45. THEORORE ROOSEVELT POPULAR PRESIDENT IN THE EARLY 1900’S LED US INTO A POSITION AS A WORLD POWER AND WAS CALLED THE “TRUST BUSTER” FOR HIS ATTACKS ON BIG BUSINESS.

46. FOUNDING FATHERS 14. PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN DECLARING US INDEPENDENCE, FIGHTING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WRITING AND ADOPTING THE CONSTITUTION. JEFFERSON, WASHINGTON, MADISON, ETC.

47. REASONS FOR US INVOLVEMENT IN WWI US JOINED THE ALLIES IN WWI IN NOVEMBER OF 1917 BECAUSE OF: UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARARE BY THE GERMANS SUPPORT FOR THE ALLIES.