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Note Card Timeline Project
Note Card requirements
There will be a note card set in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd 9
weeks marking period. You will have a set of 100
short answer questions in the 4th 9 weeks
(Instructions for this will be handed out then).
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Each card must be hand written
You must use actual note cards
Only one definition or court case per card
On one side of the card (Front)
o You will write only the word or phrase being
defined.
o You must sign your initials in upper right
corner
o You will write the # of the card in the lower
right corner
 On the back side you will write the definition as
written.
Court cases requirements
 On one side (Front)
o You will write the court case name
o You must sign your initials in upper right
corner
o You will write the # of the card in the lower
right corner
 On the back side you will write the definition as
written.
Timeline requirements
 Write the Timeline event in the proper place
where it occurs on the timeline.
 If the timeline event covers a range of dates you
should use a {and note the start of the date
range, and use a} and note the end date of the
range.
Second 9 Weeks Note card & Timeline List
1. Eli Whitney
a. Inventor of the cotton gin
b. led to the spread of the slavery based “Cotton
Kingdom” in the deep south.
c. came up with the system of interchangeable parts in
gun manufacturing.
2. Andrew Jackson
a. General/defender of New Orleans during war of 1812
b. Known as “Old Hickory”
c. The Era of Jackson is named after him.
d. Championed the common man and voting rights for all
white males (universal white male suffrage)
e. Vetoed the second National Bank
f. Was pro-slavery and anti-Indian
g. Used the Spoils system for giving political supporters
public office.
3. Nat Turner
a. Slave preacher in Northampton, VA
b. Led a revolt that went from plantation to plantation
killing 60 whites (women & children)
c. Caught by local militia and hung after quick trial
4. Gabriel Prosser
a. Free blacksmith from Richmond, VA
b. Gathered 1000 slaves to attack and take over VA
government
c. Revolt failed because of bad weather and a snitch
d. Prosser tried and hung
5. William Lloyd Garrison
a. publisher of The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper
6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
a. Seneca Falls Declaration – July 1848
b. became involved in women’s suffrage before the Civil
War, but continued with the movement after the war
7. Harriet Beecher Stowe
a. wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin - a best-selling novel that
inflamed Northern abolitionist sentiment.
8. Susan B. Anthony
a. Seneca Falls Declaration - July 1848
b. became involved in women’s suffrage before the Civil
War, but continued with the movement after the war
9. Abraham Lincoln
a. Election of Lincoln (1860), followed by the secession of
several Southern states who feared that Lincoln would
try to abolish slavery
b. President of the United States during the Civil War
c. insisted that the Union be held together, by force if
necessary
10.
Ulysses S. Grant
a. Union military commander
b. won victories over the South after several Union
commanders had failed
c. President after Andrew Johnson
11.
Robert E. Lee
a. Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia
b. Lee opposed secession
c. did not believe the Union should be held together by
force
d. urged Southerners to accept defeat after the war and
unite as Americans again
12.
Jefferson Davis
a. President of the Confederate States of America
b. CSA capitol – Richmond Virginia
13.
Frederick Douglas
a. Former slave
b. prominent black abolitionist
c. urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the
Union army
14.
Andrew Johnson
a. Lincoln Vice President
b. Became president after Lincolns assassination
c. Congress tried but failed to impeach him
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Thomas Edison
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a. Light bulb (Thomas Edison) and electricity as a source
of power and light
Alexander Graham Bell
a. inventor of the telephone
Wright Brothers
a. Inventors of the airplane
Henry Ford
a. Perfected assembly line manufacturing
b. Started Ford Motor Company
Andrew Carnegie
a. Steel Tycoon
b. Donated 80% of his fortune upon death
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c. First to have a business worth $1 Billion
J.P. Morgan
a. Banking tycoon
John D. Rockefeller
a. President Standard Oil
b. control the price of oil in America by owning all aspects
of oil production
Cornelius Vanderbilt
a. Made a fortune in the railroad business
b. Introduced the use of steel rails and a standard gauge
(distance between rails).
Ida B. Wells
a. Led an anti-lynching campaign
b. Investigated and reported lynching’s for various
newspapers
Booker T. Washington
a. Believed equality could be achieved through vocational
education and economic success
W.E. B. Dubois
a. First black to receive PHD from Harvard
b. Vocational education was meaningless without equality
c. Helped found National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Theodore Roosevelt
a. Succeeded President William McKinley After his
assassination
b. Square Deal Policy
Woodrow Wilson
a. New freedom policy
b. President during WW1
28.
Secretary of State John Hay
a. Secretary of State John Hay proposed a policy that
would give all nations equal trading rights in China.
29.
President Taft
a. President Taft urged American banks and businesses
to invest in Latin America. He promised that the United
States would step in if unrest threatened their
investments
30.
Monroe Doctrine 1823
a. The American continents should not be considered for
future colonization by any European powers.
b. Nations in the Western Hemisphere were inherently
different from those of Europe, republics by nature
rather than monarchies.
c. The United States would regard as a threat to its own
peace and safety any attempt by European powers to
impose their system on any independent state in the
Western Hemisphere.
d. The United States would not interfere in European
affairs.
31.
Missouri Compromise 1820
a. (1820) drew an east-west line through the Louisiana
Purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line and
allowed below, except that slavery was allowed in
Missouri, north of the line.
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Compromise of 1850
a. California entered as a free state, while the new
Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own.
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Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
a. repealed the Missouri Compromise line by giving
people in Kansas and Nebraska the choice whether to
allow slavery in their states (“popular sovereignty”).
b. This law produced bloody fighting in Kansas as proand anti-slavery forces battled each other.
c. It also led to the birth of the Republican Party that
same year to oppose the spread of slavery.
34.
The Liberator
a. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrisons newspaper
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Seneca Falls Declaration
a. The first major womens rights convention in America
taking place in
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Dred Scott Decision
a. Supreme Court ruled against the Scott’s 7-3. Chief
Justice Taney stated that Dredd Scott was an inferior
and had no rights. He was not a citizen and could not
sue anyone. As an enslaved person he was property.
b. The Supreme Court overturned efforts to limit the
spread of slavery and outraged Northerners, as did
enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, which required
slaves who escaped to Free states to be forcibly
returned to their owners in the South.
37.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of a New England
clergyman, wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist sentiment.
Southerners were frightened by the growing strength of
Northern abolitionism.
38.
Emancipation Proclamation
a. Freed those slaves located in “rebelling” states
(seceded Southern states)
b. Made the destruction of slavery a Northern war aim
c. Discouraged any interference of foreign governments
39.
Gettysburg Address
a. Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle to
preserve a nation that was dedicated to the proposition
that “all men are created equal” and that was ruled by a
government “of the people, by the people, and for the
people.”
b. Lincoln believed America was “one nation,” not a
collection of sovereign states. Southerners believed
that states had freely joined the union and could freely
leave.
40.
Compromise of 1877
a. Reconstruction ended following the presidential election
of 1876.
i. In return for support in the electoral college vote
from Southern Democrats
ii. The Republicans agreed to end the military
occupation of the South.
iii. Former Confederates who controlled the
Democratic Party were able to regain power.
iv. It opened the door to the “Jim Crow Era”
41.
Homestead Act of 1862
a. Gave free public land in the western territories to
settlers who would live on and farm the land.
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Chinese exclusion act of 1882
a. These laws effectively cut off most immigration to
America for the next several decades; however, the
immigrants of this period and their descendants
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continued to contribute immeasurably to American
society.
Immigration restriction act of 1921
a. These laws effectively cut off most immigration to
America for the next several decades; however, the
immigrants of this period and their descendants
continued to contribute immeasurably to American
society.
“Jim Crow” laws varied from state to state
a. Laws that legally separated whites and blacks in public
places
b. Designed to keep blacks as second class citizens
Square Deal
a. Theodore Roosevelt’s Policy
New Freedom
a. Woodrow Wilsons Policy
Sherman Anti-Trust
a. Prevents any business structure that “restrains trade”
(monopolies)
48.
Clayton Anti-Trust
a. Expands Sherman Anti-Trust Act; outlaws price-fixing;
exempts unions from Sherman Act
49.
Open Door Policy
a. Secretary of State John Hay proposed a policy that
would give all nations equal trading rights in China.
b. Urged all foreigners in China to obey Chinese law,
observe fair competition
50.
Dollar Diplomacy
a. President Taft urged American banks and businesses
to invest in Latin America. He promised that the United
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States would step in if unrest threatened their
investments.
Fourteen Points
Wilson’s plan to eliminate the causes of war
 Key ideas
– Self-determination
– Freedom of the sea
– League of Nations
– Mandate system
– Territories under temporary trusteeship of the
the League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
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52.
a. The French and English insisted on punishment of
Germany.
b. A League of Nations was created.
c. National boundaries were redrawn, creating many new
nations.
53.
Tariff Act of 1930 (Also called Hawley-Smoot Act)
a. High protective tariffs that produced retaliatory tariffs in
other countries, strangling world trade (Tariff Act of
1930, popularly called the Hawley-Smoot Act)
54.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People
a. In 1909 W.E.B. Dubois and others formed the (NAACP)
as a civil rights organization.
55.
Knights of Labor
a. a very broad based labor union that represented skilled
as well as unskilled labor; both men and women; and
whites and underprivileged blacks.
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American Federation of Labor
a. Samuel Gompers
b. Out of the ashes of the Knights of Labor
c. First nationwide skilled labor union
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American Railway Union
a. Eugene V. Debs
b. Helped with the 1894 Pullman Strike
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International Ladies Garment Workers Union
a. Formed in 1900 to organize and protect the interests of
garment industry workers.
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League of Nations
a. World organization much like the United Nations
b. Part of Wilson’s Fourteen Points
60.
13th Amendment: Slavery was abolished permanently in
the United States.
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14th Amendment: States were prohibited from denying
equal rights under the law to any American (citizenship)
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15th Amendment: Voting rights were guaranteed
regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude
(to former enslaved African Americans)
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17th Amendment: Direct Election of U.S. Senators.
a. Senators would be elected by votes from the people in
each state – previously they were chosen by state
legislatures.
Addition to Court Cases (on a note card)
1. Plessy vs Ferguson: The Supreme Court ruled that
“separate but equal” did not violate the 14th Amendment,
upholding the “Jim Crow” laws of the era.
Timeline Dates
1. War of 1812 (1812)
2. Missouri Compromise (1820)
3. Monroe Doctrine (1823)
4. Tariff of 1832 (1832)
5. American victory in Mexican War (1840’s)
6. Ineffective presidential leadership (1850’s)
7. Compromise of 1850 (1850)
8. Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 (1854)
9. Lincoln Elected President (1860)
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Civil War began/Lincoln called for Federal Troops
(1861)
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Homestead Act (1862)
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Civil War Ended (1865)
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Reconstruction ended after this presidential election
(1876)
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Compromise of 1877 (1877)
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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
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WW1 began in Europe (1914)
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America entered World War 1 (1917)
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World War 1 ended (1918)
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Immigration Restriction Act (1921)