USA Timeline

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The first colonies

The British Virginia Company

13 colonies

18th c

1607

1763

1620

1492

The Pilgrims Fathers

Treaty of Paris

Christophe Columbus discovers America

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Towards independence

George Washington

Declaration of Independence

1789

1776

1791

1775 -1783

1773

Bill of Rights : 10 amendments are added to the Constitution (freedom of speech, of press, of worship)

The Boston Tea Party

War of Independence

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Expansion

The Monroe Doctrine

California Gold Rush

1849

1823

1845

1830

1808

Indian Removal Act

First large wave of immigrations

Congress bans the importation of slaves

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The Civil War

Civil War

North wins the war 13th amendment : abolition of slavery

1861 - 1865

1865

1865 -1877

1863

1860

Emancipation Proclamation : Lincoln proclames all slaves free

Abraham Lincoln becomes President

Reconstruction

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The growth of the Nation - Part 1

1rst transcontinental railroad (cohesion btw the states)

The Gilded Age

1879

1869

1890

1876

1862

Battle of Little Big Horn

Indians massacred in Wounded Knee, end of the resistance and frontier are officialy closed

The Homestead Act

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The growth of the Nation - Part 2

WWI

1917

1901 - 1917

Progressive Era

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Between 2 world wars

The Roaring Twenties

1920- 1929

Roosevelt's New Deal

1932

1929

1920

Black Thursday

Women's right to vote + prohibition, beginning of bootlegging

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WWII

USA enters the war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese

The end

1945

1941

1944

1933

June 6, D-Day

German Jewish refugees arrive in Am

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The Cold War

Creation of NATOalliance btw US and Western European countries in case of Soviet Aggression

McCarthyism

1952

1949

1950- 1953

1947

The Marshall Plan

Korean War

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Civil Rights and Vietnam War

Kennedy President

Johnson PresidentExtensive reforms to fight poverty (Health insurance, aid to education)

1960- 1963

1963

1963

1961

1956

Cuba

I have a dream...

Montgomery bus boycott led by Martin L. King after the arrestation of Rosa Parks = desegregation of busus

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Civil Rights and Vietnam War

Martin Luther King assassinated (shot by a segregationist )

The Civil Rights Act abolishes segregation

1968

1964

1964- 1973

1964- 1973

Nixon President

The Vietnam War

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Recent times

Clinton President

1992 - 2000

Fall of the Berlin Wall, end of the Cold War

1989

2000

1991

1980- 1988

Gulf War

George W. Bush President

Reagan President

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Hurricane Katrina : Causes severe destruction along the Gulf Coast and New Orleans

'Axis of Evil'

2005

2002

2008

2003

2001

The war on Iraq

Bank Lehman Brothers

9/11 attacks

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Recent times

"Tea Party" (équivalent des gilets jaunes)

Obamacare

2014

2009

2016

2010

2008

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Trump President (republican)

Obama becomes the first black president (democratic)

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Recent times

Joe Biden president

#MeToo

Covid 19

2017

2021

2020

20XX

2021

2020

Black Lives Matter

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1rst empeachment of Trump

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- death of George Floyd, black American who died after a policeman knelt on his neck = 'Black Lives Matter' - advocates for the end of systemic racism, police violence, and injustice against Black people

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- Indians are pushed further back (west of the Mississippi River) in order to make way for the white settlers - Trail of Tears : ex. Cherokees (Georgia) are deported to Oklahoma (1838)

Indian Removal Act

- "The New Frontier" : put an end to segregation + help the poorer in the country w/ welfare mesures

Kennedy most important mesure

- Bush said in his State of the Union address (discours pour présenter son programme) that North Korea, Iran and Iraq are evil. - Wants to disarm theses countries

'Axis of Evil'

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- speculation leads to the collapse of the Stock Exchange, Wall Street - depression years, banks and businesses go bankrupt + unemployement

Depression years

- Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson - Reforms are introduced aimed at fighting social inequalities, higher education and preserving natural sites

Progressive Era

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

- largest marine oil spill (marée noire) in U.S. history - caused by an explosion on the BP-operated rig (platform) - release of approximately 134 million gallons of oil over 87 days = severe environmental and economic damage ($65 billion in fines and cleanup costs)

President Monroe opposes European colonization on American continent = America for Americans

The Monroe Doctrine

Its purpose was to establish colonial settlements in North America. 1619 : first African slaves arrive to work on the tobacco plantations

The British Virginia Company

North Korea (helped by the URSS) Vs. South Korea (helped by the Americans)

- Congress forces the Southern states to accept a programme of military reconstruction + give all black people full citizenship - 1870 : 15th amendment gave black people the right to vote - 1877 : the troops leave and Southern whites try to take advantage of the situation Jim Crow Laws : encourage racial segreation by secret societes (like the KKK)

- attracting a massive influx of settlers to the West - Americans saw it as a sign that the West was rich with opportunities, just waiting to be claimed and cultivated. = idea of Manifest Destiny

California Gold Rush

- US ships are sunk by German submarines : the USA enters WWI - Win the war, over 100 000 Am. soldiers lose their lives - USA becomes a major power internationally

WWI

- strategic Arms Limitation Treaty w/ the URSS - 1974 : Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandal

Nixon

Colonist are angered at having to pay taxes to Britain bc they aren't represented ("No taxation without Representation") Colonist board the ships in Boston harbor and throw the tea into the sea

The Boston Tea Party

- period of prosperity, consumerism reaches a climax - electrical appliances, cars, radios, become popular - literature : The Lost Generation (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos) expose the concern w/ materialism

The Roaring Twenties

- brings financial and material ressources to countries fighting communism - tension between USA and URSS = lead to the Cold War in the 1950s

Marshall Plan

give any settlers 160 acres of public land if he promises to live on it and farm it for 5 years

The Homestead Act

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- boost economy : create jobs, help the poor and unemployed - economics reforms : Agricultural Adjustement Act, to help farmer w/ subsities - social reforms : right of workers to belong to a union - unemployment remain high until the US enters the war

Roosevelt's New Deal

- Confederate States (11 southern states, led by Jefferson Davis) : want to keep slavery, necessary to farm the extensive land - Northern states: based on free labour, abolitionist - Lincoln is againts secession and leads the war btw the Union (north) and the Confederacy (south)

The Civil War

- Civil Rights march on Washington to protest led by Martin Luther King - Famous speech "I have a dream..." - Letter from Birmingham Jail : A powerful manifesto in which he justifies civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws

I have a dream...

Emigrants settle in America forming 13 colonies They see America as a haven (refuge) from tyranny or religious persecutions.

13 colonies

- #MeToo movement : aims to denounce sexual harassment and assault - Weinstein (film producer) is found guilty of rape and sexual assault

#MeToo

White House denies allegations of collusion btw Trump's election campaign and the Russian authorities

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- 1rst President of the US - Federalists = in favour of a strong central government - Republicans = in favour of individual states being given more power - will alternate as presidents

General Custer is defeated by the Sioux : one event reflecting the growing resistance of the Indians to their conditions of life and the loss of their land

Battle of Little Big Horn

- economic prosperity, social reforms - political scandals: the Monica Lewinsky affair (extramarital affair, impeachment in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice)

The presidency of Bill Clinton

North (communist) Vs. South (helped by Americans) - 60 000 Am soldiers are killed - US retreat after growing dissatisfaction at home (anti-war, draft dodgers...)

The Vietnam War

Pilgrims Fathers

English Puritains who refused to convert Anglicanism reach America on the Mayflower and found the colony of Plymouth. Many die during the first months due to poor conditions.

- Lehman Brothers bank failed on 15 September 2008, marking the culmination of the 2008 global financial crisis = collapse of the subprime market - the USA escaped thanks to massive rescue plans, economic stimulus and reforms

2008 global financial crisis

= Affordable Care Act (ACA) - aimed to expand healthcare coverage by making insurance more affordable, - mandating that most individuals obtain health insurance or face a penalty (later repealed).

Obamacare

- Biden pass the required 270 electoral-college votes but Trump refuses to concede defeat - Trump inciting supporters to storm the Capitol building (2nd impeachment) - Biden presidency = radical change : overturns Trump's decisions, re-joins the Paris accord, Am troops will pull out of Afghanistan by September Biden = union rather than division (Trump)

Biden

Trump didn't take the pandemic seriously, so by April the USA had more infections than any other country (600,000 deaths)

COVID 19

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- 1774 : 13 colonies suspend trade w/ Britain - 1775 : Blockade of Boston harbor, beginning of the war of ind. backed (soutenu) by France - 1776 : Declaration of Ind.

The Declaration of Independence

- witch-hunt againts communism in Am led by McCarthy - Arthur Miller (and many other) see a parallel w/ the trials for witchcraft in Puritain New England =. atmosphere of paranoia - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg : executed cause accused of spying for the URSS

McCarthyism

- Conservatice policies : reduce government intervention (reduced public spending...) - Liberal policies : free trade, lower taxes = stimulated growth but also increased inequality and public debt

Reaganomics

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Marks the end of French and Indian Wars (England Vs. France over territorial domination), and end of French colonization

Treaty of Paris

- VE-day : Germany surrenders - VI-day : US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders - 400 000 Am soldiers die - Creation of the United Nations Organization (ONU) to prevent future conflicts

The end of the WWII

- Kennedy tries to invade Cuba and overthrow (renverser) Castro but fails - Soviet missiles are found in Cuba = new crisis

- Patriots (led by G.Washington) Vs. Loyalists (Britain side). - 1783 : Treaty of Versailles, Britain recognizes the ind. of the United States of America.

War of Independence

abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for pressing Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden in exchange for military aid

1rst impeachment (accusation) of Trump

- US forces Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait - Starting point of the "New World Order" (terme utilisé par Bush dans un discours) : the US policies the world

Gulf War against Iraq

Gathering of people who are against Obama's economic policies (banks rescue, healthcare reform) = reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773

" Tea Party " rally

- industrial growth (Edison and the electric light bulb) - emergence of some captains of industry (Rockefeller, Carnegie) using part of their fortunes for education or art

The Gilded Age