Chronological Reasoning Review
In the blank to the left of the items, place a number from 1 to 10 (1=earliest, 10=most recent), placing the items in the correct chronological order. Then, in the blank to the right of the items, write the decade in which the event occurred. Complete the exercise by providing the following:
1. Identify the period in which these occur,
2. Identify a continuity and change over time exemplified by the selections and
3. Identify the theme(s) under which these issues and developments might be categorized
Set One
_____Bacon’s Rebellion______
_____Intolerable Acts______
_____Boston Tea Party______
_____Stamp Act______
_____French and Indian War______
_____Declaration of Independence______
_____Battle of Saratoga______
_____Great Awakening______
_____Articles of Confederation______
_____Halfway Covenant______
1.
2.
3.
Set Two
_____ Adams-Onis Treaty______
_____ The Embargo______
_____ Alien and Sedition Acts______
_____ Quasi War with France______
_____ Chesapeake Affair______
_____ Midnight Appointments______
_____ Louisiana Purchase______
_____ Pinckney Treaty______
_____ Jay Treaty______
_____ Establishment of the BUS ______
1.
2.
3.
Set Three
_____Invention of the Cotton Gin______
_____Marbury v Madison______
_____Monroe Doctrine______
_____McCulloch v. Maryland______
_____Corrupt Bargain______
_____Missouri Compromise______
_____Re-charter of the Second BUS______
_____Mr. Madison’s War______
_____Tariff of Abominations______
_____Treaty of Ghent______
1.
2.
3.
Set Four
_____Manifest Destiny ______
_____Ratification of the Constitution______
_____Second Great Awakening______
_____Compromise of 1850______
_____The Dominion of New England______
_____Trail of Tears______
_____Northwest Ordinance______
_____XYZ Affair______
_____Bleeding Kansas______
_____“City on a Hill”______
1.
2.
3.
Set Five
_____Mexican-American War______
_____Republican Party formed______
_____Kansas-Nebraska Act______
_____Lincoln-Douglas Debates______
_____Dred Scott v Sanford______
_____Harper’s Ferry______
_____California admission______
_____Wilmot Proviso______
_____Sumner-Brooks Affair______
_____Crittenden Compromise______
1.
2.
3.
Set Six
_____ Townshend Acts ______
_____First American Party System______
_____Articles of Confederation______
_____ Indian Removal Act ______
_____Northwest Ordinance______
_____Compromise of 1850______
_____Common Sense______
_____Battle of Yorktown______
_____Oregon acquired______
_____Bank War______
1.
2.
3.
Set Seven
_____ Freedom Summer ______
_____Greensboro sit-ins______
_____Brown v. Bd. Of Ed.______
_____ Civil Rights Act 1964 ______
_____Desegregation Little Rock High______
_____Letter from Birmingham Jail______
_____Montgomery bus boycott______
_____Watts riot______
_____Jackie Robinson______
_____Voting Rights Act______
1.
2.
3.
Set Eight
_____ Versailles Treaty ______
_____Lend Lease______
_____Pearl Harbor.______
_____ Neutrality Acts ______
_____Kellogg-Briand Pact______
_____America 1st committee______
_____Zimmermann Note______
_____Creel Committee______
_____Hiroshima/Nagasaki______
_____Sussex Pledge______
1.
2.
3.
Set Nine
_____ Chinese Exclusion Act ______
_____Immigration Quota Act______
_____Hart-Celler Act______
_____ Alien and Sedition Acts ______
_____Ellis Island______
_____Angel Island______
_____Dillingham Report______
_____Imm. And Naturalization Act______
_____Refugee Act______
_____USA Patriot Act______
1.
2.
3.
Set Ten
_____ Worcester v. Georgia ______
_____Wounded Knee massacre______
_____A. I. M.______
_____ Trail of Tears ______
_____Indian Reorganization Act______
_____Dawes Severalty Act______
_____Little Big Horn______
_____Trujillo v. Garley______
_____Occupation of Alcatraz______
_____Bureau of Indian Affairs______
1.
2.
3.
Set Eleven
_____ Johnson impeachment ______
_____Compromise of 1850______
_____Emancipation Proclamation______
_____ Compromise of 1877 ______
_____Uncle Tom’s Cabin______
_____Lincoln’s 1st election______
_____Missouri Compromise______
_____Compromise of 1850______
_____Dred Scott decision______
_____Lincoln/Douglas debates______
1.
2.
3.
Set Twelve
_____ Marbury v. Madison ______
_____Dred Scott v. Sanford______
_____Bush v. Gore______
_____ Worcester v. GA ______
_____Brown v. Bd. Of Ed.______
_____Plessy v. Ferguson______
_____Griswold v. CT______
_____Schenck v. U. S.______
_____Gideon v. Wainwright______
_____Miranda v. AZ______
1.
2.
3.
Set Thirteen
_____ Atlanta Compromise ______
_____Niagara Movement______
_____U.N.I.A.______
_____ Up from Slavery ______
_____The Souls of Black Folk______
_____N. A. A. C. P.______
_____Tuskegee Institute______
_____Harlem Renaissance______
_____Free Speech and Headlight______
_____The Great Migration______
1.
2.
3.
Set Fourteen
_____ Port Huron Statement ______
_____Tet Offensive______
_____Chicago Convention Riot______
_____ Watergate break-in ______
_____Cuban Missile Crisis______
_____Gulf of Tonkin Resolution______
_____Goldwater nomination______
_____Detroit riot______
_____Nixon to China______
_____King/RFK assassinations______
1.
2.
3.
Set Fifteen
_____ McCormick Harvester Strike ______
_____ Pullman Strike______
_____Anthracite Coal Strike______
_____ UAW Sit-Down Strike ______
_____Homestead Steel Strike______
_____PATCO Strike______
_____Boston Police Strike______
_____Postal Workers Strike______
_____MLB Players Strike______
_____The Great Railroad Strike______
1.
2.
3.
Set Sixteen
_____ Rhode Island ratifies ______
_____ Land Ordinance______
_____Shays’ Rebellion______
_____ Northwest Ordinance ______
_____Declaration of Independence______
_____Articles of Confed. take effect______
_____Constitution takes effect______
_____Bill of Rights ratified______
_____Const. Convention Begins______
_____Treaty of Paris______
1.
2.
3.
Set Seventeen
_____ French and Indian War starts ______
_____ Zenger Trial______
_____Mass. Education Law______
_____ 1st Africans to Virginia ______
_____Bacon’s Rebellion______
_____House of Burgesses begins______
_____Fund. Orders of Connecticut______
_____Jamestown founded______
_____Harvard begins______
_____Mayflower Compact______
1.
2.
3.
Set Eighteen
_____ Cotton Gin invented ______
_____ Grange begins______
_____Interstate Commerce Act______
_____ AAA ______
_____Homestead Act______
_____Morrill Act______
_____Bland/Allison /Act______
_____Populists organize______
_____Sherman Silver Purchase Act______
_____Munn v. Illinois______
1.
2.
3.
Set Nineteen
_____ Federal Reserve Act ______
_____ 1st Bank of U. S.______
_____Hawley/Smoot tariff______
_____ Tariff of Abominations ______
_____Clay’s American System______
_____Sherman Antitrust Act______
_____Clayton Antitrust Act______
_____Veto of 2nd BUS______
_____Hepburn Act______
_____Meat Inspection Act______
1.
2.
3.
Set Twenty
_____ Goldwater nominated ______
_____ Clarence Thomas on Sup. Ct.______
_____Neocon movement named______
_____ Reagan’s 1st election (Pres.) ______
_____God and Man at Yale______
_____National Review founded______
_____Firing Line debuts______
_____Heritage Foundation begins______
_____A Time for Choosing______
_____Antonin Scalia on Sup. Ct.______
1.
2.
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