US History Timeline
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Seneca Falls Convention:
- When/Where: New York July 12-20, 1848
- Who: Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first American women's rights convention
- What: Declaration of Sentiments was signed
Personal Event
New Deal:
- Who/What: a series of federal programs created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help the working class after the Great Depression
- included the WPA, Social Security Act, FBI
17th Amendment:
- Who/When: Passed by Congress May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913
- What: modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators
- Where: allowed the people of each state to choose who would represent their state in the U.S. Senate
Grandma died:
- Where: Charlottesville, VA
- Who: Entire family involved
- What:lots of mourning
- When: 2002
Personal Event
Went to the Bahamas
- Where: in the Caribbean
- Who: my family and I went
- What: first time out of the country
- first time on a cruise
- When: 2010
Familial Event
Parents Divorce:
- Where: Charlottesville, VA
- Who: My parents
- When: 2014
- What: Had to learn to live without my dad
Grandpa died:
- Where: Charlottesville, VA
- Who: My entire family affected
- When: 2015
- What:Had to learn to live without him
Political Event
Fletcher v. Peck:
- Where: at Georgia State General Assembly
- Who: John Peck, Robert Fletcher and John Marshall involved
- What: Overturned a state law that the Supreme Court issued
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Civil Rights Movement:
- What: mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States
- Who/Where: led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington DC
Moved to North Carolina:
- Where: From Charlottesville, VA to Cary, NC
- Who: My parents and my two sisters involved
- What: had to adjust to different lifestyle
- When: 2003
Uncle Tom's Cabin:
- Who: Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War
- What: Anti-slavery novel that changed forever how Americans viewed Slavery
- Where: Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin partially while living in Brunswick, ME and partially in Andover, MA
Familial Event
Stock Market Crash:
- Where: Involved banks in New York shutting down
- What: sharp decline in U.S. stock market values that contributed to the Great Depression
- Who: affected many people, caused much poverty
Personal Event
Sister moved to Florida:
- Where: from NC to FL
- Who: My sister
- When: 2015
- What: had to learn to live without my sister
Got my first cell phone:
- Where: Cary, North Carolina
- Who: Bought by my parents
- When: 2011
- What: Expanded my communication with friends and family
Constitutional Convention: Political Event
- Who: made up of 55 state delegates from 12 of the 13 original colonies, including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin
- When: met between May and September of 1787
- Where: in Philadelphia
- What: addressed the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
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Moved back to Virginia:
- Where: From NC to VA
- Who: My mom and my sister
- When: 2013
- What: had to readjust to a new school
Went to Disney World for the first time:
- Where: Orlando, Florida
- Who: My family
- What: lots of fun
- When: 2006
Hawley Smoot Tariff:
- Who: an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley
- When: signed into law on June 17, 1930
- What: raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods
- Who: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
- When/Where: in 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts
- What: Affected how people communicated with each other and the speed at which they communicated
Got my first dog:
- Where: Charlottesville, VA
- Who: Bought by my parents
- What: spent lots of time taking care of her
- When: 2001