2. Turning Points
in History
Workbook 32

3. Event: Proclamation
1763 of 1763
• Significance: The British were attempting to stop the
continuing conflict between the Natives and the colonists.
• Related Events:
A. Sugar Act (1764)
B. Stamp Act (1765)
C. Quartering Act (1765)
D. Townshend Acts (1767)

4. Event: Declaration
1776 of Independence
• Significance: First step into becoming an independent
country.
• Related Events:
A. Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1774)
B. “Common Sense” – Thomas Paine
C. Articles of Confederation

5. Event: Ratification
1789 of the Constitution
• Significance: It states the foundation for the system of law
and government for the United States.
• Related Events:
A. Constitutional Convention of 1787
B. Bill of Rights approved
C. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin

6. Event: The Election
1800 of 1800
• Significance: Jefferson becomes the new president of the
U.S.; government becomes Democratic-Republican.
• Related Events:
• Washington’s Farewell Address
• XYZ Affair
• Passing of the 12th amendment

7. Event: The Louisiana
1803 Purchase
• Significance: Added a massive portion of land to the United
States, located in the central part of the nation.
• Related Events:
A. Lewis and Clark Adventures
B. Embargo Act
C. Marbury v. Madison

8. Event: The Treaty of
1814 Ghent
• Significance: This treaty ended the War of 1812, which was
fought between the British Empire and America.
• Related Events:
A. Panic of 1819
B. McCullen vs. Maryland
C. Hartford Conventions

9. Event: The Treaty of
1848 Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Significance: A massive amount of land is obtained from
Mexico; this includes southwestern territories, including
California.
• Related Events:
A. Gold Rush
B. Texas is bought for $15 million
C. Henry Clay’s Comrpomise of 1850

10. Event: The Civil War
1861
• Significance: America splits into two separate regions and
becomes involved in a war within itself; people are
practically fighting against their own family members.
• Related Events:
A. Fort Sumter
B. Antietam
C. Gettysburg

11. Event: The End of
1865 the Civil War
• Significance: Efforts turned away from war and towards the
reunification of the nation.
• Related Events:
A. Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
B. The Beginning of the Era of Reconstruction
C. 13th & 14th Amendments

12. Event: End of the
1877 Reconstruction Era
• Significance: Removal of troops from the Southern states and
the end of efforts towards attempting to change the South’s
views.
• Related Events:
A. Jim Crow Laws
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Cumming v. County Board of Education

13. Event: The Beginning
1914 of World War I
• Significance: The nation enters a war that did not concern it
at first; high casualty rates for every side that is involved.
• Related Events:
A. Federal Trade Commission
B. USS Lusitania
C. Zimmerman Telegram

14. Event: The Treaty of
1919 Versailles
• Significance: Ends the “Great War” and decides the
reparations to be paid.
• Related Events:
A. Wilson’s Fourteen Points Plan
B. 18th & 19th Amendments
C. Mass Culture (Harlem Renaissance, Lost Generation, etc.)

15. Event: The Stock
1929 Market Crash
• Significance: Nation falls into a severe depression that
greatly effects everyone for many years.
• Related Events:
A. The Great Depression
B. The Dust Bowl
C. The New Deal

16. Event: The U.S.
1941 Enters World War II
• Significance: Pulls the United States out of the Great
Depression and into a global conflict.
• Related Events:
A. Pearl Harbor
B. Harry Truman takes Office
C. Battle of Iwo Jima

17. Event: The End of
1945 World War II
• Significance: Efforts to maintain international peace are
imposed among various nations.
• Related Events:
A. Atomic Bomb
B. Founding of the United Nations
C. Cold War

18. Event: The U.S. Enters
1954 the Vietnam War
• Significance: The nation becomes involved in a widely
publicized time of turmoil.
• Related Events:
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Geneva Conference
C. SEATO Treaty (1955)

19. Event: Beginning of
1960 Civil Rights Movement
• Significance: The large struggle for gaining equality for
people of color begins.
• Related Events:
A. Freedom Summer
B. March on Washington
C. Boynton v. Virginia

20. Event: The Civil
1964 Rights Act is Passed
• Significance: Segregation is outlawed; job opportunities are
allowed for all races.
• Related Events:
A. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
B. Assassination of JFK (1963)
C. Voting Rights Act of 1965

21. Event: End of the Civil
1968 Rights Movement
• Significance: The injustices of discrimination were
established; the nation’s social system was redesigned.
• Related Events:
A. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
B. Tet Offensive
C. My Lai Massacre

22. Event: The Paris
1973 Peace Accords
• Significance: Marks the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam;
American troops were pulled out at the cost of South
Vietnam suffering under the hands of North Vietnam.
• Related Events:
A. Watergate Scandal (1972)
B. Roe v. Wade (1974)
C. Presidential Elections of 1976

23. Event: The Fall of
1989 the Soviet Union
• Significance: The end of the Soviet Union, which had been
existent since 1922.
• Related Events:
A. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) (1987)
B. The End of the Cold War
C. First Gulf War

24. Event: Congressional
1994 Victory for Republicans
• Significance: The Democratic Party had previously held
control over Congress for at least fifty-eight of the previous
sixty-two years.
• Related Events:
A. 1995-1996 Budget Crisis
B. Presidential Elections of 1996
C. First Surplus in 30 years (1998)