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Founding of Jamestown
Jamestown was founded by English colonists who were looking for a new start. The purpose of the colony was to grow crops to make money off the different crops in the New World. It was the first colony in America. -
The House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was established by the Virginia Colony and was the first assembly of elected representatives in North America in the English Colony. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
The Plymouth colony was founded by English Puritans who fled England for religious freedom. It was one of the first successful colonies. -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
The Massachussets Bay Colony was founded by John Winthrop and was founded for economic reasons. -
Pequot War
It was a war between the Pequot tribe and the English colonists of the Plmyouth and Massachussets Bay colonies as well as their Native American allies. -
King Philip’s War
This was a war between the Native Americans and the New England Colonists. It one one of the bloodiest wars in history and many colonial towns were destroyed. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion was an uprising consisting of indentured servants, poor whites, and poor blacks that didn’t agree with the way they were being governed. The rebellion caused a separation in social classes as it caused a new level of the social class to be added to the colonies: the slaves. -
Salem Witch Trials
In Salem 19 men and women were convicted of witchcraft and were hung. -
The French and Indian War
The Americans fought with the help of British soldiers they against the French and Native Americans. The cause was a border dispute with the Appalachian Mountains. -
Quartering Act
American colonist had to house British soldiers. It was a part of the Intolerable Acts for the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act
Everything of print had to have the British stamp on it in order for them to make money. This was also part of the Intolerable Acts. -
Tea Act
The British taxed the colonist tea and drove up the prices. This pushed people over the edge and led to the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Massacre
This was an event that stirred up the revolution in which rioting Boston citizens were shot to death by British soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists rebelled against the British who was limiting who they bought and sold tea to. The British was also taxing them without the proper representation. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, and these acts outraged the colonies. -
Lexington and Concord
This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Nobody knows who fired the first shots. -
Declaration of Independence
This was the document that declared the American colonies independent from Great Britain. It was written by Thomas Jefferson. -
Shay's Rebellion
An uprising of armed farmers that protested foreclosed farms. Persuaded the government to write the Costitution. -
Constittional Convention
Convention called to revise the Articles of confederation, and made the Constitution. Decided representatives based on the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plans. -
Judiciary Act 1789
landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary -
Second Great Awakening
A revival in Christian values throughout the United States. -
Wiskey Rebellion
A rebellion against a whiskey taxes imposed on farmers. They attacked the tax collectors. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France -
Revolution of 1800
Jefferson’s election that was change from federalist to republican government -
Marbury Vs. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.su 137 (1803), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercize of judicial review in the United States under Article lll of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally seperate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. -
Louisiana Purchase
.Lousiana purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana territory from napoleon in 1803 under jefferson -
Embargo Act 1807
a stop on all international trade in order to pressure England and France to remove strict commercial trading policy’s. -
War of 1812
The causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the U.S. as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. In 1812, with President Madison in office, Congress declared war against the British. -
Election of 1816 (beginning of Era of Good Feelings)
Presidential election where President Monroe was elected easily without much competetion. This started the era of good feelings. -
Election of 1824 (corrupt bargain)
There was no winner in the presedential election, so the vote went to the House and Henry Clay talked the House into voting for John Quincy Adams, who got elected. -
Election of 1828
President Andrew Jackson was elected and represented the common man. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
Law calling for the removal of Native Americans onto Reservations enacted by Andrew Jackson. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
The decision by South Carolina to nullify a tariff imposed by the National government, which started the debate on whether states had the right to nullify federal laws. -
Texas Independence
Texas won its independence from Mexico following the Texas Revolution. -
Mexican American War
This war was the result of a border dispute between Texas and Mexico, and it followed the annexation of Texas. The United States won the war. -
Treaty of Guadulupe Hidalgo
This ended the Mexican American war, and has the United States pay 15 million dollars to Mexico in exchange for the Rio Grande border for Texas and land that included New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. -
Dawes Act
The objective was to assimilate Native Americans to American society. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
A Native American man refused to give up his rifle, and a shot was accidentally fired. An American army regimine opened fire on all the Native Americans in the camp. -
Spanish American War
This was a war between America and Spain that was the result in America’s intervention in the Cuban Revolution. This war allowed the U.S. to control Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. -
Founding of the NAACP
Founded to be a civil rights organization in response to race riots. -
First Red Scare
The widespread fear of the spread of anarchism. -
Red Summer
Race riots that occured across the country ion which whites attacked African Americans. -
Harlem Renaissance
Cultural movement for many African Americans that formed a "New Negro." -
Election of 1932
Elected FDR during the Great Depression and he led the country out of it. -
New Deal
A series of government programs that generated jobs and money to help the U.S. climb out of the Great Depression -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War 2 and are the only use of nuclear weapons ever. -
Truman Doctrine (associate ‘containment’)
The U.S. policy that they would aid Greece and Turkey in an attempt to contain communism. -
Creation of NATO 1949
A group of countries that banded together and made it clear that a Soviet attack on one of the nations would be an attack on all of the nations. -
Fall of China to Communism (1949)
China's government changed into a communist system in 1949 -
Korean War (1950-1953)
War between North and South Korea. -
Election of 1952
Election during the Cold War in which President Eisenhower was elected.
