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Colonization of JamesTown
located in virginia -
Pilgrims land in Plymoth
they actually landed near cape cod before moving to plymoth -
Pequot War
an armed conflict bwtween the Pequot tribe and the English Settlers -
King Phillips war
THe first indian war -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
Salem Witch trials
executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. -
Proclamtion of 1763
no one can settle west of the appalachinas -
Pontiac’s War/Rebellion
named after pontiac -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
The end of theFrench and Indian war -
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Articles of Confederation
the first constitution for the united states -
addition of Northwest Territory
north west of the ohio river -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The government allowed territory to the US north west of the ohio river -
Constitutional Convention
the adressing of the articles of confederation -
Shays’ Rebellion
War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in rising up against perceived economic injustices -
Alien and Sedition Acts
john adams tried to pass a law about immigrants -
Judiciary Act of 1789
An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States -
George Washington
Wooden teeth -
Bill of Rights
12 amendments -
Whiskey Rebellion
a tax protest in the United States -
John adams
George washingtons Vice President -
Thomas Jefferson
He was one of the he draftsmen for the Declaration of Independence -
Louisiana Purchase
828,000,000 square miles of territory from France -
Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. -
James Madison
He promoted the bill of rights and the constitution -
James Monroe
Last president to be a founding father -
Missouri Compromise
admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
John Quincy Adams
John Adams son -
Tariff of 1828
a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Andrew Jackson
First Irish president -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
rebel slaves killed 55 people -
Martin Van Buren
Very first American born president -
Trail of tears
Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
William Henry Harrison
First Presdeint to die in office -
John Tyler
His nickname was "His Accidency" -
James K. Polk
He was from North Carolina -
mormon migraton
Landed in Slat Lake City, Utah -
Mexican Cession
The U.S. got land from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
Gold Rush
gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California -
Seneca Falls Convention
womes rights -
Zachary Taylor
He was in the Army -
Millard Filmore
the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties -
Compromise of 1850
the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
part of the Compromise of 1855 -
Franklin pierce
Pierce served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate -
Gadsden Purchase
A meeting wiht Mexico to get a piece of land that now is part of Arizona and New Mexico -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowed Kansas And Nebraska to decide theselves if they wanted slavery or not. -
James Buchanan
Was in the civil war -
Dred Scott decision
a slave wants to be a free man after living on free states -
Abraham Lincoln
assassonated in a theater -
Homestaed Act
This act encouraged western migration -
Emancipation Proclamation
freeing of slaves -
Purchase of Alaska
We bought alaska from russia for 7.2 million dollars -
Ulysses S. Grant
Worked close with abraham lincoln -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad -
Rutherford B. Hayes
He was a union army officer -
Compromise of 1877
pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
