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Jan 1, 1111
13, 14, and 15 Amendment
-13: 1865
-14: 1868
-15: 1869
-equaly for all citizens -
Jan 1, 1111
City Upon a Hill
-phrase from the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount -
Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
-document signed by King John recognizing rights of nobles -
Jan 1, 1517
Protestant Reformation
-reformation
-16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval -
Joint-stock Companies
-business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders -
Triangular Trade
-trade among three ports or regions -
Pequot War
-armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists -
Act of Toleration
-Maryland will tolerate any religion
-Catholisism was important -
Navigation Acts
-series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies.This ended 200 years later -
King Philip's War
-First Indian War
-armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England -
Bacon's Rebellion
- armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley
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Glorious Revolution
-James II was expelled and sovereignty conferred on William and Mary -
English Bill of RIghts
-creates rights for english citizens -
Salem Witch Trials
-series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts -
Great Awakening
-religious tolerance
-encouraged individualism
-revivalism -
French and Indian War
-Seven Years' War
-fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military -
Enclousre Movement
-requiring that private lands be fenced off from common lands -
Industrial Revolution
-new manufactoring processes -
Pontiac's Rebellion
-confederacy of Native American warriors under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacks the British force at Detroit -
Regulator Movement
-uprising in the British North America's Carolina colonies
-citizens took up arms against colonial officials -
The American Revolution
-political upheaval
-Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy -
Bunker Hill
-2200 red coats charge up Breed's Hill to drive away 1200 minutemen
-British won -
Low Point of the War
-George Washington surprised 900 Birtish troops by crossing the Delaware River on Christmas
-Trenton -
Common Sense
-Thomas Paine
-inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain -
Articles of Confederation
-document served as the United States' first constitution
-was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect -
Turning Point
-British surrendered 5,700 troops
-convinced European nations that America could win -
Yorktown
-General Charles Cornwallis was driven from the South and set up camp near Yorktown, VA with 8000 troops -
Treaty of Paris
-Britain regained independence
-border at canada and Mississippi River
-Americans had rights to Canadian fishing waters -
Constitutional Convention
-plan was to revise the articles but that was impossible
-delegates began to start over -
Connecticut Compromise
-agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 -
Bill of Rights
-first 10 amendments
-based on english bill of rights -
George Washington
-1789- 1797
-Vp: John Adams -
Whiskey Rebellion
-tax protest -
Cotton Gin
-Eli Whitney
-device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber -
John Adams
-1797- 1801
-Vp: Thomas Jefferson -
Thomas Jefferson
-1801- 1809
-Vp: Aaron Burr and George Clinton -
Louisiana Purchase
-land deal between the United States and France -
James Madison
-1809- 1817
-Vp: George Clinton and Elbridge Garry -
War of 1812
-James Madison became president
-trouble with Native Americans -
James Monroe
-1817- 1825
-Vp: Daniel D. Tompkins -
Monroe Doctrine
-U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent -
John Quincy Adams
-1825- 1829
-Vp: John C. Calhoun -
Erie Canal
-ran about 363 miles from Albany -
Andrew Jackson
-1829- 1837
-Vp: John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren -
Telegraph
-Samuel Morse
-revolutionized long-distance communication
-worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations -
Martin Van Buren
-1837- 1841
-Vp: Richard M. Johnson -
Trail of Tears
-devastating effects
-part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy -
William H. Harrison
-1841
-Vp: John Tyler -
John Tyler
-1841- 1845
-Vp: vacant -
James K. Polk
-1845- 1849
-Vp: George M. Dallas -
Zachary Taylor
-1849- 1850
-Vp: Millard Fillmore -
Millard Fillmore
-1850- 1853
-Vp: vacant -
Franklin Pierce
-1853 -1857
-Vp: William R.D. King -
Gadsden Purchase
- 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
-allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
-served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´ -
James Buchanan
-1857- 1861
-Vp: John C. Breckinridge -
Election of 1860
-election of Abraham Lincoln
seen as the end of Southern way of life
-beginnign of the Civil War -
Vulvanized Rubber
-durable material
-Charles Goodyear -
Civil War
-determined the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy -
Abraham Lincoln
-1861- 1865
-Vp: Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson -
Antietam
-23,000 men were killed or wounded
-south invaded MD hoping a major victory would bring support from GB and France
-bloodiest day in American history -
Homestead Act
-promised 160 acres of land for cultivation -
Emancipation Proclamation
-freed slaves in the states in rebellion
-actually accomplishes nothing -
Andrew Johnson
-1865- 1869
-Vp: vacant -
Ulysses S. Grant
-1869- 1877
-Vp: Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson -
Naturalization Act
-law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices. It is also noted for extending the naturalization process to "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent" -
Barbed Wire
-Joseph F. Glidden
-used to keep cattle in -
Mexican American War
-Americans offer to purchase Texas
-slavery became an issue
-Mexicans won after a 12 day siege
