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Nov 20, 1215
Magnacarta
Rights of nobles -
Jamestown Founded
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Mayflower
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King Philips War
Last major effort by Native Americans -
Bacons Rebellion
Indian dispute on the frontier -
English Bill Of Rights
creates rights for English citizens -
Salem Witch Trials
West Indian slave woman was accused as being a witch. -
French and Indian War
War between Britian and France over territory -
Pontiacts rebellion
confederacy of Native Americans attacked British forces -
French and Indian War
England v. France over land and France loses most land -
Treaty Of Paris
ended the war -
American Revolution
13 colonies rejected the British government -
Regulator Movement
Farmers in western NC resented taxes and fees -
Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana purchase -
Articles of Confederation
The basic laws every American will follow -
Treaty Of Paris
ended Revolutionary War; land was taken from the British -
Constitutional Convention
All states represented and they made decisions on the laws -
3/5 Compromise
Made slaves worth 3/5th of a person -
Great Compromise
Large and small states made compromises -
Connecticuit Compromise
Also known as the Great Compromise -
George Washington
Jays treaty -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Passed to silence criticism of the federalists -
Judiciary Act of 1789
Established the Supreme Court as the Judical ruler -
Whiskey Rebellion
Tax on alcohol -
John Adams
Federalist president -
Louisiana Purchase
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James Madison
War of 1812 -
John Tyler
Annexed Texas -
Federalist
Strong Central government -
Red River Basin
Britian and the United States would share Oregon territory -
Florida
United States took Florida from Spain. -
Missouri Compromise
Anything above Missouri was a free state -
Monroe Doctrine
2 forgien policy ideas -
Texas Anneaxtion
Texas was added as a state -
James Monroe
Era of good feelings -
John Quincy Adams
Currupt bargin -
Tariff of 1828
Taxed imported goods, helped North -
Nullification
when a state goes against the Federal gov. -
Andrew Jackson
was elected president -
Andrew Jackson
Peggy Eaton affair -
Transcedentionalism
A movement in Literature -
Aboltionists
led slaves revolt -
Walt Whitman
A poet in the Literature movement -
Martin Van Buren
Panic of 1837 -
William H. Harrison
Died from pneumonia -
James K. Polk
Mexico seceded California and New Mexico -
Texas Annexation
Texas asked to be a part of the United States and then Mexico declared war. -
Oregon Country
Britian and United States had Oregon, but Britian didnt want to go to war over this issue so they gave it to the US -
Mexican Cession
Congress declares war on Mexico -
Womens Right
women supporting the rights they should have -
Zachary Taylor
Gold rush -
Scalawags
White Sotherners -
Compromise of 1850
CAlifornia applied as a free state -
Nathaniel Hawthrone
Wrote the Scarlett letter -
Millard Fillmore
Comproise of 1850 -
Franklin Pierce
Onsted Manifesto -
Gadsden Purchase
Mexico was in desperate need of money and agreed to give it up. -
Carpetbaggers
Northerners that moved south -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowing people to vote on the status -
James Buchanan
Dread Scott -
Dred Scott
A slave that thought he should be free -
Andrew Johnson
Ratified the 14th Amendment -
The election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected president -
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War -
Emancipation Proclamation
freed all slaves -
Andrew Johnson
King Veto -
Alaska
America bought Alaska from Russia -
Ulysses S Grant
he made the 15th Amendment -
Ulysses S. Grant
KKK Act -
!3th Amendment
Freed all slaves -
14th Amendment
Gave all blacks citizenship -
15th Amendment
Gave all black men right to vote -
Radical Reconstruction
Promised freedom and 40 acres of land -
Compromise of 1877
Ends the Radical Reconstruction -
John Adams
Alien and Sedition Act -
The American System
Protective Tariff and National BAnk -
Horace Mann
Reformer in education -
Dorothea Dix
Observed treatment of the mentally ill and pased laws for all states to get hospitals -
Utopian Society
created their own community free from evil -
Hawaii
Plantationers wanted Hawaii -
Federalist Papers
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