American History 1 Honors

  • Magna Carta
    Feb 9, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Document signed by John Smith; limits the power of the king
  • Jamestown founded

    Jamestown founded

  • Mayflower

    Mayflower

  • Massachusetts bay

    Massachusetts bay

    wanted to purify the Anglican church
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    an English philosopher and physician
  • King's Philip's War

    King's Philip's War

    Last major effort by Native Americans of Southern New England to expel the British
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion

    Led the colonist in a rebellion against the Virginia gov't
  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

    Creates rights for English citizens
  • James Otis

    James Otis

    was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against British policy that led to the American Revolution
  • Great awakening

    Great awakening

    encouraged individualism- individual relationship with God
  • George Washington

    George Washington

    was the first President of the United States
  • John Dickinson

    John Dickinson

    a Founding Father of the United States, was a solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington
  • John Adams

    John Adams

    was the second President of the United States
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    was the third President of the United States
  • James Madison

    James Madison

    was the fourth President of the United States
  • James Monroe

    James Monroe

    was the fifth President of the United States
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution

    was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840
  • Pontiac's Rebellion

    Pontiac's Rebellion

    Confederacy of Native Americans under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacked British forces at Detroit in May 1763 trying to remove them from French lands
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy
  • Sons of Liberty

    Sons of Liberty

    Radical group in Boston that fought for fair rights for colonists
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    was the seventh President of the United States
  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams

    was the sixth President of the United States
  • Regulator movement

    Regulator movement

    Farmers in western NC resented the assessment of taxes and fees and the favoritism of the tidewater region
  • William Hnery Harrison

    William Hnery Harrison

    was the ninth President of the United States
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill

    was a batlle fought during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War
  • Henry Clay

    Henry Clay

    was an American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives
  • Saratoga

    Saratoga

    marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    Representation by population or equal
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown

    the Surrender at Yorktown by General Charles Cornwallis
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren

    was the eighth President of the United States
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    Ended Revolutionary War, land was acquried from the British
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor

    was the twelfth President of the United States
  • Great Compromise

    Great Compromise

    Created a bi-cameral legislation
  • Constitutional Covention

    Constitutional Covention

    Plan was to revise the Articles but that was impossible
  • Connecticut Compromise

    Connecticut Compromise

    Mapped out how many representatives would be in each House of Congress
  • Constitution

    Constitution

    Restored power back to the Federal government, but also provided rights for citizens with the Bill of Rights
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler

    was the tenth President of the United States
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    was the fifteenth President of the United States
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber
  • James K. Polk

    James K. Polk

    was the eleventh President of the United States
  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore

    was the thirteenth President of the United States
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    We bought the land from the French
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    was the sixteenth President of the United States
  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce

    was the fourteenth President of the United States
  • Embargo Act

    Embargo Act

    was a general Embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal
  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson

    was the seventeenth President of the United States
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

    was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Native American allies
  • John L. O'Sullivan

    John L. O'Sullivan

    was an American columnist and editor who used the term "manifest destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States
  • Treaty of Ghent

    Treaty of Ghent

    was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom
  • Red River Basin

    Red River Basin

    We made a treaty with Great Britain
  • Florida

    Florida

    The Spanish didn't want war and neither did we so the Spanish just gave us Florida
  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    was the eighteenth President of the United States
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    James Monroe established 2 foreign policy ideals
  • John Marshall

    John Marshall

    First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears

    as part of 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
  • Texas Annexation

    Texas Annexation

    Texas wanted to become a state of the United States of America
  • Mexican American War

    Mexican American War

    A war between the U.S. and Mexico
  • Oregon Country

    Oregon Country

    Great Britain negotiated with us and let us have the land
  • Mexican cession

    Mexican cession

    We fought for the land
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    We bought the land from the Mexicans
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    Abraham Lincoln, freed slaves in the states in rebellion
  • Barbed wire

    Barbed wire

    is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s)