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Dec 2, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a document written by the lower class of Fuedalistic England. The lower class was attempting to restrict the kings power. -
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect is a term refering to laws put in place to keep the colonies obidient to England. This was useful for sometime, till Britain stopped really trying, and started wanting money. -
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English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of conflicts over the government. The people were either Parliamentarians or Royalists depending on beliefs. -
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James II Of England and replaced him with his daughter and her husband. The fear of "popery", or systematic hatred and fear of catholics, caused the revolution, and the revolution led to the Bill of Rights, similar to our current one. -
Two Treatises of Government
The Two Treatises of Government is a book anonymously published by John Locke. It contained philosophy of Government and politics. -
Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was the ideological movement that made modern ideals what they are today. These ideals were brought on by corruptivity, such as condolences or buying your way to heaven. -
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Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, early industrialst and a patriot. He is most infamous for his midnight run, warning about the British coming. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was a document issued by King George III after we aquired the land from France. After the French/Indian War ended -
Committees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence was a series of "shadow" governements for the original colonies. These governments were intended to be for patriots to discuss patriotic issues, meaning all loyalists were excluded. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was the original 13 colonies revolting against Britain. After a while, Britain strted taxing and putting soldiers in peoples homes, which of course aggrivated the colonies. After the war, U.S. gained their independence. -
The Wealth of Nations
The The Wealth of Nations (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations) is a book written by Adam Smith in the late 1700's. It was essentially a notebook on economic observations, except written as a book. -
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Articles Of Confederation
This was the first attempt at the constitution post independance of America. However, this failed misserably, lasting only four years and accomplishing nothing. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was an effort by Thomas Jefferson and four of his homies. This effort was a systematic selling of north-west land. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention was a meeting held by delegates such as George Washington and Benjamine Franklin to revise the Articles of Confederation. This meeting was secret so that the country wouldn't know how bad of a failure the Articles of Conferderation was. -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a land charter for northwestern territories. This provided stratigies for the admittance of new states to the Union. -
Connecticut Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreemnt reached during the Constitutional convention. This agreement made the legislation equal and fair. -
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George Washington
The first president of the U.S. and a signer of the Constituion. He set the standard for the two terms and was non-partisan. -
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Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement with the purpose of oving religion across the new lands. People would travel with the intent of spreading their religion. -
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Plantation Systems
The Plantation System was used to make growth of raw goods effecient. Land was owned by one and rented out to others for growing anything they could, and this is why slaves were used. These land plots were hard to watch on your own, so we didnt pay people very well to work on them. -
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Tenant Farming
The idea of tenant farming was that the plantationers, would make money off of rent and products, tenants would make money off of products and that slaves could work the fields for cheap. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a rebellion against the taxation of whiskey, which was the first product that was taxed. The number of casualties was minimal because of the presidents responce. -
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John Adams
2nd president of the U.S. and 1st Vice president of the U.S. He was a federalist at the time. -
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the idea that the U.S. should stretch and was destined to stretch from east to west coast. This was achieved in 1848, but we didn't have the the space in the middle until we bought Arizona in 1912 -
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Thomas Jefferson
The third president of the U.S. and the second vice president. He was a writer for the constitution. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisana Purchase was a purchasing of land from the French in 1803. This was the American Aquisition of 828,000 square miles (530 Million acres) of land in the middle of the U.S. The land was purchased for 15$ Million, which is at three cents per acre. -
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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was U.S. politican, including Representative and Senator of Mississippi, U.S. Secretary of War and the only president of the Confederate States of America. He had no real desire to be the president, but was asked to and did. -
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James Madison
The fourth president of the U.S. -
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James Monroe
The fifth president of the U.S. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a way of solving the foreign policy of European Colonization. It essentially split the world in half, forbidding European movements westward. -
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John Quincy Adams
The sixth president of the U.S. -
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Andrew Jackson
The seventh President of the U.S. -
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a secret network of houses for slaves who escaped custody. They would go from house to house at night and hide during the day. They would wind up in either the north or southern Canada. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner's rebellion was a slave uprsising in Virginia that led to the death of up to 65 people. Nat Turner escaped, went into slave owners homes, freed the slaves and told the to either help him or run. -
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Martin Van Buren
The eighth president of the U.S. -
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William Henry Harrison
The ninth president of the U.S. -
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John Tyler
The tenth president of the U.S. -
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James K. Polk
The eleventh president of the U.S. -
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War was the result of allowing Americans that didn't want to follows laws of slavery. This resulted in a war that lasted two years and caused Mexico to lose half of it's territory. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first convention for womens rights. The purpose was to discuss the rights of women in all fields from religious to civil rights. -
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Zachary Taylor
The twevlth president of the U.S. -
Fourty Niners
Fourty Niners is the name of miners who went westward after gold was discovered in California. People went in the hopes of finding riches, and left behind family, property, and buisnesses. -
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Millard Fillmore
The thirteenth president of the U.S. -
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Franklin Pierce
The fourteenth president of the U.S. -
Gadsden Purchase
This was a treaty signed that created the southern Arizona and New Mexico States. This was a 10$ Million trade between Mexico and the U.S. giving the U.S. this territory. This zone was purely for the movement of settlers, goods and the building of a railroad from Texas to California. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In 1854, the areas of Nebraska and Kansas were recognized as states. This threw the equality of states with Slavery and allowed for the state become two and gave them to popular sovereignty. -
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James Buchanan
The fifteenth president of the U.S. -
Secession
Secession is the removal of a group by choice. The south secessed after Licoln was elected saying it would be a threat to their way of life. -
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Abraham Licoln
The sixteenth president of the U.S. -
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Civil War
The Civil War was caused by the division on the view of states rights to own slaves. After Lincoln was elected, the south said it would end their way of life and elected thier own president. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Lincoln during the civil war's third year to release all slaves in rebellious states, and to make them free. However, no slaves were actually released until after the war. -
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Andrew Johnson
The seventeenth president of the U.S. -
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Carpetbaggers
Carpetbaggers were northerners who went south to profit post war. After the south lost, northerners went and tried to take advantage of the south. -
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KKK
The KKK (Klu Klux Klan) is a christian white supremisist group that started after the end of the civil war. Actions have ranged from protests to buring down churches with people inside. -
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Ulysses S. Grant
The eighteenth president of the U.S. -
The Peculiar Institution
The The Peculiar Institution was a book published in 1956 and written by Kenneth M. Stampp. The purpose of the book was to inform people of slavery and ideas formed prior to the war. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were brought on by the belief of witchcraft and use of black magic. These beliefs caused several deaths and false accusations of innocent people. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the portion of the constitution that names the rights of people. It has been added to several times since the ratification, but in most situations the first 10 amendents, or the orignal set, are used to defend or opposeissues in court. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was a song by the Beastie Boys released on the album Licensed to Ill. It was a song about three bad brothers you know so well, and started way back in history with Adrock, M.C.A. and Mike D.
