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Founding of Jamestown
America’s first permanent English colony, Jamestown, was founded by John Smith for money and glory. -
House of Burgesses
The first legislative anywhere in the in the English colonies in America. The first meeting was held in a church in Jamestown. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document in the Plymouth Colony and discovered by Separatists. -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop and English Puritans planned to establish a new settlement, thus bringing a fleet of 11 ships holding hundreds of settlers to the newfound land. -
Pequot War
Armed conflict between indigenous people and the settlers in New England. -
King Phillip's War
Better known as the first Indian war. Consisted of an armed conflict between Native Americans and English colonist. -
Bacon's Rebellion
An uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon, who was 29 at the time. -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused for witchcraft. -
French and Indian War
The bloodiest war of the 18th century. The war was the product of an imperial struggle, a clash between the French and English over colonial territory and wealth. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by parliament which required Americans to pay taxes on anything paper related. Some examples are vehicle papers, licenses, and newspapers. -
Quatering Act
An act passed to ensure that the British soldiers were properly housed and fed during their time in service in the North American colonies. -
Boston Masscare
The pre-revolutionary incident growing out of anger against the British troops. -
Tea Act
Resulted in the lower prices of tea from GB to stop the smuggling of other teas, which later caused the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts
Cause for the closing of the Boston port, cancellation of town meetings, and the Massachusetts assembly. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonist were angry that the British had passed the tea act, so the men took action, dressed up as Indians and boarded the ship, where the tea was held, and dumped it off the ship into the sea -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolution were fought. -
Declaration of Independence
The document that was adopted by the Continental Congress stating that the 13 colonies are now free states from Britain. -
Shay's Rebellion
Took place in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shay. It started on August 29, 1786. -
Constitutional Convention
Took place in 1787. It was in the State Houes located in Philadelphia. The same place where the Declaration of Independence was signed 11 years before. For 4 months 55 delegates from several states met to frame a constitution. They wanted it to last into “remote furutity.” -
Judiciary Act 1789
Signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. The act established the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and created the position of attorney general. -
Second Great Awakening
Protestant revival movement. The most effective form of evangelizing during this period revival meetings cut across geographical boundaries. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, less commonly known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a resistance movement in the western part of the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. The conflict was rooted in western dissatisfaction with various policies of the eastern-based national government. -
Revolution of 1800
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800," Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated incumbent president John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System. -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), was a United States 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. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana territory from Napoleon in 1803 under Jefferson. -
Embargo Act 1807
A stop on all international trade in order to pressure England and France to remove strict commercial trading policy’s. -
War of 1812
The causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the U.S. as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. In 1812, with President Madison in office, Congress declared war against the British. -
Election of 1816
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic- Republican James Madison. -
Election of 1824
In the United States presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was divided by the House of Representatives. -
Election of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a Rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson. As incumbent Vice President John C. Calhoun had sided with the Jacksonians, the National Republicans led by Adams, chose Richard Rush as Adams' running mate. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
Authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within state borders. It is where the “Trail of Tears” came from. Estimated that about 4,000 cherokees died. -
Texas Independence
Texas declared its independence from Mexico with the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence. -
Mexican-American War
War between Mexico and the US that eventually led to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and ended on February 2, 1848. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Peace treaty between America and the Mexican Republic. -
Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. In the eyes of supporters, this law would “civilize” the Indians by weaning them from their nomadic life, by treating them as individuals rather than as members of their tribes, and by readying them for citizenship. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The massacre at Wounded Knee is considered the last battle between white soldiers and Native Americans.The great Hunkpapa leader Sitting Bull, who had opposed Custer at the Little Bighorn and who had toured for a time with Buffalo Bill and the Wild West show, was killed on the Standing Rock reservation. In a dream he had foreseen his death at the hands of his own people. -
Spanish-American War
War between Spain and the US that lead to the Treaty of Paris. -
Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization. -
Harlem Renaissance
Spanned from 1919 to early 1930's. A blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. -
Red Summer
Whites attacked African Americans, and in some cases, groups of blacks fought back. The activist and author James Weldon Johnson coined the term "Red Summer." There have been 34 occured battles during this time. -
First Red Scare
A widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and alleged spread in the American labor movement fueled the paranoia that defined the period. -
Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promise of the incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. -
New Deal
The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Event in Japan that was conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies. -
Truman Doctrine
The American foreign policy in 1947 for providing economic and military aid to Turkey and Greece since they were threatened by communism. It was the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion and a major step in beginning the Cold War. -
Creation of NATO 1949
Created to protect America along with 11 other nations but the Soviets created Warsaw to counter -
Korean War
War between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
Election of 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold Wartension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. -
Fall of China to Communism
China became communist in 1964 with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was penned by the Tories and voted against unanimously by the evil Abolitionists. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
In 1798, the Federalist-controlled Congress passed four acts to empower the president of the United States to expel dangerous Aliens from the country; to give the president authority to arrest, detain, and deport resident aliens hailing from enemy countries during times of war; to lengthen the period of naturalization for immigrants, and to silence Republican criticism of the Federalist Party. Also an act passed by Congress in 1918 during World War I that made it a crime to disrupt military recr -
Nullification Crisis 1832
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
