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Founding of Jamestown
Jamestown was founded in 1607 by the Virginia company of England in search of new land and gold. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America and was held in Jamestown, Virginia, on July 30, 1619. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower
The pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 and the Mayflower Compact was their first recorded document -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
The puritans founded Massachusetts Bay in 1628 in search of gain religious freedom. -
Pequot War
1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay -
King Philip’s War
King Philip’s War is sometimes called the First Indian War and it spanned from June 1675 until April 1678. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War spanned from 1754 until 1763 and it is the American name for the Seven Years war. -
Stamp Act
In 1765 The Stamp act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which Brittish Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Tea act
The tea act on May 10, 1773 allowed tea to be taxed in order to pay off the debt we America had to Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain’s colonies in North America and it also contributed to the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War( April 19 1775) -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. -
Constitutional Convention
◦ The Constitutional Convention (also known as the Philadelphia Convention,the Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders. -
Judiciary Act 1789
◦ The United States Judiciary Act of 1789 was a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary. Article III, section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court," and such inferior courts as Congress saw fit to establish. It made no provision, though, for the composition or procedures of any of the courts, leaving this to Congr -
• Marbury v. Madison
The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789). -
Second great awakening
a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The Second Great Awakening expressed Arminian theology, by which every person could be saved through revivals, repentance, and conversion. It enrolled millions of new members in existing evangelical denominations and led to the formation of new denominations. -
• Whiskey Rebellion
◦ The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering acts were acts in the 1800’s that ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers. -
Revolution of 1800
Thomas Jefferson defeated 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. -
Louisiana Purchase
The U.S., under Jefferson, bought the Louisiana territory from France, under the rule of Napoleon, in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase, and Napoleon gave up his empire in North America. The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size. -
Embargo Act 1807
◦ This act issued by Jefferson forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S. It was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade. It was difficult to enforce because it was opposed by merchants and everyone else whose livelihood depended upon international trade. It also hurt the national economy, so it was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act. -
War of 1812
◦ a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France◦ safeguarded property rights, especially of chartered corporations ◦ The United States presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. -
Election of 1824 (corrupt bargain)
◦ The term Corrupt Bargain refers to three historic incidents in American history in which political agreement was determined by congressional or presidential actions that many viewed to be corrupt from different standpoints. Two of these involved resolution of indeterminate or disputed electoral votes from the United States presidential election process, and the third involved the disputed use of a presidential pardon. In all three cases, the president so elevated served a single term, or singu -
Election of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election. -
Indian Removal Act
◦ The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Indians in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. The controversial and highly protective Tariff of 1828 (known to its detractors as the "Tariff of Abominations") was enacted into law during the presidency -
Texas Independence
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution on March 2, 1836. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836Texan Revolution. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican American War in 1846 -
Dawes Act
States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Wounded knee massacre
It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. some estimates placed the number of dead at 300 -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in April 25,1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. -
Founding of the NAACP
is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.[3] Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination” -
First Red Scare
American authorities saw the threat of revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bomb campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders. -
Red Summer
Red Summer describes the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. -
Harlem Renaissance
was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement" -
New Deal
The economic policu of F.D.Roosevelt -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. -
• Truman Doctrine
◦ President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology -
Creation of NATO
an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security -
• Fall of China to Communism (1949)
◦ Communist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang. -
Election of 1952
◦ Election won by Eisenhower -
Korean War
◦ a war between North and South Korea
