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Founding of Jamestown
John Smith founded Jamestown with the goal to seek gold and find a water route to the orient. This plan did not turn out well and the colony almost failed until they learned to plant tobacco. Tobacco was the savior for Jamestown and for that they were the first established colony in the Americas. -
House of Burgesses
Members would meet at least once a year with their royal governor to discuss matters in their colonies. This made sure that all of the cononies were doing alright and following the corret rules of the decleration. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of separatists looking for freedom of religion. After two months of sailing they went off course and came across land not too far from Plymouth Rock. When the colonists found they were not anywhere near Jamestown they created the Mayflower Compact which stated they would rule themselves. This colony went on to play an important role in American democracy. -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop, which was apart of the Massachusettes Bay Company, founded Massachusetts Bay and the colony was one of the colonies that played a role in the Great Migration. Over 20,000 puritans moved to Massachusetts Bay Colony during the time. Overtime the colony became the thrid permanent settlement in the United States. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was a war between Massachussets Bay, Plymouth and Saybrook colonists against the Pequot Indian tribe. This war lasted from 1634 - 1638 and the main reason for the war was over fur trade. -
King Philip’s War
Colonists started to rapidly expand their land into the Wampanoag Indian terrioty. The Wampanoag's didn't agree and started to attack the colonists. English Colonists met with King Philip, the Wampanoag leader, and told them to surrender their arms. The Wampanoag did so, but a Christian Native was murdered, and three Wampanoag were tried and executed for the crime. This started a huge war and King Philip lost his head because of his betryal. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
The govener wouldn't allow colonists to attack a certain group of Native Americans.This prompted colonists to take matters into their own hands. They started attacking Native Americans, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and ultimately torching the capital. This rebellion helped entrench slavery as the slavery system in Southern America. -
Salem Witch Trials
In Salem the practice of Withcraft was found inhuman. Witches were throught to be started from the devil and the people that practiced witch craft were hung. The first member in Salem to be hung was a women by the name Bridget Bishop. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the last of four major wars between the British, the French, and the Native Americans for control of North America. The French and Native Americans fought against the British so that they could control more land. In the end they lost and the french lost their land, while the Native Americans had to move to a different location. -
Stamp Act
The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice. The colonists had been through so many taxations that they got furious. One year later they apealed the stamp act. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then they were to let the soldiers in local inns, stable or houses -
Boston Massacre
Colonists were protesting agianst guards and after awhile the general had the men arm their bayonets. THe colonists started throwing snowballs and objects at the guard until the guards shot at the colonists. This cause a huge conflict and 5 men were dead when the smoke cleared. Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the first to fall and the deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
This bill was designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it on the American tea trade. This sparked the boston tea party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an event were some colonists wanted a way to protest against the Tea Act of 1773. Colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians, raided boats and dumped out 300+ chests of tea. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were made after the boston tea party, and they were made as a punichment. Many different laws were passed that made the colonists lives harder. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord was the first two major battle of the American Revolution. The first was the battle were people say that the first shot was heard around the world. The two battles marked the beggining of the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
July 4 was the day that America adopted the Decleration as its own, but on August 2, 1776 the Decleration was signed. The Decleration had many revisions but in the end it is what we all follow and live by today. It is the rules that makes our country the way it is and the freedoms that we have. -
Shay's Rebellion
Admit the weak central government was not working. Uprising led by Daniel Shay in an effort to prevent courts from foreclosing the people that couldn't pay taxes for their farms. -
Constitutional Convention
The convention were someone drafted the United States Constitution. -
Judiciary Act 1789
This was a landmark statute adopted in the first session of the First United States Congress which established the U.S. federal judiciary. -
Whiskey Rebellion
A tax protest in the United States, and this was a protest by farmers because they couldn't sell thier corn in alchol form. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
There was Four bills passed by the Federalistsin the aftermath of the French Revolution. -
Revolution of 1800
This Revolution proved to other nations that the republican experiments would succed. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was purchased by the United States. 828,000 square miles of land was bought. -
Marbury v. Madison
It formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States. -
Embargo Act 1807
The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U.S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized -
War of 1812
A War between the United States and the United Kingdom -
Election of 1816
The election campaign of 1816 itself was one-sided. The early opposition of the Federalists to the War of 1812 had ruined the party. -
Election of 1824
Marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. -
Election of 1828
Had left supporters of Andrew Jackson bitterly disappointed. He had the most electoral votes, but had been denied the presidency. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
The act authorized him to negotiate with the Indians in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory -
Nullification Crisis 1832
This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional. -
Texas Independence
Texas Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. This event marked Texas’ independence from Mexico. -
Second Great Awakening
A protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States that last from 1790 - 1840s -
Mexican-American War
General Polk didn't agree with the Mexican ways and he wanted the land for manifest destiny. Americans and Mexicans were brawling and war was about to start. When the Mexicans fired on American troops in April 25, 1846, Polk had the excuse he needed, he declared war. The war lasted 1 year and the Americans won the land they wanted and gained the border they wanted for Texas. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought an official end to the Mexican American War. It was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled from U.S. Troops. -
Dawes Act
Enacted by the U.S. Congress regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma. -
Wonded Knee Massacre
An army was attempting to take all weapons from a Native American camp. One Native American would not give up his gun due to him being deaf. The army ended up killing and burning the whole camp. -
Spanish-American War
December 10, 1898 the Spanish-American War ended. In France, the Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire. -
Founding of the NAACP
The NAACP was formed in response to the continuing practice of lynching and to the 1908 race riot. -
First Red Scare
Russian Communists seized control of Russia and were always carrying around their red flags. In the United States, this event fueled existing prejudice against immigrants and people from Europe. THe United States had to do something to put themsevles apart. -
Red Summer
Red Summer describes the race riots. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. In some cases groups of blacks fought back, notably in Chicago. -
Harlem Renaissance
A movement in the 1920s that brought Blacks into the better life of Harlem. They gained jobs and went to churches and ultimatley lived a better life. -
Election of 1932
The nation went from Republican party dominance to Democratic party dominance. Franklin Roosevelt launched the New Deal program that transformed the role of the federal government. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of social and economic programs during the Great Depression by the Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and becaue of this America struck beack with nuking Hiroshima. Later after the devestation America nuked another city, Nagaskai. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine assumed the Soviet Union was trying to spread its power across the whole world -
Fall of China to Communism
China falls into Communist Hands -
Creation of NATO 1949
This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War. -
Korean War
North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. A war broke out and The United States went to South Korea's aid. -
Election of 1952
President Harry S. Truman had been asked to run again, but he chose not to run again.
