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Founding of James Town
Date : 1607
Founder: John Smith
Purpose: To make money for the Virgina Company
Significance: First parliament English settlement in America. -
House of Burgesses
Date: July 30th 1619
In July a meeting of the House of Burgesses was held in Jamestown, the first such assembly in the Americans. -
Plymouth Colony
• Purpose: The separatists thought they needed to separate from the Church of England to have the freedom of religion. • Founder: founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans later known as the Pilgrims. -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
- Date Founded: 16202. Purpose: Religious freedom3. Founder: founded by owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company.4. Significance: Unlike other contracts the framework of establishing colonies in America this one did not have to have stockholder meetings in England.
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Mayflower Compact
Date signed: Novmeber 11th 1620
Mayflower compact
Purpose: Was a writtin temprary form of government until an official form England came.
• Founder: written by agreement of the new settlers arriving in Plymouth. -
Pequot War
The war started after when the territory of the Pequot was formed by the Dutch and when a white man named John Gallup sailed there river and fired at the Indians causing the Indians to fight back. -
• King Philip’s War (Metacom)
1675-1676
Lasted 16 mouths and is known as the bloodiest war fought in America. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Date: 1676- 1677
Started because of opening Indian lands to colonization. -
Salem Witch Trials
Date: 1692
The people in the town of Salem started to go crazy accusing innocent Woman as being Witches and punishing them with painful death. -
French and Indian War
Date: 1754-1763
The in 1750’s Britain and France had colonies in North America. The British wanted to settle in Ohio River Valley and trade with the Native Americans who lived there. -
Quartering Act
Date: 1765
The Quartering Acts passed by the British Parliament under these acts local colonial governments were forced to provide provisions and housing of the British soldiers stationed in America colonies. -
Stamp Act
Date: 1765
The stamp act was introduced by the British Prime Minister George Greenville and passed by the British parliament. -
Boston Massacre
Date: 1770
British troops sent to Boston to maintain order and to enforce Townshend Acts fired at a rioting crowed and killed five men. -
Boston Tea Party
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Tea Act
Date: 1773
Protest of dumping tea into the harbor that stirred up the American Revolutionary War. -
intolerable Acts
Date: 1774
After the French and Indian War the British decided to make the colonies pay greater taxes. -
Lexington And Concord
Date: 1775
April 18th the British came and Paul Revere rode his famous midnight ride to warn the people that the British were coming and do to Paul Revere word was able to get out and the supplies was able to be hidden so the British could not destroy it all. -
Declaration of Independece
Date; 1776
The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of American History. -
Shay's Rebellion
August 1786- June 1787
Was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts. This political uproar changed the country’s governing document the Articles Of Confederation was seen as necessary. -
Constitutional Convention
The constitutional Convention took place at the State house in Philadelphia, same place that the declaration of independence had been sighed. 55 delegates from the several met to frame the constitution for a federal republic that would last into remote fruity. -
Judiciary Act 1789
The Judiciary Act was the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary. Article III of the United States Constitution created the Supreme Court and gave Congress the power to establish inferior courts. It made no provision, though, for the composition or procedures of any of the courts, leaving this to Congress to decide. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Date 1789The Alien and Sedition Acts were signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France. -
Second Great Awakening
1790-1840s
Characteristics of the second great awakening included widespread conversions, increased church activity, social activism, and the emergence of the new Christian denominations. Social activism, especially in the northern states, was an integral part of the second Great Awakening. Advocates of the temperance movement criticized various effects of the role of alcohol in public life, and others started pushing woman’s rights, and others pushed to of reform prisons, and they all gathered -
Whiskey Rebellion
Date 1791-1794 The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchange were forced to pay a new tax. This conflict also showed that the articles of confederation were not strong enough because it did not give the government to draft armies to stop these rebellions. -
Revolution of 1800
Date 1789-1800George Washington and John Adams had been the first two presidents of the United States and were affiliated with the Federalist Party. When the Republican Thomas Jefferson took office as the third president, he coined the term the “Revolution of 1800. -
Marbury v. Madison
Date: February 24 1803Marbury v. Madison was a landmark United States case in witch the court formed the basis for the exercise of the 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
Date: April 30th 1803States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory; more then (2 million sq mi) of land extending form the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. To explore the land Thomas Jefferson sent Lousis and Clark to go on an expedition through Americas new purchased land. -
Embargo Act 1807
Law passed by Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807. This law stopped all trade between America and any other country. -
War of 1812
Date: June 18 1812- February 18 1815The War of 1812 was a 32 month military conflict between the united States and the British Empire. There were several reasons why this war began, but the man reason was because of trade restrictions. -
Election of 1816 (beginning of Era of Good Feelings)
Date: 1817- 1825
The years following the end of the War of 1812 have been called the era of good feelings because of the political strife. The election of 1816 James Monroe decisively defeated the last of the Federalist candidates. -
Election of 1824 (corrupt bargain)
Date: 1824In 1824 U.S. Presidential election, none of the candidates received a major of electoral votes, Andrew Jackson led with 99 votes, and John Quincy Adams had 84. Under the 12th Amendment the house of Representatives had to choose a president from the top three candidates. Clay dropped out of the race, and gave his support to Andrew, he was elected and named Clay his sectary of State, an arrangement that Jackson supporters labeled the “corrupt bargain. -
Election of 1828
Date: 1828The Election of 1828 was unique in that nominations were no longer made by congressional causes, but by conventions and the state legislatures. The election relates was a clear win for Andrew Jackson with electoral votes of 178, and Adams Rush with 83. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
Date: 1830Andrew Jackson was forced to proponent of the Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation in defeat the Creeks lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
Date: 1832The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by the South Carolina’s 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. The ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional within the southern boundaries of South Carolina. -
Texas Independence
Date 1836
The fight for Texas Independence started because many Americans came to Texas for cheap land, but when the Mexicans started to enforce there country’s rules upon them witch made Texas want to brake away from Mexico. -
Mexican American War
Date: 1846- 1848
The United States and Mexico could not agree on the border between them. -
Treaty o Guadalupe Hidalgo
Date: 1848
This is the Treaty between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican war. -
Dawes Act
February 8 1887 Congress passed the Dawes act, named for its author Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts. The law allowed the president to break up reservation land witch was held in common by the members of the tribe, into small portions to be shared out to individuals. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
US army opened fired on an Indian campsite of Big Foot’s band of Miniconjou Sioux. When the shooting ended, Big foot and most of his people were dead or dying. The death of Sitting Bull marked the end of an age Wounded Knee marked the end of a culture. -
Spanish- American War
Date: 1898
On April 21 1898, the United States declared war against Spain fallowing the event of the sinking of the American Battleship in Havana Harbor in February 15th in 1898. -
Harlem Renaissance
1904Several middleclass African Americans families moved away from the decaying conditional of black midtown into the newly- built suburb of Harlem. The initialed a move north of educated African Americans and a foothold into Harlem. In 1920 various African American realtors and a church group brought a large block along 135th and Firth Ave. These purchases caused a white fight and lowered the realestate prices. At this time Jazz music was being devopled by the Blacks to exspres themselves. -
Founding of the NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of colored people Formed in 1909 in New York City by a group of back and white citizens fighting for social justice. This organization is the oldest and strongest civil rights organization in the United States. The principle objective was to ensure political educational social economic quality of minority group citizens of the United States. -
First Red Scare
1917-1920Took place during the First World War The beginning of the Red Scar stared was the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia during the 1917. This was a time were the Americans believed that the communists immigrants also known as communisis were plotting a revolution in the Untied States. -
Red Summer
Refers to a series of race riots took place between May and October in over three dozen cities in the United States. In most instances, whites attacked Africa Americans, in some cases groups of blacks fought back. Wear the greatest amount of attacks that accord were in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Elian, Arkansas. -
Election of 1932
Date: November 8 1932The election of 1932 was in the midst of the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a Democratic and had 22,821,277 of the popular vote and, Herbert Hoover was a Republican, and he had 15,761,254 of the popular votes. -
New Deal
Date: 1933-1936The New Deal was a series of economic programs passed by congress during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Programs that were passed were a response to the Great Depression. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Date: August 6, 1945 On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. -
Truman Doctrine
Date: 1947The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. It was the start of the policy to stop containment Soviet expansion; it was a major step in beginning the Cold War. -
Creation of NATO 1949
Date: April 4 1949 NATO is a North Atlantic treaty, the pact operated on the basis of collective security. If any one of the member states were attacked, all would retaliate together. -
Fall of China to Communism (1949)
Date: October 1, 1949On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920's. -
Korean War (1950-1953)
Date 27 1950 – July 1953 It was a 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
date 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional investigations into the issue of Communist spies within the U.S.
