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Founding of Jamestown
100 English colonists arrived on the coast of Virginia (led by John Smith and chosen by King James 1) to start a new settlement. After arriving they experienced collecting diseases, starvation, and being caputred by natives. -
House of Burgesses
The first assembly of elected representatives of the English colonies. The Virginia company built the House to encourage craftsmen to settle in North America. The first meeting was in Jamestown on July 30,1619. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony
Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans who were later known as Pilgrims. The colony was known for helping people become free of religious persecution. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was a document that governed Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts). It was written by separatists who wanted to seek religious freedom from King James VI and I. The founder of the Mayflower Compact was William Bradford. -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
A group of Puritans founded a company after breaking free of King Charles I's rule. Everyone in Massachusetts was wealthy and a self governing colony. -
Pequot War
(1634-1638) The Pequot tribe fought against a group of colonies who were allied with the Native Americans. People were captured and killed or sold into slavery in the West Indies. -
King Philip’s War (Metacom)
A series of battles led by King Phillip in the Massachusetts colony between the Wompanowogs and the colonists. The Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction to the Native Americans. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon and others from West Virginia were upset at the governer for not retaliating against the Indian attacks. Bacon's financial backers included wealthy men from Governer Berkeley's center of influence. -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of trials that prosecute people who were accused of witchcraft. Association with the devil made the trials more serious and caused exile, getting put in jail and persecution. -
French and Indian War
It was mainly fought between British American and New France which escalated from a regional affair to a world wide event. The French and Native Americans joined forces to defeat the British. -
Quartering Act
Every colonial assembly was told to house soldiers and give them basic needs. This expanded in 1766 but was repealed in 1770. -
Stamp Act
All legal and official documents used in the colonies was required to be written on special British paper. The Stamp Act was repealed by Parliament in 1766. -
Boston Massacre
British troops were sent to Boston to maintain the Townshend Acts. On March 5, British soldiers fired upon a rioting crowd killing 5 people and injuring 6. The soldiers were tired for murder and eventually were blamed for this incident. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act removed imports tariffs on tea entering England and allowed the British East India Company to sell to the people instead of store owners. The long-term tax on tea made the colonists mad and eventually led to The Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston to protest the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company. After Boston offlicals refused to return taxed tea to Boston, colonists boarded the ship and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
A blueprint for the British to deny colonist of a representative government. Eventually the government became the First Continental Congress. -
Lexington and Concord
The first of a series of battles during the Revolutionary War. There was conflict between Britian and the colonies which led to the first shots being piredin Lexington. -
Declaration of Independence
The 13 colonies were trying to get independence for Great Britian and wrote a formal document declaring that it was now an independent country. The document was written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by the Continental Congress. -
Shays' Rebellion
Captain Daniel Shays led other farmers in an uprising against high state taxes, imprisonment for debt, and lack of paper money and in January 1787 Shays group tried to sieze weapons from the Springfield armory, the state militia of Massachusetts and Shays' Rebellion broke loose. -
Constitutional Convention
The Articles of Confederation that were previously in place gave Congress virtually no power over domestic fairs. The Constitutional Congress in May 1787 and elected George Washington as the leader of the convention. The first thing proposed was the Virginia Plan and then the New Jersey Plan. Over the course of four months, delegates worked out a series of compromises that granted Congress power to regulate economy, currency, and the national defense. -
Constitutional Convention
The Articles of Confederation that were previously in place gave Congress virtually no power over domestic fairs. The Constitutional Congress in May 1787 and elected George Washington as the leader of the convention. The first thing proposed was the Virginia Plan and then the New Jersey Plan. Over the course of four months, delegates worked out a series of compromises that granted Congress power to regulate economy, currency, and the national defense. -
Judiciary Act 1789
The Act set the number of Supreme Court justices at six: one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. The Act also created 13 judicial districts within the 11 states that had then ratified the Constitution -
Judiciary Act 1789
The Act set the number of Supreme Court justices at six: one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. The Act also created 13 judicial districts within the 11 states that had then ratified the Constitution -
Second Great Awakening
Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement. It was past its peak by the 1840s. It has been described as a reaction against skepticism, deism and rational Christianity -
Whiskey Rebellion
A tax protest where farmers sold their grain in the form of wheat and had to pay a new tax. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Four bills passed by the Federalists after the French Revolution, Americans wanted something like that to come to the United States and overthrow the government. -
Revolution of 1800
Where Thomas Jefferson (Vice president) defeated John Adams (President) in the election. -
Marbury v. Madison
was a case 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
the United States paid France $50 million to claim the Louisiana Territory. -
Embargo Act 1807
In response to the Chesapeake Affair, America stopped trading with everyone -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 started because of British attempts to restrict U.S. trade. Also, The Royal Navy's impressment of seamen and American's want to expand its territories. The U.S. faced costly defeats, along with the burning of the nations capital in Washington D.C. -
Election of 1816
Marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Election of 1824
The 1824 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time no candidate ran as a Federalist, while five significant candidates competed as Democratic-Republicans. -
Election of 1828
featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election. With no other major candidates, Jackson and his chief ally Martin Van Buren consolidated their bases in the South and New York and easily defeated Adams. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
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 1832
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. -
Texas Independence
Texas declared independence from Mexico in order to form the Republic of Texas. -
Mexican-American War
The war between the United States and Mexico was because both countries wanted Texas to be appart of their territory despite the Texas Revolution. Even though Texas had annexed from the United States both countries thought of that land as "their" territory. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
It was a peace treaty between the United States and the Mexican Republic. Mexico agreed to end the war early if the United States agreed to pay them $15 million to pay off the claims of American citizens. -
Dawes Act
survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. The Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry Laurens Dawes of Massachusetts. The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. Individual ownership of land was seen as an essential step. The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land "excess" to that needed for allotment and -
Wounded Knee Massacre
On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it. A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle escalated and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry's opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow troopers. -
Spanish-American War
A war between Spain and the United States because the United States intervened in the Cuban War of Independence. America's attacks on Spain led to the involvement of the Philippine Revolution. -
Founding of the NAACP
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. 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”. Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people. -
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. In some cases groups of blacks fought back, notably in Chicago, where, along with Washington, D.C. and Elaine, Arkansas, the greatest number of fatalities occurred. The riots followed postwar social tensions related to the demobilization of veterans of World War I, both black and white, and competition for -
First Red Scare
had its origins in the hyper-nationalism of World War I. At the war's end, following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, 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. -
Harlem Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. -
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. Economics was dominant, and the sort of cultural issues that had dominated previous elections including Catholicism and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were dormant. Prohibition was a favorite Democratic target, as few Republicans tried to defend it. -
New Deal
was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
in Japan were 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. -
Truman Doctrine
was a foreign policy that provided economic and military aid to Turkey and Greece because they were threatened by communism. -
Creation of NATO
is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Fall of China to Communism
fought between the Kuomintang (KMT), or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China (CPC),[5] for the control of each other's territory which eventually led to two de facto states, the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China both claiming to be the legitimate government of China. -
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. government. -
Korean War
a war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It was a result of political division they then split into North and South Korea.
