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Founding of Jamestown
Jamestown was a Virginian colony founded by the Virginia Company of London with the intent of getting rich. Originally, they started doing very poorly and nearly died, however when the started growing tobacco they became rich and they flourished -
House of Burgesses
The house of burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in the Americas. This house was prompted by Nathanael Nelson wanting more independece in land owning. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
The Plymouth Colony was created because separatists wanted to separate from the Church of England. The Mayflower Compact was the first kind of goverment that was formed through a social promise to follow a set of rules. Hence the name Mayflower COMPACT, they made a pact to follow these rules. -
The founding of Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts Bay was created by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company because they wanted religious freedom. This colony was significant because it sparked our American expansion, the puritans drove people to expand westward, which in turn caused great conflict with the native Amiercans. -
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The Pequot War
The Pequot War was a war between th Pequot tribe and several colonies. After 4 years of a war that was started after fur trades increased tensions until the colonists acted. This war resulted with the colonists winning, and then selling the rest of the Pequot tribe mebers into slavery in return for allowing them to live. -
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King Philip's War (Metacom's Rebellion)
When several native american tribes banded together, after colonists executed several of their kin, in hopes of driving the colonists away. Eventually, the colonists won, and this even is significant because it shows how brutal both sides can be, the natives with their killing during the night, and the colonists, hanging up metacoms head for all to see for 25 years after the war was over. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was when young Nathaniel Bacon led a large group of colonists against the natives, and against the wishes of their leader Governor William Berkeley. This caused things like betray murders, when the colonists would act like they were going to help a certain tribe, then lead them into the forest and slaughter them. After killing hundreds of natives, Nathaniel decided to go against their leader, and they chased him from jamestown, burning the town to the ground in the process -
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Salem Witch Trials
The witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people performing witchcraft, generally in colonial Massachusetts. These events caused mass hysteria in the colonials, because
1. You didnt know if someone was a witch or not
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French and Indian war
The French and Indian war was the first colonial war, and it was a massive conflict between Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden. It was also called the seven years war. The war was a result of rising tensions between Britain and France over how fast the colonists were taking over the Americas. The colonists supported the british entirely, and even tried to appeal to the king about letting them raise their own armies. The king was suspicous though, and denied them. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was Britian's way of trying to raise back the money that had spent on the troops that then defended the colonists. However the colonsits viewed this as a direct attempt by the British to tax them without representation, and the House of Burgesses adopted several resolutions against the act, but Virginia Governor Fauquier did not approve of the resolutions, and he dissolved the House of Burgesses in response. -
The Boston Massacre
The boston massacre was when several british soliders fired into a crowed of people, after having been subjected to thrown objects and verbal harrasment, killing 3 people instantly and wounding 2 more. This event was signifcant because John Adams defended the soliders, and it showed how objective and fair the future-president was. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the event that would eventually lead to the boston tea party. Britain was trying to save the financially troubled British East India Company by making all the tea that went into the colonies under the Company's rule. The colonists saw this as an attempt to tax them without representation, and they retaliated by tarring and feathering the ship captains, buying smuggled tea (which actually cost more) and by dumping the tea into the harbor (boston tea party) -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a retaliation against Britain because the colonists were not being represented in parliament, which meant they had no say in their taxation. The retaliation was that several Son's of Liberty dressed up in native american attire, and proceeded to dump the british tea on the ships into the harbor. This prompted Britain to pass the Intolerable Acts. -
The battles of Lexington and Concord
These were the first battles of the American Revolution. This event was signicant because it showed how strong America's resolve was. The minutemen were outnumbered by regulars, yet they defeated 3 companies of british soliders, and pushed them back to Charlestown. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the offical document that declared the thirteen colonies to be a independant states. This was caused by several acts like Interolable acts and the tea acts that made colonists want their freedom. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shay's Rebellion: Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787. -
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention: the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787. -
Judiciary Act 1789
Judiciary Act 1789: The United States Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73-93) 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. -
Second Great Awakening
Protestant revival movement during early 19th century. It expressed Arminian theology, by which every person could be saved through revivals, repentance, and conversion. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion- Rebellion in 1794 by farmers in western Pennsylvania against the tax on whiskey. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Alien and Sedition Acts- A series of laws that sought to restrict the activities of people who opposed Federalist policies (1798). -
Revolution of 1800
Revolution of 1800- Jefferson's election changed the direction of the government from Federalist to Democratic- Republican, so it was called a "revolution." -
Marbury v. Madison
(1803), was a landmark 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: in 1803, America bought 828,000 square miles from France for the price of $11,250,000 plus cancellation of debts worth $3,750,000. It nearly doubled the size of the US -
Embargo Act 1807
It was an act that was invoked after Britain and France severed neutrality with America but seizing their cargo. The act was largely a failure, as it caused devastating burdens on the U.S. economy and the American people. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a 32 month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire and their allies which resulted in no territorial change, but a resolution of many issues remaining from the American War of Independence. The United States declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by Britain's ongoing war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against Americ -
Election of 1816 (beginning of Era of Good Feelings)
The United States presidential election of 1816 was the 8th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 1 to Wednesday, December 4, 1816. It came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the presidency against very weak opposition. Monroe won the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34. -
Election of 1824 (corrupt bargain)
After the votes were counted in the U.S. presidential election of 1824, no candidate had received a majority of the Presidential Electoral votes, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives. To the surprise of many, the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. It was widely believed that Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House at the time, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State. -
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. Unlike the 1824 election, no other major candidates appeared in the race, allowing Jackson to consolidate a power base and easily win an electoral victory over Adams. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
This 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
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. -
Texan Independence
Texas Independece day is the celebration of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The declaration declared texas to be a free state, independant of Mexican rule. This declaration followed the texas revolution in 1835, and it would lead to retailiation by Mexico at the alamo. -
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Mexican-American war
The Mexican-american war was an armed conflict between the US and Mexico, following the annexation of Texas. This war led to the US gaining a considerable amount of land after defeating Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave the US Californa and New Mexico for the price of 18 million dollars. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the treaty that ended the mexican-american war. This treaty also allowed the US to purchase California and New Mexico for 18 million dollars. This event is significant because it contributed to the civil war. With so much more land, northerers feared all the land would become slave states and the power of the nation would shift towards slavery. -
Dawes Act
This act allowed the president to subdivide Native American land and give it to individual Natives -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The Lakota people were gunned down after white men one deaf man refused to give up his weapon. Women, children, and men were shot without consequence. -
Spanish-American war
The Spanish-American war was a conflict between Spain and the US. This event was sparked by the united state's intervention in the Cuban war of independence. This war was also called the "splendid little war" because it only lasted 10 weeks, and was an obvious american victory. This was signifcant because it made the people of the US look at their methods of expansionism. -
Founding of the NAACP
It was formed to “ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. Formed in 1909 -
The First Red Scare
Between 1919 and 1920 the first red scare was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. The Red Scare effectively ended in the middle of 1920, after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident -
Red Summer
Red summer describes the race riots that happened in several cities during the summer of 1919 when there was widespread fear about anarchy. Mostly, whites attacked African Americans. -
Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. President Herbert Hoover's popularity was falling as voters felt he was unable to reverse the economic collapse, or deal with prohibition. Franklin D. Roosevelt used what he called Hoover's failure to deal with these problems as a platform for his own election, promising reform in his policy called the New Deal. Roosevelt w -
New Deal
The 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. Focused on Keynseian economics. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy created in 1947 that allowed the US to provide economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. -
NATO
The creation of NATO brought about some standardization of allied military terminology, procedures, and technology, which in many cases meant European countries adopting U.S. practices. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO , is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
Fall of China to Communism
On 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
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
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. government. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering act was an attempt by Great Britain to regain control of the colonies, which at this point had started to become rebelious. The act forced colonists to house british soliders in their homes, and also to pay for their food and living expenses. This lead to the New York Provincial Assembly refusing the act, and forcing british troops to stay on their ships. This act expired in 1776. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a seires of laws that tried to get the colonists under control. Britain made the laws as a direct consequence to the boston tea party. The act did things like closed the port in boston and allowed a trial of an offical to be moved to britain. These acts sparked outrage throughout the colonies, and played a large role in the growth of the American Revolution. -
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. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Harlem Renaissance
It was a cultural revival and movement that spanned the 20’s and 30s. It was known as the "New Negro Movement.” African American poets, singers, and artists started to become more popular and accepted
