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John Rolfe
Born and raised in Heacham, UK.
He is and Early English settler. Was credited for experiments with tobacco that developed its first profitable export. Married Pocahontas to ensuyre peace between Jamestown settlers and Powhatan Indians. -
House of Burgesses
First legislative assembly of elected representitives in North America. The house was established by Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitams. First meeting was held in Jamestown, Virginia. -
Mayflower Compact
This document was signed by 41 colonist. First written framwork of government established in what is now the US. It was drafted to prevent non-separatiot pilgrims who had landed at a Plymouth a few days earlier. -
Bacon Rebellion
In Jamestown, Virginia, freed Indentured servants had no where to settle after serving 7 years working on plantation farms. They would all move inlandto settle not realizing property inland has already been owned by the native Indians. Refusing to leave, and Indentured servant by the name Nathanel Bacon marched up to the House of Burgesses to ask for help. They refuse because the House of Burgesses has a secret contract with the Indians on trades. -
Salem With Trials
Series of hearings of prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. -
Zenger Case
John Peter Zenger, a german immigrant who had come to America as an apprentice printer, was charged of printing false and seditious statements about colonial officals. Zengers 2nd lawyer argues that Zenger's statement were not libeious becasue they were true. -
Stono Rebellion
Slave rebellion that commanced in the colony of South Carolina. One of the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to American Revolution. Earilest known organized rebelliors in the US led by the native Africans who were catholic and likely from the Kingdom of Kongo. -
Fort Necessity
It was summer and there was a battle in Pennsylvania between the French and the Indians. It was a clash of British and French soldiers with guns and a sharp blade on ttop of the gun versus American Indians with only spears and bows and arrows. The battle ended with the removal of French power froim North America. -
Albany Plan of Union
A proposal to create a unified government forthe 13 colonies, suggested by Benjerman Franklin. More than 20 representitives of several northern and Mid-Atlantic colonies had gathered to plan their defense related to the French and Indian war, the front in North America of the Seven years war between Great Britian and France. -
Boston Massacre
Killingof 5 colonists by British regulars. The columinof tensionsin the america coloingisthst sandwitch. Colminatin of tensions in the america colonies that had been growing since royal troops ist appereared in Massachusetts. -
Coercive Acts
A patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliment relating to Massachusetts after the Boston tea party. This act stripped Massachusetts rigths, triggering outrage and resistancce in the 13 colonies. -
Delcaration of Independence
When the founding fathers and thirdteen colonies got together to sign a document declaring their independence against the British rule. First to sign this document was John Hancock. -
Shay's Rebellion
American farmers protests against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgment for debt. The rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts where bad harvests, economic depression, and high taxes threatened farmers with the loss of their farms. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The taxing of whiskey lead to a violent and chaotic result. The law was that farmers with leftover corn and grain and made whiskey with it had to pay a tax fee. This rax was part of Alexandar Hamilton's program to increase central government power, in particular to find his policy of assuming the war debt. -
Cotton Gin
This machine was invented be Eli Whitney. He wanted cotton to be seperated and shipped to other countires in a faster process. This machine seperates the cotton from their seeds. Mostly used in big factories to make mass productions of cotton. -
Alien and Sedition Act
Document was passed by congress in preparation for an anticipated war with France. There were four documents in total. These documents did expired on 1801 and was repealed by the Naturalization Act in 1802. -
Manifest Destiny
American expansion that the US not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, native removal and war with Mexico. -
Marbury V. Madison
Court case decided by the U.S supreme court. William Marbury comissioned justice of peace in the direct of Columbia by President Adam in the "midnight appointments". James Madison was against Marbury's idea. -
Lewis and Clark
After the Louisiana Purchase was purchased by president Jefferson, he sends Lewis and and his friend Clark on an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchse to find a water route that flows to Asia for trade reasons. They travled nearly 8,000 over 3years, reaching the Pacific Ocean. A native Indian by the name Sacajawea joined their expedition as a translator and ambassetor. -
Missouri Compromise
Proposed by Missouri state itself, this document was passed between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. -
Monroe Doctrine
Stated that furtherefforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of agression, required US intervention. Working in agreement with Britian, US wanted to guarantee no European power would move in. -
Trail of Tears
Nearly 125,000 Native Americans lives on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. Federal Government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated "Indian Territory" across the Mississippi River. -
The Alamo
Group of Texan volunteer soldiers occupied the Alamo, a former Fransicasian mission. The battle became enduring symbol of their heroic resistance to oppression and their struggle for independence. -
Seneca Falls Convention
A women's right convention held by only women. Female Quakers local to the area organized the event. Many important people came including Philidelphia-based Lucretia Mott who came to examine how much power women have. -
Unlce Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published this book selling 300,000 copies the first 3 months. While living in Cineinnati, Stowe eoncountered fugitive slaves and the Ungerground Railroad. She wrote this novel in reaction to recent tightened fugitive slave laws. The book had a huge influence in the way American viewed slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott a slave who lived wuth his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Wanting all slaves or black to have their freedom, Scott went to court to pled his case but got rejected by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a staunch reporter of slavery, disagreed. The court found that no black, free, or slave could claim US citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. -
Emancapation Proclamation
A executive order issued by Preseident Abraham Lincoln in war measure during the American Civil war, to all segments of the executive branch of U.S. It also proclaimed freedom of slaves in 10 states. -
KKK (Klu Klux Klan)
White men that wears a white robe over themselves and rides a horse. These people mostly attack/ violate at night. Strike mostly towards African Americans. Hated the change in society and are a bunch of white supremeses. -
Spanish American War
America declared war on Spain to end spanish colonial rule in America. US vistory in the war produceed a peace treaty that compelled the spanish to reliquish claims in Cuba. -
Zimmerman Telegram
America, staying neutral from WW1, the Germanys broke its pledge to limit submarine warfare. British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Forigen Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German minister to Mexico, Von Eckhardt. -
Harlem Renaissance
A cultural movement that spreaded through all of America. The movement encompassed an African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest and the largest was Harlem. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday hit wall street as investors traded 10 million shares on the New York stock exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wipping out thousands of investors. America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Gret Depression. -
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a series of economic programs to combat the effects of the Great Depression. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During WW2, and American B-29 bomber dropped a A-bombover Hiroshimawipping out 90% of the city and immediately killing 80,000 people. 3 days later, a second one was dropped on Nagasaki killing about 40,000 people. These devistating attacks lead Emperor Hirohito to surrendering. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry Truman urges a joint session of congress to support his doctrine, which called for US financial and military aid to Greece and Turkey in an effort to protect the countries from Soviet domination. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Unlike the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson case, this case helped break the back of the state-sponsored segregation, and provide a spark to the american civil rights movement. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave broad congression approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnam and Viet Cong forces launch the Tet Offensive. Coordinated series of forces attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the communist Pe0ople's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) planned offensive in an attempt both forment rebellion among South Vietnamese population and encourage U.S to scale back its support of the Saigon regime. -
Watergate
President Nixon reelection campaign. In the harsh political climate, a forceful presidentcal campaign seened essntial to the presidentand some of his key advises. their agressive tactics turned out to be illegal espontage. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
In Persian it was reffered to as the " Conquest of the American spy den". A diplomatic crisis between Iran and the US. 52 Americans were held hostages for 444 days. President Carter called the group of hostages "Victims of terrorism and anarchy". -
Challenger Explosion
American shuttle orbiter Challenger broke up 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft's 10th mission and killed 7 astronauts. 2 rubber O-ring, which had been designed to seperate the sections of the rocket booster had failed due to cold temperature on the morning of the launch. -
9/11
Hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the pentagon in the worst terrorist attack on US soil killing nearly 3,000 people.
