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Native America, European Exploration, Colonization.
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The Niña, Pinta, and Santa María sponsored by Queen Elizabeth set sail southward to the canary islands.
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Sir Walter Raliegh attempted to create the first permanent English settlement in North America, the colony ultimately failed.
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First successful English colony in America settled in Virginia
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First document establishing self-government in the Plymouth colony and in the new world.
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The first settlement in Massachusetts created by separatists as a religiously pure society.
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Harvard college is formed in Massachusetts.
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The conflict between Native Americans and English colonists was for control of New England
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The first American rebellion. A rebellion against Governor William Berkely
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George Washington is born in West Moreland County Virginia.
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The French and Indian war began in the colonies when french settlers went onto land Britain claimed.
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Ends the French and Indian war leaves England with substantial debt.
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States that no colonists can settle west of the Appalachian mountains. In response to Pontiacs rebellion.
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American Revolution, Articles of Confederation
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A tax on legal documents, brought about the first American boycott.
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Tax on paint, paper, and tea leads to the Boston tea party.
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A group of colonists threw snowballs at British soldiers and they opened fire. The event enraged colonists and pushed them closer to rebellion.
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A protest lead by the sons of liberty where they boarded a British ship and dumped the tea into the harbor.
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Gathered in response to the intolerable acts and create the declaration of rights and grievances.
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Closed Boston harbor and banned local meetings as punishment for the Boston tea party. It also introduced the quartering act and the justice act.
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The second continental congress met to prepare for war with the British.
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The declaration of independence is signed and the colonies prepare to fight for independence.
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The colonies adopt the Articles of Confederation as a way to revert the government back to a self-government style before British interference.
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The treaty ended the American Revolution and Britain recognized America's independence.
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Shays's rebellion was an uprising in Massachusetts in response to the debt crisis.
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They met to revise the articles of confederation but ended up writing an entirely new system of government with the constitution.
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Passed in order to please anti-federalists and gave 10 amendments that protected individual rights.
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Jeffersonian democracy
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The act changed the number of supreme court justices from 6 to 5.
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The US bought Louisiana and the surrounding land from the french for 15 million dollars.
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American victory against Shawnee's and Tecumseh led by William H Harrison
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A war between America and Britain, American ships were being captured by the British and America wanted to seize Canada.
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Andrew Jackson invaded the Spanish territory Florida.
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The first economic crash in the United States sometimes referred to as the first great depression.
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The treaty was between Spain and America and gave Florida to America.
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Brought Maine into the United States as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
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Reaffirmed the supreme court's power to review state court decisions.
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A treaty between Russia and America and gave Russia the pacific Northwest coast.
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Jacksonian democracy.
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Andrew Jackson a war hero (from the war of 1812) is elected as the seventh president.
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A tariff passed to protect the norths industry by taxing imports.
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Authorized removal of Indian tribes to federal territory in the west.
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A crisis between South Carolina and the federal government when South Carolina declared the tariffs void and null.
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A financial crisis that lasted until the 1840s.
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Andrew Jacksons Indian removal act forced the Cherokee people to migrate and many died.
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Treaty between America and Britain that solved border issues with Canada.
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Civil War
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Texas is annexed into the United States as the 28th state.
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A war fought over Texas between America and Mexico.
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Treaty ended the Mexican American war and gave America 525,000 square miles of land.
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Allowed escaped slaves to be captured while in free states.
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Dealt with the tension between slave and free states dealing with new territories.
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The act allowed the citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they were a free or slave state.
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A supreme court case that upheld slavery and limited federal government's power to regulate slavery.
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The first state to succeed and encouraged other southern states to do the same.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president.
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The first battle of the Civil war was a confederate victory.
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Lincoln Issued a proclamation saying all slaves in rebel states would be free.
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Actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at ford theatre where Lincoln was watching a play and shot him.
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The amendment abolished slavery.
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Robert E Lee surrendered the confederate army of northern Virginia to Ulysses S Grant
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Gilded age
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States all citizens are protected equally under the law.
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White Supremacists created a group to incite violence against African Americans.
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The south was turned into a conquered military state and was divided into 5 separate regions each governed by a union official.
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Gave African American men the right to vote.
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Protects former slaves under the law and establishes due process.
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Tweed the political boss robbed New York City of millions.
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Railroad members created Credit Mobiler to make a profit and distributed shares among political leaders.
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Strikers were protesting pay cut and federal troops had to be sent to suppress the strike.
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Stopped Chinese immigrants from coming to the US.
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The act created the Civil Service Comission to watch over government employees to avoid crruption.
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A group for skilled laborers to fight for better working conditions.
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The Dawes Act was a policy to assimilate Indians into American culture.
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Set up the interstate commerce commission to oversee the railroads.
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The Sun dance was banned so Indians started the ghost dance in retaliation the US army killed 200 Indians.
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Was created to restrict monopolies but was largely ineffective.
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The trial was over the segregation of railroad cars, supported the idea of separate but equal.
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The U.S.S. Maine sinks in Havana Harbor and causes America to declare war on Spain
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The US and Spain sign the Protocol of Peace ending the Spanish American war.
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Through a joint resolution, Hawaii was annexed into the United States.
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The first battle of the Spanish American war, an American victory.
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The Treaty of Paris signed between the US and Spain gave America Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
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Imperialism
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The US wanted control over the Philippines and was willing to fight for it.
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Laid out seven conditions for the withdrawal of US troops in Cuba.
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Theodore Roosevelt elected the 26th president.
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Made to protect consumers from misbranded and dangerous food.
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William Howard Taft elected 27th president.
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Germany Sinks the Lusitania because it was an enemy ship carrying munitions. This event encouraged America to enter the war.
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The US declared war on Germany based on their continued submarine warfare and trying to get Mexico to attack America.
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Extended the power of the espionage act.
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World war two, great depression.
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Treaty stopped the war between Germany and the allied forces, forced Germany to reduce their army.
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the first intergovernmental organization with a focus on world peace.
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Stock market crashes and is the beginning of the great depression.
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Reformed baking and formed the Federal deposit insurance corporation.
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Adolf Hitler rises to power as the chancellor of Germany.
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A surprise attack from Japan's military pushed America into the ar.
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The major leaders of the allies met to discuss the future of Europe.
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The battle of midway turned the tide in favor of America with the damage done to japans navy.
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The battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history with a soviet victory.
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Allied forces invade Northern France through the beaches of Normandy.
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FDR dies of a stroke and Truman becomes president.
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Victory in Europe day celebrates Nazi Germany's surrender.
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An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in order to force Japan to surrender
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An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in order to force Japan to surrender.
