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Discovery of America, Colonization, French and Indian War, Restrictions on the Colonies.
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The transfers of goods, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World.
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First English settlement in the New World on the island of Roanoke, off the coast of North Carolina.
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Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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It was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.
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Plymouth was the first settlement creating in Massachusetts by Separatists to create a religious pure society.
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A rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor Berkeley.
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Series of prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts.
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The Evangelical and revitalization movement that came from Protestant Europe and left a major impact on Protestantism.
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Great Britain imposed a tax on gallons on imports of molasses from non-English colonies.
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The French and Indian War was the colonies of British America against New France colonies.
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A line drawn by British Parliament stating that colonists are not allowed to settle past the Appalachian mountains.
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Intolerable Acts, Revolutionary War, The Enlightenment.
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Raised tax revenue in the colonies for Britain. Also increased duty on foreign sugar imported from West Indies.
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A direct tax on a stamp that must be put on paper products.
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Forced colonists to house and supply British forces in the colonies;, which created more resentment.
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A tax that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea.
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Also known as the Intolerable Acts. In response to the Boston Tea Party.
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Was formed after the battle of Saratoga. French are allies with the colonists because they want to get back an old enemy.
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Managed the colonial war effort and moved towards independence. led to formation of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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A document written by colonists to British Parliament stating independence and their issues with British rule and the King.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to get people to want independence.
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Battle between the British and Americans. Americans win by a lot and prove their worth in the war effort.
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This ended the American Revolutionary War. American colonies recognized as their own independent country.
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18th century movement that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
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An event where French officials wanted a bribe from U.S. diplomats. Alexander Hamilton used this to try to to discredit Thomas Jefferson.
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Four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of immigrants.
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The Era of Good Feelings, Recovery from Revolution, Development of the U.S.
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Cut off all US trade with the world. The US wanted to maintain American neutrality.
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Allowed the US to trade with either Great Britain or France depending on who recognized American sovereignty and neutrality first.
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Ended the War of 1812 and established status quo antebellum.
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A meeting held due to disagreements for the War of 1812. Talk of succeeding, but was rejected.
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General Andrew Jackson was victorious. The War of 1812 had officially ended earlier, but word had not reached the United States.
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Ending of the Federalist party and an increase in Patriotism.
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James Monroe's presidency. Democratic-Republicans dominated all parties.
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Set the 49th parallel of latitude as the boundary between British North America and the US across the West.
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Ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
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A compromise crafted by Henry Clay which prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 30.
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Jacksonian Democracy, Native American movement, Mexican American War.
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President Andrew Jackson supported the act. Granted unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
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Virginia slave, Nat Turner, started a revolt where 55 whites were killed. As a retaliation, whites ended up killing hundreds of African Americans.
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South Carolina passed a resolution stopping the collection of tariffs in the state. President Jackson threatened to use federal troops against them.
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This was a Supreme Court case regarding Cherokee rights to land in America.
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Was proposed by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis.
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This was a result of Jackson's defeat of the National Bank.
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U.S. Army made 15,000 Cherokees leave from Georgia and go to Oklahoma. 4,000 Cherokees ended up dying on the march.
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Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that ended up strengthening the labor movement by upholding the legality of unions.
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Irish Immigration, Civil War, President Lincoln.
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Mass starvation in Ireland led to mass immigration into the US.
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The war was started by the United States and ended in Mexico's defeat and the loss of about half of its national territory in the north.
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Women's rights movement where participants wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments", which declared all men and women equal and listed grievances.
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The gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news brought around 300,000 gold-seekers to California.
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Entitled the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Mexico. The peace treaty was signed in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Introduced by Henry Clay as resolutions so that California could come in as a free state. Also, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in DC was banned.
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Allowed Americans in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which stopped slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
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President Lincoln issued the proclamation, stating "that all persons held as slaves" within the southern states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt by a white abolitionist to initiate a slave revolt by overthrowing a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln won the election. It caused the secession of southern states, with the first state to secede being South Carolina.
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The beginning of the Civil War and the South's decision for war.
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Ended the Civil war and led to General Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
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Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War. These laws had the intent of blocking African Americans' freedom, and of making them work in slave-like conditions based on low wages or debt.
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John Wilks Booth assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Just days after General Lee's surrender.
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Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau to offer necessities to freed slaves and people made poor by the war.
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Union victory in the Civil War brought an end to slavery in the entire US with the passage of the 13th Amendment.
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End of Civil War, KKK Creation, Amendments Ratified, Reconstruction Era.
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White supremacists formed the KKK to violate the rights of and start violence against freed African Americans.
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Placed the south under military occupation,
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Radical Republicans were scared that the law could be repealed by the Democrats and chose to pass a permanent US amendment.
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Wyoming was the 1st state to grant women the vote in order to bring publicity.
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In the Post-Civil War, labor unions were even more popular for workers to stand together against a higher cost of living and lack of job security
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Also called Boss Tweed, who helped the poor with jobs, homes, citizenship, and more in return for money and votes. He eventually robbed NYC of millions and scared the citizens to be quiet.
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Rapid growth from the Industrial Revolution that caused the markets to crash and loans to go unpaid.
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Hayes became the 19th U.S. President and began his four-year term.
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It was an informal and unwritten deal that ended the controversial 1876 presidential election and moved troops out of politics in the South. The end of the Reconstruction Era.
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Farmers wanted the state to regulate the railroad monopoly. The Supreme Court ruled states couldn't regulate interstate commerce so control would have to come federally.
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Overbuilding, overspending, and US loans led to the depression of 1893.
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The Depression of 1893 caused Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago to drop wages. Caused workers to strike.
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Louisiana passed a law segregating railroad cars, which was protested and brought to court by Homer Plessy.
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American businesses began looking for new markets, with Cuba and the Philipinnes rebelling against Spain, this gave the US an opportunity to grow so they fought Spain.
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America won the Spanish-American War. Led to more problems with the Philippines.
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Global Expansion, Spanish American War, NAACP.
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The Chinese attacked Christian missionaries, so US troops went in to support.
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The U.S. Pulled troops from Cuba. The conditions outlined that the United States may intervene with Cuba's government to instill peace among its society.
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It outlined a set of policies that attempted to prevent further abuses in labor and to improve working conditions, also protected America's landscape.
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In addition to the original Monroe Doctrine, by President Roosevelt in his State of the Union after the Venezuelan Crisis. An attempt to stabilize the economy in pay off debts.
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Prohibited any food or drug that had been branded false from entering interstate commerce in order to protect the consumer.
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It allows the federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans.
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Was founded by W.E.B Dubois. It helped give opportunities for African Americans and was one of the most important civil rights organizations.
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Gives voters the power to elect their senators. States that the U.S. Senate includes two senators to be selected from each state for their terms.
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Part of the United States Antitrust Law to add to the U.S. antitrust law regime.
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Germany was using submarine warfare by the British Isles and threatened the United States that it would attack neutral ships. Wilson vowed they would strictly be held accountable for.
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Announced the intention of the United States government to withdraw over the Philippine Islands as soon as stable government is established.
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Passed shortly after the United States entry into World War I. Its original purpose was to make it illegal to write or say anything critical of American involvement in the war.
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Was used as an extension of the Espionage Act to cover a range of offenses that cast the United States government or the war effort in a negative aspect.
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Expansion of intellectual and artistic movements that took place in NY.
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WWII, The Great Depression, Pearl Harbor.
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This group was formed of different nations at the end of WWI as a way to stop future wars from happening.
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After a massive drought and the lack of farming methods in the dry land, a series of major dust storms severely damaged American agriculture.
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Helped to provide relief to people affected by the Great Depression. It served to balance economic stability and reduce unemployment rates.
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Allowed more forms of self-government for Native Americans. President FDR signed this with several tribal members.
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President FDR passed the Social Security Act which has a number of benefits for old-age workers, mothers, and children, and any of the disabled who physically can't work and need support.
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Prohibited the use of child labor in factories and made a minimum wage for workers. Paid them if they worked more than 40 hours per week.
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Japanese Navy Air Strike attacked a Hawaiian United States naval base. Resulted in high casualty lists along with the destruction of U.S. naval ships and a major turning point to enter the war.
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The secret construction of the Atomic bomb built in the hopes to win WWII.
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S.was scared that there was going to be another attack. This led to President Roosevelt giving an executive order that all Japanese-Americans must be placed in internment camps.
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Allied forces attacked northern France by landing on the beach in Normandy under Operation Overlord. Was the largest seaborne invasion ever.
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The US dropped two Atomic bombs over Japan and completely annihilated the people and the cities. This helped bring WWII to an end but resulted in high civilian casualty rates.
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As a result of both Atomic bombs that destroyed to major cities, Japan surrendered. WWII came to an official close.
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The United Nations is a group made up of different nations in the hopes of creating alliances and achieving peace after WWII had ended. It was their goal to prevent future world wars from happening.