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Period: 1491 to
Period 1/2 : 1491-1763
Native America, European Exploration, Colonization -
1492
The Colombian Exchange
The Colombian Exchange was a system of trading plants, animals, people, and cultures as well as diseases and other goods between America, Europe, and Africa. -
1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed between Spain and Portugal in order to divide up all the newly discovered land between them. -
Roanoke
The Roanoke Colony was the first attempt at an English settlement in the new world. Sir Walter Raleigh lead a group of around 120 people to settle in Roanoke but this settlement was unsuccessful. -
Jamestown
Jamestown was the first successful English colony in the US, settled in Virginia -
Plymouth
Plymouth was the first settlement created in Massachusetts, sought a religiously pure society -
King Philips War
Resulting in much destruction, King Philips War was fought between American Indians and English colonists initially over the trial of and execution of three native men by the colonists but the want for more land and expansion also played a part in the disagreement. -
Bacons Rebellion
This was a rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon and Virginia settlers against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. Bacon eventually gained more control, pushing mainly for a more rigid system of slavery among other goals, but the rebellion died down after his sudden death. -
The Pueblo Revolt
The Pueblo Revolt was an uprising of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in present day New Mexico resulting in the death of 400 Spaniards and remaining 2,000 settlers being pushed out of the province. -
Molasses Act
The molasses act was an act of the British parliament that placed a tax on all molasses imported from non-British colonies. -
French and Indian war began
The French and Indian war began in the colonies when French settlers calmed and settled of land that was already claimed by the British. -
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Period 3 : 1763-1800
American Revolution, The Confedral Era, The Early Federal Period -
Declaratory Acts
British Parliament set in place the Declaratory Acts to have taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain that was also accompanied by the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were set in place by the British parliament taking away some of the rights of the colonists by putting new taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers opened fire on a group of American colonists resulting in five deaths. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest led by the Sons of Liberty that resulted in 46 tons of tea being dumped in the Boston harbor. -
Olive Branch Petition
In an attempt to avoid war with Briton during the American revolution, the Olive Branch Petition was created to pledge loyalty to the crown and assert their rights as British citizens. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles fought in the American Revolution. British soldiers set out to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock as well as destroy their weapons. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Soon after the start of the Revolutionary War, The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in efforts of the colonists to take back control of the city and its valuable port systems. -
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Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was fought between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America, resulting in the overthrow of British rule in the colonies and the establishment of the United States of America. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga marked the climax point of the Revolutionary war where the Americans won over the British. -
The ratification of the Articles of Confederation
In 1781 all thirteen states voted to ratify the Articles of Confederation which served as the first constitution of the United States. -
The Land Ordinance of 1785
The US Congress created this standardized system so that settlers could buy undeveloped land in the west to turn into farmland. -
Shays Rebellion
Daniel Shay lead the armed uprising in western Massachusetts in attempts to prevent the punishment of citizens in debt. Most of the fighting that took place during Shays Rebellion was located in Springfield. -
The Great Compromise
The Great Compromise was an agreement made between large states and small states that helped determine how each of the US states was to be represented in Congress under the constitution. -
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance created a government for the new Northwest Territory that allowed new states to become a part of the union. -
Ratification of the Constitution
In 1788 New Hampshire ratified the constitution allowing government under the United States Constitution to begin. -
The Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a response to the taxes placed on whiskey. This event was one of the first serious challenges against the federal government. -
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Period 4(pt.1) : 1800-1824
Era of Good Feelings -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase allowed the US to purchase the Louisiana territory from France. This doubled the size of the nation and gave the US control over the Mississippi River including the port city of New Orleans. -
Marbury vs. Madison
Marbury vs. Madison was a supreme court case that established judicial review in the US. -
The Embargo Act of 1807
The US Congress passed the Embargo Act to prohibit American ships from trading in all foreign ports. -
War of 1812
The war of 1812 was fought between Great Brittian and the United States after the U.S. violated maritime rights -
Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent was the treaty that ended the war of 1812 signed in 1814. -
The Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was fought over a crucial American port that Britain sought to gain control over. This battle was primarily led by Edward Pakenham and Andrew Jackson. -
Panic of 1819
This was the first major financial crisis and economic crisis in the United States caused by the end of many years in constant warfare. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise allowed Main to be a free state wile simultaneously allowing Missouri to be a slave state. -
Monroe Doctrine began
The Monroe Doctrine was the US policy that was aginst European colonialism in the Americas. -
The Corrupt Bargain
The Corrupt Bargain was a political agreement that acted against the clearly defined legal course of actions during election of Adams. -
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Period 4(pt.2) : 1824-1848
Jacksonian Era, Era of the Common Man -
Tariff of Abominations
The UnitedStates Congress passed this protective tariff in efforts to protect the North's industries by taxing goods from Europe. -
Indian Removal Act
Native American tribes were removed and forced to go to federal territory west of the Mississippi river. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Virginia and was led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed over60 people, most of which were white. -
Trail of Tears
The trail of tears refers to the path approximately 60,000 Native Americans took as they were forced out of their native lands. -
Bank War
Jackson vetoed the Bank Recharter Bill and continued to work against the Second B.U.S during his presidency which ultimately led to the Bank War. -
Whig Party
the Whig Party was one of the major political parties in the first half of the 9th century. -
The Battle of the Alamo
This battle took place during the Texas revolution and was fought between the Republic of Texas and Mexico over immigration rights, federalism, slavery, as well as money. -
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Period 5 : 1844-1877
Manifest Destiny, Civil war, Reconstruction -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the idea that United States settlers were destined to expand across North America and the term was coined by John O'Sullivan. -
The Mexican American War
Tensions grew between Mexico and the US as they continued to expand westward ultimately resulting in conflict. -
Bear Flag Revolt
The Bear Flag Revolt was a short rebellion involving American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a combination of five different bills passed by congress to mostly define slave states and free states . -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase allowed the US to purchase what is now New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise and it allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run is recognized as the first major land battle of the American Civil war. The Confederates won the battle leaving many people dead. -
Attack of Fort Sumter
This was the first battle in the American Civil war when the confederates fired on Fort Sumter. -
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American Civil War
The American Civil War was fought between the northern United States and the southern United States over the issues of slavery. -
Homestead Act
During the civil war, the Homestead act allowed citizens the opportunity to claim 160 acres of land on the conditions that they would improve it. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued the freedom of all enslaved people in the rebellion states. -
Draft Riots
The draft riots in NewYork City were the result of working class citizens rioting against the new federal draft law. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. -
Ku Klux Klan Founded
The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist hate group, who primary targets African Americans -
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Period 6 : 1865-1898
Guilded Age -
National Labor Union
The National Labor Union was was the first federal labor union in the US. -
The Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th amendment gave all citizens equality under the law. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Treaty of Fort Laramie was created after a conference held in Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, declaring peace between the whites and the Sioux. -
Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor founded one of the first labor unions in the US that organized skilled and unskilled workers and pushed for the eight hour workday -
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment allowed African-American males the right to vote. -
Panic of 1873
The financial crisis of the panic triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America from 1873 to 1877. -
The Whiskey Ring
The Whiskey Ring was a scandal involving a conspiracy about tax revenues and politicians, government agents, whiskey sellers, and distillers. -
Military Reconstruction Acts
Military Reconstruction Acts were four acts passed during the Reconstruction Era by the US Congress addressing the requirement for the Southern States to be readmitted to the Union -
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election and it also ended the reconstruction era. -
The Great Railroad Strike
After the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company cut workers wages for the third time in one year the workers went in strike until the pay cuts were revoked. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Battle of Wounded Knee, also known as the Wounded Knee massacre, resulted in over 300 Lakota Indians being killed by the United States Army in southwestern South Dakota. -
Homestead strike
The Homestead steel strike also known as the Homestead massacre was an industrial lockout and strike because of a proposed wage cut. -
Panic of 1893
The collapse of the Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company resulted in a massive economic depression known as the panic of 1893. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide strike where workers boycotted the Pullman Company and any railways or trains pulling Pullman cars. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case coined the idea of "separate but equal" and that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation. -
Wilmington Massacre
The Wilmington Massacre resulted in the death of many African Americans and their inability to vote in North Carolina. -
Annexation of Hawaii
The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 and Hawaii was made a territory in 1900. -
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Period 7(pt.1) : 1898-1918
Spanish American War, World war 1, Industrialization -
The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-imperialist uprising in China that resulted in the improvement of US-Asian relations because of the US's suppression of the rebellion. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was the first of a series of consumer protection laws enacted by Congress and these acts also led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
NAACP Founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States that was started in the efforts of advancing justice for African Americans. -
The Sixteenth Amendment
The 16th Amendment allowed for the income tax. -
The Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment allowed for the direct election of senators. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Clayton Antitrust Act put limits and laws in place to outlaw and control things like price fixing and monopolies. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip gave the hardliners in Austria-Hungary the opportunity to take action against Serbia and become allies with many European powers. -
Keating Owen Act
Keating Owen Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress and sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale of goods produced by factories that employed children. -
Adamson Act
The Adamson Act established the eight hour workday. -
The start of the Great Migration
The Great Migration was a massive movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern states to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
US enters World War 1
The US entered the first world war and joined its allies Britain, France, and Russia. -
Red Scare
The Red scare was a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. -
Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann telegram was a coded note sent by Germany with a message for the Mexican government asking the Mexican government to declare war on the United States but the telegram was intercepted by Britain. -
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Act created the federal reserve system to try and establish economic stability by introducing a central bank. -
The Spanish flu
The Spanish flu was a deadly influenza outbreak that infected over 500 million people form 1918 to 1920. -
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Period 7(pt.2) : 1918-1945
Reform, World War 2 -
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment made prohibition constitutional. -
The Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was held after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for regarding defeated Central Powers. -
The Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. -
Quota System
The Quota System limited the number of immigrants who enter the U.S. each year by nationality. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial was a court case in which a high school teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday was the beginning of the Wall Street crash which was a major stock market crash. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The Smoot-Hawley Act increased tariffs on foreign imports to the United States by around 20%. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was set in place by Franklin D Roosevelt with the goal of relieving the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy back to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. -
The Johnson Act
The Johnson Act prohibited foreign nations from marketing their bond issues in the United States. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act is a law created a system to transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people. -
Quarantine Speech
This was a speech given by FDR that urged a national quarantine aginst the "epidemic of world lawlessness". -
Manhattan Project
During World War 2, The Manhattan Project researched, developed, and produced the first nuclear weapons and ended up dropping the atomic bombs in Japan. -
Attack of Pearl Harbor
The Attack of Pearl Harbor was a surprise Japanise military attack that led to many ships and air crafts being destroyed. -
D-day
D-day was the day that allied forces launched a combination of naval, air and land assaults on Nazi-occupied France.
