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Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a jthe VA Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export, and a period of peace followed the marriage of colonist John Rolfe to Pocohontas. -
Bacon's Rebellion
The VA frontiersmen that were seeking land clashed with Native Americans. These frontiersmen demanded help from the government, but Jamestown refused aid because they feared a Native American War. Bacon and his men stormed Jamestown to protest. When Bacon died of fever, the rebellion collapsed. -
Glorious Revolution
A bloodless revolutions that overthrew James the II and enthroned Mary II and William the III. It also weakened the monarchial power. -
Sugar and Stamp Act
The Sugar Act was an act bent on turning a revenue in the colonies. This law cut the tariff on Molasses in half, and levied new taxes on imports of foreign textiles, wine, coffee, indigo, and sugar. Then, the Stamp Act was passed which was a tax in the form of requiring stamps to be purchased and fixed to all printed material. -
Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a series of sudden religious revivals swept through the colonies in the 1730s.It all started when Puritanism declined, and people were upset about the decline in religious piety. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when a crowd of colonists protested against British customs agents and the presence of British troops in Boston. Five colonists were killed due to this colonial rebellion in result of British taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party Boston patriots organized the Boston Tea Party to protest the Tea Act. Boston was boycotting the tea and would not let the ships bring the tea ashore. On the night of December 16, 1773, colonials disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a formal draft of a resolution cwritten by Thomas Jefferon and adpoted by the Continental Congress. . It's purpose was to break all ties with the independent states of America and the British government and crown. It also created the idea in America that the colonies were now "states". -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the last battle fought in the Revolutionary War. American troops trapped British troops in the Chesapeake Bay, with the help of Admiral de Grasse and the French fleet. Cornwallis was forced to surrender. This battle signified the end of the war. -
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance was a settlement of the Northwest Territory to create a policy for the addition of new states to the nation. It is significant because it laid the basis for the government of the Northwest Territory and for the admission of its constituent parts as states into the union. -
Shay's Rebellion
When there were unfair taxes in MA and the farms foreclosed, Shays & 1200 men attacked courts in western MA. State militia put down rebellion because urising was a threat to property that rebellion could spread to other states. The Articles of Confederation was viewed as too weak to maintain law and order and they wanted revisions. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution was political and social upheaval in France. It is significant because it signals the victory of democracy over tyranny. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The new federal government assumed the state's debt was from the American Revolutionary War. In 1791 Hamilton convinced Congress to approve taxes on whiskey and other alcohol. Hamilton's reasons for the tax were several: he wanted to pay down the national debt, but justified the tax more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue. -
Jay's Treaty
Jay's Treaty was a treaty where Britain negotiated in which the United States made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships. Great Britain was seizing American trading ships, creating an economic problem for the United States, and this treaty was negotiated to stop the seizure as well as to get Great Britain out of the northwest. -
Alien and Sedation Acts
The Alien and Sedation Acts were a series of four laws that sought to restrict the activities of people who opposed Federalist policies. . This included acts that kept foreigners from voting, gave the government rights to jail any foreigner they found “suspicious” as well as deport any they saw as “enemies,” and limited freedom of speech for all citizens. -
Election of 1800
The Election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was a hard-fought campaign. The Federalists wanted strong federal authority to restrain the excesses of popular majorities, but the Democratic-Republicans wanted to reduce national authority so that the people could rule more directly through state governments. In the end, Jefferson won. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was apurchase by the United States from France of the huge Louisiana Territory in 1803. It offered the United States much needed room to grow and access to an abundance of natural resources, waterways, and fertile farmland. It doubled the amount of land that the U.S owned. -
Non-Intercourse Act
When the Embargo Act proved unsatisfactory as an instrument of American foreign policy, it was repealed in March 1809 and replaced with the milder Nonintercourse Act. This act maintained the embargo only against Britain and France, but did not ban trade with other European countries. -
Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine to enter the union as a free state. It was significant because it helped to reduce tensions between the North and the South. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a declaration by President James Monroe that the Western Hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of European nations. -
Election of 1828
The Presidential Election of 1828 between Andrew Jackson and incumbent, President John Quincy Adams was the one of most personally contentious elections. The election is also notable for the personal attacks that occurred between the opposing candidates who had a long and controversial political history together dating back to the hotly contested election of 1824. In the end, Jackson was victorious. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis centered around Southern protests against the series of protective tariffs that had been introduced to tax all foreign goods in order to boost the sales of US products and protect manufacturers in the North from cheap British goods. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the primary force that caused the United States to expand west across North America. To Americans, expansion offered self-advancement, self-sufficiency, income and freedom. It was significant to the expansion of the United States in the 19th century.
