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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus's Voyage
This was his first voyage to the new world. This voyage gave awareness to Europe that this new place existed. -
Halfway Covenant
This was a Purtian church document. It allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church. Lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from regular members. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Was an uprising in the Virginia Colony, Led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies. This rebellion was a colonial rebellion against government authority. -
Glorious Revolution
The glorious revolutions was a bloodless coup in England that over threw James the II. It essentially weakened the monarchial power. -
First Great Awakening
Was the time of the religious revival in the Virginia colony, led by Jonathon Edwards and George Whitefield. Made many groups come together. -
French and Indian War
Britain and France fought for control of the Ohio Valley and Canada. The Algonquins and the Mohawks allied with the French. The rest of the Iroquois Nation allied with the British. Britain won and gained control of all the remaining French posessions in Canada. Spain ceeded Florida to Britain but recieved Louisiana. -
Proclamation of 1763
Was created to alleviate relations with natives after the French and Indian war. Americans were not permitted passed the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Tea Party
Led by Sam Adams, disguised as Indians, rowed out to hte boat and dumped tea chests into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament passed this act to punish the people of Massachusetts for their actions in the Boston Tea Party. It restricted colonists' rights. -
Declaration of Independence
Drafted by Thomas jefferson, formalized the colonies' seperation from Britain and laid out the Enlightenment values of natural rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" upon which the American Revolution was based. -
Commen Sense
Thomas Paine published Common Sense. It argued that colonists should free themselves from British rule and establish an independent government based on Enlightenment ideals, one that would protect man's natural rights. -
Battle of Saratoga
Burgoyne sent an expedition to Bennington to capture American supplies but a force of New England militia met them and defeated them. This battle was the turning point of the war and convinced France to aid the American cause. -
Articles of Confederation
First american constitution that established the United States as a losse confederation of states under a weak national Congress. Was replaced by a more effficent Constitution in 1789 -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty where British formally recognized the independence of the United States, granted boundaries, Americans could no longer persecute Loyalists and had to restore their property to them, and states vowed to put no lawful obsacles in the way of debt-collecting from British -
Northwest Ordinance
New states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest territory. The ordinance forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slaver once statehood had been established. The ordinance was the most lasting measure of the national government under the Articles of Confederation. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
4 parts:
1) raised the residence requirements for American citizenship from 5 to 14 years
2) Alien Act- gave the president the power in peacetime to order any alien out of the country
3) Alien Enemies Act- permitted the President in wartime to jail aliens when he wanted to
4) sedition act- key clause provided fines and jail penalties for anyone guilty of sedition
The Acts were to remain in effect until next Presidential inauguration. -
Marbury vs. Madison
Jefferson ordered Madison not to deliver the commissions to those federalist judges. Marshall said Marbury had a right to commission according to Judiciary act of 1801 but according to Judiciary act of 1789 had given the court greater power than the constitution and therefore the law was stated unconstitutional and Marbury was not given his commission. Judicial Review: the supreme court would exercise the power to decide whether an act of Congress or the president. -
Embargo Act
Prohibited American merchant ships to sail to any foreign port,
backfired and brought greater economic hardships to US. -
Nonintercourse Act
Americans could trade with all nations except Britain and France.This was later replaced by the Macon's Bill No. 2. -
War of 1812
Causes: continued violations of US neutral rights at sea and issues with Britain on western frontier -
Treaty of Ghent
American peace commissioners traveled to Ghent, Belgium to negotiate peace with Britain. This treaty stopped fighting, placed all conquered territory to how it was before war and recognized the pre war boundary between Canada and the US. -
McColluch vs. Maryland
Maryland attempted to tax the second national bank of the United States located in Maryland. Marshall ruled that a state could not tax a federal institution because the power to tax is the power to destroy. The constitution gave the federal govt the implied power to create a bank -
Indian Removal Act
This act authorized president Jackson to exchange public lands in the West for Indian territories in the East and appropriated $500,000 to cover expenses of removal. -
Nullification Crisis
This was the idea that a state had the right to cancel a federal law it considered unconstitutional. Congress passed a new lower tariff and president jackson had congress pass a Force bull, allowing military action to enforce acts of congress -
Compromise of 1850
This forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugiive Slave act, banning trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in he Mexican Cession.
