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Founding of Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English colony. The colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
The mayflower compact was the first governing document of Plymouth. -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
Colony founded on the east coast by the owners of the Massachussets Bay Company. -
Pequot War
It was a armed war between the pequot indians and three colonies. -
King Phillips War
It was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
It was an uprising started by a 29 year old planter name Nathaniel Bacon. -
House of Burgesses
This was the first time the North American representatives met together. -
Salem Witch Trials
It was a series of hearings about people accused of witchcraft. -
French and Indian War
This war was over certain land in America. -
Stamp Act
This was a direct tax put in place by the british parliamentery. -
Quartering Act
This act required people to proide housing and provisions to the American soldiers. -
Tea Act
Enforced by the British Parliment to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the British East India Company. Outraged the settlers, later causing them to carry out the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of people threw tea off the ship to rebel agianst the tax policy. -
Boston Massacre
Event on King Street were British soldiers killed five civilians and injured 6 of them. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts triggered outrage from the 13 colonies and helped boost the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
This battle was the first military engagment of the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
Document from continental congress declaring independence from Great Britian. -
Shay's Rebellion
farmers revolted. Showed the weakness in the articles of confederation. -
Constitutional Convention
meeting of founding fathers in Philadelphia. Created the document that james Madison wrote. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. The act established the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and created the position of attorney general. -
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement. -
Whiskey Rebellion
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Alien and Sedition Acts
acts passed by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government -
Revolution of 1800
Two weeks after his inaugural address, Jefferson referred to this first constitutional test as the “revolution of 1800.” It was an election that had been decided by the voice of the people under the rules of the Constitution. -
Marbury vs. Madison
This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review -
Luisiana Purchase
The U.S. bought land from the French. -
Embargo Act of 1807
This was an alternate to war with the British, a solution to the Chesapeake Affair. This prohibited American merchant ships from sailing to any foreign port. This plan backfired and brought economic hardship to America. South Africa replaced the U.S.’s spot with trading with Great Britain. Merchant marine and ship builders from New England were really affected by this act causing New England to think about seceding from union. It was repealed in 1809, but U.S. still wasn’t allowed to trade with -
War of 1812
a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France -
Election of 1816
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the opposition Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the nomination against a divided opposition. -
Election of 1824
In the United States presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. -
Election of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson. -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
The act authorized him to negotiate with the Indians in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. -
Texas Independence
When texas adopted the Texas Declaration of independance. -
Mexican-American War
War between Mexico and America over the annexation of Texas. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
It is the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 was adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. On the day before, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them five miles westward (8 km) to Wounded Knee Creek where they made camp. -
Spanish-American War
War between America and spain and led to the philipinne- american war. -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.[3] Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”. -
Red Summer
Red Summer describes the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. In some cases groups of blacks fought back, notably in Chicago, where, along with Washington, D.C. and Elaine, Arkansas, the greatest number of fatalities occurred.[1] The riots followed postwar social tensions related to the demobilization of veterans of World War I, both black and white, and comp -
First Red Scare
In American history, the First Red Scare of 1919–1920 was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and alleged spread in the American labor movement fueled the paranoia that defined the period. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. -
Truman Doctrine
American Foreign Policy in 1947 providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. -
Creation of NATO 1949
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
Fall of China to Communism (1949)
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang , or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China -
Korean war
On June 25, 1950 the Korean War began, this invasion was the first military action of the Cold War.In July the American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. They feared there would be a wider war with Russia and China, or maybe even a World War III. In July 1953, the Korean War came to an end, but the Korean peninsula is still divided today. -
Election of 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936.
