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Founding of Jamestown
America's first English colony was founded in Virginia 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts. -
Plymouth Colony
America's first permanent Puritan Settlement was established in December 1620 by English Sparatist Puritans. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the first Colonial War that lasted seven years. -
Boston Massacre
The Bosron Massacre was tthe killing of five colonists by British soilders. It was due to the tension between the two that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared to enforce heavy tax burden. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This defense was to protest taxation. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philidelphia. It ended in October 26, 1774. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Articles of Confederaltion
An agreement upon all thireen states trhat established tfhe United States, serving as its first constitution. -
Treaty of Paris
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Shay's Rebellion
Shay's Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and wesrern Massachuttes in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shay who was a vetran in the American revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders. It was brought upon fanancial difficulties, credit squeeze, and harsh government policies to solve debt problems. -
Constitutional Convention
It was a convention for important people in the U.S. to get together to sign and agree with the documents such as the constitution -
US Constitution
The supreme laws of the US. -
George Washington
George Washinggton was the first United States president from 1789-1797. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Right is the name of the first thirteen amendments to the United States Contitution. -
Invention of The Cotton Gin
A cotton gin is a machine that seperates cotton fibers from their seeds quickly and easily. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed an independent nation, the United States of America. -
John Adams
He was the second United States Pressident from March 4th, 1797 to Marhch 4th 1801. He earlier served as the first vice president. He was an American Founding Father, a statesman, diplomat, and a leader in American Independence from Great Britain. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jafferson was United States president in 1801-1809. He was an American Founding Father, a principal author of the Decleration of Independence and the third American president. -
Louisiana Purchase
In this transaction, with France, the U.S purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of rhe Mississippi River for fifteen million. -
Lewis and Clark
The rwo men set out in May 1804 to explore and map the American West. It was the first American Expedition to cross what's now the western portion of the United States. They departed through Saint Louis on the Mississippi River and made their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. -
William Loyd Garrison
Will was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He was also one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator". -
James Madison
James was the fourth American President, a statesman, and political theorist. His presidential term was from March 4, 1809 to March 4, 1817. -
War of 1812
This was a two and a half year war between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, its North American colonies and its Indian allies. It resolved many issues, but did not involve boundary changes. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Monre Doctrine
A U.S. foreign policy regarding Latin American countries stating that any efforts of European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be considered as acts of agression needing U.S. intervension and vise-versa. -
John Quincy Adams
An american statesman who was the sixth president of the United Staes of America. As presidnet he wanted to modernize the American economy and promote education. -
Andrew Jackson
The seventh president of the U.S.A who supported a a small and limited federal government. -
Indian Removal Act
A law passed by congress that allowed the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory, west of the Mississippi River, in exchange for their homelands. -
Trail of Tears
A name given to the ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the U.S after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Many died of starvation, diseases, and exposure. -
Nat Turner
Nat was an African-American slave that led a rebellion in Virgina that caused 55 white deaths. The whites responded with 200 black deaths. -
Alamo
An event in the Texas Revolution where Mexican troops attacked the Alamo Mission and all Texian defenders were killed. Its main cause\ was Texians previously driving all Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas. -
Martin Van Buren
The eighth president of the U.S.A. he was a key orgainizer in the Democratic Party and the first president to be born a U.S citizen. -
William Henry Harrison
The ninth president of the U.S. and the first president to die in office. -
John Tyler
The tenth president of the U.S.A. He became president after being the state's V.P when William Henry Harrison died. He wished to strengthen and preserve the Union through territorial expansion. -
Mexican War
An armed conflict between the U.S and the Centralist Republic of Mexico from 1846 to 1848 after the U.S had taken part of Texas belonging to Mexico. -
Manifest Destiny
A widely held belief in the U.S that that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent in the 19th century.
