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Shay's rebellion
Took place in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shay. It started on August 29, 1786. -
Constitutional convention
It was in the State Houses located in Philadelphia. The same place where the Declaration of Independence was signed 11 years before. For 4 months 55 delegates from several states met to frame a constitution. They wanted it to last into “remote futurity.” -
Judiciary Act 1789
he act established the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and created the position of attorney general. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, less commonly known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a resistance movement in the western part of the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. The conflict was rooted in western dissatisfaction with various policies of the eastern-based national government. -
Alien and Sedation Acts
In 1798, the Federalist-controlled Congress passed four acts to empower the president of the United States to expel dangerous Aliens from the country; to give the president authority to arrest, detain, and deport resident aliens hailing from enemy countries during times of war; to lengthen the period of naturalization for immigrants, and to silence Republican criticism of the Federalist Party. Also an act passed by Congress in 1918 during World War I that made it a crime to disrupt military recr -
Revolution of 1800
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800," Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated incumbent president John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System. -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana territory from Napoleon in 1803 under Jefferson -
Embargo Acto 1807
a stop on all international trade in order to pressure England and France to remove strict commercial trading policy’s. -
War of 1812
The causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the U.S. as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. In 1812, with President Madison in office, Congress declared war against the British -
Election of 1816
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic- Republican James Madison -
Jacksonian Democracy Key Events: 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 divided by the House of Representatives. -
Jacksonian Democracy Key Events: Election of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson. As incumbent Vice President John C. Calhoun had sided with the Jacksonians, the National Republicans led by Adams, chose Richard Rush as Adams' running mate. -
Jacksonian Democracy Key Events: Indian Removal Act 1830
Authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within state borders. It is where the “Trail of Tears” came from. Estimated that about 4,000 cherokees died. -
Jacksonian Democracy Key Events: 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 -
FDR Key Events: Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promise of the incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. -
FDR Key Events: The New Deal
The economic measures initroduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression. -
Cold War Key Events: Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States used its massice, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. -
Cold War Key Events: Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turket because they were threatened by communism. -
Cold War Key Events: Creation of NATO
created to protect America along with 11 other nations but the Soviets created Warsaw to counter -
Fall of China to Communism
The "fall" of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades -
Cold War Key Events: Korean War
The Korean war began as a civil war between North and south korea, but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea and the People's Republic of Chine (PRC) entered to aid North Korea. The war left Korea divided and brought the Cold War to Asia. -
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.
