-
Founding of Jamestown
Jamestown was founded by 104 of the 105 colonists that set out on the journey; it was sponsored by a group of investors that hopes to profit from the journey. This single colony helped shape the government, customs, and beliefs of all future colonies. -
House of Burgesses
The first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. It was to encourage settlement and improve living conditions. -
Founding of Plymouth
101 settlers came over and agreed to work for the Virginia Colony. The Pilgrims founded Plymouth when the Mayflower was blown off course- this colony changed the way Native Americans lived. -
Founding of Massachusettes Bay
In 1628, a group of distinguished Puritan businessmen formed a venture named the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay for profit-seeking reasons. -
Pequot War
New settlers continued arriving from England meant expansion of the colonies. This lead to conflict and war between those settlers and the Pequot tribe. -
King Phillip's War
Expansion of settlers led to great dispute from the Native Americans. It became one of the bloodiest battles within American history. -
Bacon's Rebellion
An uprising led by a farmer in the Virginia Colony. -
Salem Witch Trials
Do to scares within the Salem society, many innocent individuals were put on trial-and often killed- for witchcraft. -
French and Indian War
The final colonial war that resulted in remarkable growth. It was to overcome the French in North America. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were required to house and feed british soldiers. Despite the fact they were put there to protect the colonies, the colonists resented Great Britain for it. -
Stamp Act
This was the first tax posed by England to its American colonies. It was created to help cover costs of stationing troops in the colonies, but the colonies protested so much, that it was repealed. -
Boston Massacre
A dispute that was started by the colonists and ended with a few colonists dead. It was blown out of proportion to gain support for the patriots. -
Tea Act
To raise revenue from the American colonies, England imposed this tax in order to bail out the East India Company. The colonies showed their opposition toward the act. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists were angered by the taxation without representation, so they went into the boston harbor and dumped the british tea into the water. -
Intolerable Acts
The colonies labeled several of the laws and taxes passed by England to the American colonies as intolerable. These events were what triggered resistance and violence toward England. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battles of the American revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
Statement written by the colonies as a formal announcement of their independence. -
Shay's Rebellion
A rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays, against Boston creditors. it began in 1786 and lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation. -
Constitutional Convention
The meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution. -
Judiciary Act 1789
officially titled "An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," was signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. -
Period: to
Second Great Awakening
The leaders of the Methodist and Baptist church led a reaction against skepticism towards Christianity and enrolled million of new members in existing denominations, as well as starting new dominations. It also created many remedy movements to cleanse society of evils before the Second Coming of Jesus. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their grain in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to pay off the national debt. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War. -
Revolution of 1800
The election of 1800 was important because it proved to other countries that democracy was able to be very successful. Jefferson called this election a revolution because his party, the Republicans, peacefully and orderly received the power with nothing but acceptance by the federalists. -
Marbury v. Madison
Laid out the basics for the power of judicial review and what powers the judicial branch had. -
Louisiana Purchase
A treaty signed by President Thomas Jefferson with Napoleon Bonaparte In 1803, that ceded a giant swath of land to the United States, thus doubeling the country’s size and giving access to the very important trade route of the Mississippi River and the port city of New Orleans. -
Embargo Act 1807
a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress [1] against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. -
War of 1812
A military conflict fought between the forces of the United States and those of the British Empire. The United States declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by Britain's ongoing war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, outrage over insults to national honour after humiliations on the high seas, and possible American desire to annex Cana -
Election of 1816
Election that led to a period of post-war nationalism that saw Federalists and Democratic-Republicans put aside their differences. -
Election of 1824
As the US had turned to a one part nation of democratic republicans after the Federalist party dissolved, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams. -
Election of 1828
This election had Hoover win by a landslide due to his identification with the booming 20s economy. Right after however, the crash occured and the Great Depression came about. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
Andrew Jackson signed a law that removed Native Americans from their homelands to federal territory. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
During Jackson's presidency, South Carolina declared the Tariffs of 1828 unconstitutional. -
Texas Independence
After going to war with Mexico, Texas won its independence from the republic and could live freely. -
Period: to
Mexican-American War
America went to armed conflict with Mexico regarding land rights. America won and gained a significant amount of land. -
Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo
Mexican cession of large amounts of land in exchange for $18 Million. This resolved conflict with Texas and borders. -
Dawes Act
The President of the US is able to survey Native Indian land and divide and lot it for individual Native Americans. The Native Americans lost almost 80,000 acres of land by 1900. -
Wounded Knee Masacre
The last battle of the American Indian Revolution, the Wounded Knee Massacre was started by a single gunshot from a deaf Native American Reluctant to give up his gun. It ended with 150 Native American people dead, and 20 Medals of Honor handed out to the soldiers. -
Spanish-American War
Conflict between Spain and America regarding American Intervention in Cuba’s ongoing War of Independence. The result was temporary control of Cuba for America. -
Founding of the NAACP
A civil rights movement for colored people, the NAACP was created to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. -
First Red Scare
Following WWI, communism was spreading. This lead to a public outbreak of fear of anarchism and foreigners coming into the country. It lead to many events of where the American people were naive from this fear. -
Red Summer
Following post war social tensions, in over three dozen cities race riots broke out. It lead to events such as lynching and the state appeared powerless or was unwilling to help throughout the events. -
Period: to
Harlem Renaissance
A cultural movement for colored people which led to evolutionary advancements in music, writing, and the visual arts that helped shape America at the time. -
Election of 1932
Right in the middle of the Great Depression, this election occured. FDR won this election. -
New Deal
The new deal was a set of programs set forth by FDR to stimulate the economy and get it back on track. Parts of the new deal are still seen in our modern country. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stages of WWII, the US dropped nuclear bombs on these two cities. It killed thousands of people and is the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Truman Doctrine
A speech stating the US would back Greece and Turkey to prevent them falling under the Soviet sphere. -
Creation of NATO 1949
A cllection of countries who agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Korean War
Due to the political division in Korea, neither side officially won, and both were their own countries. -
Fall of China to Communism
After the Chinese civil war, China fell to communism after lack of any other control or government. -
Election of 1952
During the cold war McCarthy had become a rising figure in the nation. Eisenhower was elected in a landslide.
