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Founding Jamestown
This was the first perminate town that settled in America. They settled in Virginia. John Smith was the founder. -
House of Burgesses
This was the first house of reprasentatives in America established by the Virginia Company and would have meeting in Jametown. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
A group of people leaving England landed on nutral teritory. They decided to make their own government and settlement there. This was the first independant town in America. The Mayfower Contract was the document they signed when they started their governement. -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
Puritan businessmen wanted to practice their religion in peace so they asked the King of England for land. They got land on a corporate charter contact. Althought they started the colony for religious freedom, they would not allow anyone in their community that was a religion other than Puritan. -
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Pequot War
It was the first serious war with Native Americans and settlers where both sides were armed. The Pequot tibe fought against the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies. It started by fights and inciddents with fur trade. -
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King Phillip's War
King Phillip's war was an armed war between the Puritans and Wampanoags tribe. The Puritains were trying to take the land of the natives and justifying their actions by religioun. -
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trails were trails where people accused each other of being witches and were put on trial. They stopped when the judge's wife was accused and he realized how many people were falsely accused. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indain, while aided by different countries, were the primary opponents. they were fighting over land but got most of the world to pertisapate. It ended with the Treaty of Paris. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops. The Quartering Act was an indirect tax for the colonist. This, as well as the Stamp Act, upset the colonists. -
Stamp Act
It was the first direct tax imposed by Britain on the American colonies. The Act was created to help cover the cost of the debt England was in. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon would raid native tribes even when the Virginia government told him not to. He beleived he was doing the right thing but tore the trust of the natives and settlers. He had many followers who were common workers. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of patriots where throwing snowballs with ice, sticks, and rocks at a group of British soldiers. In fear and defeance the Bristish soldiers fighted shots into the crowd. The patriots used that as motivaion to continue fighting against the Crown even though they were the ones in the wrong. -
Tea Act
The Britian governement knew smugglers where making tea cheap so they made their tea cheaper from the British East Indian Company so their company did not go under. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists where protesting again the crown so that they could become their own country. They dressed as Natives and dumped tea the ships where carrying into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts series of laws passed by the British Parliament. The 4 laws were punishment from King George the Third for the Boston Tea Party. They were the The Boston Port Bill, The Quartering Act, The Administration of Justice Act, The Administration of Justice Act and he Quebec Act. -
Lexington and Concord
The starting of the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. 700 soldiers where sent to destroy amo, weapons, and arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. -
Declaration of Independence
It is the document the 13 colonies signed to declare themselves a free country during the war with Great Britain. -
Constitutional Convention
This was a 4 month meeting to change the Articles of Confederation. They compromise the 3/5 Act, Virgina Plan, New Jersey Plan, and the Great Compromise. New Jersey and Virgina was to make sure the smaller states had enough representation in the national governement. 3/5 Act was to compromise the black people. -
Shays' Rebellion
It was an armed rebellion against the state government because of the poor economy. They wanted to reform the Articles of Conferderation so that the new governemnt could be changed. -
Judiciary Act 1789
An article in the constitution that says "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court." -
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Second Great Awaking
The Second Greta Awaking was a spiritional spike in America. Preachers started preaching in a new way that connected the people to the gospel. More people supported the seond awaking more than the first. Women where also active in it. I made a stornger community and better schools in different places. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The government was raised taxes on whiskey to pay for the previous war and control. It made many people angry and there was a rebellion. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
They were laws passed my John Adams that gave the government the right to deport imigrants who "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States". -
Revolution of 1800
The Revolution of 1800 was so named by the winner of the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson. He called this election a revolution because his party, the Republicans, peacefully and orderly received the power with nothing but acceptance by the federalists. -
Louisiana Purchase
The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a price of $15 million, or approximately four cents an acre. The United States at the time doubled and started more westward expansion. -
Marbury v. Madison
On his last day in office, President John Adams named forty-two justices of the peace and sixteen new circuit court justices for the District of Columbia under the Organic Act. The Organic Act was an attempt by the Federalists to take control of the federal judiciary before Thomas Jefferson took office. -
Embargo Act 1807
It forbid all international trade to and from American ports, and Jefferson hoped that Britain and France would be persuaded of the value and the rights of a neutral commerce. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a 32 month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire and their allies which resulted in no territorial change, but a resolution of many issues remaining from the American War of Independence. -
Election of 1816
James Monroe came in to office before the Era of Good Feeling. -
Election of 1824
Kentuckian Clay forged an Ohio Valley-New England coalition that secured the White House for John Quincy Adams. In return Adams named Clay as his secretary of state, a position that had been the stepping-stone to the presidency for the previous four executives. This was declared a currupt bargain instead of the will of the people. -
Election of 1828
John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson face off in the most currupt election after the currupt baragain. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
The governement authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. It was known as The Trail of Tears. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
The South Carolina passed an ordinance of nullification and threatened to secede if the federal government attempted to collect those tariff duties. -
Texas Independence
This when Texas won it's independance from Mexico. -
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Mexican-American War
Even thogh Texas declared their indepenance, Mexico still considered part of their territory. When Texas wanted to join America, That brought America into the Texas/Mexico drama. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This is the treaty that ended the American/Mexican war. The treaty said the United States will pay $15 million to Mexico and pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico. It gave the United States the Rio Grande boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S. ownership of California, and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. -
Dawes Act
It was an act to distribute land to native americans to try to make them farmers and land woners. The law was trying to get them out of their "uncivilized ways" and more like them so they would function in sociciety. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Policemen troopers went to the native american resort called "Wounded Knee" and demanded the natives to give them all their firearms. There was a misunderstansing and scuffle with a deaf indian over a gun. The gun went off and an outbreak started. The troops started shooting everyone. In the end, about 150 natives where dead while onl about 25 of the policemen where killed. -
Spanish-American War
America decided to go to war against Spain after a battleship sank mysteriously. America won control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. -
Founding of the NAACP
This was a party of liberals that were white men that is against the voilence toward racism. There goal was to secure the rights of all adult males. This included protection and end of slavery. -
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FIrst Red Scare
The Red Scare happned after World War I. The scare was that communists had invaded our country. Being a free country the thing we fear worst are communists. -
The Red Summer
Jobs were starting to lack because so many white men where inlisting in joining in World War I. Africa Americans started taking up the jobs and the white people resented them for that. There were many outbreaks of voilence and roits for a few months after. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a time where black Americans made their own culture part of the American culture. They started advancing in art. They start ragtime jazz, and the blues. Also art work and painting among them got popular. Acting, singing, dancing, and other forms of entertainmentwhere shared. It was a time that black Americas where very mixed in to the culture. -
Election of 1932
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wea in office during the Great Depression. -
New Deal
The New Deal is different sections the governement started working on under FDR during the great depression to help America get the economy back on track -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States dropped a bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima then Nagasaki 2 days later. It killed hundreds of thousands of people and was said to be the worst bombing in history. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Creation of NATO
NATO is an Alliance that consists of 28 independent member countries. -
Fall of China to Communism
Right after World War II, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. This was a conflict between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang. -
Korean War
North Korea invaided South Korea. The United States tried to help contain North Korea and stop their army. The war lasted for 3 years. -
Election of 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower won presidentancy. This was after the Korean War and while the Cold War was going over.
