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Founding of Jamestown
John Smith founded Jamestown with the goal to seek gold and find a water route to the orient. This plan did not turn out well and the colony almost failed until they learned to plant tobacco. Tobacco was the savior for Jamestown and for that they were the first established colony in the Americas. -
House of Burgesses
Members would meet at least once a year with their royal governor to discuss matters in their colonies. This made sure that all of the cononies were doing alright and following the corret rules of the decleration. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of separatists looking for freedom of religion. After two months of sailing they went off course and came across land not too far from Plymouth Rock. When the colonists found they were not anywhere near Jamestown they created the Mayflower Compact which stated they would rule themselves. This colony went on to play an important role in American democracy. -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop, which was apart of the Massachusettes Bay Company, founded Massachusetts Bay and the colony was one of the colonies that played a role in the Great Migration. Over 20,000 puritans moved to Massachusetts Bay Colony during the time. Overtime the colony became the thrid permanent settlement in the United States. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was a war between Massachussets Bay, Plymouth and Saybrook colonists against the Pequot Indian tribe. This war lasted from 1634 - 1638 and the main reason for the war was over fur trade. -
King Phillips War
Colonists started to rapidly expand their land into the Wampanoag Indian terrioty. The Wampanoag's didn't agree and started to attack the colonists. English Colonists met with King Philip, the Wampanoag leader, and told them to surrender their arms. The Wampanoag did so, but a Christian Native was murdered, and three Wampanoag were tried and executed for the crime. This started a huge war and King Philip lost his head because of his betryal. -
Bacon's Rebellion
The govener wouldn't allow colonists to attack a certain group of Native Americans.This prompted colonists to take matters into their own hands. They started attacking Native Americans, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and ultimately torching the capital. This rebellion helped entrench slavery as the slavery system in Southern America. -
Salem Witch Trials
In Salem the practice of Withcraft was found inhuman. Witches were throught to be started from the devil and the people that practiced witch craft were hung. The first member in Salem to be hung was a women by the name Bridget Bishop. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the last of four major wars between the British, the French, and the Native Americans for control of North America. The French and Native Americans fought against the British so that they could control more land. In the end they lost and the french lost their land, while the Native Americans had to move to a different location. -
Stamp Act
The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice. The colonists had been through so many taxations that they got furious. One year later they apealed the stamp act. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then they were to let the soldiers in local inns, stable or houses. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists were protesting agianst guards and after awhile the general had the men arm their bayonets. The colonists started throwing snowballs and objects at the guard until the guards shot at the colonists. This cause a huge conflict and 5 men were dead when the smoke cleared. Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the first to fall and the deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
This bill was designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it on the American tea trade. This sparked the boston tea party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an event were some colonists wanted a way to protest against the Tea Act of 1773. Colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians, raided boats and dumped out 300+ chests of tea. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Acts were made after the boston tea party, and they were made as a punichment. Many different laws were passed that made the colonists lives harder. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
Lexington and Concord was the first two major battle of the American Revolution. The first was the battle were people say that the first shot was heard around the world. The two battles marked the beggining of the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
July 4 was the day that America adopted the Decleration as its own, but on August 2, 1776 the Decleration was signed. The Decleration had many revisions but in the end it is what we all follow and live by today. It is the rules that makes our country the way it is and the freedoms that we have. -
Shay's Rebellion
This conflict in Massachusetts caused many to criticize the Articles of Confederation and admit the weak central government was not working; uprising led by Daniel Shays in an effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who could not pay the taxes. -
Constitutional Convention
The convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787. -
Judiciary Act
1789 law that created the Judicial Branch of the federal government. Among the things provided for in the Act, the number of members of the Supreme Court, the number of lower district courts, the idea that the Supreme Court can settle disputes between states, the idea that a decision by the Supreme Court is final. -
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement in the United States in the early and mid 1800s. It started in upstate New York, but spread to New England and the Midwest. During the Second Great Awakening, thousands of people gathered at large religious meetings called revivals. The people of the Second Great Awakening though they could bring about a Golden Age in America through religion. The Second Great Awakening led to new religious movements. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. -
Alien & Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were 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
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800",Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated President John Adams -
Louisiana Purchase
The U.S., under Jefferson, bought the Louisiana territory from France, under the rule of Napoleon, in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase, and Napoleon gave up his empire in North America. The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size. -
Marbury vs. Madison
The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789). -
Embargo Act of 1807
Law passed by Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807. This law stopped all trade between America and any other country. The goal was to get Britain and France, who were fighting each other at the time, to stop restricting American trade. The Act backfired, and the American people suffered. The Act was ended in 1809. -
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 election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the presidency against very weak opposition. Monroe won the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34. -
Election of 1824
The presidential election of 1824 is notable for being the only election since the passage of the Twelfth Amendment to have been decided by the House of Representatives in accordance with its provision to turn over the choice of the president to the House when no candidate secures a majority of the electoral vote. -
Election of 1828
The election saw the coming to power of Jacksonian Democracy, thus marking the transition from the First Party System to the Second Party System. Historians debate the significance of the election, with many arguing that it marked the beginning of modern American politics, with the decisive establishment of democracy and the formation of the two-party system -
Indian Removal Act 1830
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 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 of 1832
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
Texas Indepence
Texas Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. This event marked Texas’ independence from Mexico. -
Mexican - American War
General Polk didn't agree with the Mexican ways and he wanted the land for manifest destiny. Americans and Mexicans were brawling and war was about to start. When the Mexicans fired on American troops in April 25, 1846, Polk had the excuse he needed, he declared war. The war lasted 1 year and the Americans won the land they wanted and gained the border they wanted for Texas. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought an official end to the Mexican American War. It was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled from U.S. Troops. -
Spanish-American War
December 10, 1898 the Spanish-American War ended. In France, the Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire. -
Election of 1932
This was the first time that the majority of the us voted democrat and the democrats won the popular vote. Only 6 states voted republican. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
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. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Creation of NATO
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Fall of China to Communism
The democratic party and communist party of China were fighting for power. The Democratic, I believe was Taiwan based, and looked to U.S. for support, however, were denied which led to their defeat. The impact was that the country was utterly destroyed and became a failed state for many years. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
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. Eisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President since James Buchanan in 1856. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. It was the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion; it was a major step in beginning the Cold War.
