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Jan 1, 1000
Agricultural Revolution (10000 B.C.)
CAUSE: An increase in population: a more complex community needed fixed shelters and a steady supply of food.
EFFECT:A stratified social order, division of labor, and a greater reliance on the storage of food, and growing more than the growers needed. -
Oct 31, 1517
Protestant Reformation
CAUSE: Beginning of mass education & questions were being asked. No man had led any revolution, with a centralization of education fading away it led to people being free to think and question on their own. The people were not forced to believe what bishops and monks told them now
EFFECT:Led to a gradual awakening... the dark ages were called that because of church errors. It took hundreds of years to get over the first millenium. It was then okay to learn because the world did not end. -
Jamestown
CAUSE: The idea of wealth, more land to claim
EFFECT: People had gone missing, weather conditions were harsh, illness spread like a wildfire, no one was there -
Bacon's Rebellion
(UNKNOWN DATES)
CAUSE:Bacon gathered a group of men to burn Jamestown & the Indian settlements in protest for the reason that the government didn't protect the people.
EFFECT: Bacon had burnt Jamestown to the ground & then become stricken with a sudden illness (that lead to death), in turn that ended the rebellion -
Glorious Revolution
Nov. 5, 1688-Feb. 13, 1689
CAUSE: Religious & poilitcal conflict between people, parliament & monarch
EFFECT: Increased amount of powers for Parliament, more independence in the American colonies and the Protestant domination of Ireland -
Enlightenment
(--, 1701)- (1607) (Unknown Dates)
CAUSE:Questioning the government and humanism
EFFECTS: French Revolution & American Revolution -
Great Awakening
CAUSE: Breakdown in moral standards, Salem Witch Trials, questioning of the church and civil leaders
EFFECT:More religious participation, increase in centers for education (colleges: Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth) -
French & Indian War
Mar. 15, 1754- Oct. 18, 1768
CAUSE: Two countries: France and England (colonists) wanted claim of the Ohio River Valley
EFFECT:England had been victorious, and gained control of land between Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River Proclamation of 1763 War debt -
Proclamation of 1763
CAUSE:British leaders feared that more fighting would take place on the frontier if colonists kept moving onto American Indian lands.
EFFECT:This law banned British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountians. It also ordered settlers to leave the upper Ohio River Valley. -
Sugar Act
CAUSE: French & Indian War debt
EFFECT: angered colonists, and had injured/hurt the shipping business (in the New England are) -
Intolerable Acts
CAUSE: Boston Tea Party
EFFECT:Punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party by closing the Boston Harbor, banning committees of correspondence, allowing British soldiers to be housed anywhere (Quartering Act) and allowing British officials to stand trail in Britain. -
Revolutionary War
CAUSE:Taxation without representation; Proclamation of 1763; Quartering Act; The colonists wanted to rule themselves
EFFECT: The colonists had won their independence -
Declaration of Independence
CAUSE: The Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party, Outrageous Taxation by British, Having to abide by everything the redcoats want...
EFFECT: Written and declared the U.S. independent of Great Britain, the U.S. gained allies in the war against the British. While the British wanted to continue the war -
Articles of Confederation
CAUSE:States need a plan for a national government but want to protect their own authority
EFFECT:National government is set up but is powerless to govern. -
Shay's Rebellion
(Aug. -, 1786)-(Feb.-, 1787)
CAUSE:Congress is unable to pay debt-ridden farmers for service in Revolutionary army
EFFECT:Congress approves a Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles -
Northwest Ordinance
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Federalist Papers
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Bill of Rights
CAUSE: After realization that the Constitution didn't contain a declaration of human rights, (a man named) Mason had worked to pass amendments that would protect citizens from an intrusive government.
EFFECT:A monarchy's power was limited to what it could and couldn't do. The colonists could then decide who the monarchy was by electing them. -
Farewell Address
CAUSE: Washington had written the Farewell Address after coming to the realization that the power given to him during his presidency was that the power was going to go to his head. The amount of power given could destroy a man.
EFFECT:U.S. took Washington's advice on the avoidance of permanent military alliances until the year of 1949 when the United States joined NATO. Also used when U.S. considered treaties -
XYZ Affair
(--, 1798)-(--, 1800)
CAUSE:French ships capturing American ships with British goods, the bribery of XYZ and the French Government.
EFFECT: The start of the undeclared Quasi-War and no unity in America -
Alien & Sedition Acts
CAUSE: Adams was angry with critics from DRs and new immigrants; wanted to silence critics
EFFECT:waiting time to become a citizen increased; laws against sedition; many editors were charged or arrested -
Constitutional Convention
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Marbury Vs. Madison
CAUSE:Marshall's ruling in the Marbury vs. Madison case
EFFECT:Established the principle of "judicial review" of laws by the Supreme Court -
Louisiana Purchase
CAUSE: U.S. had wanted to expand & Napoleon not only needed money to fund the European Wars but also had wanted to focus on Europe (& ignore French holdings in America)
EFFECT: America got to expand westward, even beyond the Lousiana Purchase, the Indians were systematically displaced from their homes and Napoleon eventually lost his empire in Europe -
War of 1812
CAUSE:James Madison was the fourth President who led the party of the ordinary people. He was also called "the Father of the Constitution." ?
EFFECT:The attacks on Canada weren't as successful as originally planned by the War Hawks because Canada didn't want to be free from Britain and Britain's army was much larger than that of the U.S. -
Era of Good Feeling
(--, 1815){1817-1825)
CAUSE:The disappearance of the Federalists and President Monroe's appeals to New England
EFFECT:Temporary one-party system
