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Founding of Jamestown
The expedition was lead by Captain Christopher Newport. they landed thier voyage on May 14, 1607. The colonists worked and made trades with the Indians to survive and to expand thier colony, but where they settled and what these men and women did was the start and beginning of the new world. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. The house was also established by the Virginia Copany. They created the body as part of an effort to help and persuade English craftsmen to settle in North America. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
The "Mayflower Compact" was the foudational document for the Plymouth Colony. The fact that the document that 41 men signed was to ensure that they folowed the new laws bythe government, to ensure protection and survival made this document very unique. The puritains where the ones who wrote the Mayflower Compact. -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
The Founding of Massachussets Bay was settled in 1628 by the founders of the Massachussets Bay Company. The significance of this settlement was that it brought over hundreds of puritians and was a port for boats to bring over new people. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the years 1634–1638. It was the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were helped by their Native American allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. -
King Philip’s War (Metacom)
This war is also called the "first indian war" It was a war between the Nativr Americans and the colonists. the war spanned from 1675–1678. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an event that happened in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. This was the first rebellion in the American colonies in the U.S. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a bunch of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in "Salem Town." -
French and Indian War
The name is the two main enemies of the British colonists, the French and the different Native American forces allied with them. British and European historians use the phrase the Seven Years' War. -
Quatering Act
The Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to give housing to the British soldiers. They were amendments to the Mutiny Act, which had to be renewed annually by Parliament. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was a legislation that required a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents. The papers often have to be physically stamped at approved government offices following payment of the duty. -
Boston Massacre
British Soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. They fired into the crowd, without orders, instantly killing three people and wounding others. Two more people died later of injurys in the firing. -
Tea Act
The tea act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its main importance and benifit was to try and reduce the massive amounts of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the falling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a big event in the American Revolution. Parliament came in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts are names used to describe a set of laws that were passed by the British Parliament in 1774. Four of the acts were passed in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773. -
Lexington and Concord
This was were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The wars were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
Declaration of Independence
the declaration of independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, that announced that the thirteen American colonies had made a resolution earlier in the year, making a subsequent formal declaration inevitable. men were chosen to to draft the formal declaration, to be ready when congress voted on independence. -
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
was a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary. -
Second Great Awakening
It was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement. It was past its peak by the 1840s. -
Whiskey Rebellion
was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington -
Alien and Sedition Acts
federalists adopted the naturalization act (increased number of years required for immigrants to qualify for citizenship), the alien acts (authorized prex to deport any aliens considered dangerous to detain any enemy aliens in time of war), and sedition act (made it illegal for newspaper editors to criticize either the prez or congress and imposed heavy penalties for those who violated) -
Revolution of 1800
Jefferson’s election = federalist to republican, was monumental in the development of the U.S. -
Marbury v. Madison
1803, ruled in favor of John Madison, the president at the time, first case to establish judicial review, first time that a federal law was ruled unconstitutional. -
Louisiana Purchase
at the mouth of the Mississippi lay the territory’s most valuable property in terms of commerce—the port of New Orleans. in 1800, the French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte secretly forced Spain to give the Louisiana Territory back to its former owner, France, since Napoleon wanted French empire in the Americas. Napoleon had lost interest in this plan for two reasons: (1) he needed to concentrate French resources on fighting England and (2) a rebellion led by Toussaint l’Ouvertu -
Embargo Act 1807
The Embargo Act was passed under Thomas Jefferson in response to the impressment of several Americans by the British navy. The embargo did not go well, as American merchants protested their lack of trade. It weakened faith in the American system of government -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was caused by general tensions with Great Britain, the impressment of American sailors, the wars with France, and the support of Native Americans. Both the Americans and English were allied with Native Americans -
Election of 1816
The election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the nomination against a divided opposition. Monroe won the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34. -
Election of 1824
was the 10th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Tuesday, October 26 to Thursday, December 2, 1824. John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives -
Election of 1828
was the 11th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 31 to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. It featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election -
Indian Removal Act 1830
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 fortheir removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands -
Nullification Crisis 1832
was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. -
Texas Independence
Texas continued to be a State, and a State of the Union, notwithstanding its adoption in 1861 of the Ordinance of Secession. Texas was not readmitted to congressional representation until 1870, after the state had adopted a constitution of state government which reestablished a republican form of state government. -
Mexican-American War
This was a war, between the U.S and Mexico. Annexation of Texas which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War. The treaty called for the the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico and pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to $3.25 million. -
Dawes Act
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. American attacked on Spain's Pacific possessions started the involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War. -
founding of the naacp
was an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”. -
Red Summer
the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. In some cases groups of blacks fought back, notably in Chicago, where, along with Washington, D.C. and Elaine, Arkansas, the greatest number of fatalities occurred. -
First Red Scare
was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and alleged spread in the American labor movement fueled the paranoia that defined the period. -
Harlem Renaissance
was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. -
Election of 1932
took place in the middle of the great depression, the two nominees were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. -
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 R’s": Relief, Recovery, and Reform -
Attack on 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. -
Truman Doctrine (associate ‘containment’)
was a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
Creation of NATO 1949
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 (1949)
was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang, or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China, for the control of each other's territory which eventually led to two de facto states, the Republic of China in Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China in mainland China both claiming to be the legitimate government of China. -
Korean War (1950-1953
- was a war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Election of 1952
took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican SenatorJoseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional investigations into the issue of Communist spies within the U.S. government.
