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Age of discovery
It initiated for Gold, God, & Glory by Columbus. He transformed societies & America’s forever for the discovery. -
Triangular Trade
This was a trading system between the Americas, England, & Africa. Africa would give slave to the America’s; America would offer timber, tobacco, fish, & flour; England in return would sell back manufactured goods. -
Jamestown
Jamestown was founded upon Chesapeake in 1607. It was the first
English colony to be successful. -
Tobacco cultivation
This crop helped financially save Jamestown colony. Virginia has the perfect climate in or there to cultivate tobacco. -
House of Burgesses
It was created in Jamestown by a Virginia company that created this legislative body. The House of Burgesses was the first government created in the new world. -
Rhode Island creation
Roger Wilson expressed a opinion against church authorities. He left & formed Rhode Island & everyone outcasted or different lived there like Baptist, Quakers, & Jews. -
Pequot War
The war conflict was about the control over trade between the English & Dutch-Pequot. After the war the tribe was killed or sold into Caribbean slavery. -
King Philip’s War
This war began with the Wampanoag warriors raid he bother of Swansee, Massachusetts, & massacre English colonist. The English won after Wampanoag was killed & the Narragansett were forced out. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon who was a planter led his supporters to cause a massacre to remove Native Americans after the refusal of Berkley. They did as an effort to take their land and protect the frontier. -
Pueblo Revolt
The pope lead an uprising at Santa Fe for a conversation of Native Americans to Catholics. People had long been divided and colonist believed the could unite against them. -
Salem Witch Trials
It began as a outbreak of witchcraft accusations. The time was full with fear & without Puritan viewpoints. -
Beaver War
The beaver war was fought between the Iroquois & the Algonquian speaking tribes. The beavers wanted to expand trade with the European & the tribes of the western Great Lakes. -
Chickasaw War
This war was a fight between Chickasaw allied with the British & Choctaws with the french as allied. Chickasaw were victorious till the end of the seven year war. -
Great Awakening
It’s a religious movement characterized by emotional preaching. This was the first cultural movement to unite the 13 colonies -
Stono Rebellion
It is sometimes called Catos Rebellion & occurred in South Carolina. It was one of the the largest rebellions of saves in mainland coloies -
French & Indian War
It was the North American arena were England & France fought. The Native Americans sided with the French & it became the French & Native Americans against the British. -
Tea Act of 1773
This act lowered the price of the tea but the colonist weren’t cooperating because of any attempts by the British trying to collect taxes. People dressed up as native Americans broke into the ship & threw the tea into the harbor. -
The Battle for Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a defeat for the colonials. They still celebrated the causalities they were able to inflict upon the worlds powerful army. -
Declaration of Independence
It announced an political serving of all ties with the colonies & Britain. This made the United States independent & there became to be a lot of grievances against the king. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution. The United States won independence from Great Britain & control over land west of the Mississippi river. -
Shays' Rebellion
Veteran Farmers were angered at the state calling in all debts, imprisoning them for failure to pay, seizing land. A violent protest was led by Daniel Shays but people were imprisoned. -
Cotton Gin
Machine that separated seeds from the cotton fibers. It was invented by Eli Whitney to make work faster & easier. -
Election of 1796
John Adams won the elections of 1796 defeating Jefferson. He was a federalist & entered into office when the undeclared war between England & France began known as Quasi-war -
John Adams
John Adams was the 2nd President of the United States. He began his presidency when England & France were in conflict known as the Quasi-War. -
Kentucky & Virginia Resolution
The solution argued that states had the right to declare unconstitutional, any federal act that was not specifically authorized in the constitution. This solution was declared after KY & VA claimed that the federal Alien & sedition act that was not specifically authorized in the Constitution. -
Louisiana Purchase
This was when a lot of land was bought by the US from France. This land ended up doubling the size of the United States. -
Steam Engine
It was invented by Robert Fulton & it moved against the rivers current or against wind. The steam engine gave opportunity for travel & transportation. -
Transportation boom
This changed the nature of a women’s work & became the moral center of the family. Children weren’t needed to work & men worked in factories. -
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
This compromise entered Missouri as slave state, Maine as a free state, & slavery outlawed in LA purchase north of the 36/30 altitude line. This kept the balance of free & slave state congress. -
Women's Reform Movement
Within the reform movement women began to have power. Some would speak up against the unjust treatment they get & their role in society. -
Telegraph
This was a faster way of communication within seconds. The invention brought people from the nation together. -
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The Mexican war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Giving the US a lot of land. The US gained California & much of the Southwest & Rocky Mountain. -
Seneca Falls Meeting
This meeting was organized by Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, & Susan B. Anthony. It was held in NY to discuss all the social restrictions made on women. -
The Compromise of 1850
This compromise made California would be admitted as free, Utah & New Mexico Territories open to popular vote on slavery, Slave trade abolished in D.C., & Enforcement of Fugitive Slave Law. -
Railroad Transportation
The US constructed more then 30,000 miles of railroad. East & West became more connected & tension began between the North & the South. -
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This was an organization who’s motive was to prevent black freedom. They would wear ghost white sheets & hold burning crosses. -
Knights of Labor
This was under the leadership of Terence V. Powderly. They would organize secret meetings in order to not lose their jobs. -
Transcontinental Railroad
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west -
Force Act
Authorized federal troops to maintain the peace & enforce the 14th & 15th Amendment. The force act limited the amount of KKK members but did not accomplish abolishing the group. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The US send general Custer who’s 700 men died by 7000 Sioux Indians. The United States retaliated by crushing the Sioux. -
Compromise of 1877
Northern Republicans & Southern Democrats came to this Compromise in order to avoid conflict about the elections of 1877. Hayes given the presidency by one electoral vote. Federal troops were removed immediately from southern states ending reconstruction. -
Munn v. Illinois
This was a law passed as a supreme court decision. It possible for the state to regulate a private property if it affected the public interest. -
Great Railroad Strike
Protest of a second round of wage cuts within a span of 4 years, which spread across the nation. Hayes authorized federal troops to deal with the issue & over 100 workers died. -
Haymarket Affair
100,000 workers rioted in Chicago in 1886. After the police fired into the crowd, the workers met & rallied in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality. A bomb exploded, killing or injuring many of the police. The Chicago workers & the men who set the bomb were immigrants, so the incident promoted anti-immigrant feelings. -
American Federation of Labor
This was led by Samuel Gompers, a union for skilled laborers that fought for worker rights in a non-violent way. It provided skilled laborers with a union that was unified, large, & strong. -
Interstate Commerce Commission
Created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland; regulate railroads (& later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, & to regulate other aspects of common carriers. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This act was made in order to stop monopolies passed by the Congress. The act made competition fair between businesses. -
Omaha Platform
Populist Party platform for the 1892 election (Populist candidate James Weaver running for president) called for free coinage of silver & paper money, national income tax, direct election of senators, regulation of railroads, & other government reforms to help farmers -
The Panic of 1893
This is when 16,000 businesses disappeared & the stock market crashed. There began being a lot of bank failures & nearly 500 banks closed .Unemployment was about 3 million & America began asking for help in which the government did not help. -
Coxey's Army
A protest march of unemployed workers, led by Populist businessman Jacob Coxey, demanding inflation & a public works program during the depression of the 1890s. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The supreme Court decided Congress had no jurisdiction to bar private citizens from practicing discrimination. Homer Plessy was part African-American & part white he didn’t refuse his sit at a white only rail at in Louisiana. -
Cross of Gold Speech
An impassioned address by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention, in which advocated for farmers as he attacked the "gold bugs" who insisted that US currency be backed only with gold. -
Jazz Age
This was an era of music pioneered African Americans. This became a symbol for the youth & the new culture outside the traditional norms. -
Emergency Quota Act
This was a response to nativism & fear that the new comers were a threat. The amount of outsiders was restricted to a certain percentage. The congress limited the immigration so Europe was restricted by 3%. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The secretary of interior Albert Fall illegal leased government oil fields in the west to provide oil companies. This became a huge scandal & showed the misconduct done by people in higher economical positions. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
This was a time were work was offered or men in construction. This helped families economically by increasing the amount of employment. -
Jesuit convention & Huron Confederacy
The Jesuit convertion wasn’t that successful only few converted. Then the number of Native Americans depopulated for the Huron Confederacy. -
Public Works Administration
It was made as an industrial recovery and employment recovery. It helped rebuilt or built highways, public buildings, parkways, or art. -
Neutrality Act
This act was passed in order for the United States not to get involved in World War II. It prevented from giving loans to countries taking part in the conflict. -
Lend-Lease Act
This act was passed amend the neutrality act. This way the United States could help give supplies & military equipment to nations during the conflict. -
Brown v. Board of Education
It was ruled by the Supreme Court that students have a right under the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause to an equal education. Therefore schools had to be integrated & not separated by color. Some schools were forced into segregation & others didn't listen. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started after a woman named Rosa Parks got arrested for not giving up her seat. The bus boycott was led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The Supreme Court was forced to desegregate buses do to the fewer amount of income from the customers. -
Sit-ins
Sit-ins were started by college students. They would sit on the lunch counters & seat there without out moving no matter the confrontation they got. They would do this in order to protest against restaurants that only served white people. -
Freedom riders
Freedom riders began as a protest against segregation in buses were black & white people rode together. They had their own buses were whites & blacks were integrated. Everyone could sit were they wanted but the buses cause people to become violent against them. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was to show support for the Civil Rights Bill passing by Congress. There were 250,000 people at the march in Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. (civil rights leader) gave a speech called "I Have a Dream." -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act made racial, religious, & sex discrimination illegal by employers. The government enforced every law of civil rights including all laws that segregated things. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act denied the use of any device in order to deny the vote of a black citizen. This became the opportunity for black people to become politically involved. That led to jobs, contracts, & facilities & services for the black community. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Raegan encouraged the Soviet Union leader to end the control of its statellite nation. He famously asked Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the wall. In 1988 the wall was tored down. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev resigned as a leader of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union dissolved into 15 individual republics. -
September 11, 2001
This was an attack on September 11 as a suicidal attack by Al-Qaeda on the United States. 19 Islamic terrorist hijacked 4 commercial passenger jet airlines. -
Invasion of Iraq
The Iraqi were quickly defeated in effort to remove threatening dictator, Saddam Hussein. He was refusing to cooperate with UN weapons inspection, & there was a fear of Iraq weapon destruction.
