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Jamestown founded
First Permanment engllish settlement in what is now the United states. -
Virginia house of burgesses
First Form of represenatation in colonies. -
Mayflower compact
First written framework og government in what is now the United States.
Written by Puritans and Pilgrims to establish order in the colony of plymouth. -
Fudamental Orders of Conn.
Said to be Americas first written constitution. -
Townshed Act
Pay tax on imported goods.
Also repeated most of the taxes except tea. -
French and Indian War
Fought for Ohio River Valley and others territories in North America.
French V.S the British -
Proclamation of 1763
Reconginzed Indians right to the land.
Did not allow people to settle west of appalachian mountain. -
Currency Act
Takes control of colonial ccurrency.
Can only get money through Braitain. -
Stamp Act
Tax on anything printed on paper. -
Quartering Act
Made colonist quarter or feed the british.
Blank search warrants. -
Boston Massacre
Battle were only 5 people died
Begging of the revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts were made to make the colonist payfor the tea and to keep them from planning other attacks.
Stop all trade between boston and Braitain. -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of Liberty.
Dumped 342 crates of tea into the sea. -
Tea Act
Dropped price on tea, but merchants refused to unload the tea from british ships. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts were to made to make the colonist pay for the tea and to keep them from planning other attacks.
Stoped all trade with Boston and Braitain. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America -
2nd Continental Congress
Was the signing of the Decleration of Independence. -
Decleration of Independence
Fifty-six delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia signed the United States Declaration of Independence, a statement announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Although the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress on July 4, the date of its signing has been disputed. Most historians have concluded that it was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on -
Articles of Confederation Written
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It established a weak central government that mostly, but not entirely, prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles (14 km) south of Saratoga, New York -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.[1] Starvation, disease, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778 -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, German Battle or Surrender at Yorktown, the latter taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. -
3/5 Compromise
A two house legistature and senates. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention[1]:31 (also known as the Philadelphia Convention,[1]:31 the Federal Convention,[1]:31 or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain -
Great Compromise
Depends on population.The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Constitution Written
The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven States. It went into effect on March 4, 1789. The first three Articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislature, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Court and other fe -
Washington Takes Office
George Washington takes office as the new President of the United States. -
Bbill Of Rights
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-Federalists who had opposed Constitutional ratification, these amendments guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public -
Genet Afair
As a result of the Citizen Genêt affair, the United States established a set of procedures governing neutrality. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Forced the producers of whiskey to pay a tax, mostly farmers. -
Pinckneys Treaty
Letting us have the Mississipi river and the right to trade at New Orleans. -
Jays Treaty
Was a treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Great Britain that is credited with averting war,[3] resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution,[4] and facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792. -
Adam takes Office
John Adams gets elected as the second president. -
XYZ Affair
French stopped trading with the U.S Adam sends agent to France, wanted bride. HA NOPE! -
Quasi War Begins
French Navy going to attack U.S Naval Ships. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Pay money or go to jail because you cannot write or say anything bad about the government. -
Jefferson Takes Office
Thomas Jefferson takes office as the third president of the United State of America -
Marbury V.S Madison
The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia by President John Adams but whose commission was not subsequently delivered -
Louisiana Purchase
Doubed the size of the U.S -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804 from St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast -
Embargo Act of 1807
The 'Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress[1] against the United Kingdom and France during the Napoleonic Wars.[2]
The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U.S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the European navies. -
McCulloch V.S. Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. Though the law, by its language, was generally applicable to all banks not chartered in Maryland, the Second Bank of the United States was the only out-of-state bank then existing in Maryland, and the law was recogn -
Gibbons V.S. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824),[1] was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.[2] The case was argued by some of America's most admired and capable attorneys at the time. Exiled Irish patriot Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J. Oakley argued for Ogden, while William Wirt and Daniel Webster argued for Gibbons.
