unit 1

Jamestown

Sep 13, 1607

1st permanet English settlment
Became Virginia

House of Burgesses

Sep 13, 1619

!st elected assembly in the New World
Still operates as the General Assembly

start of slavery

Sep 13, 1619

Slaves were not used much at first.
By 1700 most labor needs were filled by forcible

Mayflower Compact

Sep 13, 1620

A document where they agreed to obey laws created for general good.
Pledged loyaly to God and King

Progressive Movement

Jan 12, 1800

Early 20th century reform movement
It used the government to institute reforms to fox problems caused by industtialization

Gabe Prosser Revolt

Oct 30, 1800

Slave revolt from Richmond Va

Reservation System

Dec 11, 1800

Indians were forced off their lands onto smaller and smaller reservation.

Assimilation Policy

Dec 11, 1800

Plan under which Indians would be forced to adopt american culture

Age of the common man

Oct 30, 1820

Time when democracy in the US expanded and more people got involved in the electoral process.
Americans no longer let aristocrats all make the decisions.

Missouri Compromise

Nov 6, 1820

North of the line was free
South of the line was slave

Jacksons Presidency

Oct 30, 1828

Jackson lost to Adams in 1824
But defeated Adams in 1828

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Oct 30, 1830

This law passed at Jacksons request
Forced all indians east of the Mississippi River to move to the Indian Territory.

Nat Turner Revolt

Oct 30, 1832

He was from Southhampton VA
Led band of 80 slaves against 4 plantations.

Battle of the Alamo

Oct 30, 1836

Defenders held out for 13 days against santa annas army.
Alamo was an old mission house.

Battle of San Jacinto

Oct 30, 1836

Texans won independence
Led by Sam Houston.

US annexed Texas

Oct 30, 1845

Southern people were excited to have Texas.
Texas entered the US

Mexican War

Oct 30, 1846

Mexician War took place from 1846-1848
President James K Polk ured war.

CA Gold Rush

Nov 6, 1848

Founded by James Marshall
Named the 49ers.

Seneca Falls Convention

Nov 6, 1848

!st women rights convention
Took place in Seneca falls NY

Fugitive Slave Law

Oct 30, 1850

Part pf Compromise of 1850
Made it eaiser to catch run a way slaves.

Compromise of 1850

Nov 6, 1850

CA entered as a free state
Southwestern territory would decide their own .

Uncle Toms Cabin

Nov 18, 1852

Book by Harriet Beecher
Portayed the evils of slavery.

Kansas Nebraska Act

Nov 6, 1854

Bleeding Kansas was an effecy
Repealed the Missouri camp line by giving KN and NB

Dred Scott Case

Nov 18, 1856

Dred Scott sued for freedom after being taken into territory by his owner.
Supreme court said that african americans arent citizens so he cant sue.

Election of 1860

Nov 18, 1860

Slavery was the main issue.
Abraham Lincoln a republican won.

Battle of Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

Was in South Carolina but it remained under Union
This was the first battle of the civil wae.

Batle of Antietam

Nov 18, 1862

Lee went North
Lincoln started using black troops.

Homestead Act

Dec 11, 1862

Law that gave free public land in the west n 160 acre plot
only condition settlers had to use it for atleast 5 years

Emancipation Proclamation

Nov 18, 1863

Freed slaves in the rebelling states
Not just restoring the union

Battle of Gettysburg

Nov 18, 1863

Lee pushed North into Pennsylvanis
3 day battle

Gettysburg Adress

Nov 18, 1863

Short speech by Lincoln
Dedicating cemetery

Appomattox court House

Apr 9, 1865

Lee surrendered
Lee urged Southerners to accept surrender and unite as americans

Reconstruction

Nov 18, 1865

Restorming southern states to the union
Determining the position of african americans

Lincolns Assassination

Nov 19, 1865

By John Wilkes Booth
Shortley after war

13th Admendment

Nov 19, 1865

Abolished slavery

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Nov 19, 1867

Put south under millitary occupation

Election of 1867

Nov 19, 1867

Republican was Rutherford B Hayes
Demorcrat was Samuel J Tilden
Disputed election results.

14th Admendment

Nov 19, 1868

Prohibited states from denying equal rights to any American.
Gave citizenship to blacks.

Knights of labor

Dec 11, 1869

Largest American Labor
This was for the unions

15th Admentment

Nov 19, 1870

Voting rights for african americans.

Jim Crow Laws

Nov 19, 1877

Bwetween the end of the reconstruction era.
Seperated the blacks from whites.

Chinese Exclusion Act

Dec 11, 1882

Banned entry of almost all Chinease

American Federation of labor

Dec 11, 1886

Founder was Samuel Gompers
This applied to the craft union

Haymarket Square

Dec 11, 1886

K of L protest in Chicago
Bomb went off near police

Dawes Act

Dec 11, 1887

Goal was to Americanize the Indians
Legally abolished tribes

Sherman Anti Trust Act

Jan 12, 1890

Prevented any business structure that restrained trade
The goal was to outlaw trusts

Homestead Strike

Dec 11, 1892

Carnegie steel plant
Plant manager was Henry Frick

American railway union

Dec 11, 1893

This was founded in Chicago
This became the nations largest organization for the union

Pullman Strike

Dec 11, 1894

By pullman railroad workers
started nationwide RR boycott

Plessey V Ferguson 1896

Nov 19, 1896

Provided seperate railroad carriages for whites and blacks

Spanish American war

Jan 25, 1898

Cubans rebelled against rule
The US had business and strategic interests in Cuba

Treaty of Paris

Jan 25, 1898

US annexed Puerto Rico , Guam , Phillippines
Cuba became free

open door policy

Jan 25, 1899

By Secretary of state John Hay
Gave all nations equal trading rights in China

Boxer Rebellion

Jan 25, 1899

By the Chinese
The goal was to remove foreign infuence but it failed

Platt Amendment

Jan 25, 1902

US asserted the right to intervene in Cuban affairs
US put down Filipino rebellion against the US

Roosevelt Corollary

Jan 25, 1904

TR added to the Monroe Doctrine
Reminded Europe not to interfere

Susan B Anthony

Jan 12, 1906

Strong leader
Stood for womens voting rights

17th Amendment

Jan 12, 1912

Voters elect senators now
This does not include state legislatures

16th Amendment

Jan 12, 1913

Put tax on individuals

Clayton Anti trust act

Jan 12, 1914

Amendment to clarify the Sherman Anti Trist Act
It was drafted by Henrey D Lamar

Federal Trade Commission Act

Jan 12, 1914

Creates FTC
Investigates business practices.

WW1

Jan 25, 1914

The war erupted in Europe
The Allies were Britian France and Russia

Panama Canal

Jan 25, 1914

TR encouraged Panama to break from Colombia
Panama gave the US rights to build the canal

Great Migration

Jan 25, 1916

When the African Americans moved from the rural south to the cities
This happened to over 6 million African Americans

US enters WW1

Jan 25, 1917

US remained neutral
This went on for 3 years

14 Points

Jan 25, 1918

This was Wilsons peace plan
The goal was to eliminate the causes of war

19th Amendment

Jan 12, 1919

Woment gained the right to vote
Susan B Anthony had a great impact on this

Treaty of Versailles

Jan 25, 1919

Punishment of Germany
War guilt cause

18th Amendment

Jan 25, 1919

This banned alcohol.

19th Amendment

Jan 25, 1920

Gave women the right to vote.
Susan B Anythony played a huge role in standing up for womens rights to vote.

Immigration Restriction Act

Dec 12, 1921

Put a quota of how many immigrants could come from each country
Allowed more from old immigrants areas than new immigrant areas.

Scopes Trial

Jan 25, 1925

Also known as the Scopes Monkey trial
Scopes was found guilty

Hoover

Feb 2, 1928

He was a republican
He crushed Al Smith

Great Depression

Feb 2, 1929

Time of economic hardship in the US.
This considered the Stock Market Crash

Black Tuesday

Feb 2, 1929

This was when the stock market crashed
Also known as the great crash

Harlem Renaisance

Jan 25, 1930

Time period when culture and art exploded into the world.
Most painters , and writers rose to fame

Dust Bowl

Feb 4, 1930

Horrible Drought on the Great Plains
Caused severe dust storms

New Deal

Feb 2, 1933

FDR programs to deal with depression

FDR

Feb 2, 1933

He railled a frightened nation
He said we should nothing nut fear but fear itself

FDIC

Feb 4, 1933

Bank signing indication the original insurance.
Independent agency created by the Banking Act of 1933

Social Security Act

Feb 2, 1935

Biggest New Deal program
Provides safeguards for workers

Wagner Act

Feb 2, 1935

Protected workers rights to form unions and enagage in collectice baragaining

CIO

Feb 4, 1935

New Union
Propsed by John L Lewis

Fair Labor Standards Act

Feb 2, 1938

set maximum work hours and minimum wages

Non-Aggression Pact

Feb 24, 1939

Stalin and Hitler agree not to attack eachother.

war in europe begins

Feb 24, 1940

Began when Germany assulted Europe.
Hitler led Germany to invade Europe.

Selective Serive Act WW2

Mar 10, 1940

Signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt
He wanted to strenghten the unprepared US forces.

Pearl Harbor

Feb 24, 1941

The target was the US navel base.
Thousands die during this.

US declares war

Mar 10, 1941

Declare war after the attack on pearl harbor
Declared more than once on Germany

Germany Invades Russia

Mar 10, 1941

Largest German military
The code name was "Barbarossa"

Miracle of Midway

Mar 10, 1942

6 months after Japans attack on Pearl Harbor.

D Day

Mar 10, 1944

This is known as day of Nomandy
This day was June 6

Korematsu V US

Mar 10, 1944

This happened early in WW2
The supreme court was concerning the Excutive order 9066

Nuremberg Trials

Mar 10, 1945

Postwar trials of Nazis for war crimes in the Holocaust.
There were many convictions.

Battle of Bulge

Mar 10, 1945

This was a major German offense campaign
This caught allied forces off guard

V Day

Mar 10, 1945

Victory Day in Europe.
Nazi Germanys unconditional surrender of his armed forces.

Nagasaki Bomb

Mar 10, 1945

Deployed over the Japanese city
Nicknamed "little boy"

Hiroshima Bomb

Mar 10, 1945

5 ton bomb
Harry Truman warned the people abou this.

cold war

Mar 24, 1945

Between the US and the soviet Union
foreign policy was a major issue in every pres.

Division of Germany

Mar 26, 1945

East Germany became communist and rea=mained under soviet domnination
West Germeny was temporally under US and British and French occupation.

Marshal Plan

Mar 24, 1948

Massive US financial aid package to rebuild Europe
Prevent the spread of communism

NATO

Mar 24, 1949

Defensive allenice among the US and Western countires
The goal is prevent the soviet invasion of western europe.

Berlin Airlift

Mar 24, 1949

The soviets blockade west berlin
The US flew in supplies

Communist takeover China

Mar 26, 1949

Chinas leader is Mao Zedong\
Gen McArther wanted to nuke China.

Korean War

Mar 24, 1950

Divided Korea
North:Communist
South: Democratic

Vietnam war

Apr 16, 1950

North Vietnam tried to install a communist government in south vietnam by force.

Eisenhower

Mar 26, 1952

Created a nuclear policy called Massive Retaliation
He used a hydrogen bomb

Julis and Ethel Rosenberg

Mar 26, 1953

Gave atomic secrets to the Soviets
Electrocuted

Warsaw Pact

Mar 24, 1955

Alliance among the soviet union and eastern europe
Both sides maintained large militarty forces in europe

Sputnik

Mar 26, 1957

Launched by the Soviet Union
Worlds first artifical satellite.

U2 Incident

Mar 26, 1960

Francis Gary Powers was shot down while spying over the Soviet Union.
The space race begun.

Berlin Wall

Mar 26, 1961

Between East and West Berlin.
JFK and Krustchev made agreements

Cuban Missile Crisis

Mar 26, 1962

Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in Cuba
JFK demanded their removal and blockade Cuba

JFK Assassination

Mar 26, 1963

Dallas Texas
Assassinated by Lee Harvery Oswald.

OPEC

Apr 16, 1970

Energy crisis
Raised oil prices

Detente

Apr 16, 1970

Temporary thaw in cold war tensions

Nixon in China

Apr 16, 1972

He neets with Mao Zedong
Visits the Republic of China.

Watergate Scandal

Apr 16, 1972

5 men from Nixons reelection commitee got caught breaking into the Democratic campaign headquarters.
The white house tried to cover up its involvement.

End of vietnam war

Apr 16, 1975

Nixon announced the ending of war.
Nixon decreased American troops.

Panama Canal treaty

Apr 16, 1977

Carter gave control to Panama

Certers Presidency

Apr 16, 1977

Worsened the economy
Gave control to panama

Camp David Accord

Apr 16, 1978

Peace talks between Egypt and Isreal

Iran Hostage Crisis

Apr 17, 1981

52 Americans were taken hostage in Iran

Reagans Presidency

Apr 17, 1981

Reganomics were large tax cuts , fewer social programs , less business regulations
Conservative appoinments

Reagans Berlin Wall Speech

Apr 17, 1987

"Mr Gorbachev , tear down this wall."
He increased military and economic pressure on the soviets.

Moscow Summit

Apr 16, 1988

Nixon met with the soviet leader Brezhnev
Sighned the SALT Treaty

Fall of berlin Wall

Apr 17, 1989

Germany reunited
Cold War ends

Spviet Union Collapse

Apr 17, 1991

Increased sovuet military expenses
Rising nationalism in Soviet republics