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Period: Jul 22, 1492 to
US History: VHS Summer: Cristina Roselli
A representation of early American history in a timeline format. Which highlights the most important specfic events and ideas that occured. -
The Establishment of Jamestown
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2c.asp</a
The first joint-stock company to have a lasting colony in the New World was the Virginia Company of London. 144 English men and boys established the Jamestown colony, and named it after King James I. They had their hopes on finding gold. -
The First Meeting of The House of Burgesses
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp</a
The first elected legislature, which was located in Virginia. Soon every colony would have one. Members would meet at least once a year with their royal governor to decide local laws and determine local taxation. -
The Germans Coming to Pennsylvania
http://www.ushistory.org/us/7f.asp
The Germans came to Pennsylvania in answer to advertisements in Germany placed by William Penn. The promise of religious freedom, economic opportunity and freedom from war sealed the deal to move to America. The Germans brought new religions to America, like Lutheranism, and helped the “American Identity” begin to form. -
The Idea of Jeffersonian Democracy
http://classroom.synonym.com/summary-ideas-values-jeffersonian-democracy-14320.html A term used for the political ideals of Thomas Jefferson, a founding father and our 3rd president, and his followers. These ideas included Republicanism, limited government, Agrarian Democracy, and economic freedom. -
The Treaty of Paris (1763)
http://www.ushistory.org/us/8d.asp</a
This treaty ended the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War. France was forced to give up all of their American land to the British and the Spanish. -
The Boston Massacre
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
The Boston Massacre resulted from a Patriot mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at British soldiers. The soldiers fired at the rebels, but only five died. Writers framed the British in a bad light in attempts to get support behind the revolution. They were successful because it was one of the events leading up to the war. -
The Declaration of Independence
http://www.ushistory.org/us/13a.asp
The Declaration may have been a formal legal document that announced to the world the reasons that led the thirteen colonies to separate from the British Empire, but it meant so much more to the American people. Americans even today continue to celebrate its public announcement as the birthday of the United States. It set up ideals to shape the “American Identify” that still ring true today. -
The Underground Railroad
http://www.historynet.com/underground-railroad
It was a collection of people, meeting places, secret routes, passageways, and safe houses with the goal of helping slaves escape to Canada. The Underground Railroad helped thousands of people escape slavery. -
Shay's Rebellion
http://www.ushistory.org/us/15a.asp
The farmers in western Massachusetts organized first major armed rebellion in the post-Revolutionary War, resisting high taxes and unresponsive state government. This rebellion was one of the first signs that the Articles of Confederation were not working and something had to be done. -
The Idea of Federalism
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/federalism.html
To remedy the issues of the Articles of the Confederation, states to sent delegates to a constitutional convention to meet in the city of Philadelphia in May 1787. So, convention could produce the Constitution of the United States. The idea of Federalism is first documnted in the Constitution, in American history. -
The Idea of Slavery
http://www.ushistory.org/us/27a.asp
The idea of slavery had been around for ages, and African slaves had been used in America for a long time, but the popularity of tobacco and the invention of the cotton gin really increased the number of slaves and further developed the idea of slavery. Now, most slaves in America worked on plantations in the south. -
The Louisiana Purchase
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/louisiana-purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which for $15 million dollars, the U.S. got about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. This purchase just about doubled the size of the existing United States. -
The Idea of Jacksonian Democracy
http://classroom.synonym.com/essential-beliefs-jacksonian-democracy-7566.html
A term used for the political ideals of Andrew Jackson and his followers, somewhat similar to Jeffersonian Democracy. These beliefs included: voting requirement reforms, increasing presidential power, national expansion, Indian removal, and hands-off economic policies. -
The Trail of Tears
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1567.html
Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policies was responsible for making the Cherokee nation give up their land and migrate to new foreign land. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because they faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion as they were forced to march to their new land. -
The Idea of Manifest Destiny
http://www.ushistory.org/us/29.asp
America’s Westward Expansion was motivated by the idea “manifest destiny”, as an attempt to build an American Empire across the continent. Manifest destiny was based on racial superiority religion, money, and nationalism. -
The Mexican American War
http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war
The Mexican-American War started in a fight over the land of present day Texas. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed to end the war which made the Rio Grande the United States-Mexican border. The United States also got all of Mexico’s land north of the Rio Grande for $15 million. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31a.asp
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, was before the Civil War but, was the initial spark to set off the war. The act began because settlers wanted to move into the area now known as Nebraska and legally own land. The whole issue with this act was the topic of slavery, and if it would be allowed in this new state. Which opened up heated debated between the northern and southern states. -
The Start of the Civil War
http://www.ushistory.org/us/33a.asp
Fort Sumter is where the Civil War first started. Both sides, the United States and the new Confederacy, thought the Fort was there property. With four months of hostility, supplying, and confusion, finally, “The Civil War began at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery, under the command of General Pierre Gustave T. Beauregard, opened fire on Fort Sumter.” -
Birth of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
http://www.ushistory.org/us/35d.asp
The KKK along with other white supremacy groups who aimed at controlling African-Americans through violence and intimidation emerged during this time. These groups were forces serving those who wanted white supremacy. Some terrors they performed are: massacres, lynching, rape, pillaging and just plain terror daily. -
President Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
http://www.ushistory.org/us/35c.asp
Andrew Johnson was the First President to be impeached. The House of Representatives brought 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson.
