US/VA Deangelis Timeline

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    a settlement in the colony of virginia, the first permanent english settlement in the Americas
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

    the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
  • Start of Slavery

    Start of Slavery

    had a gradual growth and wasn't used much at first in jamestown but by 1700, most labor needs were filled by forcible importation of africans
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    document where pilgrims agreed to obey laws created for the general good
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Conflict in the American colonies lasting from 1754 - 1763, that was apart of a worldwide struggle between france, and england that ended with the defeat of france and transfered french canada to british canada.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    england gained land west of the appalachians and in canada from france
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    england prohibits american colocnists from settling west of the appalachians
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    england puts taxes on all legal documents in the colonies
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    shooting in boston where the english army killed 5 colonists
  • Boston Tea Party

    event where colonists dressed up as native americans and dumped hundreds of pounds of tea into the bay
  • 1st Continental congress

    meeting of reps in philidelphia to issue a statement of colonial rights and urge militia men to form
  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord

    British troops attacked colonial weapon stockpile. 1st skirmish of the war
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    creation of the continental army with george washington leading. issued the olive branch petition
  • Declaration of independence

    Declaration of independence

    written by thomas jefferson. read and stated that the colonies were free from english rule.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    the original constitution of the US that had a weak national gov't
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown

    victory of the colonists in the revolutionary war
  • Critical Period

    Critical Period

    period where the U.S. had no president and had major war debt and further problems
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    british acknowledge american independence
  • land ordinance of 1785

    land ordinance of 1785

    surveying land west of the appalachians
  • Annapolis Convention

    Annapolis Convention

    an unsuccessful callin of the U.S. states
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    where many compromises were made and the articles of confederation were discarded and the U.S. Constitution was proposed and later ratified
  • northwest ordinance of 1787

    northwest ordinance of 1787

    helped ratify new U.S. states
  • The Great Compromise

    The Great Compromise

    created a 2 house legeslative branch consisting of senate which has 2 votes for each state and the house of representatives based on the states population
  • 3/5 Compromise

    3/5 Compromise

    allowed slaves the count as 3/5 of a vote in the house of representatives
  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion

    a group of debt-ridden farmers from massachusetts that went against the state gov't
  • Washington's Presidency

    Washington's Presidency

    george washington becomes the 1st president of the U.S.
  • judiciary act of 1789

    judiciary act of 1789

    set up court system
  • Bill of rights signed

    Bill of rights signed

    bill of rights signed by delegates to crate the constitution
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Fugitive Slave Law

    The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
  • Cotton GIn

    Cotton GIn

    increased and expanded slavery westward
  • Adams Presidency

    Adams Presidency

    federalist party and enacted the alien and sedition acts
  • Gabe Prosser Revolt

    Gabe Prosser Revolt

    a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800.
  • Jeffersons Presidency

    Jeffersons Presidency

    louisiana purchase ; lewis and clark expedition
  • louisiana purchase

    louisiana purchase

    jefferson buys a piece of land from the french that doubles the size of the U.S.
  • Marbury vs. Madison

    Marbury vs. Madison

    court case that established judicial review
  • war of 1812

    war of 1812

    war that madison called for and america won
  • McCulloch vs. Maryland

    McCulloch vs. Maryland

    court case that established the doctrine of implied powers
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    made missouri a slave state and maine a free state. divided at 36* 30'
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    told europe to stay out of the western hemisphere and visa-versa
  • Gibbons vs. Ogden

    Gibbons vs. Ogden

    court case that said that national gov't controlled commerce
  • Age of the Common Man

    Age of the Common Man

    Jacksonian Democracy is the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters.
  • Jacksons Presidency

    Jacksons Presidency

    seventh President of the United States, was the dominant actor in American politics between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.
  • Indian removal act of 1830

    Indian removal act of 1830

    jacksons decision to remove indians and force them west
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.[1] Led by Nat Turner
  • Battle of the Alamo

    Battle of the Alamo

    The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. all of texas-americans died
  • Battle of San Jacinto

    Battle of San Jacinto

    sam houston led an army to gain independence from mexico for texas
  • U.S. Anexxes Texas

    U.S. Anexxes Texas

    In 1845, the United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state.
  • Mexican War

    Mexican War

    after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000
  • CA Gold Rush

    CA Gold Rush

    "49'rs" looked for gold in california. an extreme amout of people from the east began settling west.
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention

    an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in the Western world, in Seneca Falls, New York. led by elizabeth stanton
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Fugitive Slave Law

    The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    missouri is a slave state and maine is a free state
  • compromise of 1850

    compromise of 1850

    california is a free state and kansas and nebraska get to choose (popular sovreignty)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    A book written by harriet stowe to depict how slaves were actually treated in the south
  • Kansas - Nebraska act

    Kansas - Nebraska act

    created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement
  • Dred scott case

    Dred scott case

    case where the supreme court ruled that african americans did not have rights to sue at all so the case was irrelevant. overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    abraham lincoln won presidency
  • Battle of Fort Sumpter

    Battle of Fort Sumpter

    First battle of the civil war. south carolina
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost.
  • BAttle of Antietam

    BAttle of Antietam

    battle that put the emancipation proclomation in place
  • Emancipation Proclomation

    Emancipation Proclomation

    The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the Civil War, to all segments of the Executive branch of the United States.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    Turning point of the civil war
  • Battle of Vickburg

    Battle of Vickburg

    final major battle of the civil war
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    speech by abraham lincoln to morne the deaths of all that died in the civil war
  • Lincoln's assassination

    Lincoln's assassination

    john wilkes boothe kills abraham lincoln at a theater
  • Reconstruction

    Reconstruction

    the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War
  • 13th ammendment

    13th ammendment

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  • Election of 1867

    Election of 1867

    the first presidential election to take place after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Ulysses S. Grant won
  • The Reconstruction Act of 1867

    The Reconstruction Act of 1867

    the acts of Congress during the period from 1865 to 1877 providing for the reorganization of the former Confederate states and setting forth the process by which they were to be restored to representation in Congress, especially the acts passed in 1867 and 1868.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    gave blacks the right of citizenship in America. This affected the blacks because they are finally citizens and whites must understand this new change and deal with it.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    guaranteed blacks the right to vote.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S. history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
  • Knights of Labor

    Knights of Labor

    the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s
  • American Federation of Labor

    American Federation of Labor

    a federation of North American labor unions
  • Haymarket Square

    Haymarket Square

    bombing during a protest, several policemen died
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
  • Reservation system

    Reservation system

    indians were forced off their lands to smaller parts of land
  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act

    Clayton Anti-Trust Act

    to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. get rid of trusts and solidify unions
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    a landmark federal statute on United States competition law passed by Congress in 1890. It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts.
  • Appomattox Court House

    Appomattox Court House

    current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892. It is located in the middle of the state about three miles northwest of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, once known as Clover Hill - home of the original Old Appomattox Court House. ...
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892
  • American Railway Union

    American Railway Union

    the largest labor union of its time, and one of the first industrial unions in the United States.
  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman Strike

    a nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894. It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland.
  • Plessy vs. Feruguson

    Plessy vs. Feruguson

    Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
  • Spanish-American war

    Spanish-American war

    a war between the United States and Spain
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in Spain surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico, parts of the West Indies, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
  • Assimilation policy

    Assimilation policy

    where immigrants become accostum to new ideas and beliefs
  • Old Immigrants

    Old Immigrants

    immigrants from norther & western europe
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.
  • open door policy

    open door policy

    the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion

    chinamen tried removing all spheres of influence
  • platt amendment

    platt amendment

    us could intrude in cuban affairs whenever they pleased
  • New immigrants

    New immigrants

    immigrants from south and east europe
  • Roosevelt Corollary

    Roosevelt Corollary

    a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    voters elect senators
  • Federal Trade Commision Act

    Federal Trade Commision Act

    a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the president of the United States for seven-year terms. The FTC Act was one of President Woodrow Wilson's major acts against trusts.
  • panama canal

    panama canal

    a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States
  • WW1

    WW1

    a global war centered in europe
  • Progressive Movement

    Progressive Movement

    a broadly based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century and is generally considered to be middle class and reformist in nature.
  • US enters WW1

    US enters WW1

    US eneters WW1
  • 14 Points

    14 Points

    statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    prohibited the invent and sale of alcohol in America. Many Americans supported the law in the beginning, but there were not enough police to stop the drinking habits of so many Americans.
  • Immigration Restriction Act

    Immigration Restriction Act

    restrictions on immigrants coming into the u.s.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    womens right to vote
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration

    many african americans moved fro the rural south to the northern cities to sought out jobs.
  • scopes trial

    scopes trial

    a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    explosion of black intellectual and cultural life
  • Hoover

    Hoover

    unpopular due to the fact that he was blamed for the great depression
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929
  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday

    stock market crash of 1929
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    big drought in the great plains
  • FDR

    FDR

    president that brought us out of the depression
  • New Deal

    New Deal

    the economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt
  • FDIC

    FDIC

    The U.S. corporation insuring deposits in the U.S. against bank failure
  • CLO

    CLO

    The Congress of Industrial Organizations, proposed by John L. Lewis in 1938, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 required union leaders to swear that they were not Communists.
  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act

    a social welfare legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States.
  • Wagner Act

    Wagner Act

    a foundational statute of US labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary.
  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    Fair Labor Standards Act

    The FLSA introduced a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek,[3] established a national minimum wage,[4] guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute.
  • non-agression pact

    non-agression pact

    Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which lasted until the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
  • War in europe begins

    War in europe begins

    japan attacks pearl harbor. US declares war on japan, then germany declares war on US. Germany invades poland
  • WWII selective service act.

    WWII selective service act.

    drafted 10 million men
  • Germany invades Russia

    Germany invades Russia

    germany breaks non-agression pact
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    japan bombs pearl harbor, Hawaii
  • U.S. declares war

    U.S. declares war

    U.S. declares war on Japan
  • Miracle of Midway

    Miracle of Midway

    A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor.
  • korematsu vs. supreme court

    korematsu vs. supreme court

    a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
  • nuremburg trials

    nuremburg trials

    a series of military tribunals held by the victorious Allied forces following World War II in which many Nazi leaders were prosecuted for war crimes.
  • V-E day

    V-E day

    marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945.
  • Nagasaki A-Bomb

    Nagasaki A-Bomb

    US drops atomic bomb on nagasaki
  • Hiroshima A-Bomb

    Hiroshima A-Bomb

    US drops atomic bomb on hiroshima
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control so the US ailifted supplies.
  • Communist Takeover of China

    Communist Takeover of China

    China's communist party, led by Mao Zedong, finally prevailed against the Nationalists and assumed power.
  • Division of Germany

    Division of Germany

    Germany was stripped of its war gains and lost territories in the east to Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    he American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
  • Eisenhower

    Eisenhower

    the 34th President of the United States
  • The Rosenburgs

    The Rosenburgs

    American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. between n. and s. vietnam
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    political hostility between U.S.S.R and U.S.A
  • NATO

    NATO

    an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    . A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. in answer to NATO
  • sputnik

    sputnik

    each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
  • U-2 incident

    U-2 incident

    francis gary powers was shot down while spying in the soviet union
  • JFK

    JFK

    the 35th President of the United States
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic , that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.
  • JFK Assassination

    JFK Assassination

    apparently by Lee Harvey Oswald, who allegedly shot Kennedy as the president rode in an open car through Dallas. Kennedy's death was mourned throughout the world.
  • Nixon's Presidency

    Nixon's Presidency

    some good with china but resigned after watergate scandal
  • Election of 1968

    Election of 1968

    Nixon vs. Humphrey . nixon won
  • Nixon in China

    Nixon in China

    nixon wanted to exploit the rift between china and soviet union.
  • OPEC

    OPEC

    Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • Watergate scandal

    Watergate scandal

    men of nixons break-in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
  • End of Vietnam War

    End of Vietnam War

    nixon tried "vietnamization" but the south couldn't resist the North so all of vietnam continued to be communist.
  • Détente

    Détente

    the easing of hostility or strained relations, esp. between countries
  • Panama canal treaty

    Panama canal treaty

    Pres. jimmy carter gives control of the canal back to panama
  • Carter's Presidency

    Carter's Presidency

    had many compromises including the panama canal treaty
  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords

    peace talks between israel and egypt
  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    Iran Hostage Crisis

    a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 americans wer held hostage.
  • Reagans Presidency

    Reagans Presidency

    new political and economic initiatives with very conservative views.
  • Reagans Berlin Wall Speech

    Reagans Berlin Wall Speech

    "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
  • Moscow Summit

    Moscow Summit

    meeting between U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall

    built by the government of what was then East Germany to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West.
  • Soviet Union Collapse

    Soviet Union Collapse

    due to reagans presidency and strategies