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Jamestown
The first permanent english settlement in North America. Formed by the Virginia Company of London, later became Virginia. -
Mayflower Compact
Document where they agreed to obey laws created for the general good. Pledged loyalty to god and the king. -
House of Burgesses
The first elected assembly in the New World. Still operating today as the " General Assembly." -
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US/VA SPRADLEY TIMELINE
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Start of Slavery
Most labor needs were filled by the 1700's by the forcible importance of Africans. Were mostly African Americans ! -
Boston Massacre
Colonist and British soldiers in Boston competed over jobs. Anti-british demonstrators formed and british troops fired into the mob and 5 colonist died. -
Boston Tea Party
England put restrictions on tea. Colonist boarded tea ships and threw tea into the water. -
1st Continental Congress
Meeting of representatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia. Was taken place in Philadelphia. -
Lexington and Concord
British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. Minutemen assembled. -
2nd Continental Congress
Created the continental army and George Washington was the general. -
The Treaty of Paris
England acknowledged American Independence. The United States' boundaries: Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River -
French and Indian War
England and the American colonist fought against France and the Indian. Fighting for land west of the Appalachian Moutians and in Canada. -
Treaty of Paris
England gained the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and in Canada from France. -
Proclamation of 1763
England prohibted colonist from settling west of the appalachians, because they didnt have any protection from Indian attacks. -
Stamp Act
Taxes were placed on legal documents. Colonist resisted this act ! -
Declaration of Independence
Issued by the Continental Congress, written by Thomas Jefferson.
The colonies officially seperated from England. -
Yorktown
French general, Marquis de Lafeyette develoed a plan./ The french navy blocked the exit of the Chesapeake Bay. American and French surrounded Cornwallis/the British. Cornwallis surrended. -
Articles of Confederation
The 13 newly independent states united into one country, known as the United States of America. -
Critical Period
Time period during which the U.S. was under the Articles of Confedertion. -
Land Oridance of 1785
Established a plan for surveying the western lands. -
Annapolis Convention
Called to settle disputes among states over commerce, but only 5 states show up. -
Shays Rebellion
Debt-ridden farmers in Massuchusetts rebel due to high taxes. -
Constitutional Convention
Held in Philadelphia and the key leaders were George Washington and James Madison. -
The Great Compromise
Created a 2-house congress, each states gets 2 senators and representation based on population. -
The 3/5ths Compromise
Slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when dtermining a states representation in House of Representatives. -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Provided the process for the creation and admission of new states. -
Bill of Rights Signed
Many states determined a Bill of Rights be added befor ratifying, it was approved with the prise of a Bill of Rights. -
Washington's Presidency
George Washington was the 1st president and served 2 terms. -
Judiciary Act of 1787
This act set up the court system. -
Adam's Presidency
Adam's became president in the election of 1796. John Adam's was a federalist. -
Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson was a democratic-republican and when he defeated Adam's it was the first peaceful tranfer of partys. -
Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney and made cotton-growing very profittable. -
Reservation System
Indians were forced off their lands into smaller and smaller reservations. -
17th Admendment
Voters elect Senators now. (not state legislatures) -
Assimilation Policy
Plan under which Indians would be forced to adopt American culture. -
Homestead Strike
Carnegie Steel Plant.
Plant manager Henry Frick called the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Major gun battle. -
American Federation of Labor
Founder was Samuel Gompers.
"Craft union" only skilled workers from multiple industries.
Used "collective bargaining". -
Haymarket Square
Knights of labor protest in chicage the lead into bombs going off near police and resulted in 8 strikers getting arrested. -
Progressive Movement
It used the government to institute reforms to fix problems cause by industerialization. -
17th Admendment
Women gain the right to vote. -
Susan B. Anthony
Strong leader of the women's suffrage movement. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Expanded Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Outlaws price-fixing.
Exempts unions from Sherman Act. -
Marbury vs. Madison
this court case declared a law unconstitutional. It established the power of judicial law. -
Louisianna Purshase
Jefferson brought this land from France and it doubled the size of the U.S. -
War of 1812
Caused by British interference with American ships and British aid to indians in the west. All causes lead to the War of 1812. -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
This court case uphelded the federal governments rights to establish a bank. It established the doctrine of implied powers. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. -
Gibbons vs. Ogden
This court overturned a steamboat monopoly. This confirmed the federal governments power over commerce. -
Missouri Compromise
This divided LA Purchase at 36:30 and the North beacame free of slaves and the South was full of slaves. -
Monroe Doctrine
Created by president Monroe and said the west was different from Europe and the U.S. wouldnt interfere in Europe affairs. -
Liliuiokalani
tried to curb American power in Hawaii -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed the evils of slavery and it was a widely read book. Increased support in the North for abolition. -
Dred Scot Case
A slave named Dred Scot sued for freedom after being taking into free territory by his owner. This case overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery. -
Election of 1860
The main issue was slavery and Abraham Lincoln, a replublican, won. -
Battle of Antietam
Lee went north, lost at antietam and Licoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation freed slave "rebelling states" only. Abolishing slavery was a new northern war aim. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was in SC but it remained under union control. Conferderates fired on union ships that were there to resupply Fort Sumter. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Lee pushed North into Pennsylvania, it was a 3 day battle. Lee had to retreat. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Was held in Mississippi, Grant won and this cut the confederacy in half. -
Gettysburg Address
A short speech by Lincoln, dedicating the cemetery. -
Appamattox Courthouse
Lee surrendered and urged Southerners to accept surrender and unite. -
Lincoln's Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, shortly after the war. -
Reconstruction
The process of restoring s-states to union, and determining the position of African Americans. -
13th Admendment
Abolished slavery -
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Put south under military occupation. -
14th Admendment
Prohibited states from denying equal rights to any american, -
15th Admendment
Voting rights for african americans. -
"Old Immigrants"
Northern and western Europe.
Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, and Swedan. -
"New Immigrants"
Southern and eastern Europe.
Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
Asia.
China and japan -
Election of 1867
Republican- Ruthereord B. Haye
Democratic- Samuelk J. Tilden
Dispute election results. -
Jim Crow Laws
Established seperate facilities for whites & blacks. Black facilities were inferior. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Banned entry of almost all chinese. -
Imperialism
stronger countries extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker countries -
Dawes Act
The goal of this was to americanize the Indians. -
American Railway Union
The founder was Eugene V. Debs and this labor was specifically for railraod workers. -
Progressive Movement
Income disparity
Lavish lifestyle of the rich
"Robber barons" -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
prevented any business structure that restrained trade. the goaal was to outlaw trusts -
Pullman Strike
By pullman railroad workers.
Started nationwide RR boycott.
Federal government ended it. -
Yellow Journalism
American journalist that sensationalize Spanish brutality in Cuba -
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
S.C. said " seperate but equal" did not violate the 14th Admandment. Upheld Jim Crow Laws of segregation. -
Knights of Labor
Founder of this was Uriah Stevens. -
American Railway Union
Founder was Eugene V. Debs and this was a industerial union, mostly for railroad workers. -
Homestead Strike
this was a knights of labor protest, a bomb went off and 8 strikers were convicted. -
USS Maine
A American ship that exploded outside Cuba, the yellow press blame the spanish -
Boxer Rebellion
he Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti-foreigner movement which took place in China between 1899 and 1901. -
OPEN DOOR POLICY
The Open Door Policy is a concept in foreign affairs, initially used to refer to the United States policy in late 19th century and early 20th century that would grant multiple international powers with equal access to China, with none of them in total control of that country. -
Platt Admendment
US asserted the right to intervene in Cuban Affairs -
Roosevelt Corollary
he Roosevelt Corollary is a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address in 1904 after Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. -
Lusitania
US ships bound for England -
16th Admendment
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th Admendment
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
Federal Trade Commision Act
Creates FTC.
Investigates business practices. -
Clatyton Anti-trust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
Federal Trade Commision Act
The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. -
Isolationism
institutionalised by leaders who asserted that their nations' best interests were best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance, as well as a term used, sometimes pejoratively, in political debates. -
panama canal
he Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. -
Zimmerman Note
suggested german.mexican alliance against the US -
American Expeditionary Force
US forces in Europe
leader: John J. Pershing -
US Enters WW1
United States enters the war after the sinking of their ship, the Lusitania, by the Germans, and because of the German Telegram to get Mexico against the US and the US had close ties to Britain, -
Korematsu vs. US
Selective Service Act may refer to:
Selective Service Act of 1917, or Selective Draft Act, enacted April 28, 1917, for the American entry into World War I
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, enacted September 16, 1940, in preparation for the American entry into World War II -
Fourteen Points
Wilson's peace plan
goal: eliminate the cause of war -
19th Admendment
Women gain thew right to vote. -
Treaty of Versailles
the punishment of germany:
war guilt clause
had to pay reparations
couldnt have a army -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
Harlem Renaissance
explosion of black intellectual and cultural life
ex) Langston Hughes-black poet -
Immigration Restriction Act
Put a quota of how mant immigrants could come from each country.
Allowed move from old immigrant areas to new immigrant areas.
EFFECT: ended immigration for several decades. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was 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 human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Black Tuesday
Economics) October 29 1929 (day that the New York stock market crashed 13%, beginning of the Great Depression) -
Hoover
erbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer. -
Great Migration
anti-immigrant nativism surged after ww1
kkk:re-emmerged as an anti-immigrant group -
Dust Bowl
rea that is exposed to and suffers dust storms -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. -
New Deal
policies for economic improvement introduced in 1933 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
FDIC
U.S. Government agency which protects bank deposits against loss -
FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials, FDR, 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945), served for 12 years and four terms until his death in 1945, the only president ever to do so, and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. -
Social Security Act
the social security act, now codified as , was a social welfare legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States. -
Wagner Act
he National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 449) (also known as the Wagner Act after NY Senator Robert F. Wagner) is 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 Standard Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA; also referred to as the Wages and Hours Bill) is a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA introduced a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek, established a national minimum wage, 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. -
War in Europe Begins
World War 11 began when Hitler invaded Poland, going against the Treaty of Versailles, so Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Non-Aggression Pact
A non-aggression pact is a national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations. -
Pearl Harbour
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II. -
Miracle of Midway
he Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
D Day
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am British Double Summer Time -
Korematsu vs. US
Court case involving the unfair treatment of Japanese Americans by the United States government. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was 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. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day or VE Day—was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. -
Nagasaki A-Bomb
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. -
Nuremburg Trial
he Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg. -
NATO
Alliance between Britain, United States, France, Portugal and most of the western half of Europe. -
Communist Take Over China
Communist leader Mao Zedong led a communist revolution in China, but cut off ties with the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
War between North and South Korea, the North became communist and America fought alongside the South who remained democratic, however the war ended in a stalemate. -
Eisenhower
34th president of the United States, but also served as general in World War 2. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
Married couple who was charged with sending atomic secrets to the Soviets and helping them build the hydrogen bomb. -
Sputnik 1
First satellite in space, launched by the Soviet Union which began the race to get a man on the moon. -
U-2 Incident
The soviet union shot down a undetectful US spy plane with Francis Gary Powers and keep him hostage. -
Division of Germany
Timespan that Germany was seperated in two parts, controlled by the Soviet Union and the US and was both democratic (west) and communist (east) -
Berlin Wall
Wall built by East Germany to separate Berline so no one could escape to the other side. Eventually torn down. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The fight over Cuba continiued and the Soviet Union put missles on Duba, JFK threatened to blockade and demanded their removal from Cuba. -
Annex
the US annexed Hawaii in 1998 -
Treaty of Paris
US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Phillipines, and Cuba later became free. -
Allies
britain
france
russia -
Central Powers
germany
austria-hungary -
Prohibition
18th admendment banned alcohol use
many people broke this law -
CLO
A general counsel or chief legal officer (CLO) is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a company or a governmental department.
