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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. -
Start of Slavery
The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown to help with the production of tobacco. -
House of Burgesses
It was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. -
Mayflower Compact
It was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. -
French and Indian War
A war that lasted seven years. -
Treaty of Paris (1763)
The treaty ended the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation
It was signed by King George III. -
Stamp Act
It was passed by the British Parliament and put a tax on legal documents. -
Boston Massacre
Five colonists were killed by British troops. -
Boston Tea Party
Rebels in Massachusetts dumped tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the tax on tea. -
1st Continental Congress
It was the 1st time almost all 13 colonies acted together like a country. -
Lexington and Concord
British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. -
2nd Continental Congress
They created the Continental Army, in which George Washinton was named general. -
Declaration of Independence
The colonies officially separated from England. -
Articles of Confederation
It was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation. -
Yorktown
The French Navy blocked blocked the exit of the Chesapeake Bay. -
Critical Period
During this time, the newly independent former colonies were beset with a wide array of foreign and domestic problems. -
Treaty of Paris
England acknowledged American independence and widened the US's boundaries. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
This provided for the scientific surveying of the territory's lands and for a systematic subdivision of them. -
Shay's Rebellion
This was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts. -
Annapolis Convention
It was a meeting of 12 delegates from 5 states that called for a constitutional convention. -
Judiciary Act of 1787
It established the federal judiciary. -
Constitutional Convention
It was held in Philadelphia to address problems in the US. -
The Great Compromise
It was an agreement that large and small states reached that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
3/5ths Compromise
The compromise between the North and the South stating that slaves' votes would count as 3/5ths of a vote. -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This divided the land of the northwest. -
Washington's Presidency
He was the first president and served for 8 years. -
Bill of Rights Signed
These are the first 10 ammendments to the US Constitution. -
Cotton Gin
It's a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds invented by Eli Whitney. -
Adam's Presidency
He was the second president and served 4 years. -
Jefferson's Presidency
He was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States. -
Marbury Vs Madison
The court case in which judicial review was formed. -
Lousiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought this land from France. -
War of 1812
A war between the US and Britain that lasted 2 years and 8 months. -
McCulloch Vs Maryland
This case gave the idea of implied powers. -
Missouri Compromise
It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Monroe Doctrine
It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
Gibbons Vs Ogden
Where they made the decision that the Supreme Court would regulate commerce. -
Reservation System
Native Americans kept their citizenship. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It is an anti slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
He sued for freedom and the courts ruled that African Americans aren't citizens. -
Old Immigrants
Settlers through the first half of the 19th century. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln ran again Hamilton and won. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
This was the first battle in the Civil War. -
Homestead Act
This gave an applicant ownership to large amounts of land out west. -
Battle of Anteitam
It was the bloodiest battle in American history and the Union won, it led to Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was issued by Lincoln to free slaves in rebelling states. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The union surrounded Vicksburg, by the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The union won and this was the turning point of the war. -
Gettysburg Address
A speech Lincoln gave to commemorate fallen soldiers and dedicate the cemetary to them. -
Reconstruction
The time after the Civil War when the South was devestated. -
13th Amendment
This abolished slavery. -
Appomattox Courthouse
The confederates surrendered here. -
Lincoln's Assassination
He was shot by John Wilkes Booth, at a movie theater. -
Reconstruction Act of 1867
This put the South under martial law. -
Election of 1867
This was for the Confederate states. Robert E Lee ran against Nathan Bedford Forrest -
14th Amendment
This gave citizenship to former slaves -
Knights of Labor
Uriah Stevens led a very important labor union. -
15th Amendment
This gave African American men the right to vote. -
Jim Crow Laws
This was a series of anti-black laws. -
New Immigrants
This was when people from different countries immigrated here, known as the melting pot. -
Panama Canal
US asked Colombia if they could create it and they said no. We helped Panama gain their freedom back and eventually created it. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This restricted chinese immigration to the US -
Haymarket Square
This was a strike where a bomb went off and 8 police officers died. -
American Federation of Labor
First federal labor union in the United States. -
Dawes Act
The government divided the Native Americans' land. -
Assimilation Policy
The US wanted immigrants to lose their old culture. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
It prohibited trusts. -
Homestead Strike
It was in Pennsylvania, workers wanted better conditions. -
American Railway Union
It was the largest union back then and one of the first industrial ones. -
Pullman Strike
This was a nationwide railroad strike. -
Plessy V Ferguson 1896
Declared that segregated facilities can be seperate but equal. -
Spanish-American War
This was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas. -
Treaty of Paris
was an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in the Spanish Empire's surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico, parts of the Spanish West Indies, the island of Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. -
Open Door Policy
a policy that was set in 1899 in foreign affairs allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China -
Boxer Rebellion
a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China -
Platt Amendment
The Platt Amendment stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War and defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations. -
Roosevelt Corollary
a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address in 1904 -
Susan B Anthony
She was an American civil rights leader and femenist. -
17th Amendment
This established direct election of US senators by popular vote. -
16th Amendment
"allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census" -
WW1
A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
"a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the president of the United States for seven-year terms" -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
It was made to suuplement the Sherman Anti Trust Act -
US Enters WW1
We enter the war after the Lusitania is sunk by German U Boats. -
Selective Service Act of WW2
This allowed men to be drafted into the military. 10 million were drafted -
Progressive Movement
A period of social activism and political reform. -
14 Points
Statement by President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe. -
Harlem Renaissance
blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts -
18th Amendment
banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States -
19th Amendment
This gave women the right to vote. -
Treaty of Versailles
A peace treaty at the end of WW1 -
Great Migration
the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
Immigration Restriction Act
The amount of immigrants from each country was regulated. -
Scopes Trial
John Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution in schools. -
Hoover
Disliked president during the early years of the Great Depression -
Black Tuesday
The day the stock market crashed. -
Great Depression
A time when unemplyment hit an all time low and the country was poor. -
Dust Bowl
period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US -
CLO
The CLO -
New Deal
FDR's campaign to help america -
FDIC
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the American dollar. -
FDR
Well liked president, Rooselevelt, that helped the country get out of the depression. -
Wagner Act
It was enacted to eliminate employers’ interference with the autonomous organization of workers into unions. -
Social Security Act
An act by FDR to provide for the general welfare -
Fair Labor Standards Act
Provides minimum wage to workers and makes work safer -
Non Aggression Pact
a national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes -
War in Europe begins
Germany begins invading countries, starting with Poland. -
Germany Invades Russia
Germany and the Nazis begin to try taking over Russia -
Pearl Harbor
a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
US Declares War
We declare war after Pearl Harbor -
Miracle of Midway
one of the most important naval battles of World War II -
Korematsu V US
This ordered Japanese Americans to internment camps -
D Day
Soldiers arrive in Normandy and invade -
Battle of the Bulge
the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in World War Two -
Division of Germany
West was democratic and east was communist -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe day, when Germany surrendered. -
Hiroshima A-bomb
US dropped the first atomic bomb ever on this Japanese city -
Nagasaki A-bomb
The US dropped a bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, ending the war. -
Marshall Plan
was the 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. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers. Democracy vs Communism -
Nuremberg Trials
Post war trials for Nazi leaders of WW2 -
Berlin Airlift
We flew in supplies to Britain -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance. -
Communist Takeover of China
There was a communist revolution in China. leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China -
Korean War
a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. -
Eisenhower
the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army -
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
A couple caught giving atomic secrets to the Soviets -
Warsaw Pact
a mutual defense treaty among eight communist States of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Sputnik
Soviets launched the first satellite into space -
U2 Incident
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union -
JFK
John F Kennedy 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The UD had nuclear weapons pointed at the USSR and they had ones in Cuba pointing at us -
JFK assassination
He was shot in a parade by Lee Harvey Oswald.
