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Jamestown was founded by English colonists who were looking for a new start. The purpose of the colony was to grow crops to make money off the different crops in the New World. It was the first colony in America.
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The House of Burgesses was established by the Virginia Colony and was the first assembly of elected representatives in North America in the English Colony.
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The Plymouth colony was founded by English Puritans who fled England for religious freedom. It was one of the first successful colonies.
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The Massachussets Bay Colony was founded by John Winthrop and was founded for economic reasons.
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It was a war between the Pequot tribe and the English colonists of the Plmyouth and Massachussets Bay colonies as well as their Native American allies.
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This was a war between the Native Americans and the New England Colonists. It one one of the bloodiest wars in history and many colonial towns were destroyed.
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Bacon’s Rebellion was an uprising consisting of indentured servants, poor whites, and poor blacks that didn’t agree with the way they were being governed. The rebellion caused a separation in social classes as it caused a new level of the social class to be added to the colonies: the slaves.
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In Salem 19 men and women were convicted of witchcraft and were hung.
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The Americans fought with the help of British soldiers they against the French and Native Americans. The cause was a border dispute with the Appalachian Mountains.
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American colonist had to house British soldiers. It was a part of the Intolerable Acts for the American Revolution.
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Everything of print had to have the British stamp on it in order for them to make money. This was also part of the Intolerable Acts.
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The British taxed the colonist tea and drove up the prices. This pushed people over the edge and led to the Boston Tea Party.
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This was an event that stirred up the revolution in which rioting Boston citizens were shot to death by British soldiers.
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The colonists rebelled against the British who was limiting who they bought and sold tea to. The British was also taxing them without the proper representation.
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A series of laws passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, and these acts outraged the colonies.
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This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Nobody knows who fired the first shots.
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This was the document that declared the American colonies independent from Great Britain. It was written by Thomas Jefferson.
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An uprising of armed farmers that protested foreclosed farms. Persuaded the government to write the Costitution.
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Convention called to revise the Articles of confederation, and made the Constitution. Decided representatives based on the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plans.
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landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary
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A revival in Christian values throughout the United States.
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A rebellion against a whiskey taxes imposed on farmers. They attacked the tax collectors.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France
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Jefferson’s election that was change from federalist to republican government
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Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.su 137 (1803), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercize of judicial review in the United States under Article lll of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally seperate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government.
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.Lousiana purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana territory from napoleon in 1803 under jefferson
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a stop on all international trade in order to pressure England and France to remove strict commercial trading policy’s.
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The causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the U.S. as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. In 1812, with President Madison in office, Congress declared war against the British.
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Presidential election where President Monroe was elected easily without much competetion. This started the era of good feelings.
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There was no winner in the presedential election, so the vote went to the House and Henry Clay talked the House into voting for John Quincy Adams, who got elected.
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President Andrew Jackson was elected and represented the common man.
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Law calling for the removal of Native Americans onto Reservations enacted by Andrew Jackson.
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The decision by South Carolina to nullify a tariff imposed by the National government, which started the debate on whether states had the right to nullify federal laws.
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Texas won its independence from Mexico following the Texas Revolution.
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This war was the result of a border dispute between Texas and Mexico, and it followed the annexation of Texas. The United States won the war.
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This ended the Mexican American war, and has the United States pay 15 million dollars to Mexico in exchange for the Rio Grande border for Texas and land that included New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
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The objective was to assimilate Native Americans to American society.
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A Native American man refused to give up his rifle, and a shot was accidentally fired. An American army regimine opened fire on all the Native Americans in the camp.
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This was a war between America and Spain that was the result in America’s intervention in the Cuban Revolution. This war allowed the U.S. to control Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
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Founded to be a civil rights organization in response to race riots.
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The widespread fear of the spread of anarchism.
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Race riots that occured across the country ion which whites attacked African Americans.
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Cultural movement for many African Americans that formed a "New Negro."
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Elected FDR during the Great Depression and he led the country out of it.
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A series of government programs that generated jobs and money to help the U.S. climb out of the Great Depression
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The United States bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War 2 and are the only use of nuclear weapons ever.
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The U.S. policy that they would aid Greece and Turkey in an attempt to contain communism.
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A group of countries that banded together and made it clear that a Soviet attack on one of the nations would be an attack on all of the nations.
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China's government changed into a communist system in 1949
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War between North and South Korea.
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Election during the Cold War in which President Eisenhower was elected.
