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Jamestown
First Permanent Settlement -
Mayflower Compact
Government Authority or written agreement among themselves -
13 Colonies
New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies -
Virginia House of Burgesses
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Slavery in the Colonies
Transatlantic Slave Trade, Middle Passage, Slave Codes -
Mercanalism
Colonies give Mother Country there resources -
The First Great Awakening
All different types of people learning the preacher talking about we are all equal to God -
French Indian War
The French and British Fighting -
American Revolution
insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. Grievances, Unalienable Rights -
Articles of Confederation
gave little power to the federal government and more power to the states -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolution -
Constitutional Convention of 1787
New Jersey Plan, Virginia Plan, Great Compromise, Three/Fifths Compromise -
Constitution
Articles I,II,III establish our 3 branches of government and define their powers and limits -
7 Principles of the U.S Constitution
Popular Sovereignty, Republicanism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Federalism, Limited Government, Individual RIghts -
Bill of RIghts
1-10th Amendment -
Urbanization/Immigration
Factories Increases, Females able to work -
Reform Movements
Education Reform, Temperance Movement, Abolition Movement, Care for the Disabled and Mentally III, Prison Reform -
John Adams
XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts -
Marbury vs Madison
Judicial Review, John Marshall -
Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase, Embargo Acts -
James Madison
War of 1812 -
James Monroe
Monroe Doctrine, Era of Good Feelings -
Age of Jackson
Election of 1828, The Bank, Indian Removal Act, Nullification Crisis, Worcester vs Virginia, Trail of Tears -
Manifest Destiny
Unmistakable Future -
Westward Expansion
Westward Trails, Immigrants in the U.S, Homestead Acts, Railroads -
Sectionalism
MIssouri Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive SLave Law, Nullification Crisis, WIlmot Proviso, Kansas Nebraska Act, Dred Scott vs Sandford, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Raid on Harpers Ferry -
Civil War
Battle of Fort Sumter, First Battle of Bull Run, BAttle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, BAttle/Siege of Vicksburg, BAttle of Gettysburg, Surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln's Assassination -
Sharecropping
Borrowing supplies, housing, equipment, ect. on credit. ANd in exchange they contribute his family labor -
Reconstruction
Plans for Reconstruction, Freedmen's Bureau, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Black Codes, Reconstructions Amendments, African Americans in Office -
Compromise of 1877
The Democrats would peacefully allow the Republicans become the president ONLY if the Republicans remove all federal troops from the southern states
