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Founding of Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement. Established by the Virginia Company of London. Original name was to be "James Fort". -
House of Burgesses
First Assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company. The word "burgess" means an elected or appointed Official. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
The first settlement of the Plymouth colony was New Plymouth. New Plymouth was surveyed by Captain John Smith. Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
Founded by the owners of the Massachussets Bay Company. English Settlement. It was situated around present day Salem and Boston. -
Pequot War
An armed conflict between the Pequot Indians against the alliance of Massachusetts bay, Plymouth and Saybrook. Hundreds were killed, but a lot of them were captured as slaves and sold as slaves to the west indies. -
King Philip’s War
Sometimes called the "First Indian War". This was an armed conflict between Indians in present day New England and the English settlers and their native american allies. -
Salem Witch Trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. Most famous trials were done in the court at Salem Town -
French and Indian War
Mainly fought between the Colonies of British America and New France. Both sides had military unit support from their parent countries. Seven Year War. -
Stamp Act
Direct tax imposed on the Colonies. The act required many printed materials in the colonies be printed on stamped paper produced in England. The stamp act created great resistance throughout the Colonies. -
Quartering act
These acts forced English settlers to provide British Soldiers with living and provisions. Angered Settlers. Violated the Bill of Rights of 1689 -
Boston Massacre
Named: "Incident on King Street" by the British. British Army Soldiers killed 5 civilians in Boston. Trial was unfair. -
Boston Tea Party
Political Protest by the Sons of Liberty. Resistance against the tea act. Dumped lots of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Tea Act
Enforced by the British Parliment to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the British East India Company. Outraged the settlers, later causing them to carry out the Boston Tea Party. -
Declaration of Independence
Statement adopted by the Continental Congress. 56 Delegates signed the declaration. Ensured independence of the United States. -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws passed by the British Parliment. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. Important development of the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolution. Marked the outbreak of an armed conflict with Kingdom of Great Britan and the Thirteen Colonies. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
It was an uprising in the Virginia Colony. Rebellion was led by 29 year-old planter, Nathanial Bacon. First rebellion in the American Colonies. -
Judiciary Act 1789
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Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement. It was past its peak by the 1840s. It has been described as a reaction against skepticism, deism and rational Christianity, although why those forces became pressing enough at the time to spark revivals is not ful -
Whiskey Rebellion
Farmers in Massachusetts were angry because they werer going to have to start paying taxes on Whiskey. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
ederalists adopted the naturalization act (increased number of years required for immigrants to qualify for citizenship), the alien acts (authorized prex to deport any aliens considered dangerous to detain any enemy aliens in time of war), and sedition act (made it illegal for newspaper editors to criticize either the prez or congress and imposed heavy penalties for those who violated). -
Revoltuion of 1800
efferson’s election = federalist to republican, was monumental in the development of the U.S. -
Louisianna Purchase
at the mouth of the Mississippi lay the territory’s most valuable property in terms of commerce—the port of New Orleans. in 1800, the French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte secretly forced Spain to give the Louisiana Territory back to its former owner, France, since Napoleon wanted French empire in the Americas. Napoleon had lost interest in this plan for two reasons: (1) he needed to concentrate French resources on fighting England and (2) a rebellion led by Toussaint l’Ouvertu -
Marbury vs Madison
he case was created from a petition to the supreme court by William Marbury, who was the Justice of the peace in the District of Columbia,but was not delivered full earned commision. It was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American -
Embargo act 1807
Enacted by the congress in 1807, this act banned U.S. ports or ships to trade with foreign nations. -
War of 1812
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Election of 1816 (beginning of Era of Good Feelings)
The United States had ratified the Treaty of Ghent February of 1815. The war between the Unite States, and the United Kingdom was officially ended. This led to a surge in United States patriotism, induced from the 2nd defeat of Great Britain. This was also driven by a desire to end political tensions between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, though; the Federalists would disband after 1815. James Monroe would later try to institute policy to eliminate US of America political partie -
Indian Removal Act 1830
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
Nullification is the formal suspension by a state of a federal law within its borders. The concept was first given voice by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts. The principle was accepted by the Hartford Convention of New Englanders in 1814 as well as many in the South, who saw it as protection against federal encroachment on their rights. -
Texas Independence
Texas Declaration of Independence. Formal Declaration for the Republic of Texas. Independence from Mexico. Signed at Washington-on-the-Brazos. -
Mexican-American War
Armed conflict between Mexico and the United States. Majority of fighting was done in Mexico and present day Texas. Famous battles: Battle of the Alamo. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Peace treaty signed by Mexico and the United States to end the Mexican-American War. Gave the U.S. a lot of land, as long as we paid Mexico off 15 million. The peace talks were negotiated by Nicholas Trist. -
Dawes Act
The purpose of the Dawes Act and the subsequent acts that extended its initial provisions was purportedly to protect Indian property rights, particularly during the land rushes of the 1890s, but in many instances the results were vastly different. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days to protest conditions on the reservation. -
Spanish-American War
Conflict between Spain and America. This was the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban war for Independence. -
Founding of the NAACP
Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) -
First Red Scare
a period of general fear of communists. -
Red Summer
The rise and fall of Jim Crow. Race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement" -
Election of 1932
The election took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President and Republican candidate Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. Economics was dominant, and the sort of cultural issues that had dominated previous elections including Catholicism and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were dormant. -
New Deal
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Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure -
Truman Doctrine (associate ‘containment’)
The American foreign policy providing military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. -
Creation of NATO 1949
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II (1939-45). -
Korean War (1950-1953)
World War II divided Korea into a Communist, northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. The Korean War (1950-1953) began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. -
Creation of NATO 1949
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II (1939-45). This alignment provi -
Fall of China to Communism (1949)
The war represented an ideological split (Left vs. Right) between the KMT's brand of Nationalism, and the Communist CPC. In mainland China today, the last three years of the war (1947–1949) are more commonly known as the War of Liberation, or alternatively the Third Internal Revolutionary War -
Election of 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional investigations into the issue of Communist spies within the U.S. government. -
Constitutional Convention
For four months, 55 delegates met in the State House of Philadelphia to frame the constitution for the new federation. -
Lousisianna Purchase
In 1803 the U.S acquired 828,000 square miles of France's Louisiana territory, paying 50 million francs and canceling out other debt France owed to them. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shay's rebellion was an armed uprising of Massachusetts citizens against their government. Revealed flaws in the fledgling government. -
Election of 1828
The campaign was the first true mud-slinging contest. Adams was accused of misusing public funds — he had supposedly purchased gambling devices for the presidential residence; actually he had simply bought a chessboard and a pool table. The charges against Jackson were much more malicious. He was accused of murder for executing militia deserters and dueling. -
Election of 1824 (corrupt bargain)
The 1824 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time no candidate ran as a Federalist, while five significant candidates competed as Democratic-Republicans.
