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English settle in Jamestown, Virginia
Considered first permanent English settlement -
Boston Tea Party
Goals: To protest British Parliament's unfair tax on tea. "No taxation without representation."
Methods: Throw the tea into Boston Harbor -
American Revolutionary War begins
The United States began a military rebellion against Great Britain as the Thirteen American Colonies which joined together as the United States of America. -
Declaration of Independence
The USA regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. -
Articles of Confederation signed
This was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
American Revolutionary War ends
The Treaty of Paris ended the war and recognized the sovereignty of the United States over the territory bounded roughly by what is now Canada to the north, Florida to the south, and the Mississippi River to the west. -
Philadelphia Convention (Constitutional Convention)
It was a meeting held by delegates from the 13 states that then comprised the United States. At first, the purpose of the convention was to address the problems the federal government was having ruling the states and staying fiscally sound under the provisions of the Articles of Confederation. What actually occurred was the formation of a new plan of government, which was outlined in the newly-drafted U.S. Constitution, which strengthened the federal government and remains the same today. -
Constitution Signed/Ratified
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Bill of Rights added to the Constitution
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Marbury v. Madison
In this 1803 landmark decision, the supreme court first asserted the power of judicial review under Article III of the Constitution. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
It was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. -
American Civil War begins
The war began after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories -
American civil war ends
After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves began. -
CIvil Rights Amendments (13)
Ended slavery -
End of slave trade
Offical abolishment of slavery in the United States. -
Civil Rights Amendments (14)
Granted blacks citizenship and required states to give equal protection to everyone -
Civil Rights Amendments (15)
Prohibits prevention of voting based on race, color or previous condition of servitude such as slavery. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
WW1
Britian join France to prevent invasion from Germany. -
WW1 - America joins the war
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Women voting rights
!9th ammendment women got the vote across America. -
Wall Street Crash
The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.The crash signalled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries -
Launch of New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936.President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the programs in response to the Great Depression (wall street crash), and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
Pearl Harbour (America joins WW2)
A suprise attack on a US military naval base by the japanese, which lead to america joining WW2. -
Korean War begins
Kim Il Sung invades south korea sparkind US intervention. -
Korean War ends
US failed -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students enrolled in a white previously segregated school, caused many an issue. -
Brown v. Topeka
The United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement. -
Vietnam War begins
The USA make a bad move. -
Cuban missile crisis
It was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
March on Washington
One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. 'I have a dream' -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin by federal and state governments as well as some public places. -
Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis of the 1970s, which eventully led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. It invloved someone breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, Nixon had prior knowledge of this scandal and he had tape recordings to prove it but refused to give them over when asked as he was president.The court then declared it unconsitutional, proving that no president was above the law. -
Roe v. Wade
The supreme court ruled women could have abortions -
Veitnam War ends
The USA OBVIOUSLY lost -
Iranian hostage crisis
Sixty-six American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981), after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the US Embassy in Tehran. -
Iran–Contra affair
During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo (political scandal) -
First Iraq War
(2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991)
On August 2nd 1990 Iraq started its invasion of Kuwait.
After the invasion many UN resolutions were passed and Iraq was given time to withdraw. Iraq ignored all mandates and resolutions thrown at them so on the 17th January 1991 a UN backed coalition of forces from many different countries started the Gulf War. -
Clintons impeachment
Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, -
9/11
It wasa series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage. -
Patriot Act
Its goals are to strengthen domestic security and broaden the powers of law-enforcement agencies with regards to identifying and stopping terrorists.
'Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism' -
United States Department of Homeland Security created
It is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the United States and its territories from and responding to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters. -
Invasion of Iraq
(19 March to 1 May 2003)
The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States and UN forces invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein, to capture the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes (at least 1,833 people died), in the history of the United States. -
American Recovery Act
It is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st century. -
Start of the Tea Party
The Tea Party movement is an American political movement known for advocating a reduction in the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing U.S. government spending and taxes. -
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
The United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political independent expenditures by corporations, associations, or labor unions. -
Affordable Care Act
is the new health care reform law, that attempts to reform the healthcare system by providing more Americans with affordable quality health insurance and by curbing the growth in healthcare spending in the U.S. -
Occupy Movement
The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed. -
Governement shutdown
The government entered a shutdown after Congress failed to enact legislation appropriating funds for 2014
