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Colonization of Jamestown
The headright system gave colonist 50 acres and increased immigration -
Pilgrims planding at Plymouth
Mayflower pilgrims founded Plymouth -
Pequot War
As the puritans expand, they encroach on pequote territory, war is a series of massacres of villages/settlements; 500+ men, women, and children were killed -
King Philip's War
the most devastating war between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England -
Bacon's Rebellion
Indian dispute on the frontier, colonist ask protection from Virginia's governor but was denied -
Salem Witch Trials
a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts -
Proclamation of 1763
as an official order that prohibited white setters claiming territory designated as Indian country -
French and Indian War
England vs France -
Treaty of Paris 1763
France loses almost all of their land in North America -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Confederacy of Native Americans under Ottawa chief Pontiac, who attacked British forces at Detroit in May 1763 trying to remove them from French lands -
Intolerable Acts
the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament -
Articles of Confederation
created a "loose union" of states where states rights were important -
Shay's Rebellion
poor western farmers rebelled after being taxted by the local government -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
A law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Middle West -
Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed -
George Washington
1st president of the US, had wooden teeth, commander of the Continental Army -
Bill of Rights
Compromise, protection of basic civil liberties -
Whiskey Rebellion
Small farmer revolted in Pennsylvania after whiskey was taxed -
John Adams
2nd president, Adams was the first lawyer-president, not a slaveholder, first president to live in the white house -
Alien and Sedition Acts
four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress, passed by John Adams -
Judiciary Act of 1789
officially titled "An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States" -
Thomas Jefferson
3rd president, responsible for the Lousiana Purchase, he was an astronomer, architect, paleontologist, and an agriculturalist -
Louisiana Purchase
Owned by the Freanch, Napoleon needed money to finance his war with Britain and he no longer desired on American empire, so he sold the territory of $15 million -
Marbury v. Madison
A case decided by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803. The Court declared unanimously that a certain law passed by Congress should not be enforced, because the law was opposed to the Constitution. -
James Madison
4th president, the Father of the Constitution, key author of Bill of Rights, one of the authors of Federalist papers -
James Monroe
5th president, Monroe had a strong interest in the American west and its importance to the growing United States, coined the Era of Good Feelings, mentor was Thomas Jefferson, first president to travel by way of steamboat -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri applied for staehood as a slave state, upsetting the balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states -
Quincy Adams
6th president, he became a lawyer without going to law school, driving force behind the Monroe Doctrine, watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from a hill near his house in Quincy -
Tariff of 1828
Meant to help northern industry, because it taxed important goods. -
Andrew Jackson
7th presdient, he won the popular vote for president three times, he was the target of the first attempted presidential assassination, he was the only president to have been a former prisoner of war -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
A religious leader and self-styled Baptist minister, Turner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children -
Martin Van Buren
8th president, first American born president, he opposed the annexation of Texas, he resigned as secratary of state to quell a minor sex scandal -
Trail of Tears
Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma, called this journey the Trail of Tears -
William Henry Harrison
9th president, presidential term lasted for 33 days, he turned a native american "prophet" into an actual prophet -
John Tyler
1oth president, disagreed vehemently With the Missouri Compromise, treaty over northern US boundary, joined the Confederacy -
James Polk
11th president, started formal education at 18, 54°40' or fight, manifest destiny -
Mormon Migration
quest for religious freedom and growth -
Mexican Cession
US recieves large amount of land know as the mexican cession, agreeing to pay $15 billion -
Gold Rush
a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield -
Seneca Falls Convention
Women's rights convention -
Zachary Taylor
12th president, Mexican War hero, did not take sides about slavery during election, Clayton Bulwer Treaty -
Addition of Northwest Territory
Oregon came from the British, fought the british over territory, James K. Polk negotiated this boundary for Oregon -
Millard Fillmore
13th president, Fillmore attempted to reduce tensions between the North and South, once personally fought a fire at the Library of Congress, disagreed with Abraham Lincoln’s policies -
Compromise of 1850
new land after the Mexican War threatened -
Fugitive Slave Act
the antislavery advocates gained the admission of California as a free state, and the prohibition of slave-trading -
Franklin Pierce
14th president, state and federal legislator, defeated old commander in election on 1853, fought in mexican war, alcoholic -
Gadsden Purchase
purchase of $3 million by the US, agreement between the United States and Mexico, the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Senator Stephen Douglas pushed the organization, both were above 36 30' N and destined to be free states, prposed idea of "popular soverinity", allowing settlers to vote on the status of territories -
James Buchanan
15th president, set the stage for civil war, believed it was a matter for states to decide on slavery, was never married -
Dred Scott decision
A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his maste -
Abraham Lincoln
16th president, was assasinated, argued a case infront of Supreme Court, commander-in-chief of American Military, made slaves free -
Homestead Act
encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land, in exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Andrew Johnson
17th president, escaped from indentures servitude, mayor at age 22, never went to school -
Purchase of Alaska
the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million -
Ulysses Grant
18th president, Grant tried to annex the Dominican Republic to the U.S., did not like Andrew Jackson, served in the army -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States -
Rutherford Hayes
19th president, started White House tradition, allowed women in courtroom, first president to go west -
Compromise of 1877
hosue committee of 8 republicans and 7 democrats, voted 8-7 for Hayes
