American History 1

  • Colonization of JamesTown

    Colonization of JamesTown

    located in virginia
  • Pilgrims land in Plymoth

    Pilgrims land in Plymoth

    they actually landed near cape cod before moving to plymoth
  • Pequot War

    Pequot War

    an armed conflict bwtween the Pequot tribe and the English Settlers
  • King Phillips war

    King Phillips war

    THe first indian war
  • Bacon’s Rebellion

    Bacon’s Rebellion

    Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
  • Salem Witch trials

    Salem Witch trials

    executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging.
  • Proclamtion of 1763

    Proclamtion of 1763

    no one can settle west of the appalachinas
  • Pontiac’s War/Rebellion

    Pontiac’s War/Rebellion

    named after pontiac
  • Treaty of Paris of 1763

    Treaty of Paris of 1763

    The end of theFrench and Indian war
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    the first constitution for the united states
  • addition of Northwest Territory

    addition of Northwest Territory

    north west of the ohio river
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    The government allowed territory to the US north west of the ohio river
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    the adressing of the articles of confederation
  • Shays’ Rebellion

    Shays’ Rebellion

    War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in rising up against perceived economic injustices
  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    Alien and Sedition Acts

    john adams tried to pass a law about immigrants
  • Judiciary Act of 1789

    Judiciary Act of 1789

    An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States
  • George Washington

    George Washington

    Wooden teeth
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    12 amendments
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    a tax protest in the United States
  • John adams

    John adams

    George washingtons Vice President
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    He was one of the he draftsmen for the Declaration of Independence
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    828,000,000 square miles of territory from France
  • Marbury v. Madison

    Marbury v. Madison

    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.
  • James Madison

    James Madison

    He promoted the bill of rights and the constitution
  • James Monroe

    James Monroe

    Last president to be a founding father
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams

    John Adams son
  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff of 1828

    a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    First Irish president
  • Nat Turner’s Rebellion

    Nat Turner’s Rebellion

    rebel slaves killed 55 people
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren

    Very first American born president
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears

    Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison

    First Presdeint to die in office
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler

    His nickname was "His Accidency"
  • James K. Polk

    James K. Polk

    He was from North Carolina
  • mormon migraton

    mormon migraton

    Landed in Slat Lake City, Utah
  • Mexican Cession

    Mexican Cession

    The U.S. got land from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention

    womes rights
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor

    He was in the Army
  • Millard Filmore

    Millard Filmore

    the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act

    part of the Compromise of 1855
  • Franklin pierce

    Franklin pierce

    Pierce served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    A meeting wiht Mexico to get a piece of land that now is part of Arizona and New Mexico
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

    Allowed Kansas And Nebraska to decide theselves if they wanted slavery or not.
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    Was in the civil war
  • Dred Scott decision

    Dred Scott decision

    a slave wants to be a free man after living on free states
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    assassonated in a theater
  • Homestaed Act

    Homestaed Act

    This act encouraged western migration
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    freeing of slaves
  • Purchase of Alaska

    Purchase of Alaska

    We bought alaska from russia for 7.2 million dollars
  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    Worked close with abraham lincoln
  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad
  • Rutherford B. Hayes

    Rutherford B. Hayes

    He was a union army officer
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877

    pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.