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Was the first successful permanent settlement in what became the united states
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Plymouth citizens were fleeing religious persecution and searching for a place to worship freely.
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This war was the culmination of numerous conflicts between the colonists and the Indians
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Marked the last major effort by the Native Americans of southern New England to drive out the English settlers.
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Goals were to get an idian Policy
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A group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.
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" Seven Years War' lasted 9
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A loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region
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forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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This document served as the United States' first constitution
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American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
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provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
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Also knwn as the Philedelphia convention
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He was the first president of the United States
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Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed
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First ten amendments to the US Constituion
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The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.
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Was the first lawyer-president
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were four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress
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Wrote the declaration of Independence.
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us and france. US paid $15 million for the land west of the mississippi (827,000 sq. mi.)
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Marked the first time the Court asserted its role in reviewing federal legislation
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president during war of 1812, the white house burned down.
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He was only president to serve as both secretary of war and of state
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Request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted
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John Adams, 2nd president, and John Quincy Adams, 6th president, are the first father son pair to become U.S. presidents
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Designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
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Andrew jackson is on the 20 dollar bill
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Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South.
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First american born president
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Andrew Jackson's controversial Indian Removal Act paved the way for The Trail of Tears
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Shortest Presidency
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first vice president to become chief executive due to the death of his predecessor
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migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
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Miners extracted more than 750,000 pounds of gold during the California Gold Rush
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Mexico ceded the US in the treaty of guadalupe hidalego
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It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
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spent 40 years in the army
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The antislavery advocates gained the admission of California as a free state, and the prohibition of slave-trading in the District of Columbia
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress
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The US paid $10 million to mexico and that later became Arizona and New Mexico
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, prompting a bloody conflict between Kansas' slavery states
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He was the only president to be a lifelong bachelor, called a "doughface" for vieews on slavery
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The decision inflamed regional tensions, which burned for another four years before exploding into the Civil War.
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Issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free states.
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encountering western migration with providing 160 acres of land, if completing 5 years consecutive living
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"that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Never attended school. Became Mayor at age 22, first president to be impeached
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The US agreed agreed to purchase alaska from russia for $7.2 million
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Led the union army to victory during the civil war and helped partically through reconstruction.
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The California-based Central Pacific began laying tracks eastward from Sacramento. The eastern-based Union Pacific began in Omaha and built west.
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unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era
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His election was one of the tightest and most hostile in history
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Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, structuring settlement of the Northwest Territory and creating a policy for the addition of new states to the nation
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Ended the seven years war & In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America,
