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Colonization of Jamestown
Was the first successful permanent settlement in what became the united states -
Pilgrims landing at Plymouth
Plymouth citizens were fleeing religious persecution and searching for a place to worship freely. -
Pequot War
This war was the culmination of numerous conflicts between the colonists and the Indians -
King Philip’s War
Marked the last major effort by the Native Americans of southern New England to drive out the English settlers. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Goals were to get an idian Policy -
Salem Which Trials
A group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. -
French and Indian War
" Seven Years War' lasted 9 -
Pontiac’s War/Rebellion
A loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region -
Proclamation of 1763
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
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
This document served as the United States' first constitution -
Shays’ Rebellion
American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
Constitutional Convention
Also knwn as the Philedelphia convention -
George Washington
He was the first president of the United States -
Judiciary Act of 1789
Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed -
Bill of Rights
First ten amendments to the US Constituion -
Whiskey Rebellion
The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
John Adams
Was the first lawyer-president -
Alien and Sedition Acts
were four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress -
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote the declaration of Independence. -
Louisiana Purchase
us and france. US paid $15 million for the land west of the mississippi (827,000 sq. mi.) -
Marbury v. Madison
Marked the first time the Court asserted its role in reviewing federal legislation -
James Madison
president during war of 1812, the white house burned down. -
James Monroe
He was only president to serve as both secretary of war and of state -
Missouri Compromise
Request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted -
John Quincy Adams
John Adams, 2nd president, and John Quincy Adams, 6th president, are the first father son pair to become U.S. presidents -
Tariff of 1828
Designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew jackson is on the 20 dollar bill -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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. -
Martin Van Buren
First american born president -
Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson's controversial Indian Removal Act paved the way for The Trail of Tears -
William Henry Harrison
Shortest Presidency -
John Tyler
first vice president to become chief executive due to the death of his predecessor -
James K. polk
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mormon migration
migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah. -
Gold Rush
Miners extracted more than 750,000 pounds of gold during the California Gold Rush -
Mexican Cession
Mexico ceded the US in the treaty of guadalupe hidalego -
Seneca Falls Convention
It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". -
Zachary Taylor
spent 40 years in the army -
Fugitive Slave Act
The antislavery advocates gained the admission of California as a free state, and the prohibition of slave-trading in the District of Columbia -
Millard Fillmore
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress -
Gadsden purchase
The US paid $10 million to mexico and that later became Arizona and New Mexico -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Franklin Pierce
Signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, prompting a bloody conflict between Kansas' slavery states -
James Buchanan
He was the only president to be a lifelong bachelor, called a "doughface" for vieews on slavery -
Dred Scott decision
The decision inflamed regional tensions, which burned for another four years before exploding into the Civil War. -
Abraham Lincoln
Issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free states. -
Homestead Act
encountering western migration with providing 160 acres of land, if completing 5 years consecutive living -
Emancipation Proclamation
"that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Andrew Johnson
Never attended school. Became Mayor at age 22, first president to be impeached -
purchase of alaska
The US agreed agreed to purchase alaska from russia for $7.2 million -
Ulysses S. Grant
Led the union army to victory during the civil war and helped partically through reconstruction. -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
The California-based Central Pacific began laying tracks eastward from Sacramento. The eastern-based Union Pacific began in Omaha and built west. -
Compromise of 1877
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 -
Rutherford B. Hayes
His election was one of the tightest and most hostile in history -
addition of Northwest Territory
Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, structuring settlement of the Northwest Territory and creating a policy for the addition of new states to the nation -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Ended the seven years war & In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America,
