American History 1

  • Magnacarta
    Nov 20, 1215

    Magnacarta

    Rights of nobles
  • Jamestown Founded

    Jamestown Founded

  • Mayflower

    Mayflower

  • King Philips War

    King Philips War

    Last major effort by Native Americans
  • Bacons Rebellion

    Bacons Rebellion

    Indian dispute on the frontier
  • English Bill Of Rights

    English Bill Of Rights

    creates rights for English citizens
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    West Indian slave woman was accused as being a witch.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    War between Britian and France over territory
  • Pontiacts rebellion

    Pontiacts rebellion

    confederacy of Native Americans attacked British forces
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    England v. France over land and France loses most land
  • Treaty Of Paris

    Treaty Of Paris

    ended the war
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    13 colonies rejected the British government
  • Regulator Movement

    Regulator Movement

    Farmers in western NC resented taxes and fees
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Louisiana purchase
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    The basic laws every American will follow
  • Treaty Of Paris

    Treaty Of Paris

    ended Revolutionary War; land was taken from the British
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    All states represented and they made decisions on the laws
  • 3/5 Compromise

    3/5 Compromise

    Made slaves worth 3/5th of a person
  • Great Compromise

    Great Compromise

    Large and small states made compromises
  • Connecticuit Compromise

    Connecticuit Compromise

    Also known as the Great Compromise
  • George Washington

    George Washington

    Jays treaty
  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    Alien and Sedition Acts

    Passed to silence criticism of the federalists
  • Judiciary Act of 1789

    Judiciary Act of 1789

    Established the Supreme Court as the Judical ruler
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    Tax on alcohol
  • John Adams

    John Adams

    Federalist president
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

  • James Madison

    James Madison

    War of 1812
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler

    Annexed Texas
  • Federalist

    Federalist

    Strong Central government
  • Red River Basin

    Red River Basin

    Britian and the United States would share Oregon territory
  • Florida

    Florida

    United States took Florida from Spain.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    Anything above Missouri was a free state
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    2 forgien policy ideas
  • Texas Anneaxtion

    Texas Anneaxtion

    Texas was added as a state
  • James Monroe

    James Monroe

    Era of good feelings
  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams

    Currupt bargin
  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff of 1828

    Taxed imported goods, helped North
  • Nullification

    Nullification

    when a state goes against the Federal gov.
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    was elected president
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    Peggy Eaton affair
  • Transcedentionalism

    Transcedentionalism

    A movement in Literature
  • Aboltionists

    Aboltionists

    led slaves revolt
  • Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman

    A poet in the Literature movement
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren

    Panic of 1837
  • William H. Harrison

    William H. Harrison

    Died from pneumonia
  • James K. Polk

    Mexico seceded California and New Mexico
  • Texas Annexation

    Texas Annexation

    Texas asked to be a part of the United States and then Mexico declared war.
  • Oregon Country

    Oregon Country

    Britian and United States had Oregon, but Britian didnt want to go to war over this issue so they gave it to the US
  • Mexican Cession

    Mexican Cession

    Congress declares war on Mexico
  • Womens Right

    Womens Right

    women supporting the rights they should have
  • Zachary Taylor

    Gold rush
  • Scalawags

    Scalawags

    White Sotherners
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    CAlifornia applied as a free state
  • Nathaniel Hawthrone

    Nathaniel Hawthrone

    Wrote the Scarlett letter
  • Millard Fillmore

    Comproise of 1850
  • Franklin Pierce

    Onsted Manifesto
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    Mexico was in desperate need of money and agreed to give it up.
  • Carpetbaggers

    Carpetbaggers

    Northerners that moved south
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

    Allowing people to vote on the status
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    Dread Scott
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    A slave that thought he should be free
  • Andrew Johnson

    Ratified the 14th Amendment
  • The election of 1860

    The election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln was elected president
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Civil War
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    freed all slaves
  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson

    King Veto
  • Alaska

    Alaska

    America bought Alaska from Russia
  • Ulysses S Grant

    Ulysses S Grant

    he made the 15th Amendment
  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    KKK Act
  • !3th Amendment

    !3th Amendment

    Freed all slaves
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Gave all blacks citizenship
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Gave all black men right to vote
  • Radical Reconstruction

    Radical Reconstruction

    Promised freedom and 40 acres of land
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877

    Ends the Radical Reconstruction
  • John Adams

    John Adams

    Alien and Sedition Act
  • The American System

    The American System

    Protective Tariff and National BAnk
  • Horace  Mann

    Horace Mann

    Reformer in education
  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix

    Observed treatment of the mentally ill and pased laws for all states to get hospitals
  • Utopian Society

    Utopian Society

    created their own community free from evil
  • Hawaii

    Hawaii

    Plantationers wanted Hawaii
  • Federalist Papers

    Federalist Papers

    85 article essays