American History 1 Honors

  • colonization of Jamestown

    colonization of Jamestown

    in Virginia
  • Pilgrims landing at Plymouth

    Pilgrims landing at Plymouth

    on mayflower
  • Pequot War

    Pequot War

    armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists
  • King Philip’s War

    King Philip’s War

    sometimes called the First Indian War
  • Bacon’s Rebellion

    Bacon’s Rebellion

    an armed rebellion
  • Salem Witch trials

    Salem Witch trials

    trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    British America and New France
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands
  • Pontiac’s War/Rebellion

    Pontiac’s War/Rebellion

    by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes
  • Treaty of Paris of 1763

    Treaty of Paris of 1763

    France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain
  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    after the Boston Tea party
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    established the functions of the national government of the United States
  • Shays’ Rebellion

    Shays’ Rebellion

    series of protests
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    by the Second Continental Congress
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    known as the Philadelphia Convention
  • Judiciary Act of 1789

    Judiciary Act of 1789

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

    George Washington

    Had wooden teeth
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    whiskey tax
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Founding Father
  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    Alien and Sedition Acts

    four bills passed by the Federalist
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    $15 million
  • Marbury v. Madison

    Marbury v. Madison

    Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution
  • John Adams

    John Adams

    Also a lawyer
  • James Madison

    James Madison

    4th President
  • James Monroe

    James Monroe

    last president who was a founding father
  • missouri compromise

    missouri compromise

    between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions
  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams

    also served as a senator at the house of representitives
  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff of 1828

    Passed by congress
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    7th president
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren

    blamed for depression of 1837
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    Indian removal
  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison

    miliitary officer
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler

    became president after Harrison's death
  • James K Polk

    James K Polk

    Born in North Carolina
  • mormon migration

    migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley
  • Mexican Cession

    Mexican Cession

    region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S.
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention

    discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor

    served until death
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    in California
  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore

    13th president
  • Compromise of 1850

    5 bills passed by congress
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Part of compromise of 1850
  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce

    northern democrat
  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase

    29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

    decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    serving immediately prior to the American Civil War
  • Fred Scott Decision

    vs Sanford
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    assasinated
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Abe Lincoln
  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson

    17th president
  • Purchase of Alaska

    Purchase of Alaska

    United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million
  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    18th president
  • completion of transcontinental railroad

    completion of transcontinental railroad

    signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States
  • Rutherford B Hayes

    Rutherford B Hayes

    oversaw the end of Reconstruction
  • Compromise of 1877

    Ended reconstruction