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colonization of Jamestown
in Virginia -
Pilgrims landing at Plymouth
on mayflower -
Pequot War
armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists -
King Philip’s War
sometimes called the First Indian War -
Bacon’s Rebellion
an armed rebellion -
Salem Witch trials
trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft -
French and Indian War
British America and New France -
Proclamation of 1763
intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands -
Pontiac’s War/Rebellion
by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain -
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
after the Boston Tea party -
Articles of Confederation
established the functions of the national government of the United States -
Shays’ Rebellion
series of protests -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
by the Second Continental Congress -
Constitutional Convention
known as the Philadelphia Convention -
Judiciary Act of 1789
An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States -
George Washington
Had wooden teeth -
Whiskey Rebellion
whiskey tax -
Bill of Rights
collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution -
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father -
Alien and Sedition Acts
four bills passed by the Federalist -
Louisiana Purchase
$15 million -
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
Also a lawyer -
James Madison
4th President -
James Monroe
last president who was a founding father -
missouri compromise
between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions -
John Quincy Adams
also served as a senator at the house of representitives -
Tariff of 1828
Passed by congress -
Andrew Jackson
7th president -
Martin Van Buren
blamed for depression of 1837 -
Trail of Tears
Indian removal -
William Henry Harrison
miliitary officer -
John Tyler
became president after Harrison's death -
James K Polk
Born in North Carolina -
mormon migration
migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley -
Mexican Cession
region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. -
Seneca Falls Convention
discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman -
Zachary Taylor
served until death -
Gold Rush
in California -
Millard Fillmore
13th president -
Compromise of 1850
5 bills passed by congress -
Fugitive Slave Act
Part of compromise of 1850 -
Franklin Pierce
northern democrat -
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
decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders -
James Buchanan
serving immediately prior to the American Civil War -
Fred Scott Decision
vs Sanford -
Abraham Lincoln
assasinated -
Homestead Act
encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abe Lincoln -
Andrew Johnson
17th president -
Purchase of Alaska
United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million -
Ulysses S. Grant
18th president -
completion of transcontinental railroad
signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States -
Rutherford B Hayes
oversaw the end of Reconstruction -
Compromise of 1877
Ended reconstruction
