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First permanent English settlement in North America.
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Slavery meant making people your own property for no charge.
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First legislative assembly in Virginia.
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First gov't document of Plymouth Colony.
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War between the British and the American colonists and the French and the Indians.
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Signed by Great Britian, France, and Spain after the Seven Years' War.
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Banned American colonists from setting west of the Appalachains and Canada.
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Tax imposed on all legal documents.
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Fight between a patriot mob which resulted in 5 dead colonists.
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Event in which disguised colonists dumped more than 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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First time almost all 13 colonies acted upon together.
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Adopted the United States Declaration of Independence.
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First military engagements of the Revolutionary War.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson and signed in 1776.
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First constitution of the United States.
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Time period in which the U.S was under the Articles of Confederation.
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FInal battle of the Revolutionary War and where General Cornwallis surrendered to Washington.
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Ended the American Revolutionary War
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Congress did not have power to raise revenue by taxation.
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Armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts.
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Meeting of Commissioners to remedy effects of the Federal Government.
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Provided a method of admitting new states.
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Gathering of debating on whether or not to write a new constitution.
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Created a 2 house congress: Senate and the House of Represenatives.
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Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person when determining a state's representation in the House of Represenatives.
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First president of the United States of America and served from 1789-1797.
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Established the U.S federal judiciary.
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The Bill of Rights became law on this date.
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Invention created by Eli Whitney that quickly separated cotton fibers from their seeds.
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Second president of the United States of America and served from 1797-1801,
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Led a slave revolt in the year 1800.
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Third president of the United States of America and served from 1801-1809.
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Court case that established judicial review in the U.S.
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Large land purchased by Jefferson from the France that doubled the size of the United States.
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War that lasted 2 and a half years between the U.S and Great Britain in 1812.
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Court case that imposed a tax on all notes of banks.
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Settled disputes between free and slave states in 1820.
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The age of the common man is the age of Andrew Jackson.
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Stated that European countires couldn't interfere with North America, or it would result in aggravation.
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Established the power to keep commerce in the U.S.
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March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837
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Indians had to move west of the Mississippi River and went to present-day Oklahoma.
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Led a slave rebellion, which unfortunately resulted in 60 white male deaths.
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Important battle in the Texas Revoultion and troops fought until their last man was down.
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Battle where about 630 mexican soldiers were killed and 730 were captured.
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Congress finally agreed to annex Texas.
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War fought between the U.S and Mexico lasting nearly 2 years.
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Gold was found by James W. Marshall.
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First women's rights convention.
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Defused a four year confrontation between the slave states and free states.
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Law that made it easier to catch runaway slaves.
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Set of laws concerning the issue of slavery in the 1800s.
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American indians kept their citizenship with them in their tribes.
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Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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U.S. Supreme Court decision that said a slave was not a citizen.
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Four candidates accepted nominations for the presidency in 1860.
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First battle of the Civil War.
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Gave settlers 160 acres of land to settle in the west.
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Bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
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Presidential order by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
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The last major battle in the Civil War.
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Fought in Pennslyvania in 1863. One of the greatest battles during the Civil War.
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Speech by Lincoln during the Civil War.
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The time of rebuilding after the Civil War.
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Abolished slavey in 1865.
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Location where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
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Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth at a play in 1865.
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Divided the south into five districts.
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Gave citizenship to all people born in the United States.
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Uriah Stevens is the founder
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Any citizen was able to vote.
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Compromise that ended reconstruction.
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Segregation laws that were passed after reconstruction
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First restriction on immigration in1882.
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Strike where K of L was protested and a bomb went off near the police, resulting in 8 strikers being convicted.
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First federation of labor unions.
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Allowed the U.S President to survey the tribal lands,
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Made it illegal for companies to seek a monopoly or a trust.
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Strike which lead to a battle with guns.
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Largest labor union at the time.
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Nation wide strike involving railroads
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Opposed immigrants living in the United States.
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"Separate but Equal" court case in 1896.
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War fought between the U.S and Spain in 1898.
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Treaty that resulted in the U.S gaining Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines.
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United States' policy during the 19th and 20th century.
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A reform movement that said the rich was corrupting the public and private ways of life.
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Attempt to drive all foreigners away from China.
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Addition to the Monroe Doctrine.
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Established naval bases in 1903
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Ship canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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Movement of nearly 6 million african americans.
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Created the federal income tax.
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Senators were elected by state legislators in 1913.
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Expanded the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
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Woodrow Wilson's act against trusts during the Progressive Era.
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A war fought in 1914 between the Allies and the Central Powers.
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The U.S enters the war 2 days after the senate vote on the war.
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Peace statement by Woodrow Wilson in 1918.
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One of the main leaders of the women's suffrage in order to vote.
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Peace treaty at the end of World War 1.
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Women gained the right to vote.
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Prohibited the manufacture of alcohol.
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Cultural movement during the 1920's.
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Women gain the right to vote.
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Long recession during the 1920's in the U.S.
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American legal case in 1925.
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Elected into Presidency in 1928, and lost to FDR in 1932.
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October 29, 1929, the Stock Market crashed.
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A security backed by a pool of debt in the 1930's.
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Major Drought during the Great Depression.
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Attempt to destroy indian culture.
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Crushed Hoover in the Election of 1932. Created the "New Deal".
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Idea to hopefully help improve conditions of people during the Great Depression.
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Insured banking deposits during the 1930's.
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Set maximum hours and mimimum wage for workers.
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Enacted to eliminate employers' interference with the union force.
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Created a system of transfer statements in the 1930's.
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Germany and the Soviet Union said there would be no military action for the next 10 years.
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Germany invades Poland.
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System that randomly selects men to serve in the military.
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In 1941, Germany invaded Russia.
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The Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, causing the U.S to enter WWII.
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After the Attack on Pearl Harbor, we decided to enter the war.
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Naval battle of World War 2.
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A supreme court case that said the wartime was unconstitutional.
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Allied forces invaded the beaches of Normandy.
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Major German offensive campaign in 1944.
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The day of the Allied victory in Europe.
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Hiroshima was one of the two cities that we dropped an atomic bomb on.
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The other city that we dropped an atomic bomb on.
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Post-war trials of World War 2.
