American History I

Magna Carta

Jan 1, 1215

Document recognizes right of nobles, limits power of kings, and establishes checks and balances

Jamestown

Jan 1, 1607

Mayflower Sailed

Sep 6, 1620

William Penn

Dec 10, 1644

Founded Pennsylvania;Quaker

King Phillip's War

Jan 1, 1675

Last Major effort by Native America s of Southern New Englang to expel teh British

Bacon's Rebellion

Jan 1, 1676

Tax protest

Glorious Revolution

Dec 10, 1688

overthrow of King James II

John Locke

Dec 10, 1689

Author/Philosopher

Two Treaties of Government

Dec 10, 1689

Book by John Locke

Salem Witch Trials

Dec 10, 1692

series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts

French and Indian War

Jan 1, 1754

France loses almost all land in North America.
Indians in the Ohio Valley revolt against the British forts.
Conflict become costly for Britain
Treaty of Paris ended it

Industrial Revolution

Dec 10, 1760

Pontiacs Rebellion

Dec 10, 1763

war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region

John DIckinson

Dec 10, 1763

Author/Founding Father/Pennsylvania

Phillis Wheatley

Dec 10, 1773

First African American women to publish a poem

Revolutionary War

Jan 1, 1775

Treaty of Paris
13 colonies gained independance

Paul Revere

Dec 10, 1775

British are coming; silversmith; patriot

Thomas Paine

Dec 10, 1775

Author/Philosopher

Samuel Adams

Dec 10, 1776

Founding Father

The Wealth of Nations

Dec 10, 1776

Book by Adam Smith

Common Sense Book

Dec 10, 1776

Book by Thomas Paine

Yorktown defeats Britain

Jan 1, 1781

Treaty of Paris

Jan 1, 1783

Ended Revolutionary war; gainde land from Britain

Shay's Rebellion

Dec 10, 1786

protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.

3/5ths compromise

Dec 10, 1787

African Americans were only 3/5 of a vote

George Washington

Dec 10, 1789

First president

Whiskey Rebellion

Jan 1, 1793

Famers in Pennsylvania revolted after Whiskey was taxed

Cotton Gin

Dec 10, 1794

device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber

John Adams

Dec 11, 1797

2nd President

Alien and Sedition acts of 1798

Dec 10, 1798

Challeneged Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson

Dec 11, 1801

3rd

Louisiana Purchase

Jan 1, 1803

Embargo Act of 1807

Dec 10, 1807

James Madison

Dec 11, 1809

4th

Convention of 1818

Jan 1, 1812

Ended the war of 1812

War of 1812

Jan 1, 1812

Embargo Act of 1807; Madison gets elected in 1808
Treaty of Ghent

James Monroe

Dec 11, 1817

5th

Gained Floria

Jan 1, 1819

Given to us by Spain

Missouri Compromise

Dec 10, 1819

effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri

Monroe Doctrine

Dec 10, 1823

foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823

Jphn Quincy Adams

Dec 11, 1825

6th

Tariff of 1828

Dec 10, 1828

protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828

Andrew Jackson

Dec 11, 1829

7th

Telegraph

Dec 10, 1830

revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.

Nat Turner

Dec 10, 1831

Led only successful slave revolt in history in Southampton County, Virginia

Whigs

Dec 10, 1833

Political Party

Marshall Court

Dec 10, 1835

Supreme court when John Marshall was cheif justice

Martin Van Buren

Dec 11, 1837

8th

Trail of Tears

Dec 10, 1838

Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.

William Henry Harrison

Dec 11, 1841

9th

John Tyler

Dec 11, 1841

10th

Gained Texas

Sep 10, 1845

Under threat of Invasion, Mexico didn't have enough money for Texas, so they asked to be part of the United States.

James K. Polk

Dec 11, 1845

11th

Oregon Country

Jan 1, 1846

Britain and the U.S. decided to split the land, and it is now Oregon

Mexican American War

Jan 1, 1846

13,000 US men killed; United States expanded by 1/3
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Mexico Cession

Jan 1, 1848

Signed treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and bought Texas and part of Mexico for $15 Million

Free Soil Party

Dec 10, 1848

short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections.

Zachary Taylor

Dec 11, 1849

12th

Millard Filmore

Dec 11, 1850

13th

Franklin Pierce

Dec 11, 1853

14th

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Oct 1, 1854

Allowing Settlers to vote on the status of the territories

Dred Scott

Jan 1, 1857

James Buchanan

Dec 11, 1857

15th

Election on 1860

Dec 10, 1860

Abraham Lincoln becomes president.

Abraham Lincoln

Dec 11, 1861

16th

Homestead act

May 20, 1862

encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.

Emancipation Proclamation

Dec 10, 1863

proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Barbed Wire

Dec 10, 1863

steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points

Carpetbaggers

Dec 10, 1865

Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to make money.

Klu Klux Klan

Dec 10, 1865

secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups

Andrew Johnson

Dec 11, 1865

17th

Sharecropping

Dec 10, 1867

landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.

Ulysses S. Grant

Dec 11, 1869

18th

Naturalization act of 1870

Dec 10, 1870

created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties

Rutherford B. Hayes

Dec 11, 1877

19th