American History I

  • Magna Carta
    Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

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

    Jamestown

  • Mayflower Sailed

    Mayflower Sailed

  • William Penn

    William Penn

    Founded Pennsylvania;Quaker
  • King Phillip's War

    King Phillip's War

    Last Major effort by Native America s of Southern New Englang to expel teh British
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion

    Tax protest
  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution

    overthrow of King James II
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    Author/Philosopher
  • Two Treaties of Government

    Two Treaties of Government

    Book by John Locke
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    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

    Industrial Revolution

  • Pontiacs Rebellion

    Pontiacs Rebellion

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

    John DIckinson

    Author/Founding Father/Pennsylvania
  • Phillis Wheatley

    Phillis Wheatley

    First African American women to publish a poem
  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War

    Treaty of Paris
    13 colonies gained independance
  • Paul Revere

    Paul Revere

    British are coming; silversmith; patriot
  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine

    Author/Philosopher
  • Samuel Adams

    Samuel Adams

    Founding Father
  • The Wealth of Nations

    The Wealth of Nations

    Book by Adam Smith
  • Common Sense Book

    Common Sense Book

    Book by Thomas Paine
  • Yorktown defeats Britain

    Yorktown defeats Britain

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    Ended Revolutionary war; gainde land from Britain
  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion

    protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
  • 3/5ths compromise

    3/5ths compromise

    African Americans were only 3/5 of a vote
  • George Washington

    George Washington

    First president
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Famers in Pennsylvania revolted after Whiskey was taxed
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber
  • John Adams

    John Adams

    2nd President
  • Alien and Sedition acts of 1798

    Alien and Sedition acts of 1798

    Challeneged Bill of Rights
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    3rd
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

  • Embargo Act of 1807

    Embargo Act of 1807

  • James Madison

    James Madison

    4th
  • Convention of 1818

    Convention of 1818

    Ended the war of 1812
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

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

    James Monroe

    5th
  • Gained Floria

    Gained Floria

    Given to us by Spain
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

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

    Monroe Doctrine

    foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823
  • Jphn Quincy Adams

    Jphn Quincy Adams

    6th
  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff of 1828

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

    Andrew Jackson

    7th
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

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

    Nat Turner

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

    Whigs

    Political Party
  • Marshall Court

    Marshall Court

    Supreme court when John Marshall was cheif justice
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren

    8th
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    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

    William Henry Harrison

    9th
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler

    10th
  • Gained Texas

    Gained Texas

    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

    James K. Polk

    11th
  • Oregon Country

    Oregon Country

    Britain and the U.S. decided to split the land, and it is now Oregon
  • Mexican American War

    Mexican American War

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

    Mexico Cession

    Signed treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and bought Texas and part of Mexico for $15 Million
  • Free Soil Party

    Free Soil Party

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

    Zachary Taylor

    12th
  • Millard Filmore

    Millard Filmore

    13th
  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce

    14th
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Allowing Settlers to vote on the status of the territories
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan

    15th
  • Election on 1860

    Election on 1860

    Abraham Lincoln becomes president.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    16th
  • Homestead act

    Homestead act

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

    Emancipation Proclamation

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

    Barbed Wire

    steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points
  • Carpetbaggers

    Carpetbaggers

    Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to make money.
  • Klu Klux Klan

    Klu Klux Klan

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

    Andrew Johnson

    17th
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping

    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

    Ulysses S. Grant

    18th
  • Naturalization act of 1870

    Naturalization act of 1870

    created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties
  • Rutherford B. Hayes

    Rutherford B. Hayes

    19th