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Founding of Jamestown
The first settlers to America went on a voyage in search of land and gold. Many people died and their journey was not a success. This was the first settlement by foreigners in America. Founded by the Virginia Company of London. -
House of Burgesses
This was the first assembly of colonists who lived in North America created by the Virgnia Company. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
Plymouth Colony was the first successful settlement in America by the Pilgrims. The Mayflower Compact was the first document of "laws" by the settlers. It was founded by the Pilgrims. -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
Massachussets Bay was founded by puritan leaders and although the leaders were elected, the people who moved there had to be admitted to their church before moving there. It explains the religious views of early Americans. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War continued until 1638 and was fought against the Pequot tribe and the different colonies that had settled in America as well as their Native American allies. -
King Philip's War
This war was fought until 1678 and was between the Native American under King Philip's (Metacom) rule. It was started because the colonists were expanding and the Native Americans were not happy about it. King Phillip was eventually killed. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was a rebellion against the Virginia govener, William Berkeley. White and black colored skin low class people united to stop him from killing Native Americans. This caused the government to create racism in order to seperate the lower class. -
Salem Witch Trials
In the Salem Witch Trials many innocent people accused of preforming whichcraft were hung and -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War continued until 1763 and was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. When the colonists won, it gave them hope for the future because they as a small new colony won against a powerful country. -
Quatering Act
The Quatering Act demanded that the colonists provide housing for the British soldiers. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an attempt by the British to have the colonists pay for their aid in the war. They demanded the colonists print on stamped paper made by Britian which costed more and in British money. -
Boston Massacre
At the Boston Massacre, a group of colonists were protesting by giving threats and throwing objects. In return, five colonists were shot and six were injured. -
Tea Act
This act was created to save a tea company in England but forced the colonists to purchase only English tea. This upsetted them. It was the cause of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty because the colonists were fed up with Britian's control over the tea they imported. They also were upset that they did not get representation to vote about taxation on other products although many countries in England did not have representation either. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts were in result to the Boston Tea Party as an attempt by England to uphold authority for the colonists. The result of this is the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
This was the first battle of the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
This document declared America to be divided from England. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shay's Rebellion was a rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays, against Boston creditors. It lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention was to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. Convention. The re -
Judiciary Act 1789
Congress passed this Act which created the federal-court system. The act managed to quiet popular apprehensions by establishing in each state a federal district court that operated according to local procedures. -
Second Great Awakening
It Expressed Arminian theology, by which every person could be saved through revivals, repentance, and conversion. It enrolled millions of new members in existing evangelical denominations and led to the formation of new denominations. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders. In October, the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast to the inability of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with Shay's Rebellion. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Four laws passed by the Federalist Congress and signed by President Adams: The Naturalization Act, which increased the waiting period for an immigrant to become a citizen from 5 to 14 years; the Alien Act, which empowered the president to arrest and deport dangerous aliens; the Alien Enemy Act, which allowed for the arrest and deportation of citizens of countries at was with the US; and the Sedition Act, which made it illegal to publish defamatory statements about the federal government. -
Revolution of 1800
Jefferson's name of 1800 election; signaled changed from Federalists to Jeffersonians -
Marbury v. Madison
Case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789). -
Louisiana Purchase
Purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US. -
Embargo Act (1807)
This act issued by Jefferson forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S. It was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade. -
War of 1812
A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France -
Election of 1824 (corrupt bargain)
no outright majority was attained and the process required resolution in the House of Representative, whose Speaker and candidate in his own right, Henry Clay, gave his support to John Quincy Adams, and was then selected to be his Secretary of State. -
Election of 1828
The election saw the coming to power of Jacksonian Democracy, thus marking the transition from the First Party System (which reflected Jeffersonian Democracy) to the Second Party System. Historians debate the significance of the election, with many arguing that it marked the beginning of modern American politics, with the decisive establishment of democracy and the formation of the two-party system. -
Indian Removal act of 1830
Andrew Jackson sought to renew a policy of political and military action for the removal of the Native Americans from these lands and spoke of enacting a law for Indian removal in an 1829 oration -
Nullification Crisis 1832
This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
Texas Independence
This is the day Texas became seperated from Mexico. -
Mexican-American War
This war lasted until February 2, 1848. It was the war fought when Mexico failed to realize Texas had been annexed from Mexico to America. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This treaty not only gave America a bunch of land but also delcared peace between the US and Mexico. America was compromised to pay Mexico some money in exchange. -
Dawes Act
This was adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. The indians did not approve of this. -
Wounded Knee massacre
A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle caused around 300 people to die. -
Spanish-American War
This war was between Spain and America and led to the Philippine revolution and then to the Philippine-American war. -
Founding of the NAACP
Formed in response to the continuing practice of lynching. The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. -
First Red Scare
American authorities saw the threat of revolution in the actions of organized labor after World War 1. Bolshevism and the threat of revolution became the general explanation for challenges to the social order, even such unrelated events as incidents of interracial violence. They were scared that communists were taking over the world. -
Red Summer
This was the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. In some cases groups of blacks fought back. -
Harlem Renaissance
This was a cultrural movement in which jazz and the arts became very popular and black americans voiced their ideas. -
Election of 1932
took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. Economics was dominant, and the sort of cultural issues that had dominated previous elections including Catholicism and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were dormant. Franklin D Roosevelt won. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is, Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repe -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by Communism or Totalitarian ideology. -
Creation of NATO 1949
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II -
Fall of China to Communism (1949)
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920's. The creation of the PRC also completed the long process of governmental upheaval in China begun by the Chinese Revolution of 1911. -
Korean War (1950-1953)
Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea. -
Election of 1952
Took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional investigations into the issue of Communist spies within the U.S. government. Esienhower won the election. -
Election of 1816 (beginning of Era of Good Feelings)
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the presidency against very weak opposition. Monroe won the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34.
