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Founding of Jamestown
America’s first permanent English colony, Jamestown, was founded on May 14th, 1607 by John Smith. -
House of Burgesses
The first legislative anywhere in the in the English colonies in America. It first met at a church in Jamestown on July 30, 1619. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document in the Plymouth Colony, which was founded by Separatists on December 21, 1620. -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts Bay was founded in 1628 by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company -
Pequot War
Armed conflict between indigenous people and the settlers in New England on July 20, 1637. -
King Philip’s War (Metacom)
Known as the first indian war it was an armed conflict between Native Americans and English colonist on June 27, 1675. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
An uprising on July 30, 1676 led by 29 year old Nathaniel Bacon -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused for witchcraft on September 19, 1692. -
French and Indian War
The bloodiest war in the 18th century. The war was the product of an imperial struggle, a clash between the French and English over colonial territory and wealth that began on February 10, 1748. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by parliament on March 22, 1765, which required Americans to pay taxes on anything paper related. Some examples are vehicle papers, licenses, newspapers and the like. -
Quartering Act
An act passed on March 24, 1765 to ensure that the British soldiers were properly housed and fed during their time in service in the North American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The pre- revolutionary incident growing out of anger against the british troops on March 5, 1773. -
Tea Act
Passed on May 10, 1773 that resulted in the lower prices of tea from GB to stop smuggling of other teas, which later resulted in the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts cause for the closing of the Boston port, cancellation of town meetings, and the Massachusetts assembly on May 10, 1773. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonist were angry that the British had passed the tea act so some of the men dressed up as indians and boarded the ship where the tea was and dumped it off the ship into the sea on December 16, 1773. -
Lexington and Concord
On April 19, 1775, The first military engagements of the American Revolution were fought. -
Declaration of Independence
The document that was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776 stating that the 13 colonies are now free states from Britain. -
Shay's Rebellion
Took place in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shay. It started on August 29, 1786. -
Constitutional Convention
Took place on May 25, 1787 till September 17, 1787. It was in the State House located in Philadelphia. The same place where the Declaration of Independence was signed 11 years before. For 4 months 55 delegates from several states met to frame a constitution. They wanted it to last into “remote futurity.” -
Judiciary Act 1789
signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. The act established the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and created the position of attorney general. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, less commonly known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a resistance movement in the western part of the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. The conflict was rooted in western dissatisfaction with various policies of the eastern-based national government. (July 17,1794) -
Alien and Sedition Acts
acts passed on June 25, 1798 by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government -
Revolution of 1800
In the United States Presidential election of 1800 on October 31, 1800 is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800," Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated incumbent president John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System. -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (Feb. 11, 1803), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana territory from Napoleon on April 30, 1803 under Jefferson. -
Embargo Act 1807
a stop on all international trade in order to pressure England and France to remove strict commercial trading policy’s on November 15, 1807. -
War of 1812
The causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the U.S. as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. In 1812, with President Madison in office, Congress declared war against the British on June 18, 1812. -
Election of 1816
The United States presidential election of 1816 on November 1, 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic- Republican James Madison. -
Election of 1824
In the United States presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was divided by the House of Representatives. -
Election of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson. As incumbent Vice President John C. Calhoun had sided with the Jacksonians, the National Republicans led by Adams, chose Richard Rush as Adams' running mate. The election occurred on October 31, 1828. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
May 28, 1830. Authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within state borders. It is where the “Trail of Tears” came from. Estimated that about 4,000 cherokees died. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification on March 11, 1832. -
Texas Independence
Texas declared its independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836 with the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence. -
Mexican-American War
War between Mexico and the US that lead to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that lasted from April 25, 1846 till February 2, 1848. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Peace treaty between America and the Mexican Republic on February 2, 1848. -
Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. In the eyes of supporters, this law would “civilize” the Indians by weaning them from their nomadic life, by treating them as individuals rather than as members of their tribes, and by readying them for citizenship. ALthough generally well intentioned, the law undermined Indian culture, in pa -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee is located on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Southwestern South Dakota. It was the site of 2 conflicts between North American Indians and U.S Government. A massacre occured in 1890 leaving 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. Also, this event is where the “Ghost Dance” was created. -
Spanish-American War
War between Spain and the US that lead to the Treaty of Paris which began on February 15 ,1898 -
Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 took place on November 8, 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promise of the incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. -
New Deal
The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression on March 9, 1933. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, the United States used its massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism that began on March 12, 1947. -
Creation of NATO 1949
created to protect America along with 11 other nations but the Soviets created Warsaw to counter on April 4, 1949. -
Fall of China to Communism (1949)
Beginning on December 10, 1949, The "fall" of mainland China to communism led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades. -
Korean War
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 as a civil war between North and South Korea, but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S. leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) entered to aid North Korea. The war left Korea divided and brought the Cold War to Asia. -
Election of 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 took place on November 4, 1952 in an era when Cold War Tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly.
