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Jamestown was founded in 1607 by the Virginia company of England in search of new land and gold.
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The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America and was held in Jamestown, Virginia, on July 30, 1619.
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The pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 and the Mayflower Compact was their first recorded document
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The puritans founded Massachusetts Bay in 1628 in search of gain religious freedom.
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1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay
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King Philip’s War is sometimes called the First Indian War and it spanned from June 1675 until April 1678.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
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The French and Indian War spanned from 1754 until 1763 and it is the American name for the Seven Years war.
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In 1765 The Stamp act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which Brittish Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others.
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The tea act on May 10, 1773 allowed tea to be taxed in order to pay off the debt we America had to Britain.
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On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor.
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The intolerable acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain’s colonies in North America and it also contributed to the American Revolution.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War( April 19 1775)
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The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
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◦ The Constitutional Convention (also known as the Philadelphia Convention,the Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.
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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders.
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◦ The United States Judiciary Act of 1789 was a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary. Article III, section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court," and such inferior courts as Congress saw fit to establish. It made no provision, though, for the composition or procedures of any of the courts, leaving this to Congr
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The 1803 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).
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a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The Second Great Awakening 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.
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◦ The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams.
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The Quartering acts were acts in the 1800’s that ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
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Thomas Jefferson defeated 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.
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The U.S., under Jefferson, bought the Louisiana territory from France, under the rule of Napoleon, in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase, and Napoleon gave up his empire in North America. The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size.
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◦ 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. It was difficult to enforce because it was opposed by merchants and everyone else whose livelihood depended upon international trade. It also hurt the national economy, so it was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act.
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◦ a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France◦ safeguarded property rights, especially of chartered corporations ◦ The United States presidential 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.
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◦ The term Corrupt Bargain refers to three historic incidents in American history in which political agreement was determined by congressional or presidential actions that many viewed to be corrupt from different standpoints. Two of these involved resolution of indeterminate or disputed electoral votes from the United States presidential election process, and the third involved the disputed use of a presidential pardon. In all three cases, the president so elevated served a single term, or singu
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The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election.
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◦ The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Indians in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
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The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. 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. The controversial and highly protective Tariff of 1828 (known to its detractors as the "Tariff of Abominations") was enacted into law during the presidency
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The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution on March 2, 1836.
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The Mexican American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836Texan Revolution.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican American War in 1846
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States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. some estimates placed the number of dead at 300
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict in April 25,1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence.
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is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.[3] Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”
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American authorities saw the threat of revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bomb campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.
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Red Summer describes 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.
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was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement"
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The economic policu of F.D.Roosevelt
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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.
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◦ President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
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an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
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◦ Communist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang.
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◦ Election won by Eisenhower
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◦ a war between North and South Korea
