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Founding of Jamestown
John Smith was a founder of the first permanent settlement of America, Jamestown. This is often a location remembered for how the pilgrims and Native Americans came together for Thanksgiving, and started our new world. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first meeting of representatives of colonists in North America. The first order of business was to set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
Plymouth was one of the first places where pilgrims landed. It is also where 41 men wrote the Mayflower Compact. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was fought in 1637. It involved the Pequot Indians and the settlers of the Pilgrim Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.There were conflicts over property, livestock damaging Indian crops, hunting, the selling of alcohol to Indians, and dishonest traders. -
King Philip’s War
King Phillips War was a conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78.In the space of little more than a year, twelve of the region's towns were destroyed and many more damaged, the colony's economy was all but ruined, and much of its population was killed, including one-tenth of all men available for military service. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising in the colony of Virginia in 1676. It was the first rebellion in the southern colonies, and it included about a thousand Virginians. Not only did this rebellion attack Native Americans, push William Berkley from Virginia, but also torched the capital. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraftt and 20 were executed. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years War. During the French and Indian War, American colonists fought with the British army against the French. -
Stamp Act
he Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense. -
Quatering Act
This Act required Americans to assist in the housing of British troops. The Quartering of Troops was one of the contentious issues that incensed the colonists to rebel against England before the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. British Troops killed 5 civilian men and injured 6 others. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The British government passed the Boston Port Bill, closing that city’s harbour until restitution was made for the destroyed tea. The Intolerable Acts represented an attempt to reimpose strict British control over the American colonies. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, started the American Revolutionary War. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. -
Declaration of Independence
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. -
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening expressed Arminian theology, by which every person could be saved through revivals, repentance, and conversion. Similar to the first one as well. -
Texas Independence
On March 2, 1836, Mexico decided they had had enough and signed the decleration for Texas's Independence. It would not be until Dec. 29, 1845, that the Republic of Texas became the 28th state in the Union. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was the first major conflict driven by the idea of Manifest Destiny. The desire of the U.S. to expand across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean caused conflict. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought an official end to the Mexican-American War and was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces. -
Dawes Act
It authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee was a scirmish between Native Americans and Whites, that was a lop sided battle where whites killed many Native American men, women, and children. Also mass buried them. -
Spanish American War
A total of 306,760 U.S. troops were engaged. There were a total of 385 American battle deaths. -
The founding of the NAACP
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. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes. -
First Red Scare
Was the fear of communism taking over in America. Term is sometimes still used. -
Red Summer
Was a book written by James Johnson (Cameron McWhirter), noting mostly occasions of race riots and fights. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. This was a big time for Jazz music.
