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Founding of Jamestown
John Smith founded Jamestown with the goal to seek gold and find a water route to the orient. -
House of Burgesses
Members would meet at least once a year with their royal governor to discuss matters in their colonies. This made sure that all of the cononies were doing alright and following the corret rules of the decleration. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
Plymouth colony was founded by a group of separatists. The Plymouth colony was originally founded because they were looking for freedom of religion. -
Founding of Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop, which was apart of the Massachusettes Bay Company, founded Massachusetts Bay and the colony was one of the colonies that played a role in the Great Migration. Over 20,000 puritans moved to Massachusetts Bay Colony during the time. Overtime the colony became the thrid permanent settlement in the United States. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was a war between Massachussets Bay, Plymouth and Saybrook colonists against the Pequot Indian tribe. This war lasted from 1634 - 1638 and the main reason for the war was over fur trade -
King Phillips War
Colonists started to rapidly expand their land into the Wampanoag Indian terrioty. English Colonists met with King Philip, the Wampanoag leader, and told them to surrender their arms. -
Bacon's Rebellion
This rebellion helped entrench slavery as the slavery system in Southern America. -
Salem Witch Trials
In Salem the practice of Withcraft was found inhuman. Witches were throught to be started from the devil and the people that practiced witch craft were hung. The first member in Salem to be hung was a women by the name Bridget Bishop. -
French and Indian War
The French and Native Americans fought against the British so that they could control more land. In the end they lost and the french lost their land, while the Native Americans had to move to a different location. -
The Stamp Act
The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice. The colonists had been through so many taxations that they got furious. One year later they apealed the stamp act. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then they were to let the soldiers in local inns, stable or houses. -
Boston Massacre
The colonists started throwing snowballs and objects at the guard until the guards shot at the colonists.Crispus Attucks, an African America causing conflict and a bloody war. -
Tea Act
This bill was designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government to be angry about the tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an event were some colonists wanted a way to protest against the Tea Act of 1773. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Acts was considered punishment after the Boston Tea Party. Many different laws were passed that made the colonists lives harder. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
Lexington and Concord was the first two major battle of the American Revolution. The first was the battle were people say that the first shot was heard around the world. -
Judiciary Act 1789
The Judiciary Act of 1789, officially titled "An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," was signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed -
Whiskey Rebellion
Farmers in Massachusetts were angry because they werer going to have to start paying taxes on Whiskey. -
Alien and Sedition Acts (associate Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions)
ederalists adopted the naturalization act (increased number of years required for immigrants to qualify for citizenship), the alien acts (authorized prex to deport any aliens considered dangerous to detain any enemy aliens in time of war), and sedition act (made it illegal for newspaper editors to criticize either the prez or congress and imposed heavy penalties for those who violated). -
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement. It was past its peak by the 1840s. -
Revolution of 1800
Jefferson’s election = federalist to republican, was monumental in the development of the U.S. -
Marbury v. Madison
he case was created from a petition to the supreme court by William Marbury, who was the Justice of the peace in the District of Columbia,but was not delivered full earned commision. It was a landmark 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 -
Louisiana Purchase
at the mouth of the Mississippi lay the territory’s most valuable property in terms of commerce—the port of New Orleans. in 1800, the French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte secretly forced Spain to give the Louisiana Territory back to its former owner, France, since Napoleon wanted French empire in the Americas. Napoleon had lost interest in this plan for two reasons: (1) he needed to concentrate French resources on fighting England and (2) a rebellion led by Toussaint l’Ouvertu -
Embargo Act 1807
Enacted by the congress in 1807, this act banned U.S. ports or ships to trade with foreign nations. -
War of 1812
he United States had issues a series of acts that discouraged economic activity between the United Kingdom, France and itself in order to remain neutral during the Napoleon Wars. The United Kingdom was upset at the policy that the United States had instituted, then declared the United States, in conjunction with the Native Americans. This would later drive a demand to increase the United States defense, and would influence diplomatic policy with the United States, with a skew towards warfare. -
Election of 1816 (beginning of Era of Good Feelings)
The United States had ratified the Treaty of Ghent February of 1815. The war between the Unite States, and the United Kingdom was officially ended. This led to a surge in United States patriotism, induced from the 2nd defeat of Great Britain. This was also driven by a desire to end political tensions between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, though; the Federalists would disband after 1815. James Monroe would later try to institute policy to eliminate US of America political partie -
Election of 1816 (beginning of Era of Good Feelings)
The United States had ratified the Treaty of Ghent February of 1815. The war between the Unite States, and the United Kingdom was officially ended. This led to a surge in United States patriotism, induced from the 2nd defeat of Great Britain. This was also driven by a desire to end political tensions between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, though; the Federalists would disband after 1815. James Monroe would later try to institute policy to eliminate US of America political partie -
Election of 1824 (corrupt bargain)
he 1824 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time no candidate ran as a Federalist, while five significant candidates competed as Democratic-Republicans. -
Election of 1828
The campaign was the first true mud-slinging contest. Adams was accused of misusing public funds — he had supposedly purchased gambling devices for the presidential residence; actually he had simply bought a chessboard and a pool table. The charges against Jackson were much more malicious. He was accused of murder for executing militia deserters and dueling. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
Nullification is the formal suspension by a state of a federal law within its borders. The concept was first given voice by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts. The principle was accepted by the Hartford Convention of New Englanders in 1814 as well as many in the South, who saw it as protection against federal encroachment on their rights. -
Dawes Act
Was an act made in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days to protest conditions on the reservation. -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. 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” -
First Red Scare
the First Red Scare of 1919–1920 was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and alleged spread in the American labor movement fueled the paranoia that defined the period. -
Red Summer
The Red Summer refers to the summer and fall of 1919, in which race riots exploded in a number of cities in both the North and South. The three most violent episodes occurred in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Elaine, Arkansas. On the afternoon of July 27, 1919, a stone-throwing melee between blacks and whites began after a black youth mistakenly swam into territory claimed by whites off the 29th Street beach in Chicago. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.After the American civil war, liberated African-Americans searched for a safe place to explore their newidentity -
Election of 1932
The election took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President and Republican candidate 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. -
New Deal
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Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure -
Truman Doctrine (associate ‘containment’)
he American foreign policy providing military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. -
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. 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 (1939-45). This alignment provi -
Fall of China to Communism (1949)
The war represented an ideological split (Left vs. Right) between the KMT's brand of Nationalism, and the Communist CPC. In mainland China today, the last three years of the war (1947–1949) are more commonly known as the War of Liberation, or alternatively the Third Internal Revolutionary War -
Korean War (1950-1953)
World War II divided Korea into a Communist, northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. The Korean War (1950-1953) began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. -
Election of 1952
The United States presidential 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.
