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Jamestown Foundation
Jamestown Virginia was founded because the Europeans wanted to get away from the taxes from England. They also wanted a place of freedom of religion and self government. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was originated in Jamestown as the first elected legislative assembly for the "New World". It was supposed to outline the laws so that they, the council, the Governor, and the directors in London, can govern the settlement. Later it became the legislative branch of the Commonwealth (State) of Virginia, called the Virgina House of Delegates in 1776. -
Plymouth Colony Establishment
The Plymouth Colony was the established the for the same reason that Jamestown was established. They wanted religious freedom. But the difference is that Plymouth was founded also for financial profit reasons. -
Massachussets Bay Colony
The Massachussets Bay Colony gave a chance for a new start. Again, they settled for religious and government freedoms. -
Pequot War
There was originally a peace between the Puritans of Massachusetts and Conneticut, and the Native American tribe called Pequot. Over 500 hundred Pequot men, women, and children were burned during the Puritan's attack on Mystic Fort. -
King Philip’s War (Metacom)
The colony of Plymouth colony, along with the local Wampanoag Indians, started to show signs of deterioration and the colonists started to take the land from the Wampanoags. On June 24, King Philip, the Wampanoag's cheif, ordered an attack on Swansee, which started a large number of raids from the Wampanoags. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon was a distant relative of Governor Berkeley, who set up a small plantation in Jamestown. Bacon was later arrested for trying take his elected seat in the House of Burgesses. He then raised a small army after his release, and Governor Berkeley had also raised his own army and labeled Bacon as a rebel. Bacon's rebels won and opted to torch Jamestown. Bacon later became ill and died of dysentery. -
Salem Witch Trials
Witchcraft was a big deal in colonial Massachusetts. If you were convicted of witchcraft, working with the devil, or some sort of dark magic, you were to be punished by death. -
French and Indian War
Basically, the French and the British fought over the Ohio River territory and the alliance/allegiance with the Native Americans living there. -
Boston Massacre
This was a result of a protest from a a crowd of 400 people after a guard struck a young apprentice in the ear with the butt of his rifle, after the kid shouted an insult. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party started because the colonialists they were being taxed more than the people in England. So a group of American patriots, the Sons of Liberty, protested against the tea tax by dumping all the tea into the Boston harbor. They said that the Tea Act was a violation of "No taxation without representation", because their own elected officials weren't taxing the tea, England was. -
Shay's Rebellion
This rebellion was named after Daniel Shay, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Protesters, mainly consisting of war veterans, -
Constitutional Convention
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Alien and Sedition Acts
Federalists passed four bills that were later signed into law by John Adams after the undeclared naval war with france. -
Judiciary Act 1789
It established the Judicial Courts of the United States. Created 13 judicial districts within the 11 states that had then ratified the Constitution. -
Second Great Awakening
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Second Great Awakening
This was a Protestant revival movement in the United States during the early 19th century. -
Whiskey Rebellion
This was a tax protest in the United States over the taxation of foreign whiskey. But since the farmers make a living on importing whiskey, they tarred and feathered the tax people. -
Revolution of 1800
This was the transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republican Party. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson, during his pesidency, made this purchase from France of the Louisiana Territory that more than doubled the size of the United States of America. But this was during the time that this was concidered unconstitutional. -
Embargo Act of 1807
This was a reaction to the restriction of neutral ships passing by. This limited the ships trading to the American Colonies. -
War of 1812
This was the war that made Andrew Jackson famous. It was also between the US and the powerful British Navy. There were many defeats, including the burning of the White House. -
Election of 1816
This was an election between James Monroe and Rufus King. Monroe won with a 183 to 34 of the electoral college in 16 of the 20 States. Senator Andrew Jackson and House Speaker both declined to run for President. -
Election of 1824
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Indian Removal Act
Signed by Pesident Andrew Jackson, so that he would gain territory from the Native Americans up to the Mississippi River. The Native Americans then got land past the River. -
Nulification Crisis
this was a sectional crisis during Andrew Jackson's presidency from South Carolina's 1832 Ordiace of Nullification. declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and should therefore be null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
Dawes Act
This was the General Allotment Act which authorized by the president of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotment for individual Indians. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
This was a large killing of several Native Americans at, of course, Wounded Knee Creek. Troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment made the Native Americans gather at the creek and killed all of -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. -
Red Summer
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, notably in Chicago, where, along with Washington, D.C. and Elaine, Arkansas, the greatest number of fatalities occurred. -
First Red Scare
this was the widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Mainly 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. -
Harlem Renaissance
This was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. This was also know as the "New Negro Movement". -
Election of 1932
This was the Presidential Election between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover in 1932. Roosevelt won by a large margin, 472 to 59. -
New Deal
This was a series of economic programs issued by FDR during his first term. -
Creation of NATO 1949
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a system of an alliance between America, England, Belgium, and 25 other countries. They were created on April 4, 1949
