-
The Virginia Company is issued a charter from King James I to look for gold and a passage to the Indies in the new land of America
-
-
John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas, perfected the raising and curing of tobacco. Turned Virginia into an agricultural colony, Europe became reliant on them for tobacco
-
Tensions had run high between Indians and English, especially when the English started stealing food. Lord De La Warr came from England in 1610 to declare war on the Indians. Peace was reached with the marriage of John Rolfe to Pocahontas
-
A Dutch warship sells twenty Africans to the farmers of the Virginia colony, establishing the roots of the North American slave system.
-
After a 12 year journey, 102 Separatists land at Plymouth Rock. They establish a government run by the majority and elect William Bedford as governor 30 times.
-
In 1629 a group of Puritans obtained a charter to create the Massachusetts Bay Company, with Boston as its capital. They feared persecution from the Church of England.
-
After being banished from Massachusetts for heresy, Williams founds Rhode Island as a place of religious and political refuge.
-
Britain passes the first Navigation Act to ensure that they got the most out of American trade.
-
-
Nathanial Bacon led an armed revolt against governor William Berkeley after he refused to retaliate to several Indian attacks. He was also accused of unfair taxation and appointing his friends to government jobs. Bacon's men killed entire Indian villages. Eventually burned Jamestown to the ground.
-
Ordered locally funded, church-run schools to be established in every parish.
-
Led to changes in America's understanding of God, themselves, religion, and the world. They even accepted blacks into their churches.
-
John Peter Zenger is arrested for libel. His lawyer, Alexander Hamilton, argues that truth is a defense against charges of libel.
-
The governor of Virginia sent 21 year old George Washington to Ohio as a lieutenant colonel. He encountered a small group of French in the forst and fired the first shot of the French and Indian War
-
-
General Braddock was sent to capture Forst Duquesne. He encountered a small French and Indian army. The British forces lost and the Indians, excited by their victory, attacked the troops that Braddock had left unattended from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.
-
End of the French and Indian War. France lost all claims to Candada, Spain got Louisiana. Britain recieved Spanish Florida and Upper Canada
-
Reduced and enforced the tax on molasses. More foreign goods were taxed.
-
Required many printed materials to be produced on stamped paper made in England.Taxation without consent
-
Used to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of judges and governors so they would remain loyal to the British. Resisted by the colonists, led to British occupation of Boston.
-
British troops had been stationed in Boston to force support of unpopular taxes. A fight broke out between a man and an officer. A crowd formed around them. The officer shot into the mob, instantly killing three men. Both sides came up with propoganda pamphlets to support their claims. Served as one of the events that turned the colonists against King George II.
-
The British East India Company had a surplus of tea. The act allowed the company to send tea directly to the colonies. Colonists opposed it because it validated the Townshend Act's tax.
-
Disguised as Indians, a group of protestors destroyed a shipment of teain defiance of the Tea Act.
-
Marked the beginning of the American Revolution.
-
Meant to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party. Took away Massachusetts self-government. Viewed as a violation of constitutional and natural rights.
-
Called in response to the Intolerable Acts. Representatives from the twelve colonies aired their grievances about King George III
-
-
Inspired people in the colonies to fight for independence: an island should not rule a continent, America was not just British but made up of lots of different cultures, the distance was a problem, etc.
-
Announced the thirteen colonies as independent sovereigns. No longer a part of Britian, now the United States of America.
-
First major defeat for the Americans. Benedict Arnold is wounded
-
-
Ended the American war for Independence.
-
Causes: financial difficulties because of post-war depression, lack of hard currency, harsh government policy. Formed a militia.
-
Addressed probelms in governing the United States. The United States Constitution was created.
-
69 members of Congress elect George Washington as the first president of the United States of America
-
The Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution, were worried it limited personal liberties. To appease them, the Bill of Rights was added to gurantee personal freedom and limit the power of the federal government.
-
Eli Whitney invented a machine that easily separated cotton from the seed. Cotton became "king" in the South, the slave trade increases.
-
International slave trade is prohibited, no more slaves can be brought into the country.
-
Battle between the United States and the Shawnee, led by Tecumseh. Americans suspected the British were behind the attack, led to a declaration of war.
-
Britain and France were intruding in American trade. Britain was providing guns to the Native Americans.
-
-
resolved standing boundary issues between the two nations, and allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country
-
First major financial crisis in the United States. Led to a depression that lasted until 1821
-
Prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36, 30 parallel.
-
Written by James Monroe. The European powers would not try to colonize the Western Hempisphere. If they did, it would be considered an act of aggression.
-
Also known as the Tariff of Abominations. Designed to protect the industry in the North, hurt Southern economy.
-
Authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate with Indian tribes in the South for their removal to land west of the Mississippi River
-
South Carolina declared the Tariff of Abominations unconstitutional. The Force Bill was passed in response-president could use military force against South Carolina. The Compromise Tariff of 1833 lowered the tariff.
-
- Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico
- California was admitted as a free state
- New Mexico and Utah could decide through popular sovereignty if they wanted to be slave states
- Stronger Fugitive Slave Act
- Slave trade was banned in Washington D.C.
-
Kansas and Nebraksa were created, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers to go through popular sovereignty.
-
Because Kansas would be decided by pop. sov., people from neighboring areas crowded the state to try and sway the vote either in favor of or opposed to slavery. John Brown and his sons killed five men.
-
African Americans were not citizens and could therefore not sue in federal courts. The federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States
-
Lincoln wins a four way race on the platform of stopping the expansion of slavery. In elected, seven Southern states had threatened to secede.
-
After Lincoln was elected president, seven Southern states seceded and created the Confederate States of America, effectively beginning the Civil War.
