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Native America, European Exploration, colonization
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Italian explorer Christopher Columbus encountered the Americas, continents which were virtually unknown in Europe.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas was a treaty between Portugal and Spain which was decided to divide up all the land in the Americas between the two of them.
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Hernan Cortes invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire.
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Francisco Pizarro invaded Peru in 1532 and wiped out the Inca empire with a small force of men.
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With tobacco, English settlers finally found a New World commodity that worked well in the mercantile system.
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St. Augustine was the first permanent settlement set up by the Spanish in the new world.
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Jamestown was the first successful English colony in the future U.S settled in Virginia.
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Plymouth was the first settlement created in Massachusetts by separatists who south to create a religiously pure society.
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After being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views Roger Williams founded Rhode Island as a place of religious freedom.
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The French and Indian war began in the colonies when french settlers encroached on land claimed by the British.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Britain which imposed a direct tax on the colonies.
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The Sons of Liberty formed as a direct response of the stamp act and they would work to have it repealed.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies.
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The British parliament repealed the Townshend acts on all but tea.
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British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest.
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English troops sent to confiscate weapons in Concord. They were confronted by minutemen.
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The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and it Provides a principle of individual liberty and grievances against Britain
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US. constitution ratified by the states.
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Washington sworn in as first president. Served two terms.
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Government assumed all national debt and took citizens debt saying they would pay it back.
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This was a tax protest on the taxing of whiskey. This occurred during Washington's presidency.
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This was the first non-federalist president in America.
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The convention of 1800 ended the Quasi-War.
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The Judiciary Act of 1801 expanded federal jurisdiction.
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Jefferson purchases Louisiana Territory from France.
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U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States.
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The first expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
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It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports.
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The battle of Tippecanoe lasted approximately one day with the United States securing victory.
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The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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General Jackson concluded that it was necessary for the United States to invade Spanish territory and forcibly take control of Pensacola.
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New Hampshire had violated the contract clause in its attempt to install a new board of trustees for Dartmouth College.
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The ruling gives Congress authority to regulate interstate commerce.
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The Tariff of 1828 was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States.
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The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory.
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The Force Bill was a law passed by Congress that temporarily gave the President of the United States the power to use the U.S. military.
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The Whigs were one of the two major political parties in the United States during the 1800ś.
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The Mexicans won the battle, killing all of the Texan soldiers inside the fort.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States.
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The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of approximately 60,000 Native Americans.
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Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in the election of 1844.
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The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836.
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The Walker Tariff was a set of tariff rates adopted by the United States in 1846.
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The Compromise of 1850 consisted of five laws passed that dealt with the issue of slavery.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
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The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln had received more popular votes in the United States than any of the other candidates.
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The Civil War was a war between the Northern States and the Southern States over state’s rights.
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Fort Sumter South Carolina is the location where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War.
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This battle was fought in Pennsylvania in 1863 and ended in a major victory for the North and is considered the turning point of the war.
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.
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The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877.
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery permanently in the United States.
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The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land.
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This act declared blacks to be citizens and forbid the states to discriminate between citizens because of race or color.
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The amendment stated that there would be equal protection to all under the law.
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The 15th amendment stated that all men had the right to vote, that included black men as well.
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The treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
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Andrew Johnson became the first American president to be impeached.
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The transcontinental railroad had been a dream for people living in the American West.
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The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America.
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The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election.
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The government called for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans.
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The Great Railroad strike was after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first immigration law that excluded an entire ethnic group.
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Hay market square incident occurred when a labor protest rally near Chicago's Hay market Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
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It determined the resident population of the United States to be 62,979,766.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
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The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898.
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During his presidency, McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish American War.
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The doctrine that states cannot employ force in order to recover debts incurred by other states.
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Henry Ford built his first experimental car in a workshop behind his home in Detroit in 1896.
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President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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The Wright brothers were two Americans credited with inventing and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
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Harley Davidson was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression, along with Indian.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States.
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William Howard Taft becomes the 27th President of the United States.
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The Mann Elkins Act was a 1910 United States federal law that was among the Progressive era reforms.
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The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes.
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The Federal Trade Commissions principal mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act was much more effective than the earlier Sherman Antitrust Act and gave the government more power.
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World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918.
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The sinking of the ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War
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The Zimmerman Telegram proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
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On 4 November, the Austro-Hungarian empire agreed to the Armistice of Villa Giusti.
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The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept full blame for World War I.
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
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The Munich Pact showed that the other European nations were acting powerlessly and desperately trying to avoid a war.
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Germany's invasion of Poland was the final step leading to World War II.
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II.
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The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued in August of 1941 that set out American and British goals for the period following the end of World War II.
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The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the war in the Pacific.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the largest and bloodiest battles in history.
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The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
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U.S. Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive attack of World War II.
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V-E Day marks the end of World War II in Europe.
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The Potsdam Conference was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II.
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The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki took the lives of millions of innocent citizens.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting between the three major leaders of the Allies: FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.