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Oct 12, 1492
Chirstopher Columbus
The voyages of Christopher Columbus were significant because with these were discovered a new world, and new opportunities of commerce were developed. The frontiers of Spain were expanded and, definitively in that moment, the sun was not set in the empire of Spain. -
Halfway Covenent
The halfway covenant method showed the beginning of desperation for the puritans.This partially paved the way for the First Great Awakening in the 1730's which was a religious revival of the Anglican Church. -
Bacon's Rebellion
It was the first rebellion in the American Colonies in which the frontiersmen took part. Also, it hastened the hardening of racial lines dealing with slavery, because this rebellion involved both black and white indentured servants which worried the ruling class. -
Glorious Revolution
It inspired French thinkers to speak out against absolutism. British colonists also took an important lesson from the Glorious Revolution. They applauded Parliaments fight and saw their own parliaments in the colonies having the same rights. -
First Great Awakening
A series of religious revivals swept through the colonies in the 1730s. Key players were Theodore Frelinghuysen, William and Gilbert Tenant, Jonathan Edwards, and George Whitefield. Through the awakening emerged the decline of Quakers, founding of colleges, an increase of Presbyterians, denomenationalism, and religious toleration. -
French and Indian War
The war fought for control of eastern North America between Britain and France and their Indian allies from 1754-1763. Expensive war to protect colonies is ultimately a cause of the American Revolution. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued of October 7, 1763 and was created to alleviate relations with natives after the French and Indian War and started that Americans were not permitted to passed the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Tea Party
Protest against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British. -
Declaration of Independence
An act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were "Free and Independent States" and that "all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved." -
Common Sense
Document written by Thomas Paine for hopes of convincing public for a swift change in government revolution so they can have indepdence/self rule. -
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support. It lifted American spirits, ended the British threat in New England by taking control of the Hudson River, and, most importantly, showed the French that the Americans had the potential to beat their enemy, Great Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
This document, the nations first constitution, was adopted by the second continental congress in 1781during the revolution. the document was limited because states held most of the power, and congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage. -
Treaty of Paris
A letter for the colonies to get more land and area to build and fit more people in. -
Northwest Ordinance
Law that described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed.The bill had many democratic rights as the territory grew in population it would gain rights to self-government. -
Alien and Seditcion Acts
Alien act said that a person arriving in the United States had to wait 14 years to become a citizen. Seditcion act made it a crime for anyone to write or print articles criticizing the government. -
Marbury vs. Madison
Established judicial review as a check on legislative power. Marshal thought If the constitution is the supreme law of the land, something must ensure laws are in accordance with it. Judgement against commission. -
Embargo Act
Restrictive trade policy that forbade shipment of any goods in or out of the US; hurt Britain/France but hurt American shippers and farmers even more. -
Nonintercourse Act
1809 Replaced the Embargo of 1807. Unlike the Embargo, which forbade American trade with all foreign nations, this act only forbade trade with France and Britain. It did not succeed in changing British or French policy towards neutral ships, so it was replaced by Macon's Bill No. 2. -
War of 1812
War between the U.S. and Great Britain which lasted until 1814, ending with the Treaty of Ghent and a renewed sense of American nationalism. -
Treaty of Ghent
Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border. -
McColluch vs. Maryland
Strengthened federal authority and upheld the constitutionality of the bank of the United States by establishing that the state of Maryland did not have the power to tax the bank. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was the action of removing Indians from the lands East of the Mississippi River. The plan was finished by moving the Indians to what is now Oklahoma. -
Nullification Crisis
Showdown between President Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina legislature, which declared the 1832 tariff null and void in the state and threatened secession if the federal government tried to collect duties. It was resolved by a compromise negotiated by Henry Clay in 1833. -
Compromise of 1850
Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession.
