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Founding of Jamestown
In June 1606 King James I ordered a group of London entrepreneurs, known as the Virginia Company, to establish an English settlement in the Chesapeake region of North America to make profit for themselves and the Virginia Company. The settlement suffer terrible hardships earlier in the years such as, famine and attacks from the Indians. Although, they managed to endure their issues by earning profit off of their tobacco plantations. -
House of Burgesses
It was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists. Their first meeting was held on July 30, 1619. It was established by the Virginia Company. -
Mayflower Compact
At this time, England decided to separate from the Catholic Church and created the English Church or the Anglican Church. People wanted to practice their Christian religion freely so many people known as the “Pilgrims” or “Separatists” went to settle into the New World. They knew that the first group of settlers failed, so the separatists created the Mayflower Compact to ensure they were successful. They decided to create a government, and the Mayflower Compact was the first law ever enacted. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony
Plymouth Colony was found by a group of Separatists, known as Pilgrims searching for religious freedom and helping others from religious persecution. -
The Pequot War
This war lasted about 2 and a half years (1638). It was the American colonies (Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and Saybrook) againsts the Pequot tribes and some other Native American tribes. The Americans wanted to expand westward and take all the tribes land causing conflict between them. Hundreds died and many were sold into slavery and as a result, the Pequot tribes was no more. -
French and Indian War
This war last from 1754-1763 (The Seven Year War). It was a war against the British American and the French and Indian. Great Britain and France were creating conflict because they both wanted land and resources. In the peace treaty of 1763 the British got most of the French land in North America. Also as a result of the war, the British began taxing the colonists to pay for the war. -
King Philip’s War (Metacom)
William Bradford died in 1657 and Massasoit died around, so the two people that kept the Native American and colonists alliance had died. As time went by, tension grew between the two groups. Now, the new Wampanoag member in power is Metacom, or King Philip. Colonist hungered for land and resources which led to exploitation to the Natives causing one of the most disastrous wars. They attacked each other multiple times killing hundreds and hundreds of Natives and colonists. This war only lasted l -
Bacon's Rebellions
The revolt centered on frontier Indian policy, high taxes, and the actions of a small group of wealthy planters Bacon referred to as “unworthy favorites and juggling parasites.” He refused to go again the Native Americans. -
Salem Witch Trials
February 1692-May 1693: 19 men and women, were all being convicted of witchcraft and were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over 80 years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft. -
Quartering Act
The British further angered American colonists with the Quartering Act which required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops. The Quartering Act was passed in June 2, 1765, against the wishes of the colonist. -
Stamp Act
The Act was created to help cover the cost of maintaining troops in the colonies. all printed materials and commercial documents as well as printed material including, newspapers, pamphlets, bills, legal documents, licenses, almanacs, dice and playing cards, were taxed and had to carry a special stamp. -
Boston Massacre
It took place in the streets of Boston, Massachusetts. A patriot mob were throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at the British soldiers in the red jackets to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. 5 colonists were killed and many were injured. -
Tea Act
American could only buy British tea because the East India Company was not doing so well. The tea was actually the cheapest of all tea because Americans saw it as yet another “taxation without representation” . -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea was a rebel act by the Son of Liberty protesting the the tax policy of the British Government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. A group of colonists dressed up as indians, boarded the three ships filled with tea and threw them into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws that were really punishments that King George III put on the colonies. Some of them were the Boston Port Bill, the Quartering Act, The Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act , and the The Quebec Act. -
Lexington and Concord
It was the first battle of the American Revolution. This was the results of the tension growing between the 13 colonies and the British. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence announced the independence of the 13 colonies and that they are longer under British control. -
Shay's Rebellion
An armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders. Rebellion crushed, and problems linked to the Articles of Confederation spur consideration of a new constitution. -
Constitutional Convention
The State House in Philadelphia, the same location where the Declaration of Independence had been signed 11 years earlier. For four months, 55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic that would last into "remote futurity. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
A landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary. -
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. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Angered by an excise tax imposed on whiskey in 1791 by the federal government, farmers in the western counties of Pennsylvania engaged in a series of attacks on excise agents. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
he Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams. -
Revolution of 1800
The Revolution of 1800 was monumental in the development of the United States as a nation. It proved to other nations that the republican experiment began by the revolutionary seed of independence could not only thrive, but succeed. -
Marbury v. Madison
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 form of government. -
Louisiana Purchase
The United States purchased and claimed 828,000 square miles of the Louisiana territory. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas,Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River; most of North and South Dakota; northeastern New Mexico; north Texas; a little of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans. -
Embargo Act 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U.S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the belligerent European navies. -
War of 1812
In 1812, the U.S. declared war on Britain. Americans wanted to stop impressment. They also wanted Britain to stop arming the Indians. In 1814, the British navy fired at Fort McHenry. Francis Scott Key watched the battle. Later that year, the U.S. and Britain signed a peace treaty. The Treaty of Ghent did not give either country any new land. Unaware of the treaty, British forces attacked Americans in New Orleans. The British were defeated. -
Election of 1816
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the opposition Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the nomination against a divided opposition. Monroe won the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34. -
Election of 1824
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
A rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Indians in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Texas Independence
Texas officially broke from Mexico creating the Republic of Texas and was no longer under Mexican troops control. -
Mexican-American War
The war was between Mexico and the United States of America because if the annexation of Texas in 1845. The Mexican-American War lasted for about 2 year (1848). -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a peace treaty between United States of America and Mexico. -
Dawes Act
It authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Objective of the Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land "excess". -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Last battle of the American Indian Wars. 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. -
Spanish-American War
It was a conflict between Spain and United States of America due to the intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. -
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. -
First Red Scare
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
Red Summer describes the 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. -
Harlem Renaissance
A cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement" It was a time where they was prideful of who they were. Jazz, poetry, singing, dancing, etc. was a big part of the movment. -
Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. 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
A series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Truman Doctrine
A foreign policy in 1947 that provided economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey who were being threatened by communism. President Harry S. Truman, and the doctrine extended to become the basis of the American Cold War Policy. -
Creation of NATO 1949
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 -
Fall of China to Communism 1949
In October 1949, Mao had declared the People’s Republic of China at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing. He now faced very large problems. China had been fighting a civil war since the 1920’s and a full-scale war with the Japanese since 1937 to 1945. After nearly 20 years of fighting, China now many problems. -
Korean War
The Korean war was a battle between North Korea (who were communist) and South Korea (who were capitalist) both wanting to unify Korea under their control. -
Election of 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. During this time, 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 by starting the "witch hunt". -
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.
