-
-
Members of a joint venture, the Virginia Company, settled the first permanent English coloy in North America on the James River. In the first two years it suffered through famine, disease, and conflict with Native Americans. Tobacco became the primary source of income.
-
The Butch brought the first African slaves to Jamestown, Virginia to aid in crop production. This event began the popularity of slavery.
-
Separatists from England boarded the Mayflower and set out to establish their new colony in the new world. These pilgrims landed in Massachusetts.
-
The witch trials began in Salem Village, Massachusetts after a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.
-
1754-1763. Also known as the Seven Years' War, this was the sturggle between Britain and France concerning land in the new world, in which the french used the aid of Native Americans. The result was Britain gaining Canada from France and Florida from Spain.
-
Street fight in Boston between a "patriot" mob and British soldiers in which five colonists died. This was the result of growing tensions.
-
Boston Tea Party Political protest in which the Boston Sons of Liberty disguised as Native Americans and threw the tea arrivals from Britain into the water.
-
With the revolutionary movement in full swing, the Continental Congress made a decision and five members wrote a formal statement declaring the intentions of the colonists. Written mostly by Jefferson, the declaration was adopted on July 1776.
-
The Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives of King George III of Britain and those of the 13 colonies to end the revolutionary war.
-
1786-1787. Series of protests by American farmers against state and local collections of taxes.
-
The Constitution, writeen at the Constitutional Convention, was ratified by the majority of states in 1788 and declared to become active on March 4, 1789.
-
1791-1794. Farmers in the western counties of Pennsylvania brought up a series of attacks due to an imposed tax on whiskey by the federal government.
-
After the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson initiated an exploration of the new land and whatever was beyond the mountains. He made his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, the charge person, who then solicited the help of William Clark.
-
British attempts to restirct U.S. trade caused a war between Britain and the U.S. Although the British, Canadian, and Native American troops originally succeeded, the U.S. was ableto repulse them. The Treaty of Ghent in 1815 ended the war,
-
An effort by Congresd to balance the amount of slave and free states after Missouri requested Admission in late 1879. States north of the 30 degree line would have prohibited slavery.
-
Andrew Jackson started the Indian removal policy, in which a Cherokee nation was forced to migrate to present-day Oklahoma and give up their lands east of the Mississippi River.
-
Mexico's territory if Texas fought for independence after Mexico abolished slavery in 1831, finished control in Texas, abolished immigration, and enacted heavy duties on the importation of foreign goods.
-
1846-1848. A militarily unprepared Mexico fought against the U.S. Under the administration of James K. Polk, who believed in "Manifest Destiny." The war began as a border skirmish along the Rio Grande. Mexico lost about 1/3 of its territory, including California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
-
Discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley sparked a trend of major migration by miners to Northern California.
-
Resolved the divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American War. California was admitted as a free state and the rest would be settled by popular sovereignty. Compromise also settled boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico and ended slave trade in Washington D.C.
-
Created the territories of Nebraska and Kasas and repealed the Missouri Compromise. White males would determine whether to be a free state or a slave state through popular sovereignty.
-
Lincoln promised no further introduction of slave states, which upset the southerners. When Abraham Lincoln won the election southern states seceded from the Union.
-
Civil War Podcasts1861-1865. The American Civil War was the result of issues over slavery and state power. The end proved that the United States of America was a sovereign nation and abolished slavery.
-
The presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in Promontory, Utah to signal the accomplishment of the transcontinental railroad.
-
Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican government collapsed.
