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Virginia Company of London established this settlement. They abandon it and came back in 1619 were the settlement became a town.
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Slavery first started at Jamestown. They needed slaves to help on the tobacco plantations.
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The House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
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This compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620.
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The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France.
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Signed by Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain.
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England prohibited the colonist to settle west of the Appalachians mountains.
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England placed taxes on legal documents.
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A mob of anti- British formed and a mob of British soldiers formed. British troops killed 5 colonists.
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Colonist had disguised as Indians, destroyed a ship of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act.
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British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. The minutemen assembled and fought the British troops.
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This was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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Was convention of delegates from twelve colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They created an army.
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The 13 colonies stated that they are now independent and are breaking away from Great Britain.
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The 13 colonies established the United States of America a confederation and served as our first constitution.
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The time period when the U.S. is under the Articles of Confederation.
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French General Marquis de Lafayette developed a plan. The French's navy blocked the exit of the Chesapeake Bay.
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The Treaty of Paris negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
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Congress did not have the power to raise taxation of the United States. Therefore, the goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired after the end of the Revolutionary War in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
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Armed farmers uprising that took place in Massachusetts due to high taxes.
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Twelve delegates from five states: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia gathered to discuss and develop a consensus about reversing the protectionist trade barriers that each state had erected.
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Meeting were delegates addressed problems with the Articles of Confederation.
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The small and big states made a compromise by have a 2 house Congress.
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Compromise between north and southern states that slaves equal to 3/5ths of a peroson.
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The ordinance created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between Canada and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the Territory's western boundary.
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United States of America first president was president til March 4, 1797.
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Judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and such inferior courts as Congress saw fit to establish.
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First 10 admendments, which are the Bill of Rights were signed on this day.
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Cotton Gin is a machine that seperate cotton fast, invented by Eli Whitney.
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America's 2nd president, he severed till March 4, 1801.
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Prosser start slave revolts in Richmond, VA
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A United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States.
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The U.S. brought all of the Midwest from Spain.
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War that lasted 2 years between Britian and U.S because Britian help aid the Indians.
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Case stating that they could not tax the federal bank.
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Divided LA purchase at 36, 30. North of line was free and south of the line was slave.
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US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
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Case that stated that national government was in charge of commerce.
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This time period where Americans no longer let aristocrats make all the decisions.
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Jackson defeated Adams because now more common people could vote.
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This act forced all Indians east of the Misssippi River to move to Indian Territory.
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Nat Turner was a slave in Southhampton County, Va. He was hung after they captured.
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This battle was fought in Harris County, Texas. This is when Texas gained their freedom.
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Texas was the 28th state to join the union.
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Everyone was rushing to CA hoping to find gold.
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U.S won in return we gained the SW
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This was the first women convention. They talked about their rights to vote.
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This law meant that all slaves that escaped plantation and were found would have to go back to there owners.
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California was entered as a free state. Southwestern territories would decide on their own.
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This was an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I was the best selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century.
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This ct gave Nebraska and Kansas popular sovereignty.
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A slave named Dred Scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner.This case overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery.
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A presidential election between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge. This election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War.During the early months of 1861, the situation around Fort Sumter increasingly began to resemble a siege.
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The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land. United States Homestead Acts were initially proposed as an expression of the "Free Soil" policy
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Battle of Antietam was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion.
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Reconstruction was a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.Most historians consider it a failure because the South became a poverty stricken backwater attached to agriculture, white Democrats , dominance through violence, intimidation and discrimination.
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US wins, fought until the last man died.
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This was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Over 3,202 killed or wounded and
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This battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war. In addition it is often described as the war's turning point.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.One of the best-known speeches in American history.
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The Appomattox Courthouse is the current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892. Before the Civil War, the railroad bypassed Clover Hill, now known as the Appomattox Court House
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United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday. Lincoln was shot while attending the play, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theatre.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865.
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Reconstruction Acts were extended to include the registration of qualified voters. The supervision of the election of delegates to state constitutional conventions, and the transmittal to the President of certified copies of the constitutions adopted.
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This amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. It also was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
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The largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly.
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This amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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A United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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An open-air fruit and vegetable market.Haymarket Square offers produce at a very cheap cost, sometimes half the bill of a normal supermarket.
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Authorized the President of the United Statesto survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship.
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Homestead Steel Strike was an industrial lockout and strike.The battle was one of the most serious disputes in U.S. labor history.
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The American Railway Union was the largest labor union of its time. In addition , one of the first industrial unions in the United States.
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A nationwide railroad strike in the United States. It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government.
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The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted after the Reconstruction period.Established separate facilties for whites & blacks.
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A landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws.The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion.
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In this war the Cubans rebbled against Spanish rule. The US had business and strategic interrest in Cuba.
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The US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines. Cuba also became free.
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This policy gave all nations equal trading rightsin China.
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John Hay proposed the open door policy. This policy gave all nations equal trading rights in China.
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This amendment was to allow the US interven in Cuban affairs.
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An Act of the Parliament of Australia which limited immigration to Australia. It granted immigration officers a wide degree of discretion to prevent individuals from entering Australia.
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TR added this to the Monroe Doctrine. This reminded Europe not in interfere.
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TR encouraged Panama to break from Colombia. They finished the canal in 1914.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo caused the war.
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The Germans sunk the Lustania. The Germans told Mexico to invade us.
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This was Wilson points to not have another war.
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18th amendment made alchool illegal to use.
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This was the treaty to end the war. France and Britain told Germany they could not have an army
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Teacher tried to teacher evolution
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In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States,
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This was an economic slump inUnited States in their industrialized areas. This began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.
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CLO a form of securitization where payments from multiple middle sized and large business loans are pooled together and passed on to different classes of owners in various tranches. They used these during the GD.
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This was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US prairies.
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Roosevelt defeated president Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depth of the Great Depression. Energized by his personal victory over polio, FDR renew the national spirit.
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They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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FDIC is a United States government corporation operating as an independent agency created by the Banking Act of 1933.
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FDIC s a United States government corporation operating as an independent agency created by the Banking Act of 1933.
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The act was an attempt to limit what was seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens on widows and fatherless children.
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It established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
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The act was an attempt to limit what was seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens on widows and fatherless children.
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Both the United States and Canada developed assimilation policies for their Native peoples. Assimilation was one ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The FLSA introduced the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, and refused child labor.
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national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations.
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Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, two days after the German invasion began. But the two countries did little while Poland fell.
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This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards.
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German forces invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, less than two years after the German-Soviet Pact was signed.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike.
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The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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A crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, US victory.
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The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
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The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign, towards the end of the WW11.
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a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066.
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Division of Germany is when Germany was broken it up into two different countries. West was part of NATO and East was part of Warsaw Pact.
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VE Day is Victory in Europe when they won the war in Europe.
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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United States dropped a bomb on Japan, to end WWII.
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The Chinese Communist Party's drive to power since its founding in 1921.
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After World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany.
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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Europe(the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Europe (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).
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Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin.
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Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
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During his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, Project Apollo, the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the increased US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Focused on anti communism, wanted to fight in the Vietnam War.
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This couple was excuted for spying and giving information to the Soviets
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This was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the China.
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The first federation of labor unions in the United States.The largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century
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Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite, the Soviets beat the US to it.
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United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace.
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Soviets built a wall to seperate East and West Berlin.
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United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.
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JFK was assassinated in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald.
