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Founding of Jamestown
James town was the first English setlement in America. Was the capital of the setlements fro 80 years. It was founded by the london company. they were hoping to find gold, claim land for england, and find recources -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
Plymouth Colony was established for religious freedom and for financial profit. The May flower compact was a document about governing a colony. -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
John winthrop founded the colony for the prutions to have their own colony. -
Pequot War
the Pequot Indian tribe wanted more land because their land was being taken. -
King Philip’s War
When the Puritans left England, they settled in America near the Indians. As more Puritans moved to America, the need for land grew. This caused the Puritans to take over Indian land. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which rontiersmen took part in. Like the uprising in Maryland that toke place later that year. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of county court trials which accused people of being witches. -
French and Indian War
The war was between the French with Indian allies and the British with British-American and Indian allies. It took place between 1754 and 1763. -
Quatering Act
The quartering act was set to protect the soldiers, to make sure they had proper housing and food. They passed the act in March of 1765. -
Stamp Act
A stamp act is a law made by the British government that puts a tax on the transfer of some documents in the American/British colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre happened when five civilians were shot and killed by British troops on March 5, 1770. It was in Boston, Massachusetts. The event happened at night when a large mob got together outside of aHouse. -
Tea Act
In other words, American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from the East India Company -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a violent protest by American colonists against King George III's rule in America. It happened on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
The British Parliament passed these laws to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party. One of the laws closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea. -
Lexington and Concord
First shots fired between American and British troops, on April 19, 1775. The British chose to march to Concord because it was an arms depot. This meant that the Americans had stockpiled weapons there. British troops had occupied Boston and were marching on Concord as they passed through Lexington. No one is still sure who fired first, but it was the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is an important document It was written in 1776 and says that the American colonies were no longer under the rule of Great Britain, but were a new country. -
Shay's Rebellion
This conflict in Massachusetts caused many to criticize the Articles of Confederation and admit the weak central government was not working; uprising led by Daniel Shays in an effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who could not pay the taxes -
Constitutional Convention
The convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 -
Judiciary Act of 1789
1789 law that created the Judicial Branch of the federal government. Among the things provided for in the Act, the number of members of the Supreme Court, the number of lower district courts, the idea that the Supreme Court can settle disputes between states, the idea that a decision by the Supreme Court is final. -
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement in the United States in the early and mid 1800s. It started in upstate New York, but spread to New England and the Midwest. During the Second Great Awakening, thousands of people gathered at large religious meetings called revivals. The people of the Second Great Awakening though they could bring about a Golden Age in America through religion. The Second Great Awakening led to new religious movements. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
The 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 Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War. -
Revolution of 1800
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800",Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated President John Adams -
Louisiana Purchase
The U.S., under Jefferson, bought the Louisiana territory from France, under the rule of Napoleon, in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase, and Napoleon gave up his empire in North America. The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size. -
Marbury v. Madison
The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789). -
Embargo Act 1807
Law passed by Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807. This law stopped all trade between America and any other country. The goal was to get Britain and France, who were fighting each other at the time, to stop restricting American trade. The Act backfired, and the American people suffered. The Act was ended in 1809. -
War of 1812
A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France -
Election of 1816
The election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the presidency against very weak opposition. Monroe won the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34. -
Election of 1824
The presidential election of 1824 is notable for being the only election since the passage of the Twelfth Amendment to have been decided by the House of Representatives in accordance with its provision to turn over the choice of the president to the House when no candidate secures a majority of the electoral vote. -
Election of 1828
The election saw the coming to power of Jacksonian Democracy, thus marking the transition from the First Party System to the Second Party System. Historians debate the significance of the election, with many arguing that it marked the beginning of modern American politics, with the decisive establishment of democracy and the formation of the two-party system -
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. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War took place between 1843 and 1848 between the United States of America and Mexico. -
Texas Independence
The leaders of Mexico began to worry that they might lose Texas to the Americans and so they decided to stop all immigration from the United States. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , officially Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War. With the defeat of its army and the fall of the capital, Mexico entered into negotiations to end the war. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War was a war fought between Spain and the United States of America in the year 1898. This war was fought in part because a lot of people wanted Cuba to become independent and also because many Americans wanted their country to get a colonial empire. -
Election of 1932
This was the first time that the majority of the us voted democrat and the democrats won the popular vote. Only 6 states voted republican. -
New Deal
The New Deal was 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. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
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
The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism. It was the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion; it was a major step in beginning the Cold War. -
Creation of NATO
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. -
Fall of China to Communism
The democratic party and communist party of China were fighting for power. The Democratic, I believe was Taiwan based, and looked to U.S. for support, however, were denied which led to their defeat. The impact was that the country was utterly destroyed and became a failed state for many years. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
Election of 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly. Eisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President since James Buchanan in 1856.
