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A group called the Virginia Company founded the first English settlement in North America on the James River.
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The Pilgrims first landed near the site of modern Provincetown.
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Armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies.
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was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers
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An armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England.
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas.
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Native Americans were disapointed with the British so they went to war,
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The war fought between the French and the Indians.
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American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party
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More territory gained by America.
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Protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
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The Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio to America.
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The convention of the constitution.
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He was the first president of the United States of America.
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An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States
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The first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.
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collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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He was Vice President of George Washington
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1st President of the United States.
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four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress, and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams.
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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
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2nd President of the United States.
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Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution
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The Americans thought that Napoleon might withdraw the offer preventing the United States from acquiring New Orleans, so they agreed and signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty
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James Madison was a political theorist and was the fourth president of the United States
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3rd President of the United States.
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4th President of the United States.
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5th President of the United States.
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designed to protect industry in the northern United States
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6th President of the United States.
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a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia
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7th President of the United States.
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When the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
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Mormons' quest for religious freedom and growth
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A time that everyone was obsessed with Gold and getting rich.
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Modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
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The first women's rights convention.
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United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay
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A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress.
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Federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
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29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States.
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
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The decision of whether or not Dredd Scott was free or if he was a slave.
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Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.
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all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains was forbidden.
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Agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a $7.2 million.
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a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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A purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.
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United States' first constitution.
