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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement founded and established by the London Company and was located in Virginia.
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This city was founded in 1608 under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain and provided a foothold for New France.
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The Dutch commissioned Henry Hudson to discover the Northwest passage.
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The first permanent settlement in the Southwest was Santa Fe and was founded by Don Pedro de Peralta.
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Pocahontas married John Smith.
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The two major events that happened in Jamestown in 1619 were the House of Burgesses which was the legislative body of the Colony in Virginia and the First slaves arrived.
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It was an act was aimed at the Dutch in order to cripple their freight trade.
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English wrested control of New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.
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The Dominion of New England combined New York and New Jersey in 1686
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Massachusetts was the first colony to issue paper money
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Thomas Newcomen, developed a more efficient steam engine with a piston separating the condensing steam from the water.
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an enigmatic, itinerant preacher, traveled the colonies preaching Calvinist sermons to huge crowds.
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the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening—began to combine in the colonies and challenge older ideas about authority.
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a global conflict that spanned five continents, though it was known in America as the “French and Indian War.”
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King George III took the crown in 1760 and brought Tories into his government after three decades of Whig rule. They represented an authoritarian vision of empire in which colonies would be subordinate.
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Britain’s first major postwar imperial action targeting North America. The king forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to limit costly wars with Native Americans. Colonists, however, protested and demanded access to the territory for which they had fought alongside the British.
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Otis Jr. wrote “The colonists are entitled to as ample rights, liberties, and privileges as the subjects of the mother country are, and in some respects to more.”
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The Sugar Act sought to combat widespread smuggling of molasses in New England by cutting the duty in half but increasing enforcement. Also, smugglers would be tried by vice-admiralty courts and not juries. Parliament also passed the Currency Act, which restricted colonies from producing paper money. Hard money, such as gold and silver coins, was scarce in the colonies.
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The act required that many documents be printed on paper that had been stamped to show the duty had been paid, including newspapers, pamphlets, diplomas, legal documents, and even playing cards.
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creating new customs duties on common items, like lead, glass, paint, and tea, instead of direct taxes. The acts also created and strengthened formal mechanisms to enforce compliance, including a new American Board of Customs Commissioners and more vice-admiralty courts to try smugglers.
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Philadelphia overtook Boston in 1770s as the center of colonial printing.
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effectively put the troubled company under government control. It then passed the Tea Act, which would allow the company to sell its tea in the colonies directly and without the usual import duties.
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Over the next six weeks, elite delegates from every colony but Georgia issued a number of documents, including a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances.”
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New York and Boston.
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British regiments set out to seize local militias’ arms and powder stores in Lexington and Concord.
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document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.
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The treaty effectively turned a colonial rebellion into a global war as fighting between the British and French soon broke out in Europe and India.
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The articles allowed each state one vote in the Continental Congress. But the articles are perhaps most notable for what they did not allow. Congress was given no power to levy or collect taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or establish a federal judiciary.
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George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.
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Congress approved a twenty-year charter for the Bank of the United States. The bank’s stocks, together with federal bonds, created over $70 million in new financial instruments.
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The cotton gin was a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds invented by Eli Whitney
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Washington stepped down and executive power changed hands, the country did not descend into the anarchy that many leaders feared.
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The new president was John Adams, Washington’s vice president. Adams was less beloved than the old general, and he governed a deeply divided nation. The foreign crisis also presented him with a major test
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These two laws, passed in 1798, were intended to prevent French agents and sympathizers from compromising America’s resistance, but they also attacked Americans who criticized the president and the Federalist Party.
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The election was considered a "bloodless revolution" by republicans because they thought they fought to save the country from a priviliged takeover. Thomas jefferson was involved.
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US purchases France's claim to the territory of Louisiana for $15 million
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the war allowed the United States to rewrite its boundaries with Spain and solidify control over the lower Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
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The last Federalist to run for president is Rufus King and lost to Monroe.
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2 of the 3 immigrant groups who sought new lives and economic opportunities in the United States between 1820-1860 were the Jewish and Irish.
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The Adams Onis Treaty of 1819 gave Florida to the United States.
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Deemed Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state
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The continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation and served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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Adams convinced Henry Clay to go against Jackson in the Presedential election of 1824.
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national economic plan put forth by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and the Whig party throughout the first half of the 19thcentury. The plan consisted of three major components: Pass high tariffs (taxes) on imports to protect American businesses and to increase revenues.
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16,000 Native Americans were marched over 1,200 miles of rugged land. Over 4,000 of these Indians died of disease, famine, and warfare.
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In the mid 1840s, George Ripley and other members of Brook Farm began to practice this, a vison of society based on cooperative principles.
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The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. ... It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
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Gold was found on John Sutter's land in 1848 along the Sacramento River
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the United States had a God-given right to expand its borders
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Henry David Thoreau wrote the “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849) and had an enthusiasm for simple living, communion with nature, and self-sufficiency.
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Stephen Douglas, a Congressional leader helped shepherd the bills for the Compromise of 1850 through Congress and it admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 Presidential election.
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The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865.The North's victory led to the abolishment of slavery.
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the transcontinental railroad was transporting $50 million worth of freight each year. In addition to transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast, the railroad also facilitated international trade.
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settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
