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Jamestown was the first english settlement in Virginia
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Jamestown was the first english settlement. The Virginia Company of London is who helped settle it.
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The very first legislative assembly with the Virginia colony
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The start of slavery was a way for others to come into the New world.
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The mayflower compact was a voyage of pilgrims from England into the new world.
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Va malitia group fight the french
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negotiated, and ended the revolutionary war
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Forbidding settlers from settling in the apps mountains
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Taxed printed documents
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Street fight with british soldiers killing five boston colonists
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disguised colonists dump tea into boston harbor
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All colonies meet together
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British troops fight angry militia
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An organized american army was formed
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13 american colonies ended there connections with Great Britian
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The first constitution of the United States
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The powers of the articles of confederation limited the central government
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Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, ending the war
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Ended the american reolutionary war between great biritian and the United States
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Western lands were given up
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Meeting to discuss issues with the articles of confederation
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Was a group of rebellions against Massachussett courts
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A comprimise were slaves would be counted as 3/5th's of a person,counted in the population
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Created a northwest territiory,between british, cananda and the great lakes
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Big and small states came to an agreement. Each state would get equal votes and 2 representatives in the senate
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This was in Philadalphia, it was a convention of the framing of the constitution
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Washington was president for eight years. He was a general for the American Revolution
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The first 10 amendments were brought into the constitution and were signed
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Was invented by Eli Whitney. Started the increase use of slaves
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John Adams was a Democratic- Republican, He also was a political enlightener
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Was a slave who led the slave revolt in south hampton virginia
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Was a black slave who led the slave revolt in richmond virginia
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He wrote the Decloration of Independence and also served in two continental congresses
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Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon on this day. This territory now belonged to america
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This court case practiced Judial Review for the first time
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President Madison calls for war due to British interference with american shipping
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Said the bank couldnt tax due to national supremacy.
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This admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state
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Was written by Monroe and warned europe agaisnt future colonization in america and many other things
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The court overturned a steamboat monopoly
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Jackson lost to Quincy Adams in 1824. In 1828 Jackson defeats Adam
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Time when democracy in the U.S. expanded and more people got involved in the electoral process
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Forced all indians east of the Mississippi river to move to oklahoma which is indian territiory
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Mexican General attacked with superior forces, they fought until therer last man died
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Texans won independence and it was led by Sam Houston, established the republic of texas
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Texas is ammited to the United States
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Wanted the South west , mexico wouldnt sell and President urged the war
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gold was discovered and everyone rushed to california to try to make money from it
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The first womens rights convention. Held in Seneca Falls New York.
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The slave trade in washington d.c. was abolished. Compromise between the north and south.
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Law passed making it more harsh on runaway slaves
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This was a book written by Harriet Beacher Stowe. A book about slavery and the hardships
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Created new lands for settlement in kansas and nebraska. Had the choice to repeal the missouri comp.
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Was a case where african americans were not able to be citizens of america so therefore could not hold a court case.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860
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This was the first battle of the civil war. First shots were fired here.
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This battle was in maryland, after this battle was when abe came up with the amancipation proclomation
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Abraham Lincoln came up with this to ban slavery in all territories
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Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged sieged operations
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Turning point of the civil war, General Robert E. Lee won this battle
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One of Abraham Lincolns speeches that is known as the Gettysburg Address
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Reconstruction was in the south because most of the civil war damage left the south with little money and very little property
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This was the amendment to abolish slavery in america
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Where the Confederates surrendered to the Union and was the Last battle of the CIvil war
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Lincoln was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth at a play
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The reconstuction act divided the south to help with there economy and properties
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Term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy
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A secret chinese operation led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.
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the Platt Amendment passed which amended the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill.
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The Corollary gave the United States the police power needed to interfere in the Western Hemisphere when needed
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First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe
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the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast
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after two and a half years of efforts by President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States neutral during World War I.
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authorized the federal government to raise a national army
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Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe.
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Prohibited alcohol in the united states and banning it from being made
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Guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
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The Great depression was when 1/4 of the population was with out jobs and homes. Worst the country has been in history.
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Black tuesday was when the stock market crashed and was the start of the great depression.
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cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s
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Was the worst dust storms that caused farmers to stop growing crops and left them bankrupt.
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Franklin Roosevelts effort in fixing the Great Depression. It was very sucessful.
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Helped fix the great depression, created the new deal. Was president in the 1930's
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Agency of the US which is a public banking system that regualtes deposits and banking
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An act by President Roosevelt that states that older working people support the retired people, a form of retirement
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The FLSA is a federal statute of the United States.
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A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba.
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Between germany and soviet union,which was placed before the beginning of WWII.
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Japan invades pearl harbor and bombs them killing over 2000 troops
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U.S. declares war on Japan. They use an atomic bomb and clears out Japan
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Germany invades russia and takes over.
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Was a naval battle of WWII American Bases landed and attacked Japan and won the battle
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Massive ally operation to take back from the Germans
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Major german defensive campaign launched through france and luxenburg, massive counter attack
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Was a court case in the US, which ordered japanese americans to stay out of there homes in a camp
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Trials of Nazi leaders that tortured the jews and needed to be punished and imprisoned for their crimes
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Celebrated to mark the formal acceptence by allies of WWII of their surrender
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Established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
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the united states drops an atomic bomb whiping out hiroshima. Ending war
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Nagasaki was completely destroyed by the atomic bomb that the us dropped on them ending war
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The Treaty of Paris of 1898, 30 Stat. 1754, was an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in the Spanish Empire's surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico
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A canal in central america created by americans to cross overseas more easily
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President Washington signed the Judiciary act so that the judicial power was now into play into the court system
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Was president and no one liked him, Didnt help fix the great depression
