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Jamestown Settlement
In 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, a group of 104 English men and boys began a settlement on the banks of Virginia's James River.
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was empowered to enact legislation for the colony, but its actions were subject to veto by the governor, council, and ultimately by the directors in London. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact is a written agreement composed by a consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth in November of 1620. -
Plymouth Colony
Founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region -
Massachusetts Bay
The colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company. The purpose of the founding of Massachusetts Bay was religious freedom. The significance of Massachusetts Bay was to give people religious freedom. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was fought in 1637. It involved the Pequot Indians and the settlers of the Pilgrim Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Pequot were a powerful tribe, their only serious rival the Narragansett. -
King Philip's War
King Philip’s War was an armed conflict involving the Native Americans and the colonists in the 17th century from 1675 to 1676. It was also called Metacom’s War or Metacom’s Rebellion, named after the leader of Native Americans, Metacomet, who was also known as King Philip. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, as it was referred to in the colonies, was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quatering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 was intended to help the British defray the cost of maintaining troops in America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Act
Intolerable Acts, also known as Coercive Acts are the titles referring to the laws that the British Parliament passed in 1774. Because of these acts, the Thirteen Colonies were enraged. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Shay's Rebellion
A rebellion that was named after one of the leaders of the rebellion Daniel Shay. Some of the causes were Economic Depression, Aggressive tax and debt collection, and State fiscal policy.One thing that was revealed about the Articles of Confederations was that it was weak. It showed that the Government wasn't strong enough to stop a rebellion. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention is a high point in the history of the United States. This remarkable assemblage of men, meeting in Philadelphia between May 23 and September 17, 1787, created the document that has given the United States one of the most stable and admired constitutional democracies in the history of the world. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
The Judiciary Act of 1789 represented a compromise between those who wanted the federal courts to exercise the full jurisdiction allowed under the Constitution and those who opposed any lower federal courts or proposed restricting them to admiralty jurisdiction. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest beginning in 1791. Farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchanfe were forced to pay a new tax. Many outraged farmers went on a rebellion against the new tax law. -
Alien and Sedition acts
The alien and sedition acts took away civil liberites of the people and violated the first amendment: freedom of speech and press. They also took away the fundamendtal freedoms. -
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings. Major leaders included Charles Grandison Finney, Lyman Beecher, Barton Stone, Peter Cartwright, and James B. Finley. It also encouraged an eager effervescent evangelicalism that later reappeared in American life in causes dealing with prison reform, temperance, women's suffrage, and the crusade to abolish slavery. -
Revolution of 1800
The Revolution of 1800 was monumental in the development of the United States as a nation.It proved to other nations that the republican experiment began by the revolutionary seed of independence could not only thrive, but succeed. -
Marbury vs Madison of 1803
This case established the idea of Judicial Review. The Supreme Court, in deciding this case determined that they had the power to review actions made by the executive branch and the Legislative branch to determine if these actions are constitutional. This case firmly established the checks and balances of the three branches that we all know about today. When the constitution was first written these phrases were ideas and concepts but had never been put into action. Marbury v. Madison cre -
Lousiana Purchase
The territory sold by France to the US in 1803, comprising the western part of the Mississippi valley. We bought it for about 15 million dollars. -
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. -
War of 1812
The United States fought against the most powerful colony at the time, Britain. Some of the causes of why went to war was because the British impressed out U.S. sailors and there was interference in American trades. -
Election of 1816
Electrion of 1816 was a good time in the American history. It was known as the era of good feeling because there werent conflicts between political parties and there was only one major party. -
Election of 1824
The Election of 1824 showed that the era of good feeling had come to an end. All the candidates were Democratic-Republicans, but personal and sectional interests outweighed political orthodoxy. The Twelfth Amendment adopted in 1804 following the disputed Election of 1800 provided that elections in which no candidate received a majority should be decided by the House of Representatives from among the top three candidates. Clay was out of contention and Crawford was an unlikely prospect -
election of 1828
The significance of the election of 1828 was that it was the official start of a new party system. Andrew Jackson started The official Democrat party system. -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a document that President Andrew Jackson signed on May 28, 1830. This document 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
An unsuccessful but premonitory attempt (1832-33) by South Carolina's ruling planters, led by John C. Calhoun, to nullify federal legislation which violated state interests. -
Texas Independence
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the following day after errors were noted in the text. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
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. -
Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The wounded knee massacre was located in South Dakota near the Wounded Knee Creek and is considered the ending of the free Indian and the last American Indian war of 1890. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. -
Founding of the NAACP
NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909 after a race riot in Springfield, Illinois in 1908, "The Call" went out to Northerners to find a way to create social equality. -
Red Summer
The Red Summer of 1919 refers to a series of race riots took place between May and October of that year. Although riots occurred in more than thirty cities throughout the United States, the bloodiest events were in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Elaine, Ark. -
The First Red Scare
The First Red Scare was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and alleged spread in the American labor movement fueled the paranoia that defined the period. -
Harlem Renaissance
Known as the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was a cultral movement that spanned the 1920's and 1930's.It began in 1917 with an all black play and then developed through the 1920s. -
Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity -
New Deal
The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression. -
Attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a very impacting tragety and a start the the Arms race. President Truman bombed Hiroshima with the first every atomic bomb. -
Truman Doctine
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. -
Creation of NATO 1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is a intergovernmental military aliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 14, 1949 -
Fall of China to Communism
Communism came to power in 1949 under the power of Mao. Communism began as a movement that paved the way for the liberation of the proletariat. Proletariat is that class of society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital. -
Korean War 1950 - 1953
Korean War of 1950 was a war fought between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This war was the main reason why Korea split into 2 seperate parts. -
Election of 1952
The election of 1952 took place in an era when Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was escalating rapidly
