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Founding of Jamestown
first colony to be established that suceded -
House of Burgesses
First group of elected officials that were colonists in north america. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
mayflpur was the oficial beginning of the plymouth colony -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
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Pequot War
Between the Pequot indians, and the massachusets bay and plymouth colonists. Many insiand were captured and sold as slaves. -
King Philip’s War
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Bacon’s Rebellion
Rebellion lead by bacon against the founder of jamestown he had a very large following. -
Salem Witch Trials
more of a period of time where people were very concerned about witchcraft and dark forces. all witch craft was punishable by death. -
French and Indian War
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Stamp Act
The British parlament needed money so they taxed the paper that documents were printed on. this was not very popular -
Quatering Act
The british parlament issued an act that forced citizens to allow soldiers to reside in their homes. -
Boston Massacre
Civilians were giving the british soldiers a hard time and the solders fiered on them killing 5 and injuring 6 others. -
Tea Act
British East Indian company needed money and had a surplus of tea so the british mad a tax so that you can only buy tea from that company. -
Boston Tea Party
american colonists baned together and dumped tons of tea from the british east indian company in to the bay because they were tired of the tax. -
Intolerable Acts
A set of four acts that ourtaged the thirteen colonies and a fith the quebeck act. -
Lexington and Concord
The first two battles of the american revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
The 13 colonies declared inaapendance from great britain. -
Shays Rebellion
Daniel Shays one of the rebellion leaders started this based on the ideas that they were being taxed to heavily. -
Constitutional coonvention
to confront the peoblems in the articals of confederation and governing of america. -
Judiciary Act 1789
Basicaly establiched the court system and the supreme court -
Whiskey Rebellion
Farmers used leftover corn and grain to make wiskey and were taxed for trading it. farmers were upset -
Alien and sedition acts
Increased the citizenship requirements from five to fourteen years. Happened around the quazi war. -
Second great awakening
A protestant revival against rational cristianity and deism where baptist and methodist congregations grew rapidly. -
revolution of 1800
peacful power shift from Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans -
Marbury v. Madison
Instated judicial review -
Louisiana Purchase
Large piece of land purchased from west of the mississippi river. from the french -
Embargo Act 1807
embargo against great britain and france -
War of 1812
settled disputes between the us and the british empire no land was exchanged -
Election of 1816
james monroe beat rufus king -
Election of 1824
between john adams and andrew jackson but john adams was finaly elected by the house of representatives. -
Election of 1828
between andrew jackson and john adams andrew jackson won -
Indian Removal Act 1830
signed by andrew jackson to negotiate with indians to move them to federal indian reserves. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
Declared federal tarifs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional on the state level. -
Texas Independence
Texas declares indapendance from Mexico -
Mexican-American War
an armed conflict over the anexation of texas into the U.S. when Mexico still considered Texas its own -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ended the Mexican American War -
Dawnes act
Devided land up among individual indians and made them subject to the laws of the us and statr that their lane allotment was in. -
Wounded knee masacre
Last battle of the american indian wars. The US 7th calvary regiment comittes the masacre estimated 300 deaths. -
Spanish-American War
war about cuban indapendance from spain. was a very short war 4 months -
Founding of the NAACP
An african civil rights orginization. -
Red summer
describes many race riots of white people on black people. -
First red scare
Widespread fear of bolshevism and anarchism. -
Harlem Renissance
Spaned the 1920s and the 1930s, at the time was known as the new negro movment, black people have a different view of them selves and a sort of revival. -
Election of 1932
franklin rosevelt beat herbert hoover -
New Deal
a set of programs to help the us recover economicaly -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
america droped atomic bombs on these cities and ended ww2 -
Truman Doctrine
US to support grece and turkey to prevent them falling to the soviet regieme. -
Creation of NATO 1949
a treaty orginization that if one country is atacked all the others would fight the atacker. -
Fall of China to Communism
civil war in china ends with the comunist take over -
Korean War
war between the republic of korea and the democratic republic of korea. america helped to settle the land dispute. -
Election of 1952
dwight eisenhower beat adlai stevenson in the presendiaial election