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Economics in the colonies: Both the Chesapeake and Southern colonies had rich soil and temperate climates which made large-scale plantation farming possible. Both regions had an agriculture-based economy in which cash crops like tobacco, indigo, and cotton were cultivated for trade. -
The pilgrims of the Mayflower were a group of around 100 people seeking religious freedom from the Church of England. However, pilgrims were not the only passengers on the Mayflower. Other Mayflower passengers included servants, contracted workers, and families seeking a new life in America. -
The conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in the U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
The discovery of the precious metal at Sutter's Mill in January 1848 was a turning point in global history. The rush for gold redirected the technologies of communication and transportation and accelerated and expanded the reach of the American and British Empires. -
It was a turning point in the war. Lincoln's speech was intended to dedicate a plot that would become Soldier's National Cemetery. Lincoln realized that he needed to inspire the people to keep fighting -
The U.S. Congress subsequently created an Electoral Commission, which by early March 1877 had resolved all the disputed electoral votes in favour of Hayes, giving him a 185–184 electoral college victory -
The movement to form local organizations to advance farmers' collective interests gained wide popularity in the 1880s. -
When a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. -
Opposed or went against the suffrage movement in that they believed granting women voting rights would lead to a moral decline with the neglect of children and an increase in divorce. This resistance came from mostly the South and Eastern regions of the U.S. -
Republican William McKinley defeated Democratic-Populist "Popocrat" William Jennings Bryan. In 1st election in 24 years then Republicans won a majority of the popular vote. McKinley won promoting the gold standard, pluralism, and industrial growth. -
The Great Migration refers to the movement in large numbers of African Americans during and after World War I from the rural South to industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest. One million people left the fields and small towns of the South for the urban North during this period
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An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI.
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The Teapot Dome Scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming. -
The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the u.s. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
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The New Deal consisted of legislation that would enact programs to deal with the Three R's of the economy--Relief, Recovery, and Reform. The authors of the New Deals legislation were known as The Brain Trust.
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A war fought between 1939-1945 between Axis/Allied powers. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers.
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Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. -
The cold war was a 50 year struggle between the United States (a democratic nation) and the soviet Union (a communist nation) after World War 2. It is called a "cold" war because the United States and the soviet union never directly fought each other. Key events and the characteristic/features of the Cold war.
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Social movement to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws. They gave speeches, marched in the streets, and participated in boycotts. -
Saddled with a poor economy, the fall of South Vietnam, and his unpopular pardon of Nixon, Ford trailed by a wide margin in polls taken after Carter's formal nomination in July 1976. Ford's polling rebounded after a strong performance in the first presidential debate, and the race was close on election day.