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Jamestown was the first permanant English settlement in North America. It was created by the Viginia Company of London.
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First elected assembly in the New World
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Africans that had no rights , considered property of their owners
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Document where they agreed to obey laws created for generl good.
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The French and Indians vs. English and colonist. Fought over land west of the Appalachian Mountains and in Canada. England won.
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England gained the land west of the Appalchians and in Canada from France.
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England prohibited colonist from settling west of the Appalachians
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Placed tax on legal documents.
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Colonist boarded tea ships in Boston. They threw tea into the water
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meeting of representatives from all 13 colonies exceot georgia to discuss a statement of colonial rights
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british troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile, minutemen assembled
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13 colonies created the Continental Army
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Written by Thomas jefferson, America finally seperated from England
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American political leaders adopted a weak national government at the end of the Revoluntionary War
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Time period during which u.s. was under Articles of Confederation
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Americans and French surrounded Cornwallis and blockaded the Chesapeke bay. Britain surrendered.
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established a plan for surveying western land
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Called to settle disputes among states over commerce; decided to hold another meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation
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Held by George Washington and James Madison. They discussed the Virgina and New Jersey Plan and the Key Compromises.
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Created 2-house congress: Senate and House of Represenatatives
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provided process for creation and admission of new states
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debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts rebel due to high taxes
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slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a state's representation in House of Reps.
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The first president of the united states.
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Set up the court system
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The first 10 amendments. Signed by James Madison
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Made cotton growing very profitable
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John Adams, federalist beat Thomas Jefferson
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first peaceful transfer of a power from party to another
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A slave led a revolt in Richmond
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Jefferson bought land from the French, doubled the size of america
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Marshall declared a law unconstituional, established the power of judicial review
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British interference with American ships
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Marshall upheld the federal gov'ts right to establish a bank
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strong leader of the womens rights movement
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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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the court overturned a steamboat monopoly
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Divided LA pURCHASE AT 36, 30; North- Free, South- slave
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Warned Europe about future colonization in Americas
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More of the common man voted for Jackson. He created policies, the Spoils System, Indian Removal, The Nullification Crisis, and The Bank War
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Led band of 80 slaves against 4 plantations. He was caught and hanged.
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Old mission house where texas fortified themselves and fought the mexicans
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Texas won their independence which was led ny Sam Houston
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U.S annexed Texas
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James Polk urged the war, America won easily
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gold was first discovered
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Forced all indians east of the mississippi river to move indian territory which is present day Oklahoma
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Indians were forced off their land onto smaller and smaller reservations
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Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe which potrayed the evil's of slavery
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a slave named Dred Scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner
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The main issue of slavery; Abraham Lincoln won
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First Battle of the Civil War
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Freed slaves in rebelling states
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law that gave free public land in the west in 160 acre plots
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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Grant wins and cuts the confederacy in half
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Lee pushed north into Pennsylvannia; he retreated
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Short speechbby Lincoln dedicating cemetry
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abolish slavery
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Lee surrendered and urged southerners to accept surrender and unote as Americans
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By John Wilkes Booth shortly after the war
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restoring southern states back to the union
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put south under military occupation
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prohibited states from denying equal rights to any americans; gave citizenship to blacks
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Founder was Uriah Stevens
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gave voting rights to african americans
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immigrants from the northern and western part of europe
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established seperate facilities for blacks and whites
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Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden
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banned entry of almost all chinese
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founder Samuel Gompers used collective bargaining and craft unions
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protest in chicago where a bomb went off and 8 strikers were convicted
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Americanized indians
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plan under which indians would be forced to adopt american culture
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prevented any business structure that restrained trade, wanted to outlaw trusts
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Carnegie steel plant that was a major gun battle
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Railroad workers, skilled, and unskilled workers founded by Eugene V. Debs
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pullman railroad workers started a nation wide rail road strike
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said seperate but equal did not violate the 14th amendment
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Cubans rebelled against Spanish rule. Americans had strategic interest in Cuba
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US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, and Phillipines
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southern and eastern europeans
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early 20th century reform movement
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Gave all nations equal trading rights in Cuba
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Chinese "Boxers" remove foreign influences; it failed
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US asserted the right to intervene in Cuban affairs
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TR added on to the Monroe Doctrine to remind Europe ti not interfere
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period when african americans moved from the rural south to the northern cities
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created federal income taxes
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voterw elect senators instead of state legislatures
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A war erupted in Europe: Allies- Britain, France, Russia. Central powers- Germany and Austria Hungry
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Panama was encouraged to break away from Columbia. Panama gave the US rights to build a canal
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investigates business practices
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outlaws price fixing
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US enters because of German submarine warfare, Zimmerman Telegraph, and they had close ties to GB
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Wilsons peace plan during WWI
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Banned alcohol in the united states
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gave women the right to vote
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Punishment of Germany
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Explosion of black intellectual and cultural life
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put a quota of how many immigrants couod come from each country
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A TN teacher was trailed for teaching evolution
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Called for more individual effort and against direct gov't aid to the needy
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The stock market crashed
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The stock market crash signald the beginning of the Great Depression
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Horrible draught in the Great Plains
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He rallied a frightened nation and said "we have nothing to fear but fear itself"
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insures bank deposites and regulates banks
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FDR'S program to deal with the Depression
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protected workers rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining
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provides safeguards for workers: disability and unemployment compensation, and old age pension
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New union
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set maximum work hours and minimum wages
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Stalin and Hitler agree not attack each other
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Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet Union from east
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Drafted 10 million men into the military
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Germany turned on Russia and invaded them
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Amercian naval base that killed thousands
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Congress de lares war at FDR's request
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US navy beat a larger Japanese force, ended the threat in Hawaaii
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Normandy invasion led by Eisenhower. US faced heavy casualties
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German counteroffense, the Allies sooned recovered
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Supreme Court allowed internment
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The uneasy peace after WWII, marked by a rivalry between the US and Soviets
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western=us, eastern=soveits
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Allies from the wesr and Soveit Union from the east overran germany
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Japanese citis where Truman used an atomic bomb against
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Japanese city that US used an atomic bomb against
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postwar trsils of Nazis for war crims in the Holocaust
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massive us financial aid to help rebuild europes economics
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soviets blockaded west berlin
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alliance among the US and Western European countries
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increased fear of communist worl domination led by Mao Zedong
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was in presidency during the cold war that involved: Arms Race, Hydrogen Bomb, and Massive Retaliation
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gave atomic secrets to the soviets
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divided korea
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aliance among Soviets and East European countries
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Soviets launched it into space which began the Space Race
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North Vietnam tried to install a communist gov't in South Vietnam by force
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said "ask why not.." us would pat any price
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Francis Gary Powers was shot down while spying over the Soviets
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between east and west berlin
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soviets stationed nuclear missiles in cuba
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in dallas by lee harvey oswald
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was exploiting the rift between China and the Soviets
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Vietnamization had failed and troops went home
