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  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement. It Established by the Virginia company of London.
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  • Start of Slavery

    Start of Slavery

    North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source. The first slaves were brought from the dutch
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

    The House was established by the Virginia Company of London. The House of Burgesses was the first legislative, representatives elected in North America.
  • Mayflower compact

    Mayflower compact

    The Mayflower Compact was the first document of Plymouth Colony.The Mayflower Compact was created on their ship.
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  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. The war was fought along New France and the British colonies.
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown

    one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. It was called "York" until after the American Revolutionary War
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years' War
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. a mob formed around a British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act. The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies. The Congress is attended by 56 delegates appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • United States Declaration of Independence

    United States Declaration of Independence

    Created on July 4, 1776. After ratifying the text on July 4, Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    The formal ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781. Even when not yet ratified, the Articles provided legitimacy for the Continental Congress to direct the American Revolutionary War.
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  • Critical Period

    Critical Period

    a time right after the American Revolution where the future of the newly formed nation was in the balance. they were also a time of economic growth and political maturation.
  • Three-Fifths Compromise

    Three-Fifths Compromise

    The three-fifths ratio originated with a 1783 amendment proposed to the Articles of Confederation. The Three-Fifths Compromise, is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain. The treaty was signed in Paris at the Hotel d'York by Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Hartley.
  • Land Ordinance of 1785

    Land Ordinance of 1785

    Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue.through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired after the end of the Revolutionary War in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
  • Shays' Rebellion

    Shays' Rebellion

    "fundamentally altered the course of United States' history."
    It was precipitated by several factors: financial difficulties brought about by a post-war economic depression
  • Annapolis Convention (1786)

    Annapolis Convention (1786)

    in which twelve delegates from five states–New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia. had no authority to regulate trade between and among the states.
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    On August 7, 1789, first President George Washington signed a replacement. The ordinance created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States.
  • Connecticut Compromise-Great

    Connecticut Compromise-Great

    Each state would have two representatives in the upper house. Elbridge Gerry ridiculed the small states’ claim of sovereignty
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation it was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. also known as the Philadelphia Convention
  • Presidency of George Washington

    Presidency of George Washington

    His leadership guaranteed the survival of the United States. Set the standard for future presidents.
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  • Judiciary Act of 1789

    Judiciary Act of 1789

    An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States
    Enacted by the 1st United States Congress
  • United States Bill of Rights

    United States Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights had little judicial impact for the first 150 years of its existence. The Bill of Rights enumerates freedoms not explicitly indicated in the main body of the Constitution
  • John Adams

    John Adams

    In 1800, Adams was defeated for re-election by Thomas Jefferson and retired to Massachusetts. Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution.
  • Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

    Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

    He used the Navy to protect merchant ships from Barbary pirates in North Africa, A major achievement was legislation to criminalize the international import or export of slaves starting in 1808.
  • Marbury v. Madison

    Marbury v. Madison

    The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury. On February 24, 1803, the Court rendered a unanimous (4–0) decision
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    France controlled this vast area from 1699 until 1762, gave it to spain until 1800. The purchase of the territory of Louisiana took place during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds. This mechanical device was, in some areas, driven by water power.
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

    The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years. Between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

    McCulloch v. Maryland

    "an act to impose a tax on all banks, or branches thereof, in the State of Maryland, not chartered by the legislature".
    The Court determined that Congress did have the power to create the Bank
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    Although it had been repealed in 1857 the Supreme Court indicated that the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional in Dred Scott v. Sandford. The Missouri Compromise was effectively repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    It stated that if Europeans try colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression.
  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    Gibbons v. Ogden

    The case was argued by some of America's most admired and capable attorneys at the time.
    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gibbons.
  • Uncle Toms's Cabin

    Uncle Toms's Cabin

    it was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century other than the bible
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  • Dred Scott case

    Dred Scott case

    In a 7–2 decision written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the Court denied Scott's request. For only the second time in its history the Supreme Court ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional
  • The election of 1860

    The election of 1860

    19th election, 7 southern states secceded from the us and 4 more would also join the election was a strart of the civil war
  • Battle at fort sumter

    Battle at fort sumter

    the attack by the confederaacy started the civil war
  • Homestead act

    Homestead act

    Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    the first major enchounter of the civil war, and the bloddiest of the civil war
  • Emancipation porclamation

    Emancipation porclamation

    It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion
  • reconstruction

    reconstruction

    the first covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War, and changing the souther states
  • Battle of vicksburg

    Battle of vicksburg

    the union crossed the mississippi river to cut the south off
  • Battle of gettysburg

    Battle of gettysburg

    The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war, tunring point of the civil war and first battle in the north
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    said during burial of union soldiers at gettysburg In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    this amendment was passed to abolish slavery or involuntary acts
  • Lincoln's assassination

    Lincoln's assassination

    Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theatre, 5 days after the civil war
  • Reconstruction act of 1867

    Reconstruction act of 1867

    gave control to milittary leaders in the south to rebuild, and unify the country
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws
  • Knights of labor

    Knights of labor

    was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that persons race, color
  • Reservation system

    Reservation system

    administered by white officials, evolved as the most effective way of “civilizing” and assimilating the Indian people - See more at: http://www.ndstudies.org/articles/the_reservation_system_overview#sthash.xCkZM3LS.dpuf
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  • Assimilation policy

    Assimilation policy

    "the constantly more intimate union between the colonial territory and the metropolitan territory".
  • Chinese exclusion act 1882

    It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
  • Haymarket square

    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
  • American federation of labor

    American federation of labor

    The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century
  • Dawes act of 1887

    Dawes act of 1887

    authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
  • Jim crow laws

    Jim crow laws

    were racial segregation laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States a "separate but equal" status for African Americans
  • Sherman anti trust act

    Sherman anti trust act

    It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive
  • Appomattox courthouse

    Appomattox courthouse

    Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892, location of where the civil war ended
  • Homestead strike

    Homestead strike

    was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
  • American railway union

    American railway union

    was the largest labor union of its time, and one of the first industrial unions in the United States.
  • Pullman strike

    Pullman strike

    on May 11 when nearly 4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages.
  • Plessy v Ferguson 1896

    Plessy v Ferguson 1896

    decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation, separate but equal.
  • spanish american war

    the us and sapin go to war
  • treaty of paris 1898

    the war between the us and spain comes to and
  • open door policy

    a statement of principle issued by the usa
  • boxer rebellion

    a chinese uprising which failed
  • platt amendment

    an act removing us troops from cuba
  • roosevelt corollary

    an addition to the monroe doctrine
  • Susan b. Anthony

    Susan b. Anthony

    was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
  • 16th amendment

    16th amendment

    allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment

    to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
  • WW1

    the first world war (great war)
  • panama canal

    a canal that made it easier to cross between SA and CA
  • Federal Trade Comission act

    Federal Trade Comission act

    Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly
  • Clayton Anti-Trust act

    Clayton Anti-Trust act

    was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    The Nineteenth Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878 by Senator Aaron A. Sargent.
  • Immigration restriction act

    Immigration restriction act

    was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890
  • Progressive movement

    Progressive movement

    was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. eliminating corruption in government by exposing and undercutting political machines and their bosses and establishing further means of direct democracy.
  • non-aggression pact

    hitler and stalin agree to not attack each other