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US history

  • Roanoke

    Roanoke

    The colony that was established by sir Walter Raleigh on the North Carolina coast and all the settler5s vanished in 1590
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Captain John Smtih and 105 cavaliers in 3 ships landed on the Virginia Coast, started the first permanent settlement in the new world at jamestown.
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

    Teh House of Burgesses representative assembly in the new world , elected July 30 at jamestown virginia
  • Mayflower compact

    Mayflower compact

    1st form of self goverment
  • Roger Williams

    Roger Williams

    Founded the providence of Rhode Island.
  • navigation acts

    navigation acts

    Acts regulating colonial commerce
  • Bacons rebelions

    Bacons rebelions

    led planters against the britidh governer Berkley
  • Wiliam penn

    Wiliam penn

    signed a treaty with the delaware indians and made a payment for the land (pennsylvania)
  • pennsylvania

    pennsylvania

    was payed for by wiliam penn
  • Witch craft delusion at salem

    Witch craft delusion at salem

    were the acusations that people were witches and murdered without a trial
  • Great awakening

    Great awakening

    an era of religious revival
  • John Peter Zenger

    John Peter Zenger

    was sent to trial for critisizing the british governers conduct in office
  • French and indian war

    French and indian war

    began when french captured pitisburgh and ended when they signed a peace pact on feb 10 1763
  • Poor richards almanac

    Poor richards almanac

    was written by Benjamin franklin and was published annually until 1757
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    taxes placed on lumber and foods like mollases and rum to pay for the fench and indian war
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    required that all goods had revenue stamps on them in order to help fund the royal troops
  • Townshed acts

    Townshed acts

    Levied taxes on goods
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    British troops fired into a mob and killed a black man named Crispus Attucks
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    for protest the tea act they dumped all the carg0 of tea into the ocean
  • Intolerable acts

    Intolerable acts

    was passed to punish colonies for the bost tea party
  • first continental congress

    first continental congress

    held in philadelphia for civil disobidience on part of the british
  • Paul Revere

    Paul Revere

    rode to alert the patriots that the british were coming
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord

    a battle of the minute men against the british were they ony lost 8 men while the british lost 273 men. this was the turning point of the war
  • Decleration of independence

    Decleration of independence

    was written by thomas jefferson and was meant to establish the USA's independence
  • patrick henry

    patrick henry

    was adressed at the virginia convention were he said ''give me liberty or give me death''
  • sartoga

    sartoga

    were the british general surredndered 5,000 men
  • Articles of confederation

    Articles of confederation

    was acepted by the continental congress
  • John paul jones

    John paul jones

    famouse for his quote '' i have not yet begun to fight''
  • Cornwallis

    Cornwallis

    surrendered at yorktown
  • Yorktown,Va

    Yorktown,Va

    were cornwallis surendered
  • paris peace treaty

    paris peace treaty

    ended the revolution
  • the north west ordinance adopted by the continental congress

    the north west ordinance adopted by the continental congress

    the ordinance set the orderl patterno growth for the us and accelerated wetward expansion
  • George Washington 1st president

    George Washington 1st president

    he was the first president of the USA
  • whiskey rebellion

    whiskey rebellion

    Rebellion ny farmers over the tax on whisky; which is what they used to pay for stuff besides money
  • Bill of rights

    Bill of rights

    is the reson that that all the states were ratified
  • cotton gin

    cotton gin

    was a contraption used to seperate the seeds from the actuall cotton plant invented by Eli Witney
  • washingtons farewell adress

    washingtons farewell adress

    a ferwell adress that warned about forien aliances
  • marbury vs madison

    marbury vs madison

    first time a USA law has been overturned
  • The louisiana purchase

    The louisiana purchase

    Was sold by the french to the US for 11,250,000 in bonds and 3,750,000 indemnities
  • lewis and clark

    lewis and clark

    were sent to explore the louisiana territories
  • steam boat

    robert fulton invented steam boat in NYC
  • the war of 1812

    caused by british stealing us ships and selling them to france
  • star spangled banner

    was written by francis scott key
  • missouri compramise

    slavery was alowed in missouri
  • monroe doctrine

    stating that further colonization of the US is not allowed
  • trail of tears

    was the trail that the cherokke were forced to walk on after they were forced of their land
  • telegraph

    was invented by samuel morse
  • Womens rights convention

    Conventiom over womens rights Featuring speakers ; Lucricia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton led the seneca falls convention in New York
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Wrote uncle Toms cabin; a novel withh a main idea of abolitionism
  • Dred Scott

    sued his former grounds keeper because he was demanding him to come back becasuse he is a slave ..... In the end the court ruled that he could not sue since he was a slave
  • Abraham Lincoln

    was elected in a 4 way race and abolished slavery earning the right of one of the best presidents in US history
  • Confederate states of america

    creqated by the 7 souhern states in the times of the civl war jefferson Davis was the president
  • Fort Sumter

    was fired at and taken over by the confederates
  • Battle of Antiem

    Bloodiest battle in the cicil war
  • Emancipation proclomation

    proclomation stating that '' all slaves are free in states that are still in rebellion''
  • Gettysburg Adress

    the adress that licoln gave to adress slavery
  • Lee surendered

    Surrender to grant in the appamatox court house
  • appamatox

    in VA were lee surendered to grant
  • Robert e lee

  • Licolns assassinations

    lincoln was assasinated by john wilkes booth in ford theater
  • 13th amendment

    abolished slavery
  • 14th amendment

    providing citizenship for all people born or naturalized in th US
  • 15 amendment

    making race no bar to voting rights
  • clara barton

    Founded red cross