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Columbus’ discovery of America led to the ability of European settlement in the America’s -
Jamestown was the first stable European settlement in North America. -
The House of Burgesses was the first representative government in North America -
"new lights" of christianity begins -
The Sugar Act, or the Revenue Act of 1764, was the first taxation of the American Colonists put on by the British Parliament -
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group (people in a given community with a political movement) who were very much against the Parliament trying to step in and control the Colonies with taxation and other forms of control. -
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group (people in a given community with a political movement) who were very much against the Parliament trying to step in and control the Colonies with taxation and other forms of control.
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Following the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act was the first tax levied directly on American colonists. This taxed all paper documents. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occured as tensions and accidents from loyalists and the Sons of Liberties and supporters (patriots) protestings rising. -
Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw 342 chests of tea into the water. -
The intolerable acts, or the coercive acts, were a series of four laws passed by the parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea party. -
he continental congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies. The first meeting was about the Coercive Acts and how to resist them -
The official battles between Great Britain and the States of North America -
The Declaration of Independence marks the day the United States officially marks the break from Great Britain and becomes its own nation. -
The first written constitution of the United States. -
Shays’ Rebellion was a series of violent attacks on courthouses and government properties in massachusetts -
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote 89 papers entitled the Federalist Papers in 6 months that addressed all issues within the articles -
he U.S. Constitution took place for the Articles of Confederation. This set the laws for having checks and balances, a governmental system with three branches, and a strong centralized government that can intervene and help with states -
Hamilton proposed to pay off all state debts to enhance the importance of having a central government. He also proposed to create a bank that would stabilize currency to make the economy more stable and easier to track. -
The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments in the constitution added later to protect the rights of all United States Citizens. -
he Louisiana Purchase (bought from France) gave the United States the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. -
The Missouri Compromise said that Missouri could be a slave state , but Main must be a free state to keep the amount of free and slave states equal. -
The Monroe Doctrine is a foreign policy statement that was created to create separation between Europe and the United States stating that the U.S. will not meddle in European affairs if Europe agrees to stay out of the United States business. -
Turner started a rebellion where he and 6 others killed a slave owner and picked up many other slaves to continue the rebellion where they murdered about 55 white people. -
his case made it to the supreme court where he lost his fight for freedom. Because he was not a U.S. citizen, he has no rights in the federal courts eyes -
After tensions between the north and south states over slavery, states rights, and westward expanision, the confederate troops fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, marking the start of the civil war. -
The Emancipation Proclamation, initiated by President Lincoln, declared that all enslaved people in the state shall be freed. -
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery by saying slavery or involuntry servitdue, except by punishment of crime (that has been determined by trail). -
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States and grants these people with the “equal protection laws.” -
The 15th Amendment states that all United States citizens have the right to vote no matter race, color, or previous condition of servitude (the state of being a slave) -
The compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between political parties to set the results of the presidential election to mark the end of the reconstruction era.