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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America. Formed by the Virginia Company of London.
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Was the first elected assembly in the New World. It still operates today as the General Assembly
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The first slaves were brought to Jamestown where they lost all of their rights and became property of others.
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A document signed by the Puritans where they agreed to obey laws createed for the general good and pledged loyalty to God and the Kings.
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England and the American Colonists faught France and the Indians over land west of the Appalachians and in Canada
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England Gained the land west of the Appalachians and in Canada from France.
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England prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachians
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England imposed taxes on legal documents
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British army fired into an angry mob of colonists killing 5.
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Colonists boarded tea ships in boston harbour and dumped the tea into the water.
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Meeting of representatives from all 13 colonies except Goergia in Philadelphia. Issued a statement of colonial rights and urged colonies to form militias
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1st skermish of Revolutionary war in Massachusetts.
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Second meeting of the colonies, created the Continential Army
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The colonies officially seperated from England.
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The first government of the United States
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The time period which the United States was under the Articles of Confederation. (John Adams Pic)
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Last Battle of Revolutionary War. America won with the help of France
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England acknowledged American independence.
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Established a plan for surveying the western land
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Called to settle disputes among states
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Convention held in Philadelphia to discuss and improve the Articles of Confederation
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Provided the process for the creation and admission of new states
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Created a two house Congress and balanced power between small and big states
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Slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a states population in the House of Representation.
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Debt-risen farmers in Massachusetts rebel due to high taxes
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George Washington was the first president of the US.
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Set up the court system.
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The Bill of Rights was signed and added to the constitution.
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A machine invented by Eli Whitmey to seperate the seeds from the cotton
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John Adams was the second president of the US, he was a federalist
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A Slave that had a plot to take over Richmond
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The third president of the US and a Democratic-Republican
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Jefferson bought land from France and doubled the size of the US
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Chief Marshall declared a law unconstitutional. Established the power of Judicial review
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U.S. V Britian
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Established the doctrine of implied power
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Confirmed federal governments power over commerce
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A warning from President Monroe to Europe
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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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Jackson defeated Adams in the elections of 1828 thanks to the Common Man
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An act that forced Native Americans east of the Missisippi to the lands in the west
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Nat Turner led a band of over 80 slaves against 4 plantations in VA
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The battle between Texans and Mexicans the resulted in the Texans death
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Battle between Texans led by Sam Houston and the Mexicans. The Texans won independence and established the Republic of Texas
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The U.S, added Texas to it's states
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War between U.S, and Mexico, The U.s< won the war and gained land in the southeast
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Gold was discovered in California
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A women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY
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Compromise to settle disagreements between slave and free states
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A law designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned to their owners
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A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that talks about the life of a slave.
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A law enacted in 1854 that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right wether to allow slavery.
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Indians were forced off their lands onto smaller reservations
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Dred Scott, a slave sued for freedom after he was taken into free territory by his owner
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Abraham Lincoln became president
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First battle of the Civil War
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Law that gave free public land in the west
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First Battle in the North
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Speech by Lincol that freed the slaves in rebelling states
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The battle seperated the Confedaracy in two
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Turning point of the Civil War
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Speech by Abraham Lincoln dedicating a cemetry to those who lost their lives in war
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Reuniting the South into the Union
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Laws that seperated public facilities for blacks and whites
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Lincoln was assasined in a theatre
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Final battle of Civil war
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An Amendment to the US constitution the abolished slavery
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An Amendment to the US constitution that acknowleged African Americans as citizens
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Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) V Horatio Seymour (Democratic). Grant won.
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A union that stood up for workers regardless of trade
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An Amendment to the US constitution that gave Africans Americans the right to vote
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Immigrants from Northern & Western Europe (Pre-1871)
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Immigrants fron southern and eastern Europe
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Banned entry of almost all Chinese into the US
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Knights of Labor protest in Chicago
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A Craft Union
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Goal: Americanize the Indians
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An early 20th century movement
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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
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A labor strike at Carnegie steel plant
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One of the first industrial unions in the United States.
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A strike of Pullman railroad workers
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S.C, said the "seperate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment
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War between America and Spain over territories
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The US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines
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Gave all nations equal trading rights in China
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Chinese movement to remove all foreign influence
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US asserter the right to interverne in Cuban affairs
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Reminded Europe not to interfere in the western hemisphere and said the US would use force to protect its interests in Latin America
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Canal built by the US connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic
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A key leader in the womens suffrage movement
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Period when many African Americans moved from the rural south to northern cities
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Created a federal income tax
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Voters elect senators
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First global war centered in Europe
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Investigates business practices
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Expanded Shermans Anti-Trust Act. Outlawed price-fixing
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The US joined WW1 on the Allies side after remaining nuetral for 3 years
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Pres. Wilson plan to eleminate the causes of war
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Banned alcohol use
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The treaty after WW1
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Explosion of black intellectual and cultural life
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Gave women the right to vote
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Put a quota of how many immigrants could come from each country
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TN teacher was tried for teaching evolution
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President during the Great Depression, believed in rugged individualism
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A time of severe economic hardhip in the US
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Day of the stock market crash
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Severe drought in the Great Plains
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FDR's programs to get the United States out of it's depression period
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32nd president, helped get the country out of depression
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Federal deposit insurance corporation, insures bank deposits and regulates banks
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Act the protected workers rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining
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Provided safeguard for workers
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Set maximum hours and minimum wages
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Nazi-Soviet Union pact during WW2 agreeing not to attack each other.
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Second World war begins with the German invasion of Poland
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Drafting system during ww2
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Surprise Japanese attack on American naval base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor
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The US joins WW2 after being nuetral
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Battle between the Japanese and the Allies, The Allies win.
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The Allies attacked German invaded France
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German counteroffinse that the Allies soon recovered from.
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Court case discussing the Japanese Internment camps
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Uneasy peace between the US and the Soviet Union
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The Allies Victory in Europe
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Germany was divided into the democratic west and communist east
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First Atomic bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima
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Second Atomic bomb that ended ww2
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Postwar trials of Nazis for war crimes in the Holocaust.
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Mao Zedong led a communist revolution in China
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The US's plan to aid Europe after WW2
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The US flew supplies to the blockaded west Germany
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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War between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea
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a couple whom was a Soviet spy. they passed nuclear secrets
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The 34th president of the US
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Alliance between the Soviet Union and communist countries of Europe
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War between South anti-communist Vietnam and North communist Vietnam in which the US was involved.
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First Stellite launched by the Soviet Union
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The Soviets shot a US spy
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35th president of the US. Was president during the cold war until assassination
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Wall separating communist Berlin (east) from democratic Berlin (west)
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The Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in Cube. JFK demanded their removal and blackaded Cuba.
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JFK was assassined by Lee Harvey Oswald
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President Nixon won
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During his presidency, Nixon managed to get things right with china
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Temporary thaw in the Cold War tension
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President Nixon visited China hoping to get it on the US's side
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Nixon met the Soviet leader, Bezhnev and signed the SALT treaty
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5 men from Nixon's reelection comittee got caught breaking into the democratic campaign headquarters
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The OPEC raised oil prices
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South and North Vietnam were merged into one communist country
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Carter's presidency was during a time of worsening economy
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President Carter gave cntrol of the Panama Canal to Panama
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Speech given by President Reagan directed to the leader of the Soviet Union at the Berlin Wall
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The wall seperating east and west germany was destroyed
