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Jamestown
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House of Burgess
The first meeting was held in 1619 at Jamestown -
Start of Slavery
Slevery started in Jamestown so they work on the tobacco fields -
Mayflower Compact
The Pilgrims had to sign this document to get of the mayflower -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was fought between The British against the French and the Native Americans -
Treaty of Paris
When the British won the French and Indian war they gained land west of the appalachian mountains. -
Proclamtion of 1763
England declared that the colonist couldn't live west of the Appalchian Mountains due to fears of Indian attacks -
Stamp Act
The British put a tax on goods so that they could pay for war debts. -
Boston Massacre
The British army killed five colonist, and the event was made to seem bigger than what it was. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist went to the boston harbor where they dumped all 342 chest of tea into the water. -
1st Continental Congress
The first time all 13 colonies (except Georgia) came together.
Picture Carpenter's Hall -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the revolutionary war. -
2nd Continental Congress
They adopted the Declaration of Independence during this time -
Declaration of Independence
The thirteen announced that they were independent states -
Critical Period
The time period after the american revolution -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation is radified as the United States government. -
Yorktown
The site where the British surrendered to French and American troops -
The Treaty of Paris
The official end of the Revolutionary war. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
The land west of the Appalachian Mountains is to be divided into 10 new states. -
Shay's Rebellion
A revolt of desperate Massachusetts farmers. -
Annapolis Convention
A convention to discuss re-writing the Articles of Confederation, but only five states showed up. -
3/5ths Compromise
Slaves on counted as 3/5ths a vote towards population in the House of Representatives. -
The Great Compromise
The compromise that made the Senate and the House of Representatives. -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The division of the northwest territory into states. -
Constiutional Convention
The original thirteen colonies came together to re-write the Articles of Confederation. -
Washington Presidency
George Washington reign as president 1789-1797 -
Judiciary Act of 1787
Established tyhe power of Judicial Review. -
Bill of Rights Signed
The first ten amendments to the Untied States Constitution. -
Adam's Presidency
John Adams presidency during 1797-1801 -
Jefferson's Presidency
Thiomas Jefferson's presidency 1801-1809 -
Marbury vs. Madison
Allows the Judical branch to decide if an law is Constitutional. -
Louisiana Purchase
The land brought from the french for 15 million dollars. -
Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney, made it easier to get the cotton seeds out of cotton. -
War of 1812
The war between the United States and England -
Missouri Compromise
Divided the Louisana Purchase along the 36°30′ line, with the north being anti-slavery and the south pro-slavery -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
The Supreme Court can mediate powers between the state and federal government. -
17th Amendment
The seventeenth amendment is the is the direct election of United States senators by popular vote. -
Monroe Doctrine
Stated that Europe can't not colonize on the North American soil no more -
Gibbons vs. Ogben
Gave the Surpreme court the power to regulate commerce. -
Age of the Common Man
The time period where it became easier for the common man to vote during the presidential elections. -
Jackson's Presidency
The time period when Andrew Jackson was president. -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Jackson signed it into effect and pushed the American Indians out of their territorys and into Indiana -
Battle of the Alamo
The mexicans killed every single texan in an tiny old mission house. -
Battle of San Jacinto
The battle where texas gained it's independence from mexico -
U.S. Annexes Texas
The United States annexed Texas into the United States of 'Merica -
Mexican War
The war where Mexico went against the United States -
California Gold Rush
Everyone discovered gold in California and went crazy and moved out their to find gold. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book about the life of a slave. -
Dred Scott Case
A court case where Dred Scott tried to get his freedom in the supreme court but was told he was not a citizen because he was black. -
Election of 1860
The election where Abraham Licoln went against John Beckingbridge. Licoln won. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The first battle of the civil war. -
Battle of Anietam
The first major battle of the civil war to be fought on union soil. -
Reconstuction
the period of rebuilding the south and allowing them to be put back into the union. -
Emacipation Proclamation
A Document written by Abraham Licoln that Free'd slaves in "rebeling" states. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant won the battle for the union that spilt the confederacy in half. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
The speech Abraham Lincoln gave afther the battle of Gettysburg. -
Apponattox Court House
Where Lee surrendered to ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War. -
Lincoln Assassination
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wikes Booth! -
Reservation System
The land given out to the Native Americans by the United States. -
Knights of Labor
a secret organization whose professed purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen as respects their relations to their employers. -
Dawes Act
The act trying to make the Native Indians assimilate to the American Culture -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This act made Trusts (Monopolies) illegal. -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike, also known as the Homestead Steel 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
The American Railway Union, was the largest labor union of its time, and one of the first industrial unions in the United States. -
Treaty Of Paris 1898
an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in the Spanish Empire's surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico, parts of the Spanish West Indies, the island of Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. -
Spanish American War
Conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Open Door Policy
The policy proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis; thus, no international power would have total control of the country. -
Boxer Rebellion
a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1898 and 1900. -
Progressive Movement
The progressive movement is the era in which the United States started to move forward, from the gilded age! -
Platt Amendment
The Platt Amendment stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War and defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations. -
Roosevelt Corollary
The corollary states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony is the most famous women who helped Women get the right to vote and was one of the heads of the women rights movement up until her death. -
Great Migration
the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
16th Amendment
Allowed congress to place an income tax without apporting it the states -
Federal Trade Commission Act
One of Woodrow Wilson's major acts to bust trusts. -
Panama Canal
77.1-kilometre (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Claytons version of the Anti-Trust act which made trust (Monopolies) Illegal. -
U.S. Enters WWI
The United states enters world war one. -
14 Points
United States President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe. -
WWI
The war drew in all the world's economic great powers,[10] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire) and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration (African American),[1] of which Harlem was the largest. -
18th Amendment
the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of (though not the consumption or private possession of) alcohol illegal. -
Treaty Of Versailles
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
19th Amendment
The nineteenth amendment prohibits any United States citizens to be denied the right to vote. -
Scopes Trial
famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31 President of the United States he is the president many people blame for the Great Depression even though he didn't cause it: However, he didn't help maked better with "Rugged Individualism". -
Black Tuesday
The day the stock market crashed -
Great Depression
The Great Depression is when the stock market crashed, which cause the banks to close which made people lose their money, and eventually loose their jobs and house. -
Dust Bowl
The dust bowl is a time in american history where the mid-west suffered huge dust storms and droughts. -
New Deal
The New Deal was the domestic programs that were initated by the U.S. from 1933 to 1938. -
FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 38th president of the United States and is one of the many reasons the United States got out of The Great Depression. -
FDIC
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is an agency created during the Banking Act of 1933. -
Wagner Act
This allowed more trade unions to come up. -
Social Security Act
This act gives people social securtiy when they retire of when a family member dies. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
This act established Minimum wage. -
CIO
The Congress of Inudstrial Orginization was out of a dispute with the U.S. labor movement. -
Non-Aggression Pact
The most famous non-aggression pact is the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, -
War In Europe Begins
On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, on the false pretext that Poland had launched attacks on German territory.[51] On 3 September France and United Kingdom; followed by the fully independent Dominions[52] of the British Commonwealth,[53] – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa – declared war on Germany. -
Germany Invades Russia
Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km (1,800 mi) front -
Pearl Harbor
a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, -
U.S. Declares War
The United States declared war on the Japanese. -
Miracle Of Midway
The plan was handicapped by faulty Japanese assumptions of the American reaction and poor initial dispositions.[13] Most significantly, American codebreakers were able to determine the date and location of the attack, enabling the forewarned U.S. Navy to set up an ambush of its own. -
Selective Service Act
Most male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of their 18th birthdays, so that they could be drafted into the war. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. -
Korematsu V. U.S.
a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. -
Battle Of the Bulge
The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources. -
V-E Day
public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Division of Germany
At the Potsdam Conference (16 July to 2 August 1945), after Germany's unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945,[1] the Allies divided "Occupation Zone Germany" into four military occupation zones — France in the southwest, Britain in the northwest, the United States in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east. -
Hiroshima A-Bond
It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation. -
Nagasaki A- Bomb
a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. -
Nuremburg Trials
the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States with NATO and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in Warsaw Pact). -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.[ -
Berlin Airlift
Nato sent food through planes to west berlin -
Communist Take Over In China
On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Chiang Kai-shek, 600,000 Nationalist troops, and about two million Nationalist-sympathizer refugees retreated to the island of Taiwan. After that, resistance to the Communists on the mainland was substantial but scattered, such as in the far south. -
NATO
The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Korean War
between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. -
Eisenhower
He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.[2] -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Sputnik
s the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. -
U2 Incident
a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
JFK
an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963. -
Berlin Wall
was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.[ -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict -
JFK Assassination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
