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Formed by the Virginia Company of london.
Was the first permanent English settlement in north America. -
Weren't used much at 1st. Had no rights, and were considered property of owner.
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1st elected assembly in the new wolrd.
Still operates today as the "General Assembly " -
Pledge loyalty to God and the King.
Created a "covenant community" -
England & the american colonist fought France & the Indians.
England won the war. -
England gained the land west of the Appalachians and Canada.
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England prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachians.
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Placed a tax on legal documents.
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British troops fired into the mob. 5 colonists died.
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Colonists boarded tea ships in Boston, threw the tea into the water.
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Meeting of reprensetetives from all 13 colonies except Georgia.
1st time almost all 13 colonies acted together. -
British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile.
Minutemen assembled. -
Created the continental army.
Issued the "Olive Branch Petition." -
Issued by the Continental congress.
Written by Thomas Jefferson. -
It established a weak central government.
It had weaknesses. -
Time period during which the U.S was under the Articles of confederation.
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Americans & French surrounded Cornwallis/the British.
Cornwallis Surrendered -
England acknownledged American independence.
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Established a plan for surveying the western lands.
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Called to settle disputes among states over commerce.
Only 5 states showed up. -
The meeting was to amend the Articles of Confederation. All the states except Rhode Island responded to an invitation issued by the Annapolis Convention of 1786
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Provided the process for the creation and admission of new states.
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Created 2-house congress: Senate & House of Representatives.
Balanced power between large & small states. -
Slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a state's representation in House of Reps.
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Debt ridden farmers in Massachusetts rebel due to high taxes.
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Washington was the 1st president of the United States.
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The 1st 10 amendments. Deals with rights and liberties.
Written by James madison. -
Set up the court system.
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Made cotton growing very profitable.
Inventor Eli Whitney. -
Adam's ordered the American navy to start attacking French ships.
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1st peaceful transfer of power from one party to another.
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Marshall declared a law unconstitutional.
Established the power of judicial review. -
The Louisiana Purchase, was a land Jefferson bought from France
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British interference with American Shipping.
British aid to Indians in the west. -
Marshall upheld the federal gov'ts right to establish a bank.
Established the doctrine of implied powers. -
Leader of women's suffrage movement.
Strong leader. -
DIvided LA purchase at 36, 30.
North of line Free.
South of line Slave. -
The court overturned a steamboat monopoly.
Confirmed the federal gov'ts power over commerce. -
Warned Europe against future colonization in the Americas.
Interference any independent country in the western hemisphere. -
Americans no llonger let aristocrats make all the decisions.
Time when democracy in the U.S. expanded and more people got involved in the electoral process. -
More common people could vote and liked him.
Defeated Adams -
Indians were forced off their lands onto smaller and smaller reservations.
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Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portrayed the evils of slavery.
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A slave named dred scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner.
The case overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery. -
Issue was slavery.
Abraham Lincoln won. -
Seven Southern states seceded in response to lincoln's election.
They created the Confederate states oof America. -
Law that gave free public law in the west in 160 acre plots.
encouraged Americans to settle the west. -
Lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation.
Lee went North. -
Freed slaves in the "rebelling" states .
Discouraged foreign intervention. -
3 day battle.
Turning point of the war. Lee had to retreat. -
This cut the confederacy in half.
Grant wins. -
Short speech by Lincoln.
Dedicating cemetery.
War was 2nd American Revolution. -
Lee surrendered.
Lee urged Southerners to accept surrender & unite as Americans. -
Restoring Southern states to the union.
Determining the position of African Americans. -
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln.
Shortly after war. -
Abolished slavery
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Put South under military occupation.
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Prohibited States from denying equal rights to any American.
Gave citizenship to blacks. -
Founder: Uriah Stevens
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Voting rights for African Americans.
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Northern & Western Europe.
Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. -
Hayes would be president.
Hayes and Tilden disputed election results. -
Established separate facilities for whites & blacks.
Black facilities were inferior. -
Southern & Eastern Europe, Asia,
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Prevented entry of almost all Chinise.
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Founder: Samuel Gompers.
"Craft Union" only skilled workers, from multiple industries.
Used "collective Bargaining" -
Americanize the Indians.
Broke up reservations and divided them into individual plots.
Legally abolished tribes. -
Aided by: Public Schools, and the work place
"Melting pot" -
it used the government to institute reforms to fix problems caused by industrialization.
Early 20th century reform movement. -
Prevented "any business structure that restrained trade"
Outlaw trusts (monopolies)
Wasn't succesful. -
Carnagie steel plant.
Plant manager Henry frick called the pinkerton Detective Agency.
Major gun battle. -
Founder: Eugene V. Debs
Railroad workers.
"Industrial union" Skilled & unskilled workers. -
By Pullman railroad workers.
Started nationwide RR boycott.
Fed. gov't ended it. -
S.C. said "Seperate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment.
Upheld Jim Crow Laws of segregation. -
Cubans rebelled against Spanish rule.
American ship USS Maine exploded outside Cuba. -
U.S. annexed puertorico, guam, philippines.
Cuba became free. -
Wanted to remove foreign influence.
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Gave all nations equal trading rights in china.
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U.S. asserted the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
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TR added to the Moroe Doctrine.
U.S. would use force to protect its interests in Latin American. -
Creates federal income tax.
Is a "progressive tax" -
Voters elect senators now
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U.S. remained neutral for 3 years.
Zimmermann Telegram. -
Connects the Atlantic & Pacific.
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Creates FTC.
Investigastes business practices. -
Expands sherman anti-trust act.
Outlaws price-fixing.
Exempts unions from sherman act. -
Period from 1910 to 1930 when many African-Americans moved from the rural South to Northern cities.
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German submarine warfare.
U.S. had ties to Great Britian. -
Wilson's peace plan.
Goal: eliminate the causes of war. -
Banned alcohol use.
Many broke the law. -
Punishment of Germany.
Mandates.
National boundaries were redrawn.
League of nations. -
Explosion of black intellectual and cultural life.
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Women gain right to vote.
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Put a quota of how many immigrant could come from each country.
Allowed more from "old Immigrant" areas than "new Immigrant" areas. -
TN teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution.
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New Union known as Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Believed in "rugged Individualism."
Favored limited Government. -
Time of severe economic hardship in the U.S. from 1929-1941.
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The stock market crashed.
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Horrible drought on the Great Plains.
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Crushed Hoover.
Promised a new deal. -
FDR's programs to deal with the depression.
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Insures bank deposits.
Regulates banks. -
Protected workers rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
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Provides safeguards for workers.
Disability and unemployment compensation.
Old age pensions. -
Set maximum work hours and minimum wages.
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Stalin and Hitler agree not to attack each other.
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Germany invaded Poland from the west in september 1939.
France and Britain declared war on germany to stop more German expansion. -
Drafted 10 million men into the military.
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Germany turned on the Soviet Union and invaded them in mid-1941.
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Surprise Air Attack on an U.S. Naval base.
Thousands die and crushed the U.S.'s pacific fleet. -
FDR's requests war, and congress accepts.
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The U.S. navy beat a larger Japanese force.
Ended the threat to Hawaii. -
Led by Eisenhower.
Allies landed in german - occupied france. -
Supreme Court allowed internment.
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German counter offensive.
The allies soon recovered. -
Allies from West and Soviet from East overran Germany.
Germany Surrendered. -
Truman used atomic bomb against japan.
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Second A-Bomb droped on Japan. Japan Surrendered.
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Postwar trials of nazis for war crimes in the holocaust.
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Eastern became communist while the Western side became democratic.
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The uneasy peace after WWII, marked by a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union , lasting from 1945-1991.
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Massive U.S. financial aid package to rebuild Europe's economie.
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The Soviets blockaded West Berlin.
The U.S. Flew in supplies. -
Defensive alliance among the U.S. & Western European Countries.
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Increased the fear of communist world domination.
Became rivals with the Soviet Union. -
Noth Korea invaded South Korea.
Divided Korea. -
Gave atomic secrets to the Soviets.
Electrocuted. -
Nuclear policy of Massive Retaliation.
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Alliance among Soviet Union & East European countries.
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First satellite launched by the Soviet Union into space.
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Francis Gary Powers was shot down while spying over the Soviet Union.
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"Ask not..."
U.S. would "Pay any price..." -
Between East & West Berlin.
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The Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in Cuba.
The world was close to nuclear war for many days. -
Dallas TX, by lee Harvey Oswald.
Shook America's confidence.
Began a period of internal strife.
