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Jametown was the first permanant
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War over land in America between England and France and their Indian allies.
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Treaty that ended the French and Indian War.
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Forbade settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Imposed a tax on all legal documents.
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System of placing Indians on reserved plots of land.
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British soldiers opened fire on colonists, killing 5 and injuring several others.
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Political protest by colonist where they dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Was the first convention of delegates from all colonies, excluding Georgia.
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Frist battles of The Revolutionary War.
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2nd convention with delegates from all colonies, excluding Geeorgia.
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Document declaring the United States independent from Britain.
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Location of the end of the Revolutionary War.
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Period in which the United States was under the Articles of Confederation.
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Agreement among the 13 states that established the United States as a confederation.
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Treaty signed that ended the Revolutionary War.
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Established a plan for surveying the western lands.
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Debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts rebel due to high taxes.
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Called to settle disputes amonng states over commerce.
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Convention in which the Constitution was writen.
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Compromise between large and small states that would decide the representation of a state.
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Stated that slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person.
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Provided the process for the creation and admission of new states.
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Time when George Washington was president. (April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797)
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First 10 ammendments of the Constitution.
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Set up the court system.
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Maching invented by Eli Whitney that seperated cotton fibers from the seed that greatly increased slavery.
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Time when Adam was president. (March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801)
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Slave revolt in Richmond, VA.
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Time when Jefferson was president. (March 4. 1801 - March 4, 1809)
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Established the power of judiciary review.
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Land spanning from Mississippi River to Rocky Mountains that Jefferson purchased from France that doubled the size of the U.S.
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War between France and England that America became involved in, because the British harassed U.S. ships and payed indians to attach the U.S.
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Established the doctrine of implied powers. Showed the Court could mediate between states and the government..
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Said that the congress could not interfere with slavery for at leas 20 years.
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Prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory
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Confired the federal government's power over commerce.
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Battle in a old mission house where 187 Texan fought a much larger force of Mexicans until every Texan had died.
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Monroe told Europe to stay out of the western hemisphere.
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Time when Andrew Jackson was president. (March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837)
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Time when democracy in the U.S. expanded and more people got involved in the electoral progress.
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Period of droughts and dust storms in the west, ruining crops.
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Forced indians to move to indian territorty west of the Mississippi River.
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Southhamton, VA slave revolt. Led 180 slaves agains 4 plantations.
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Texans won independence and established the Republic of Texas.
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The U.S. annexed Texas.
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Case where Dred Scott attempted to sue his owner, because he took him into a free territory.
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War the the U.S. baited Mexico into to aquire their land.
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An early and influential women's rights convention.
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Gold was found in CA.
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Defused a 4 year confrontation between free and slave states about the land aquired in the Mexican War.
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All run away slaves were to be returned to their masters if captured.
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Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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The presidenteal election that took place in 1860, and Abraham Lincoln was elected.
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First Battle of the Civil War.
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First major battle of the Civil War that took place on Union soil.
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Proclaimed freedom of slaves in the 10 states that were still in rebellion.
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Period of rebuilding and readmitting the South into the United States.
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Battle fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, also known as the turning point of the war.
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Speach given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Abolished slavery.
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Location where the surrender of the South was signed
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Lincoln was assassinated in a theatre by John Wilkes Booth 5 days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee.
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Presidential election between Ulysses S. Grant and Horatio Seymour.
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After the Civil War, as part of Reconstruction, Congress passed the Reconstrucion Act of 1867.
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Gives rights to blacks.
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American labor organization.
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Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizen's race or previous conditions of servitude.
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Racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965.
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Earlier immigrants that came to America from who were mostly English, Irish, German, Dutch, Scotish, and Scandanavian.
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Act that disallowed the Chinese to immagrate to America.
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Act that divided Indian land into seperate plots to live on as an attempt to Americanize them.
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Strike of steel workers that turned into a battle of workers against Pinkerton Agents.
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Union made to unite all railway employees of all types of jobs into one large Union.
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Court case over segregated train cars.
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War between the US and Spain in 1898.
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Violent anti-foregn movement in China.
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Spain surrenders to the US
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The US and other European countries would share China and its trade.
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Allowed the US to be involved in Cuban affairs.
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A corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. States that the US will intervene in conflicts between Europe and Latin America.
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Vacuum
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Large movement of African Americans from the South to the North.
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War started by the assassination of Franz Ferdinand fought between the countries of the Allied Powers and the countries of the Central Powers.
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Canal built in Panama so ships would not have to sail all the way around South America.
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US enters war due to Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman telegraph.
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14 points given by Woodrow Wilson after WWI, to try to prevent another war like this.
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Treaty that ended WWI.
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Prohibited alcohol.
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Cultural movement in the 20s.
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High School teacher, Josh Scops, was accused of violating Tennesse's Butler Act that made it illegal to teach evolution.
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Time of economic crisis.w
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Wall Street crashed
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Franklin D. Rooselvelt. President 1933 - 45
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FDR's response to the Great Depression.
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Provides financial aid to people who fit the requirments.
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Established minimal wages and guaranteed time and a half of over time for certain jobs.
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Insures you your money, in your bank account, to a certain amount.
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Germany was divided into the west and east. The USA, France, and Britain shared the west while the Soviet Union had the east.
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Stand off between the USA and the Soviet Union.
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USA gave money to democratic countries so they would not fall to communism.
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The west droped things that the people living in the east needed from planes.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Alliance of the US and Western European, democratic nations.
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Communists takeover China,
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War between the communist North Korea and diplomatic South Korea. Ended in stalemate.
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President from 53 - 61.
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Couple who was accused of being Soviet spies and executed.
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Alliance among the USSR and its communist, satelite countries.
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First satelite. Launched by USSR
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USSR shot down a US spy.
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John F. Kennedy. US president from 61 - 63.
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Wall built by Soviets to keep people in East Berlin. 1961 - 1989
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USSR places nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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JFK was assassinated on Nov 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas.
