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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
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The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown to help with the production of tobacco.
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It was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
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It was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.
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A war that lasted seven years.
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The treaty ended the French and Indian War.
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It was signed by King George III.
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It was passed by the British Parliament and put a tax on legal documents.
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Five colonists were killed by British troops.
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Rebels in Massachusetts dumped tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the tax on tea.
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It was the 1st time almost all 13 colonies acted together like a country.
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British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile.
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They created the Continental Army, in which George Washinton was named general.
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The colonies officially separated from England.
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It was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation.
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The French Navy blocked blocked the exit of the Chesapeake Bay.
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During this time, the newly independent former colonies were beset with a wide array of foreign and domestic problems.
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England acknowledged American independence and widened the US's boundaries.
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This provided for the scientific surveying of the territory's lands and for a systematic subdivision of them.
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This was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts.
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It was a meeting of 12 delegates from 5 states that called for a constitutional convention.
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It established the federal judiciary.
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It was held in Philadelphia to address problems in the US.
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It was an agreement that large and small states reached that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
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The compromise between the North and the South stating that slaves' votes would count as 3/5ths of a vote.
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This divided the land of the northwest.
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He was the first president and served for 8 years.
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These are the first 10 ammendments to the US Constitution.
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It's a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds invented by Eli Whitney.
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He was the second president and served 4 years.
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He was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.
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The court case in which judicial review was formed.
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Thomas Jefferson bought this land from France.
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A war between the US and Britain that lasted 2 years and 8 months.
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This case gave the idea of implied powers.
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It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
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It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
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Where they made the decision that the Supreme Court would regulate commerce.
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Native Americans kept their citizenship.
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It is an anti slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery.
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He sued for freedom and the courts ruled that African Americans aren't citizens.
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Settlers through the first half of the 19th century.
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Abraham Lincoln ran again Hamilton and won.
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This was the first battle in the Civil War.
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This gave an applicant ownership to large amounts of land out west.
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It was the bloodiest battle in American history and the Union won, it led to Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
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This was issued by Lincoln to free slaves in rebelling states.
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The union surrounded Vicksburg, by the Mississippi River.
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The union won and this was the turning point of the war.
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A speech Lincoln gave to commemorate fallen soldiers and dedicate the cemetary to them.
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The time after the Civil War when the South was devestated.
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This abolished slavery.
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The confederates surrendered here.
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He was shot by John Wilkes Booth, at a movie theater.
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This put the South under martial law.
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This was for the Confederate states. Robert E Lee ran against Nathan Bedford Forrest
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This gave citizenship to former slaves
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Uriah Stevens led a very important labor union.
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This gave African American men the right to vote.
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This was a series of anti-black laws.
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This was when people from different countries immigrated here, known as the melting pot.
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US asked Colombia if they could create it and they said no. We helped Panama gain their freedom back and eventually created it.
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This restricted chinese immigration to the US
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This was a strike where a bomb went off and 8 police officers died.
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First federal labor union in the United States.
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The government divided the Native Americans' land.
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The US wanted immigrants to lose their old culture.
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It prohibited trusts.
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It was in Pennsylvania, workers wanted better conditions.
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It was the largest union back then and one of the first industrial ones.
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This was a nationwide railroad strike.
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Declared that segregated facilities can be seperate but equal.
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This was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas.
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was 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.
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a policy that was set in 1899 in foreign affairs allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China
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a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China
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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.
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a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address in 1904
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She was an American civil rights leader and femenist.
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This established direct election of US senators by popular vote.
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"allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census"
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A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
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"a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the president of the United States for seven-year terms"
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It was made to suuplement the Sherman Anti Trust Act
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We enter the war after the Lusitania is sunk by German U Boats.
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This allowed men to be drafted into the military. 10 million were drafted
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A period of social activism and political reform.
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Statement by President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe.
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blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts
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banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States
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This gave women the right to vote.
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A peace treaty at the end of WW1
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the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West
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The amount of immigrants from each country was regulated.
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John Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution in schools.
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Disliked president during the early years of the Great Depression
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The day the stock market crashed.
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A time when unemplyment hit an all time low and the country was poor.
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period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US
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The CLO
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FDR's campaign to help america
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the American dollar.
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Well liked president, Rooselevelt, that helped the country get out of the depression.
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It was enacted to eliminate employers’ interference with the autonomous organization of workers into unions.
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An act by FDR to provide for the general welfare
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Provides minimum wage to workers and makes work safer
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a national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes
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Germany begins invading countries, starting with Poland.
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Germany and the Nazis begin to try taking over Russia
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a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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We declare war after Pearl Harbor
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one of the most important naval battles of World War II
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This ordered Japanese Americans to internment camps
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Soldiers arrive in Normandy and invade
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the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in World War Two
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West was democratic and east was communist
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Victory in Europe day, when Germany surrendered.
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US dropped the first atomic bomb ever on this Japanese city
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The US dropped a bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, ending the war.
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was the 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.
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The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers. Democracy vs Communism
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Post war trials for Nazi leaders of WW2
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We flew in supplies to Britain
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance.
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There was a communist revolution in China. leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China
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a 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.
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the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army
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A couple caught giving atomic secrets to the Soviets
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a mutual defense treaty among eight communist States of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Soviets launched the first satellite into space
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An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union
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John F Kennedy 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963.
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin
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The UD had nuclear weapons pointed at the USSR and they had ones in Cuba pointing at us
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He was shot in a parade by Lee Harvey Oswald.
