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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement. In the early years of Jamestown many people did not survive because of the harsh winters and lack of food.
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The House of Burgesses was the first elected assembly in the New World. It still operates today as the General Assembly.
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Slavery started in 1619 and graudually grew. At the start of slavery they weren't used as much but by 1700 most labor needs were filled by slaves.
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This was a document where the Puritans agreed to obey laws created for the general good. They pledged their loyalty to God and then the King.
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In this war the English and the American colonists fought against France and the Indians. The reason for this war was both countries wanted the land west of the Appalachians.
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This treaty was the ending of the war, which Britan won. Since Britan won they gained the land that was being fought for.
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This prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachians. This action angered the colonists that wanted to move out there.
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British troops fired into a mob of anti-british demonstrators. When doing so they killed five colonists which made the colonies furious.
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This placed a tax on legal documents for the colonies. This angered the colonists and they said England shouldn't put taxes on the colonies because they had no representation in Parliament.
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Since Britan decided to put restrictions on tea the colonists decided to do something about it. They boarded tea ships in Boston dressed up as Indians and threw the tea into the water.
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This was the first meeting of representatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia. It issued a statement of colonial rights and urged colonies to form militias.
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This battle occured in Massachusetts. It started because the British attacked a colonial weapons stockpile.
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This meeting created the contenintal congress which George Washington was the general of. It also issued the Olive Branch which was the final peace offering, it was rejected.
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It was issued by the Continental Congress and written by Thomas Jefferson. This document officially seperated the colonies from England.
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This was the last battle of the Revolutionary War. Americans and French surrounded Cornwallis and his troops forcing him to surrender.
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England acknowledged American independence. Also this set the United States boundaries which were the Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River.
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This made the newly independent states into one country, the United States. However, because they didn't want to be like Britan they established a weak national government.
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This was the period of time that the US was under the Articles, it lasted until 1789. There were some success and some problems during the Critical Period.
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This was one of the success of the Critical Period. It established a plan for surveying the western lands.
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This called to settle disputes among states over commerce. Only five states showed up.
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This meeting was held to fix some of the problems of the Articles of Confederation. George Washington and James Madison were the leaders of this meeting.
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This created a two-house Congress. The Senate which gives each state two votes, and the House of Representatives which gives each state votes based on size.
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This was another success of the Critical Period. It provided the process for the creation and admission of new states.
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Slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a states representaion. This placated southern states.
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This was one of the problems of the Critical Period. This was debt ridden farmers in Massachusetts rebel due to high taxes.
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Washington was the first president. Many major events occured when Washington was president.
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These set up the court system. There were three executive departments, department of state, treasury and war.
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The Bill of Rights was written by James Madison. They are the first ten ammendments and dealt with rights and beliefs.
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The cotton gin was made by Eli Whitney. It made cotton-growing very profitable.
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John Adams won over Thomas Jefferson. The Alien and Sedition acts and the undeclared war with France were two major events of his presidency.
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Indians were forced off their lands onto smaller reservations.
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This was the first peaceful transfer of power from one party to another. The Louisianna Purchase was a major event of his presidency.
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This case brought about judicial review. Marshall declared a law unconstitutional.
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Jefferson bought this land from France. It doubled the size of the United States.
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The two major causes of this war were British inteference with American shipping and the British aid to the Indians in the West. The United States wins.
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This established implied powers. Showed the court could mediate between states and the federal government.
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This confirmed the courts power to regulate commerce. The court turned down a steamboat monopoly.
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This divided the Lousiana Purchase at 36,30. North of the line was free and south of the line were slaves.
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This is the time when more people got involved in the electoral process and democracy expanded. Aristocrats could no longer make all the decisions.
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This was written by president Monroe and it warned Europe against many things like future colonization in the Americas. It cemented the US's policy of isolationism towards Europe until WW1.
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Jackson appealed to the common man not just the wealthy. He also created the Spoils System.
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This forced all indians east of the Mississippi River to move to Indian Territory. The Trail of Tears was where Cherokees were forced west, many of them died on this journey.
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Mexican general Santa Anna attacked with superior forces. They fought until their last man died.
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This was when Texans won independence. It established the Republic of Texas.
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This was when the US admitted the Republic of Texas into the Union. Texas became the 28th state.
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President James K. Polk urged the war. We wanted the southwest but Mexico wouldn't sell.
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This was a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and it revealed the evils of slavery.
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This case established the fact that slaves were not citizens and did not have rights.
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The main issue of this election was slavery and Abraham Lincoln a republican won.
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This was the first battle of the Civil War. The Confederates fired on Union ships that were there to resupply Fort Sumter.
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This gave people land out in the west but they had to go out there and live on it and take care of it.
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In this battle Lee went North. The Confederate ended up losing this battle because of this.
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This freed the slaves in the rebelling states. This also caused a new aim for the war.
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This battle was the turning point of the Civil War. Lee and his troops had to retreat.
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The Union wins this battle and it cuts the Confederates in half.
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This was a speech given by President Lincoln dedicating a cemetery to the people that died for our country. It is one of the best known speeches in history.
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Lee surrendered here. He urged the southerners to accept the surrender and unite as Americans.
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This was the process of restoring the southern states to the union and determining the place of African Americans.
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He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the end of the Civil War.
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This amendment abolished slavery.
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They came to an agreement that Rutherford B. Hayes would be president but that military occupation in the south would end
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This put the South under military occupation.
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This gave citizenship to african ameicans and said states couldn't deny equal rights to any Americans.
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This gave voting rights to african americans.
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These people were the new people migrating to America, they were from southern and eastern Europe.
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This established seperate facilities for blacks and whites.
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This was one of the unions during the labor movement. The founder was Uriah Stevens.
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This was an act passed to try to keep more Chinese people from coming to America.
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This was a protest in Chicago, a bomb was thrown at the police line and then shots were fired into the crowd.
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These were the people who had been in America for a while and they usually didn't like the "new immigrants" that were coming over.
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The goal of this was to Americanize the Indians.
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The goal of this was to outlaw trusts. It wasn't successful.
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It was at the Carnegie Street Plant and it ended up being a major gun battle.
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This was a union of railroad workers, it was an Industrial union meaning it had skilled and unskilled workers.
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This was a nationwide railroad boycott and the federal government ended it.
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said that seperate but equal did not violate the constitution.
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Went to war because US had business and strategic interest in Cuba and USS Maine exploded ouside Cuba. Yellow Journalists blame Cuba.
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US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines and Cuba became free.
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She was a strong leader of the women's suffrage movement.
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This used the government to institute reforms to fix the problems caused by industrialization.
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Goal was to remove foreign influence and it failed.
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This gave all nations equal trading rights in China. The goal was to end US/European competition.
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US had the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
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Roosevelt added to the Monroe Doctrine reminding Europe not to interfere. Said US wold use force if needed.
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Period from 1910-30s when African Americans moved from rural areas to cities.
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Said the congress had the power to tax on income.
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Voters get to elect Senators now.
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War broke out in Eurpoe. It was Britan, France and Russica against Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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Panama gave the US the right to build a canal. It connected the atlantic and pacific.
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It creates FTC and investigates business practices.
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This act was adding on to the Sherman Anti-trust act. It outlawed price fixing.
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German submarines were headed towards Britan and the Zimmerman telegram were the set offs for the US entering the war.
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This was Wilsons peace plan, he wanted to elimante causes of war.
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This was the punishment of Germany, national boundaries were re-drawn, and the league of nations was created.
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This banned alcohol.
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Explosion of black cultural life.
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Women gained the right to vote.
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This put a quota on how many immigrants could come from each country.
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John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution. This trial sparked a national debate over this subject.
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President elected right before the great depression and was blamed for it.
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This was a time of severe economic hardship in the US from 1929-1941.
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The crash of the stock market.
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Terrible drought on the Great Plains.
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This was a new union.
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Elected in 1932. He crushed Hoover.
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This was promised by FDR and the hope was to help ease the pain of the great depression a little.
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This ensured and regulated banks.
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Protected the workers rights to join unions and collective bargaining.
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This provides safeguards for workers. For example disability and unemployment compensation.
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Set maximum hours on working and set minimum wage.
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Stalin and Hitler agree not to attack eachother.
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Germany invaded Poland so France and Britan declared war on Germany to stop German expansion.
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Germany turned on Russia and invaded them.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor a US naval base. Thousands died.
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We declare war on Japan and Germany joins against the US
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Drafted ten million men into the military.
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US navy beat the larger Japanese force, ended threat to Hawaii.
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Supreme court allowed internment camps.
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Led by Eisenhower, the allies landed in german occupied france.
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This was a German counter offense. The allies recovered.
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Germany surrendered.
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US bombed hiroshima. First and only use of nuclear weapons.
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US used an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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East Germany became communists and West Germany were democratic.
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Trials of Nazis for war crimes in the Holocaust. There were many convictions.
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Uneasy peace after WWII. Rivalry between Soviet Union and US.
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US provided financial aid to European countries to rebuild their economies.
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The Soviets blockaded Berlin so the US flew in supplies.
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China is taken over and is now communist.
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Alliance among US and western Europe countries.
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North Korea invaded South Korea. Korea politically divided.
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President postwar.
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Spies that were put to death for giving the Soviets atomic secrets.
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Alliance among Soviet Union and eastern european countries.
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Soviets launched Sputnik into space.
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President who was assassinated, America loved him.
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Francis Powers was shot down while spying over the Soviet Union.
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Wall built that split Berlin into East and West Berlin.
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Soviets stationed nuclear weapons in Cuba. JFK demanded they be removed.
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Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. It shook Americas confidence.
