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The first permanent english colony.
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first elected assembly in the new world. Operates today as the General Assembly.
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Document where the Puritans signed and agreed to obey laws created for the general good.
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Slaves were brought over to the new world for the use of their labor on southern plantations.
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outlawed alcohol
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The Frech and Indians fought against the English for the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and Canada
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England prohibited colonists to settle west due to lack of protection from indians.
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England gained the land west of the Appalachain Mountains and Canada.
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Placed taxes on legal documents.
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A mob of anti-British demonstrators formed,British troops fired into the mob and killed 5 colonists.
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Colonists boarded tea ships in Boston and threw the tea into the water.
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First time all 13 colonies met together in Philidelphia and issued a statement of colonial rights and formed militias.
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First battle of the American Revolution.
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Colonies came together again and created the Continental Army and issued the Olive Branch Petition as a final peace offering to England.
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The document that officially seperated the colonies from England.
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Were weak because the Americans feared a strong central gov. after seperating from England.
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The time span in which the U.S. was under the Articles of Confederation.
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Americans and the French surrounded the British and the British General ,Cornwallis, surrendered.
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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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England granted the colonies independence and the colonies boundaries went from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.
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Established a paln for surveying in the western lands.
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A meeting to settle disputes among states and decided to meet again in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation.
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Discussed the Virginia and New Jersey plans and made the federal gov. stronger.
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Created a two house congress. The Senate,one from each state, and the House of Representatives, based on population. It balanced power between large and small states.
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Said that slaves counted as 3/5 of a person when determining a state's representation.
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Process for creating and admitting new states.
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Debt-ridden farmers from massachusets who rebelled due to high taxes.
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The 1st 10 amandments that deal with life and liberties of the people.
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Washington was the first president of the Unnited States. He established the Judiciary Act of 1789 and created three executive departments, departmens of treasury, state, and war.
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Set up the court system.
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destroyed iindian culture and made indians practice american cultures
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Invented by Eli Whitney, this machine made cotton growing easy and profitable, hower=ver the use of slaves was greatly increased.
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John Adams, a federalist, defeated Thomas Jefferson. He established the Alien and Sedition acts and ordered war with France.
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This was the first peacefull transer of power. Jeffereson bought new land, known as the Louisiana Purchase, from France.
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Thomas Jefferson, president at the time, purchased land, known as the Louisiana Purchase, from France. He later sent Lewis and Clark on an expedition to explore the land.
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Established the power of Judicial Review.
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Started because the British were interfering with American shipping and giving aid to Indians in the west.
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McCulloch V Maryland stated that the court could mediate between state and Federal Gov't. It also established implied powers.
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Old Immigrants started coming to the "New World" or North America from 1820-1860
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played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.
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Regulated commerce,stating that the Federal gov't. had control.
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This compromise divied the Louisiana Purchase into free and slave states. North were free and the southern states were slave states.
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Written by president Monroe, this document said that the British were to keep away from the American land in the west.
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The Age of the Common man was the time period of Andrew Jackson's term as president. He represented the average man and was known as the perfect Democrat
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The time also known as the Age of the Common Man. Jackson was known as the perfect Democrat.
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Jackson ordered that Indians be moved west of the Mississippi River into present day Oklahoma. This act was also know as the Trail of Tears and mainly affected the Cherokee Indians.
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Mexian troops an assault on Texans. The battle lasted until their last man died. Texas declared independence and became known as the Republic of Texas.
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Fought in present day Texas, Texans defeated the Mexican yet again and became an independent country.
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areas reserved for American Indians to live
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Text written by Harriet Beecher Stowe stating all the problems with slavery. This document progessed more people to agree to the abolishment of slavery.
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A slave tried to sue his owner and congress wouldn't allow him to because he wasn't a citizen and congress had no right to abolish slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president, and many of the southern states seceeded because they thought He was going to abolish slavery.
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First Battle of the Civil War.
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that gave an applicant ownership of free land
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After this battle, Lincoln issed the Emancipation Proclimation.
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Freed all slaves in the non rebelling states.
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The north surrounded the south.
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This battle was the turning point of the war.
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Dedicated a portion of the land in Gettysburg, Pa to the sodliers who lost their lives during the war.
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Shot by John Wilkes Booth.
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Era when the south was being rebuilt.
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Abolished slavery
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An act to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel States.
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James Buchanan was elected president.
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Voting rights for African Americans
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Gave blacks citizenship
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The Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers ethic of republicanism.
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Made it legal to segregate whites and blacks.
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77.1-kilometre (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean.
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prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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first federation of labor unions in the United States.
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refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration
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took land from indians and sold it
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people who came to the us from countries that were not already settled in the us
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purification of government
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prevented monopolies
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industrial lock out and strike
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First Courthouse in VA
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Largest industrial labor union
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was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States
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made segregation legal
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Conflict between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China
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Allowed America to get involved with Cuban affairs
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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.
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movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s.
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established direct election of United States 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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add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.
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The FTC Act was one of President Woodrow Wilson's major acts against trusts.
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global war centred in Europe
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the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I.
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declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe.
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was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s.
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gave women the right to vote
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limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States
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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
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31st President of the United States
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World Wide depression before World War 2
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Crash of the stock market
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President following Hoover
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Dust storms in the western hemishpere of the U.S.
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engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary.
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The act was an attempt to limit what was seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children.
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Plan to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression
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maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek,[3] established a national minimum wage,[4] guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute.
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U.S Fought in Vietnam to try and end communism there
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general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States
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an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
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End of the vietnam war
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The Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal
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concept in foreign affairs, initially used to refer to the United States policy in late 19th century and early 20th century that would grant multiple international powers with equal access to China,
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Speech about the berlin wall
