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First permanent English settelment. Named Jamestoen in honor of their king.
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Begain when the first African slaves were brought to North America colony of Jamestown, VA. US to aid in the production of crops tobacco.
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1st elected assemly in the United States
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Stated the purpose of the pilgrims government in America.Wich was "just and equal laws...for general good of the colony".
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War between Great Britian and France for control of North America. Ended in 1763 with the treaty of paris. Great Britain clamied all of the North America east of the Mississippi River.
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Great Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River. Was signed by Great Britian, France and Spain
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Banned all settlements west of the Appalachian mountains. To avoid furthur contact with Native Ameriacans.
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Was past by Prime Minister George Grenville. Required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pomphlet and almanac.
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Sarted as a fist fight over jobs. That evening a mob gathered to taunt guards, this ended up with 5 colonist dead.
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A large group of Boston rebels disguised themselves as Native Americans and proceeded to take action against 3 British tea ships anchored in the harbor, 18000 pouds of tea was dumped into the water of the Boston Harbor.
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56 delegates met in Philadelphia and drew up a declaration of colonial rights. They supported the protest in massachusetts and stated if the british use force against colonies, colonies will fight back.
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General Gabe ordered troops to march to concord, and seize colonial weapons. Mintemen intercept the Britian and engage in battle at Lexington and Concord.
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Jonh Adams suggested that each colony set up its own government and that the congress declared the colonis independent.
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Jefferson declared that government derive "their power from the consent of the governed" from the people. A formal copy of the Declaration was read to a crowd in front of the Philadephia State House now called Indpendece Hall.
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Confirmed U.S Independence and set the boundaries of the new nation. United states strevhed from the Atlatic Ocean to Mississippi River and from Canada to Florida.
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Know as the farmers protest,caused panic and dismay throughout the nation. This put the new nation reputation in danger.
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Settled the political issue, but not the economic issue of slavery. The convection gave congress the power to regulate trade but prevented it interfering with slave trade for at least 20 years.
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The first constitution for the united states. Was to wesk.
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Delegats from all state except Rhode Island gathered at the Philiadelphia State House to rewrite Artical of confederation .Within 5 day sof the meeting they decided to form a new government.
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Set requirements for the admission of new states. There were 3 stages to becoming a state.
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A two-house congress to satisfy both small and big states. Each state has a Senate and House of Representatives based on population.
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french and american troops surround the british on the yorktown peninsula and bombarded them day and night. Battle of Yorktown lasted 3 days.
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When Washington took presidency, him and Congress faced the task of creating an etirely new government. He had to base a government on the Enlightenment ideals of the republican rule and individual rights.
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Answers all critical questions for the supreme court, creating a judicial structure that has remained essentially intact. This law provided for a supreme court.
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Congress submited 12 amendments to state legislatures for ratification . 10 of these amendments had been ratified, which is known as the Bill of Rights.
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Cotton gin made it possible for southern farmers to grow short-staple cotton for a profit. The cotton hin accelerated the expansion of slavery.
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Second president of the United States
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Indians where forced off their lands onto smaller reservations
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Planned a large slave revolt in Richmond, VA
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Mexican General Santa Anna attacked with superior forces. Texas fought until their last man died.
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Texas won their independence. Was lead by Sam Houston who established the republic of Texas.
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Belived that a simple goverment best suited the needs of the republic. Jefferson also tried to shrink the government and cut cost wherever possible.
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Exted the principle of the judicial review-the power of the courts to decide wether or not specific laws are valid. The judiciary had the power to affect legislation.
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Jefferson was president when the louisiana purchase was made. included all the land drained by the western tributaries of the Mississippi River, the size of the United States was more than double.
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The United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future.
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Supreme Court ruled that congress had implied power under the necessary and proper clause. the state impede constitional federal laws, the tax was voted unconstitutional.
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This was a time when demoacy in the U.S expanded and more people got involved in the election process. It increased equality in the political process for adult white males.
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Congress temporarily resolve the crisis with a series of agreements collectively called the missouri compromise. Maine was a free state and Missouri a slave state
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Monroe warned all outside power not to interfere with affairs in the western hemisphere. To not attempt to create new colonies or try to overthrow the newly indendendent republics in the hemisphere. These principles are known as Monroe Doctrine.
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Supreme Court ruled that strengthened the frederal government's control over economy.
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Jackson personified the "democratic" spirit of the age. He appealed to the common man and used Spoil System( rewarding campaign supporters with government jobs).
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Was passed by president Jackson. It forced all Indians east of the Mississippi River to move to Indian Territory.
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Key defense of Texas who would rather give their life than surrender
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Texas won idependence
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Texas was incorporated into the United States which was the 28 state admitted
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President James K. Polk urged the war, He wanted the Southwest. Mexico wont sell the Southwest.
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First womens right convetion was lead by Elizbeth Cady Staton
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Whig Sentor gave a speech which called for a compromise on the issues dividing the union
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Led band of 80 slaves against 4 plantations in southampton VA, caught six weeks later and was hung
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Made it easier to catch runaway slaves
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise, giving KN and NB the right to vote on being a free state or not
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Union fiunded by Uriah Stevens
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It was one of the most significant restriction on free immigration US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese labor
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A place in chicago where ariot between police and labor unionists
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Was the first labor union in the united states
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Goal was to Americanize the Indians by legally abolishing tribes and broking up reservations
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was a industrial lockout and strike,become a major gunbattle with police
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Union for skilled and unskilled railroad workers found by Eugene V. Debs
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A nation railroad strike. Pitting the Anerican railroad union against the pullman company
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Cubans rebelled against spanish rules
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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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Gave all nations equal trading rights in China, goal was to end US/ European competition
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goal was to rmove foreign principals
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An act to place certain restricitions on immagrations and to provide fpr the removal from the common wealth of prohibited immigrate
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U.S. intervention in Cuban affairs and permitted the United States to lease or buy lands for the purpose of the establishing naval bases
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main leader of the women suffage movement, goal was to get voting rights
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Giving congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states
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Voters elect senators, not state legislatures
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Administers antitrust and consuer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace
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Attempts was to prohibit certian actions that led to anti-competitiveness
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A canal extending SE from Atlantic to the Pacific across Pananam
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The reason that the US entered the war was because Germany was attacking american submarine
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Wilsons peace plan, his goal was to eliminate the cause of war
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Banned the use of alchol
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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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women gain voting rights
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John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a case
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Time of severe economic hardship in the united states
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the stock market crashed
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Believed in "Rugged Individualism" he favored limilted govt was very unpopular with the people
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Insures bank deposit, regulates banks
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FDR's programs to deal with the depression
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Instituted New Deal to cobter the Great Depression and led country during WW2
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Horrible drought on the great plains
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A system of transfer payment in which younger, working people support older, retired people
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Established the National labor relations board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the privat sector
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Labor regulations regarding interstale commrce employments, including minimum wage, requirement for overtime pay and limitatins on child labor
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Stalin and Hitler agree not to attack each other
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Germany invades poland
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Required men between the age 21 and 35 register with local draft boards
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In the largest German military operation of WW2
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Suprise air attack in Hawaii on US naval base
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FDR request war against Germany and Japan
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12 countries in North America and Western Europe gathered in Washington, D.C., to sign the North Atlantic Treaty.
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"turning point' US navy beat a large Japenese force
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Allies landed in German-occupied france was successful allies retake Europe
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supreme court allowed intement,government apologys to Janenese Americans
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German counteroffensive
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Allies from west and soviet from east overrun Germany, Germany surrender
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!st bomb dropped on japan
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2nd and last bomb dropped on japan
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Day Japan formally surrendered
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Postwar trail of Nazis for war crimes in the Holocaust, many convictions
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state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan,
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Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Koreans Army poured across the, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.
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United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)
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treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members.
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presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace
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A Democratic party political leader of the twentieth century; he was president from 1961 to 1963.
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
