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were people settled from england to get away to start a new colony
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-first legislative assembly
established by the Virginia Company -
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-where they agreed to obey laws created for the general good.
-created a covenant community -
-(1754-1763) England and American colonists fought between the French and Indians for land west of the Appalachian mountains and in Cananda.
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England gained land west of the Apps. mountains from the french.
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England prohibited colonists from settling west of the App. mountains.
-Why?-it cost a lot to protect colonists from the indian attacks -
-The stamp act put taxes on legal documents.
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-colonists and soldiers competed for jobs
-5 colonists got killed -
-England put restrictions on tea and colonist got upset and trew all tea in the Boston Harbor
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a convention of deligates from 12 states except georgia
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first military engagements of the revolutionarey war
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
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when america got there independence from britain
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was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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The town is most famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Cornwallis to General George Washington, and the French Fleet during the American Revolutionary War
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ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America
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when the u.s. was under the Articles of the confederation.
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raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired after the end of the Revolutionary War
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called to settle diputes among the states
only 5 states show up -
debt ridden farmes rebelled againts higher taxes
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to address problems in governing the United States of America
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created 2 houses- senate and the house of representatives
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provided the process for the creation and admission of new views
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set up the governments court system
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where slaves counted 3/5ths of a person when determining a states representation
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significant leadership role
An excellent delegator and judge of talent and character -
1st 10 amandments to the constitution.
delt with rights/liberties -
inventor-eli whitney
made cotton growing very profitable
increased slavery -
federalist
defeated Thomas Jefferson -
Richmond,va
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1st peacefull transfer from one political party to another
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established judical review
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Jefferson bought the land from the french and then had lewis and clark explore it
It doubled the lnd of the US at that time. -
Causes- British interference with american ships
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Divided LA purchase at 36,30'
Line of free and slave states
maine-free
missouri-slave -
estblished the doctrine of implied powers
showe the court could meditate between state and federal government -
confermed the federal governments power over commerce
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warned Europe agignst future colonization in the americas
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Brought the Spoils System about
Not very loved -
time when democracy in the US expanded and more people got involved in the electoral process
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forced all indians to move westward of the Mississippi river.
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Southampton, va
led band of 80 slaves against 4 plantations
was caught and hung -
Alamo- old mission house
Texans fortified themselves there -
Texans won their independence
established rebuplic of texas -
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Pres. James K Polk wanted the southwest
US defeated Mexico easily -
Dred Scot a slave sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner
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early and influential women's rights convention
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All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad
49ers -
was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy".
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defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories
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Written be Harriet Beecher Stowe
Portrayed the evils of slavery
supported north for aboliition -
opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
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Main issue: slavery
Lincoln, A republican won -
Fort Sumter was in South Carolina but remained under union control
Confederate fired on Union ships that were there to resupply Fort Sumter
1st battle of the civil war -
-law thet gave free public land in the west in 160 acre plots, only condition though settlers had to use it for atleas 5 years
-to encourage americans to settle west -
Was also known as "Battle of Sharpsburg
was first major battle of the American Civil war on Union soil -
issued by President Lincoln
it proclamed freedom the the slaves in the states that had rebelled -
was the final major military action of the Civil War
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Confederate v. Union
was a Turning point
Stopped Lee's invasion of the north -
-founder-Uriah Stevens
-promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman -
-Northern and western europe
-Germany, great britain, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden -
-K. of L. protest in chicago
- bomb went off near police and 8 strikers convicted -
-Southern and eastern europe
-Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Yugoslavia -
-indians were forced off their lands onto smaller and smaller reservations
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- the us told the chinese no more immigrants
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-plan under which indians would be forced to adopt american culture
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-Founder- Samual Gompers
-craft unions- only skilled workers from multiple industries
-used collective bargining- unions and employers negotitable -
-Americanize the indians
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-prevented and business structure that restrained trade
-outlaw trusts
-failed -
-at carnegie steel plant
-major gun battle
-plant manager Henery Frick called pinkerton Detective Agency -
-founder-Eugene V. Debs
industrial union: skilled and unskilled workers -
-started nationwide RR boycott
-by Pullman railroad workers -
-U.S. annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Phillippines
-Cuba became free -
-Cuban rebelled against spanish rule
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-by chinese boxers
-to remove foreign influence
-it failed -
-used the government to institute reforms to fix problems caused by industrialization
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-writers that exposed problems and corruption
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-U.S. asserted the right to intervene in Cuban affairs
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-Theodore Roosevelt's
-trust busting, workers rights, RR regulation, food and health -
-TR added to the Monroe Doctrine
-reminded europe not to interfere
-US would use force to protect its interests in latin america -
-Teddy R encouraged panama to brek from columbia
-they secceded
panama gave US rights to to build a canal
-canal finished 1914
-connected atlantic and pacific -
-voters can remove officials
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- voters propose laws
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-voters must approve bills of the state legislature
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-voter elect senators now (not state leg.)
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-also called great war
-was the fifth-deadliest conflict in world history
-many nations involved -
-expands shermans
-outlaw price fixing -
-Zimmerman conflict
-Wilson opposed involvement but he had no choice since germanys submarine warfare against US -
-statement by Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe
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-prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of (though not the consumption or private possession of) alcohol illegal
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-one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I
-ended between germany and allied powers -
- 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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- By secretary of state John Hay
- gave all nations equal trading rihts in china -called for fair competition -ended US/ european competition -uraged foreigners to obey chinese laws
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-women gain right to vote
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- cultural movement -New Negro Movement
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-united states federal law restrited immigrants to enter the u.s.
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-The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
-referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial
-John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
-practice of taking risky transactions
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-people who used borrowed money to buy stock, driving prices too high
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-time of servere economic hardship in the us from 1929-1941
-the stock market crash started the great depression -
-when the stock market crashed
-start of great depression -
-after WW1, the us kept out foreign products with high tariffs
-led to a strangling of world trade
