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Jamestown
Virginia Company of London established this settlement. They abandon it and came back in 1619 were the settlement became a town. -
Start of Slavery
Slavery first started at Jamestown. They needed slaves to help on the tobacco plantations. -
House Of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. -
Mayflower Compact
This compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620. -
French and Indian War
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Signed by Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain. -
Proclamation of 1763
England prohibited the colonist to settle west of the Appalachians mountains. -
Stamp Act
England placed taxes on legal documents. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of anti- British formed and a mob of British soldiers formed. British troops killed 5 colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist had disguised as Indians, destroyed a ship of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act. -
Lexington and Concord
British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. The minutemen assembled and fought the British troops. -
2nd continental congress
This was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
1st Continental Congress
Was convention of delegates from twelve colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They created an army. -
Declaration of Independence
The 13 colonies stated that they are now independent and are breaking away from Great Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
The 13 colonies established the United States of America a confederation and served as our first constitution. -
Critical Period
The time period when the U.S. is under the Articles of Confederation. -
Yorktown
French General Marquis de Lafayette developed a plan. The French's navy blocked the exit of the Chesapeake Bay. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
Congress did not have the power to raise taxation of the United States. Therefore, the goal of the ordinance was to 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 in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. -
Shay's Rebillion
Armed farmers uprising that took place in Massachusetts due to high taxes. -
Annapolis Convention
Twelve delegates from five states: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia gathered to discuss and develop a consensus about reversing the protectionist trade barriers that each state had erected. -
Constitutional Convention
Meeting were delegates addressed problems with the Articles of Confederation. -
The Great Compromise
The small and big states made a compromise by have a 2 house Congress. -
3/5ths Compromise
Compromise between north and southern states that slaves equal to 3/5ths of a peroson. -
Northwest Ordinance 1787
The ordinance created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between Canada and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the Territory's western boundary. -
Washington Presidency
United States of America first president was president til March 4, 1797. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
Judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and such inferior courts as Congress saw fit to establish. -
Bill of Rights Signed
First 10 admendments, which are the Bill of Rights were signed on this day. -
Cotton Gin
Cotton Gin is a machine that seperate cotton fast, invented by Eli Whitney. -
Adam's Presidency
America's 2nd president, he severed till March 4, 1801. -
Gabe Prosser Revolt
Prosser start slave revolts in Richmond, VA -
Marbury vs. Madison
A United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States. -
Louisiana Purchase
The U.S. brought all of the Midwest from Spain. -
War of 1812
War that lasted 2 years between Britian and U.S because Britian help aid the Indians. -
McCulloch vs Maryland
Case stating that they could not tax the federal bank. -
Missouri Compromise
Divided LA purchase at 36, 30. North of line was free and south of the line was slave. -
Monroe Doctrine
US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US. -
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Case that stated that national government was in charge of commerce. -
Age of the Common Man
This time period where Americans no longer let aristocrats make all the decisions. -
Jackson's Presidency
Jackson defeated Adams because now more common people could vote. -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
This act forced all Indians east of the Misssippi River to move to Indian Territory. -
Nat Turner Revolt
Nat Turner was a slave in Southhampton County, Va. He was hung after they captured. -
Battle of San Jacinto
This battle was fought in Harris County, Texas. This is when Texas gained their freedom. -
U.S. Annexes Texas
Texas was the 28th state to join the union. -
CA Gold Rush
Everyone was rushing to CA hoping to find gold. -
Mexican War
U.S won in return we gained the SW -
Seneca Falls Convention
This was the first women convention. They talked about their rights to vote. -
Fugitive Slave Law
This law meant that all slaves that escaped plantation and were found would have to go back to there owners. -
Compromise of 1850
California was entered as a free state. Southwestern territories would decide on their own. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I was the best selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This ct gave Nebraska and Kansas popular sovereignty. -
Dread Scott Case
A slave named Dred Scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner.This case overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery. -
Election of 1860
A presidential election between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge. This election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War.During the early months of 1861, the situation around Fort Sumter increasingly began to resemble a siege. -
Homestead Acts
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land. United States Homestead Acts were initially proposed as an expression of the "Free Soil" policy -
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction was a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.Most historians consider it a failure because the South became a poverty stricken backwater attached to agriculture, white Democrats , dominance through violence, intimidation and discrimination. -
Battle of the Alamo
US wins, fought until the last man died. -
The Battle of Vicksburg
This was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Over 3,202 killed or wounded and
29,495 surrendered. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war. In addition it is often described as the war's turning point. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.One of the best-known speeches in American history. -
Appomattox Courthouse
The Appomattox Courthouse is the current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892. Before the Civil War, the railroad bypassed Clover Hill, now known as the Appomattox Court House -
Lincoln's Assassination
United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday. Lincoln was shot while attending the play, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theatre. -
13 Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. -
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Reconstruction Acts were extended to include the registration of qualified voters. The supervision of the election of delegates to state constitutional conventions, and the transmittal to the President of certified copies of the constitutions adopted. -
14th Amendment
This amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. It also was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
Knights of Labor
The largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly. -
15th Amendment
This amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
A United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Haymarket Square Date
An open-air fruit and vegetable market.Haymarket Square offers produce at a very cheap cost, sometimes half the bill of a normal supermarket. -
Dawes Act
Authorized the President of the United Statesto survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship. -
Homestead Strike
Homestead Steel Strike was an industrial lockout and strike.The battle was one of the most serious disputes in U.S. labor history. -
American Railway Union
The American Railway Union was the largest labor union of its time. In addition , one of the first industrial unions in the United States. -
Pullman Strike
A nationwide railroad strike in the United States. It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted after the Reconstruction period.Established separate facilties for whites & blacks. -
Plessey v. Ferguson 1896
A landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws.The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion. -
Spanish American War
In this war the Cubans rebbled against Spanish rule. The US had business and strategic interrest in Cuba. -
Treaty of Paris (1898)
The US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines. Cuba also became free. -
Open Door Policy
This policy gave all nations equal trading rightsin China. -
Boxer Rebellion
John Hay proposed the open door policy. This policy gave all nations equal trading rights in China. -
Platt Amendment
This amendment was to allow the US interven in Cuban affairs. -
Immigration Restriction Act
An Act of the Parliament of Australia which limited immigration to Australia. It granted immigration officers a wide degree of discretion to prevent individuals from entering Australia. -
Roosevelt Corollary
TR added this to the Monroe Doctrine. This reminded Europe not in interfere. -
Panama Canal
TR encouraged Panama to break from Colombia. They finished the canal in 1914. -
WW1
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo caused the war. -
US enters WW1
The Germans sunk the Lustania. The Germans told Mexico to invade us. -
14 points
This was Wilson points to not have another war. -
18th Amendment
18th amendment made alchool illegal to use. -
Treaty of Versailles
This was the treaty to end the war. France and Britain told Germany they could not have an army -
Scopes Trial
Teacher tried to teacher evolution -
Hoover
In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States -
Black Tuesday
The Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, -
Great Depression
This was an economic slump inUnited States in their industrialized areas. This began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. -
CLO
CLO a form of securitization where payments from multiple middle sized and large business loans are pooled together and passed on to different classes of owners in various tranches. They used these during the GD. -
Dust Bowl
This was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US prairies. -
FDR
Roosevelt defeated president Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depth of the Great Depression. Energized by his personal victory over polio, FDR renew the national spirit. -
New Deal
They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
FDIC
FDIC is a United States government corporation operating as an independent agency created by the Banking Act of 1933. -
FDIC
FDIC s a United States government corporation operating as an independent agency created by the Banking Act of 1933. -
Social Security Act
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 on widows and fatherless children. -
Wagner Act
It established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector. -
Social Security Act
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 on widows and fatherless children. -
Assimilation Policy
Both the United States and Canada developed assimilation policies for their Native peoples. Assimilation was one ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
The FLSA introduced the forty-hour work week, established a national minimum wage, and refused child labor. -
Non-Aggression Pact
national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations. -
War in Europe begins
Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, two days after the German invasion began. But the two countries did little while Poland fell. -
Selective Service Act WWII
This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards. -
Germany invades Russia
German forces invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, less than two years after the German-Soviet Pact was signed. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike. -
US Declares War
The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. -
Miracle of Midway
A crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, US victory. -
D-day
The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign, towards the end of the WW11. -
Korematsu v. US
a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066. -
Division of Germany
Division of Germany is when Germany was broken it up into two different countries. West was part of NATO and East was part of Warsaw Pact. -
VE Day
VE Day is Victory in Europe when they won the war in Europe. -
Hiroshima A-Bomb
The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
United States dropped a bomb on Japan, to end WWII. -
Communist takeover of China
The Chinese Communist Party's drive to power since its founding in 1921. -
Nuremberg Trials
After World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Europe(the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Europe (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact). -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
JKF
During his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, Project Apollo, the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the increased US involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Eisenhower
Focused on anti communism, wanted to fight in the Vietnam War. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
This couple was excuted for spying and giving information to the Soviets -
Warsaw Pact
This was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Korean War
Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the China. -
American Federation of Labor
The first federation of labor unions in the United States.The largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite, the Soviets beat the US to it. -
U2 Incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace. -
Berlin Wall
Soviets built a wall to seperate East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. -
JFK assassination
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald.
