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World History 2 Timeline
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Jamestown
The first permanent english colony. -
House of Burgesses
first elected assembly in the new world. Operates today as the General Assembly. -
Mayflower Compact
Document where the Puritans signed and agreed to obey laws created for the general good. -
Start of Slavery
Slaves were brought over to the new world for the use of their labor on southern plantations. -
18th amendment
outlawed alcohol -
French and Indian War
The Frech and Indians fought against the English for the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and Canada -
Proclimation of 1763
England prohibited colonists to settle west due to lack of protection from indians. -
Treaty of Paris
England gained the land west of the Appalachain Mountains and Canada. -
Stamp act
Placed taxes on legal documents. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of anti-British demonstrators formed,British troops fired into the mob and killed 5 colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists boarded tea ships in Boston and threw the tea into the water. -
1st Continental Congress
First time all 13 colonies met together in Philidelphia and issued a statement of colonial rights and formed militias. -
Lexington and Concord
First battle of the American Revolution. -
2nd Continental Congress
Colonies came together again and created the Continental Army and issued the Olive Branch Petition as a final peace offering to England. -
Declaration Of Independence
The document that officially seperated the colonies from England. -
Articles of Confederation
Were weak because the Americans feared a strong central gov. after seperating from England. -
Critical period
The time span in which the U.S. was under the Articles of Confederation. -
Yorktown
Americans and the French surrounded the British and the British General ,Cornwallis, surrendered. -
Treaty of Paris
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. -
The Treaty of Paris
England granted the colonies independence and the colonies boundaries went from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
Established a paln for surveying in the western lands. -
Annapolis Convention
A meeting to settle disputes among states and decided to meet again in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. -
Constitutional Convention
Discussed the Virginia and New Jersey plans and made the federal gov. stronger. -
The Great Compromise
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. -
3/5th's Compromise
Said that slaves counted as 3/5 of a person when determining a state's representation. -
Northwest Ordeinance of 1787
Process for creating and admitting new states. -
Shay's Rebellion
Debt-ridden farmers from massachusets who rebelled due to high taxes. -
Bill of Rights signed
The 1st 10 amandments that deal with life and liberties of the people. -
George Washington's' Presidency
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. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
Set up the court system. -
assimilation policy
destroyed iindian culture and made indians practice american cultures -
Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney, this machine made cotton growing easy and profitable, hower=ver the use of slaves was greatly increased. -
John Adams Presidency
John Adams, a federalist, defeated Thomas Jefferson. He established the Alien and Sedition acts and ordered war with France. -
Thomas Jeffersons Presidency
This was the first peacefull transer of power. Jeffereson bought new land, known as the Louisiana Purchase, from France. -
Louisiana Purchase
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. -
Marbury V. Madison
Established the power of Judicial Review. -
War of 1812
Started because the British were interfering with American shipping and giving aid to Indians in the west. -
McCulloch V. Maryland
McCulloch V Maryland stated that the court could mediate between state and Federal Gov't. It also established implied powers. -
old immigrants
Old Immigrants started coming to the "New World" or North America from 1820-1860 -
susan b, anthony
played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. -
Gibbons V. Odgen
Regulated commerce,stating that the Federal gov't. had control. -
Missouri Compromise
This compromise divied the Louisiana Purchase into free and slave states. North were free and the southern states were slave states. -
Monroe Doctrine
Written by president Monroe, this document said that the British were to keep away from the American land in the west. -
Age of the Common Man
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 -
Jackson's Presidency
The time also known as the Age of the Common Man. Jackson was known as the perfect Democrat. -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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. -
Battle of the Alamo
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. -
Battle of San Jacinto
Fought in present day Texas, Texans defeated the Mexican yet again and became an independent country. -
Reservation System
areas reserved for American Indians to live -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Text written by Harriet Beecher Stowe stating all the problems with slavery. This document progessed more people to agree to the abolishment of slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
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. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected president, and many of the southern states seceeded because they thought He was going to abolish slavery. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
First Battle of the Civil War. -
homestead act
that gave an applicant ownership of free land -
Battle of Antietam
After this battle, Lincoln issed the Emancipation Proclimation. -
Emancipation Proclimation
Freed all slaves in the non rebelling states. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The north surrounded the south. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was the turning point of the war. -
Gettysburg Address
Dedicated a portion of the land in Gettysburg, Pa to the sodliers who lost their lives during the war. -
Lincoln's Assassination
Shot by John Wilkes Booth. -
Recontruction
Era when the south was being rebuilt. -
13th Amandment
Abolished slavery -
Reconstruction Act of 1867
An act to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel States. -
Election of 1867
James Buchanan was elected president. -
15th Amendment
Voting rights for African Americans -
14th Amendment
Gave blacks citizenship -
Knights of Labor
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. -
Jim Crow Laws
Made it legal to segregate whites and blacks. -
panama canal
77.1-kilometre (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. -
chinese exclusion act
prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
american federation of labor
first federation of labor unions in the United States. -
haymarket square
refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration -
Dawes act
took land from indians and sold it -
new immigrants
people who came to the us from countries that were not already settled in the us -
progressive movement
purification of government -
sherman anti-trust act
prevented monopolies -
homestead strike
industrial lock out and strike -
Appomattox Courthouse
First Courthouse in VA -
American Railway Union
Largest industrial labor union -
pullman strike
was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States -
Plessy v Ferguson
made segregation legal -
Spanish American War
Conflict between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
boxer rebellion
violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China -
Platt Amendment
Allowed America to get involved with Cuban affairs -
roosevelt corollary
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. -
great migration
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. -
17th amendment
established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
16th amendment
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
clayton anti-trust act
add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
federal trade commission act
The FTC Act was one of President Woodrow Wilson's major acts against trusts. -
ww1
global war centred in Europe -
War in Europe begins
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Unites States declares war
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u.s. entered ww1
the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. -
14 points
declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe. -
treaty of versailles
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. -
harlem renissance
a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. -
19th amendment
gave women the right to vote -
immigration restriction act
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 -
scopes trial
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 -
Hoover
31st President of the United States -
Great Depression
World Wide depression before World War 2 -
Black Tuesday
Crash of the stock market -
FDR
President following Hoover -
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -
Dust Bowl
Dust storms in the western hemishpere of the U.S. -
Wagner Act
engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary. -
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 of widows and fatherless children. -
New Deal
Plan to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression -
Fair Labor Standards Act
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. -
Non-Agression Pact
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Selective Service Act
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Pearl Harbor
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Germany Invades Russia
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Miracle of Midway
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Koremtsu v.s. United States
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D-Day
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Battle of the Bulge
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Nagasaki A-Bomb
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Nuremburg Trials
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Hiroshima A-Bomb
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V-E Day
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Vietnam War
U.S Fought in Vietnam to try and end communism there -
Detente
general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States -
Nixon in China
an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). -
Watergate Scandal
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. -
End of the vietnam war
End of the vietnam war -
Panama Canal Treaty
The Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal -
open door policy
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, -
Raegan's Berlin Wall Speech
Speech about the berlin wall
