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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
US/VA history timespan
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Jamestown
First permanent English settelment. Named Jamestoen in honor of their king. -
Start Of Slavery
Begain when the first African slaves were brought to North America colony of Jamestown, VA. US to aid in the production of crops tobacco. -
House Of Burgesses
1st elected assemly in the United States -
Mayflower Compact
Stated the purpose of the pilgrims government in America.Wich was "just and equal laws...for general good of the colony". -
French and Indian War
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. -
Treaty Of Paris 1763
Great Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River. Was signed by Great Britian, France and Spain -
Poclamation of 1763
Banned all settlements west of the Appalachian mountains. To avoid furthur contact with Native Ameriacans. -
Stamp Act
Was past by Prime Minister George Grenville. Required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pomphlet and almanac. -
Boston Massacre
Sarted as a fist fight over jobs. That evening a mob gathered to taunt guards, this ended up with 5 colonist dead. -
Boston Tea Party
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. -
1st continental congress
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. -
Lexington and Concord
General Gabe ordered troops to march to concord, and seize colonial weapons. Mintemen intercept the Britian and engage in battle at Lexington and Concord. -
Second Continental Congress
Jonh Adams suggested that each colony set up its own government and that the congress declared the colonis independent. -
Declaration of Independence
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. -
The Treaty Of Paris
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. -
Shay's Rebellion
Know as the farmers protest,caused panic and dismay throughout the nation. This put the new nation reputation in danger. -
3/5 Compromise
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. -
Articales Of Confederation
The first constitution for the united states. Was to wesk. -
Constitutional Conevention
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. -
Northwest Ordinance 1787
Set requirements for the admission of new states. There were 3 stages to becoming a state. -
The Great Compromise
A two-house congress to satisfy both small and big states. Each state has a Senate and House of Representatives based on population. -
Yorktown
french and american troops surround the british on the yorktown peninsula and bombarded them day and night. Battle of Yorktown lasted 3 days. -
Washington Presidency
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. -
Judiviary Act of 1789
Answers all critical questions for the supreme court, creating a judicial structure that has remained essentially intact. This law provided for a supreme court. -
Bill of Rights
Congress submited 12 amendments to state legislatures for ratification . 10 of these amendments had been ratified, which is known as the Bill of Rights. -
Cotton Gin
Cotton gin made it possible for southern farmers to grow short-staple cotton for a profit. The cotton hin accelerated the expansion of slavery. -
Adam's Presidency
Second president of the United States -
Reservation System
Indians where forced off their lands onto smaller reservations -
Gabe Prosser Revolt
Planned a large slave revolt in Richmond, VA -
Battle of the Alamo
Mexican General Santa Anna attacked with superior forces. Texas fought until their last man died. -
Battle of San Jacinto
Texas won their independence. Was lead by Sam Houston who established the republic of Texas. -
Jefferson's Presidency
Belived that a simple goverment best suited the needs of the republic. Jefferson also tried to shrink the government and cut cost wherever possible. -
Marbury vs Madison
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. -
Louisiana Purchase
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. -
War of 1812
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. -
McCulloch vs Maryland
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. -
Age of the Common Man
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. -
Missouri Compromise
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 -
Monroe Doctrine
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. -
Gibbon vs Ogden
Supreme Court ruled that strengthened the frederal government's control over economy. -
Jackson's Presidency
Jackson personified the "democratic" spirit of the age. He appealed to the common man and used Spoil System( rewarding campaign supporters with government jobs). -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Was passed by president Jackson. It forced all Indians east of the Mississippi River to move to Indian Territory. -
Battle of Alamo
Key defense of Texas who would rather give their life than surrender -
Battle of San Jacinto
Texas won idependence -
U.S Annexes Texas
Texas was incorporated into the United States which was the 28 state admitted -
Mexican war
President James K. Polk urged the war, He wanted the Southwest. Mexico wont sell the Southwest. -
Senceca Falls Convention
First womens right convetion was lead by Elizbeth Cady Staton -
Compromise of 1850
Whig Sentor gave a speech which called for a compromise on the issues dividing the union -
Nat Turner Revolt
Led band of 80 slaves against 4 plantations in southampton VA, caught six weeks later and was hung -
Fugitive Slave Law
Made it easier to catch runaway slaves -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, giving KN and NB the right to vote on being a free state or not -
Knight of Labor
Union fiunded by Uriah Stevens -
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
It was one of the most significant restriction on free immigration US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese labor -
Haymarket square
A place in chicago where ariot between police and labor unionists -
American Federation of Labor
Was the first labor union in the united states -
Dawes Act
Goal was to Americanize the Indians by legally abolishing tribes and broking up reservations -
Homestead strike
was a industrial lockout and strike,become a major gunbattle with police -
American railway union
Union for skilled and unskilled railroad workers found by Eugene V. Debs -
Pullman Strike
A nation railroad strike. Pitting the Anerican railroad union against the pullman company -
Spanish-American war
Cubans rebelled against spanish rules -
Traety of Paris
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. -
Open door policy
Gave all nations equal trading rights in China, goal was to end US/ European competition -
Boxer Rebllion
goal was to rmove foreign principals -
Immigration Restriction Act
An act to place certain restricitions on immagrations and to provide fpr the removal from the common wealth of prohibited immigrate -
Platt Amendment
U.S. intervention in Cuban affairs and permitted the United States to lease or buy lands for the purpose of the establishing naval bases -
Susan B Anthony
main leader of the women suffage movement, goal was to get voting rights -
16th amendment
Giving congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states -
17th amendment
Voters elect senators, not state legislatures -
Federal Trade Commission Act
Administers antitrust and consuer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Attempts was to prohibit certian actions that led to anti-competitiveness -
Panamam Canal
A canal extending SE from Atlantic to the Pacific across Pananam -
U.S enters WW1
The reason that the US entered the war was because Germany was attacking american submarine -
14 points
Wilsons peace plan, his goal was to eliminate the cause of war -
18th Amendment
Banned the use of alchol -
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. -
19th amendment
women gain voting rights -
Scopes Trail
John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a case -
Great Depression
Time of severe economic hardship in the united states -
Black Tuesday
the stock market crashed -
Hoover
Believed in "Rugged Individualism" he favored limilted govt was very unpopular with the people -
FDIC
Insures bank deposit, regulates banks -
New Deal
FDR's programs to deal with the depression -
FDR
Instituted New Deal to cobter the Great Depression and led country during WW2 -
Dust bowl
Horrible drought on the great plains -
Social Security Act
A system of transfer payment in which younger, working people support older, retired people -
Wagner act
Established the National labor relations board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the privat sector -
Fair labor standards
Labor regulations regarding interstale commrce employments, including minimum wage, requirement for overtime pay and limitatins on child labor -
Non-aggression act
Stalin and Hitler agree not to attack each other -
War in Europe begins
Germany invades poland -
Selective Service Act WW2
Required men between the age 21 and 35 register with local draft boards -
Germany invades russia
In the largest German military operation of WW2 -
Pearl Harbor
Suprise air attack in Hawaii on US naval base -
US declare war
FDR request war against Germany and Japan -
NATO
12 countries in North America and Western Europe gathered in Washington, D.C., to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Miracle of midway
"turning point' US navy beat a large Japenese force -
D-Day
Allies landed in German-occupied france was successful allies retake Europe -
Korematsu v. US
supreme court allowed intement,government apologys to Janenese Americans -
Battle of the Bulge
German counteroffensive -
V-E Day
Allies from west and soviet from east overrun Germany, Germany surrender -
Hiroshima A-bomb
!st bomb dropped on japan -
Nagasaki A-bomb
2nd and last bomb dropped on japan -
V-J Day
Day Japan formally surrendered -
Nuremburg trail
Postwar trail of Nazis for war crimes in the Holocaust, many convictions -
cold war
state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. -
Marshalls plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, -
Korean War
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. -
Eisenhower
United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961) -
warsaw pact
treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
U2 Incident
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 -
JFK
A Democratic party political leader of the twentieth century; he was president from 1961 to 1963. -
cuban missile crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
