Dates, Terms, and Important People in US History
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| 359488406 | 1607 | Jamestown | |
| 359488407 | 1649 | Toleration Act | |
| 359488408 | 1688 | Glorious Revolution | |
| 359488409 | 1692 | Witch Trials | |
| 359488410 | 1754-1763 | French and Indian War | |
| 359488411 | 1763 | Proclamation of 1763 | |
| 359488412 | 1765 | Stamp Act | |
| 359488413 | 1770 | Boston Massacre | |
| 359488414 | 1773 | Tea Party | |
| 359488415 | 1775 | Lexington and Concord | |
| 359488416 | 1776 | Decalaration of Independence | |
| 359488417 | 1777 | Saratoga | |
| 359488418 | 1781 | Yorktown | |
| 359488419 | 1783 | Treaty of Paris | |
| 359488420 | 1787 | Constitutinal Convention | |
| 359488421 | 1788 | Washington's Election | |
| 359488422 | 1798 | XYZ Affair | |
| 359488423 | 1798 | Alien and Sedition Act | |
| 359488424 | 1800 | Convention of 1800 | |
| 359488425 | 1800 | Jefferson's Election | |
| 359488426 | 1803 | Lousiana Purchase | |
| 359488427 | 1812-1815 | War of 1812 | |
| 359488428 | 1814 | Battle of New Orleans | |
| 359488429 | 1816-1824 | Era of Good Feelings | |
| 359488430 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise | |
| 359488431 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | |
| 359488432 | 1820's | Sectionalism | |
| 359488433 | 1828 | Jackson's Election | |
| 359488434 | 1828-1830 | Tariff Crisis | |
| 359488435 | 1830 | Indian Removal Act | |
| 359488436 | 1832 | Nat Turner Rebellion | |
| 359488437 | 1830-1850 | Manifest Destiny | |
| 359488438 | 1836 | Battle of the Alamo | |
| 359488439 | 1844 | Polk's Election | |
| 359488440 | 1845 | Texas Annexation | |
| 359488441 | 1845-1848 | Mexican War | |
| 359488442 | 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention | |
| 359488443 | 1850 | Compromise | |
| 359488444 | 1850 | Fugitive Slave Act | |
| 359488445 | 1852 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| 359488446 | 1854 | Bleeding Kansas | |
| 359488447 | 1857 | Dred Scott Case | |
| 359488448 | 1858 | Lincoln Douglas Debates | |
| 359488449 | 1860 | Lincoln's Election | |
| 359488450 | 1861-1865 | Civil War | |
| 359488451 | 1862 | Homestead Act | |
| 359488452 | 1863 | Gettysburg | |
| 359488453 | 1867 | Reconstruction Acts | |
| 359488454 | 1867 | Alaska | |
| 359488455 | 1876 | Hayes Election | |
| 359488456 | 1876 | Little Bighorn | |
| 359488457 | 1886 | Haymarket Square Riot | |
| 359488458 | 1887 | Dawes Act | |
| 359488459 | 1887 | Interstate Commerce Act | |
| 359488460 | 1890 | Wounded Knee | |
| 359488461 | 1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | |
| 359488462 | 1894 | Pullman Strike | |
| 359488463 | 1896 | Election--Mckinley--Bryan | |
| 359488464 | 1896 | Plessy vs. Ferguson | |
| 359488465 | 1898 | Hawaii | |
| 359488466 | 1898 | Spanish American War | |
| 359488467 | 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt as President | |
| 359488468 | 1903 | Wright Brothers | |
| 359488469 | 1912 | Wilson Elected | |
| 359488470 | 1915 | Lusitania | |
| 359488471 | 1916 | Wilson's Neutrality | |
| 359488472 | 1917 | US enters WWI | |
| 359488473 | 1920 | 19th Amendment | |
| 359488474 | 1920 | Harding Election | |
| 359488475 | 1920's | Red Scare | |
| 359488476 | 1920's | Prohibition | |
| 359488477 | 1928 | Hoover's Election | |
| 359488478 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | |
| 359488479 | 1932 | Bonus Army | |
| 359488480 | 1932 | FDR Elected | |
| 359488481 | 1935 | Social Security | |
| 359488482 | 1939 | WWII Starts | |
| 359488483 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor | |
| 359488484 | 1944 | D-Day | |
| 359488485 | 1945 | Atomic Bomb | |
| 359488486 | 1945-1989 | Cold War | |
| 359488487 | 1947 | Truman Doctrine | |
| 359488488 | 1950 | Korean War | |
| 359488489 | 1952 | Ike Elected | |
| 359488490 | 1950's | McCarthyism | |
| 359488491 | 1954 | Brown vs. Board | |
| 359488492 | 1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
| 359488493 | 1957 | Sputnik | |
| 359488494 | 1957 | Little Rock Crisis | |
| 359488495 | 1960 | U2 | |
| 359488496 | 1960 | Sit-In Movement | |
| 359488497 | 1960 | JFK Elected | |
| 359488498 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| 359488499 | 1963 | March on Washington | |
| 359488500 | 1963 | JFK assassinated | |
| 359488501 | 1964 | Civil RIghts Act | |
| 359488502 | 1964 | Freedom Summer | |
| 359488503 | 1965 | Voting Rights Axct | |
| 359488504 | 1965 | Malcolm X killed | |
| 359488505 | 1968 | Martin Luther King killed | |
| 359488506 | 1968 | Tet Offensive | |
| 359488507 | 1968 | Nixon Elected | |
| 359488508 | 1972 | Watergate Break-In | |
| 359488509 | 1979 | Iranian Hostage Crisis | |
| 359488510 | 1980 | Reagan Elected | |
| 359488511 | 1989 | Cold War Ends | |
| 359488512 | 1991 | Desert Storm | |
| 359488513 | 1992 | Clinton Elected | |
| 359488514 | 2000 | George Bush Elected | |
| 359488515 | 2001 | 9-11 Attacks | |
| 359488516 | Proprietary colonies | land granted by king to a proprietor to control the land | |
| 359488517 | charter colonies | financed by companies as an investment and populate a region | |
| 359488518 | royal colonies | charter granted and controlled by king | |
| 359488519 | joint-stock company | a business owned by investors through control of stocks. supported colonies | |
| 359488520 | Jamestown | 1st successful colony founded in 1607 in virginia | |
| 359488521 | indentured servants | obliged to work for a set period of years to pay off their passage to the new world | |
| 359488522 | headright system | granting 50 acres of land to anyone who brought over a certain number of colonists | |
| 359488523 | house of burgesses | an assembly of elected representatives developed in virginia-becomes model for congress | |
| 359488524 | bacons rebellion | colonial rebellion against the governor of Virginia | |
| 359488525 | pilgrims | seperatists who left the church of england | |
| 359488526 | mayflower compact | agreement made by pilgrims before landing at plymouth in mass. | |
| 359488527 | william bradford | govenor who was important in the organization and success of the colony-wrote its history | |
| 359488528 | puritans | came seeking to purify their religion | |
| 359488529 | conversation relation | puritan practice where members must bare their soul | |
| 359488530 | dissenters | those who objected to the established church doctrines | |
| 359488531 | anne hutchinson | was banished and moved to rhode island | |
| 359488532 | roger williams | founded the colony of rhode island and practiced religious tolerance | |
| 359488533 | new england | started as highly religious then becomes commercial society/ highest populated,poor soil/ turn to merchant and fishing | |
| 359488534 | southern colonies | carolinas and georgia/ agriculture-rice, indigo/use of slaves | |
| 359488535 | georgia | founded by james oglethrope as a debtor's colony | |
| 359488536 | maryland | founded by lord baltimore as refuge for english catholics | |
| 359488537 | middle colonies | penn, NY, NJ/ harbors, iron grain, wood | |
| 359488538 | pennsylvania | founded by william penn. as refuge for quakers | |
| 359488539 | salutary neglect | britians absence in colonial america due to pressing issues in england/ left colonies to govern themselves | |
| 359488540 | mercantilism | colonies exsist for benifit of the mother country | |
| 359488541 | triangular trade | west indies (sugar cane/ slaves) to N.E(rum) to Africa (slaves) | |
| 359488542 | Navigation acts | colonial merchants could only export good to england | |
| 359488543 | admiralty courts | created to stop smuggling | |
| 359488544 | french and indian war | (1754-1763) between france and G.B | |
| 359488545 | Albany plan of union | 1753 ben franklin calls for a colonial confederation | |
| 359488546 | treaty of paris | ends the french and indian war/ england gets all of french teritory in N.A. | |
| 359488547 | Proclamation of 1763 | no settlement would be allowed west of the App. mts. | |
| 359488548 | john locke's ideals | criticized divine right of monarchs, people have right to overthrow tryannical government | |
| 359488549 | zenger trial | he was arressted for criticizing royal govenor/ found not guilty cus it was true | |
| 359488550 | stamp act | tax on documents, stamps, ect | |
| 359488551 | writs of assistance | search warrant which allowed british to search homes for smuggled goods | |
| 359488552 | townshend acts | taxes on tea, paint | |
| 359488553 | boston massacre | british troops fired crowd in order to discourage opposition to townshend acts | |
| 359488554 | boston tea party | colonists dump tea into boston habor | |
| 359488555 | intolerable acts | passed in response to boston tea party | |
| 359488556 | first continental congress | 1774 met and issued a list of grievances to king george III | |
| 359488557 | second continental congress | 1775 met in philly, later becomes revolutionary government | |
| 359488558 | lexington and concord | first fighting of the revolution | |
| 359488559 | thomas paine | wrote the book commone sense | |
| 359488560 | treaty of paris 1783 | ended the american rev. | |
| 359488561 | articles of confederation | 1st government of u.s / had no power to tax | |
| 359488562 | shays rebellion | rebellion in mass. protesting taxes on farmers/ not handled well by government | |
| 359488563 | new jersey plan | called for equal representation in congress | |
| 359488564 | virginia plan | representation based on population | |
| 359488565 | three fifth's compromise | every five slaves would be counted as 3 when it comes to determining rep. in house of reps. | |
| 359488566 | federalists | supporters of the constitution | |
| 359488567 | antifederalists | opposed constitution | |
| 359488568 | whiskey rebellion | farmers protest of a federal tax placed on whiskey | |
| 359488569 | XYZ affair | negotiators sent to france to discuss problems | |
| 359488570 | alien and sedition acts | allowed to deport allowed to deport people who were thought to be a threat to national security | |
| 359488571 | virginia and kentucky resolutions | written by jefferson and madison criticizing the alien and sedition acts | |
| 359488572 | marbury v. madison | s. court can declare on constitutionality of laws | |
| 359488573 | mccullough v. maryland | federal gov't had the implied power to create a national bank | |
| 359488574 | gibbions v. ogden | established the federal govt control over interstate commerce | |
| 359488575 | embargo act of 1807 | prohibited u.s. ships from trading with European nations | |
| 359488576 | cause of war of 1812 | impressment of u.s sailors | |
| 359488577 | war hawks in congress | young congressmen who pushed madison to go to war | |
| 359488578 | treaty of ghent | ending the fighting in war of 1812 | |
| 359488579 | robert fulton | created steamships | |
| 359488580 | cyrus mccormick | invents a harvester/ reaper | |
| 359488581 | monroe doctrine | warned european to stay out of western hemisphere/ u.s would not interfere in european affairs | |
| 359488582 | clays "american system" | henry clay proposes a protective tariff, internal improvements | |
| 359488583 | spoils system/ rotation in office | jobs in government went to those who helped one get elected | |
| 359488584 | indian removal act 1830 | jacksons decision to move all idians west of mississippi river | |
| 359488585 | transcendentalists | emphasis on personal feel over learned analysis | |
| 359488586 | horace mann | brought changes to public education | |
| 359488587 | dorothea dix | led thr fight for changes in treatment of insane | |
| 359488588 | seneca falls convention 1848 | adopted resolutions for women's rights | |
| 359488589 | mexican war 1846-48 | treaty of guadeloupe hidalgo ended the war | |
| 359488590 | missouri compromise | 1820/ maine free state/missouri slave state | |
| 359488591 | compromise of 1850 | cali admitted as a free state | |
| 359488592 | nat turner | leads slave revolt against master in S.C | |
| 359488593 | kansas nebraska act | repealed the missouri compromise | |
| 359488594 | dred scott case | slaves are property | |
| 359488595 | fort sumter | southern forces fire on ft. sumter in S.C., civil war begins | |
| 359488596 | suspension of habeas corpus | lincoln had people arrested without knowing charges | |
| 359488597 | shermans march | through georgia-burned atlanta- to destroy will of the south | |
| 359488598 | appomattox | lee surrendurs to grant in 1865 to end war | |
| 359488599 | homestead act | provided free land (106 acres) in the west to those who settled it and developed it | |
| 359488600 | pacfific railroad act | set up funding for the building of transcontinential railroad | |
| 359488601 | lincolns 10% plan | when 10% of voters in southern states pledged allegiance to U.S. it would become part of union | |
| 359488602 | radical republican | those in congress who felt johnsons plan was too easy on the south | |
| 359488603 | 13th amendment | abloished slavery in u.s | |
| 359488604 | 14th amendment | blacks given citizenship | |
| 359488605 | 15th amendment | blacks given right to vote | |
| 359488606 | compromise of 1877 | hayes given election of 1876 if u.s. troops would pull out of south | |
| 359488607 | sharecropping | land and seed given to blacks and poor whites | |
| 359488608 | plessy vs. ferguson | seperate but equal facilities | |
| 359488609 | robber barrons | used cutthroat tactics to make millions | |
| 359488610 | andrew carnegie | steel | |
| 359488611 | john d. rockefeller | oil | |
| 359488612 | laissez-faire | government hands off | |
| 359488613 | gospel of wealth | justifies riches of the wealthy | |
| 359488614 | sherman antitrust act | designed to break up trusts/ no teeth | |
| 359488615 | munn v. illinois | regulated railroad rates | |
| 359488616 | american federation of labor | union formed to work for better wages | |
| 359488617 | collective barganing | unions and employers negotiate or bargain terms of employment | |
| 359488618 | homestead strike | carnegie plant goes on strike | |
| 359488619 | pullman strike | railroad car strike | |
| 359488620 | gilded age politic | time of corruption | |
| 359488621 | thomas nast | famous political cartoonist | |
| 359488622 | pendleton act | government jobs would be based on ability | |
| 359488623 | old immigration | west & northern europe | |
| 359488624 | new immigration | italians, greeks, jews | |
| 359488625 | chinese exclusion act | limit number of chinese into the country | |
| 359488626 | chivington massacre | group of cheyenne indiansa massacred in colorado by American troops | |
| 359488627 | battle of little bighorn | U.S troops wiped out by crazy horse and sitting bull | |
| 359488628 | battle of wounded knee | 200 indians dead in south dakota/ indians give up | |
| 359488629 | dawes severalty act 1887 | attempt to turn plains indians into farmers | |
| 359488630 | John Adams | said, "The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people...This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the peoplej was the real American Revolution." | |
| 359488631 | John Quincy Adams | secretary of state under Monroe; deftly negotiated a number of treaties that fixed U.S. borders, opened new territories, and acquired Florida from the Spanish | |
| 359488632 | Jane Addams | founded Hull House | |
| 359488633 | American Antislavery Society | n abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of the society and often spoke at its meetings | |
| 359488634 | American Federation of Labor | only skilled workers, led by Gompers, focused on "bread and butter" issues | |
| 359488635 | American Protective Association | an American anti-Catholic society (similar to the Know Nothings) that was founded on March 13, 1887 by Attorney Henry F. Bowers in Clinton, Iowa | |
| 359488636 | Susan B. Anthony | led the fight for women's suffrage, convincing Congress to introduce a suffrage amendment to the Consitution | |
| 359488637 | Antimasonic Party | a 19th century minor political party in the United States. It strongly opposed Freemasonry, and was founded as a single-issue party, aspiring to become a major party | |
| 359488638 | Chester Arthur | president during Gilded Age | |
| 359488639 | Elizabeth Blackwell | an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and the first female doctor in the United States | |
| 359488640 | John Brown | led a raid on a proslavery camp, murdering five; raided Harper's Ferry | |
| 359488641 | William Jennings Bryan | backed by Populists in 1896 presidential election | |
| 359488642 | Jame Buchanan | had been out of the country for 4 years when elected president in 1856 | |
| 359488643 | Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce | the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Indians to a reservation in Idaho. For his principled resistance to the removal, he became renowned as a humanitarian and peacemaker | |
| 359488644 | Civil Service Commission | created by Pendleton Act to oversee examinations for potential government employees | |
| 359488645 | Committees of Correspondence | groups throughout the colonies that traded ideas and apprised each other of the political mood | |
| 359488646 | Coxey's Army | a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time | |
| 359488647 | Eugene V. Debs | led Socialists | |
| 359488648 | Thomas A. Edison | inventor | |
| 359488649 | Emerson and Thoreau | transcendentalists | |
| 359488650 | Millard Fillmore | the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office | |
| 359488651 | First Continental Congress | all colonies except Georgia attended in 1774 | |
| 359488652 | Free-Soil Party | a regional, single-issue party devoted to the goals of the Wilmot Proviso | |
| 359488653 | Robert Fulton | inventor of steamboat | |
| 359488654 | James Garfield | president during Gilded Age | |
| 359488655 | Citizen Edmond Genet | visited America to seek its assistance in the French Revolution | |
| 359488656 | George III | new kin, felt that the colonists should help pay the debt from the Seven Years' War | |
| 359488657 | Samuel Gompers | led the AFL, concentrated on "bread and butter" issues | |
| 359488658 | The Grange movement | cooperatives, with the purpose of allowing farmers to buy machinery and sell crops as a group and, therefore, reap the benefits of economies of scale | |
| 359488659 | Ulysses S. Grant | corrupt administration | |
| 359488660 | Greenback Party | The party opposed the shift from paper money back to a specie-based monetary system because it believed that privately owned banks and corporations would then reacquire the power to define the value of products and labor. Conversely, they believed that government control of the monetary system would allow it to keep more currency in circulation, as it had in the war | |
| 359488661 | Benjamin Harrison | president during Gilded Age | |
| 359488662 | William Henry Harrison | the first Whig president | |
| 359488663 | Rutherford B. Hayes | elected president in 1876 | |
| 359488664 | William Randolph Hearst | helped newspaper industry grow with yellow journalism | |
| 359488665 | Andrew Jackson | popular president who believed in universal manhood suffrage | |
| 359488666 | Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence; Secretary of State under Washington | |
| 359488667 | Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's vice-president; opposed secession and strongly supported Lincoln during his first term | |
| 359488668 | Knights of Labor | one of the most important American labor organizations of the 19th century, demanded an end to child and convict labor, equal pay for women, a progressive income tax, and the cooperative employer-employee ownership of mines and factories | |
| 359488669 | Know-Nothing (American) Party | met privately and remained secretive about their political agenda, rallied around a single issue: hatred of foreigners | |
| 359488670 | Ku Klux Klan | targeted those who supported Reconstruction; it attacked and often murdered scalawags, black and white Republican leaders, community activists, and teachers | |
| 359488671 | Liberty Party | The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. It broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society due to grievances with William Lloyd Garrison's leadership | |
| 359488672 | Abraham Lincoln | 40% of popular vote; over 50% of electoral vote | |
| 359488673 | Alfred Thayer Mahan (author, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History) | His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War I | |
| 359488674 | Horace Mann | instrumental in pushing for public education and education reform in general | |
| 359488675 | William McKinley | pro-business, his assassination made Theodore Roosevelt president | |
| 359488676 | James Monroe | president who wanted Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere | |
| 359488677 | Mormon Church | founded by Joseph Smith, moved to Salt Lake City | |
| 359488678 | National Labor Union | first national labor federation in the United States | |
| 359488679 | Thomas Paine | English printer who advocated colonial independence and argued for the merits of republicanism over monarchy | |
| 359488680 | Franklin Pierce | moderate, elected president after publishing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | |
| 359488681 | James Polk | a Democrat expansionist who ran against Henry Clay in 1844: "54 40 or fight", Mexican-American War | |
| 359488682 | Populist Party/Platform | farmers' movement: government ownership of railroads and telegraphs, a graduated income tax, direct election of U.S. senators, and shorter workdays | |
| 359488683 | Joseph Pulitzer | helped newspaper industry grow with yellow journalism | |
| 359488684 | Queen Liluokalani/Hawaii | the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii; her government was overthrown by the U.S. | |
| 359488685 | Republican Party | dedicated to keeping slavery out of the territories, but they championed a wider range of issues, including the further development of national roads, more liberal land distribution in the West, and increased protective tariffs | |
| 359488686 | Rough Riders | the name bestowed by the American press on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War | |
| 359488687 | Second Continental Congress | convened just weeks after the battles of Lexington and Concord. It prepared for war by establishing a Continental Army, printing money, and creating government offices to supervise policy. | |
| 359488688 | Seventh Day Adventist Church | a Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished mainly by its observance of Saturday, the "seventh day" of the week, as the Sabbath; established in 1863 with Ellen G. White as one of its founders | |
| 359488689 | Shakers | utopian group that splintered from the Quakers, believed that they and all other churches had grown too interested in this world and neglectful of their afterlives; no sex | |
| 359488690 | Sons of Liberty | group who protested the Stamp Act | |
| 359488691 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | one of the leader's of the women's rights movement | |
| 359488692 | Zachary Taylor | Whig military hero, elected president | |
| 359488693 | Frederick Jackson Turner (author of The Significance of the Frontier in American History) | announced that the frontier was gone, and with it the first period of American history | |
| 359488694 | Nat Turner | led violent slave uprising, caused passage of black codes | |
| 359488695 | "Boss" Tweed | an American politician who was convicted for stealing over 100 million dollars from New York City taxpayers through political corruption; head on Tammany Hall | |
| 359488696 | Martin Van Buren | became president as the country was entering the Panic of 1837; made the situation worse by continuing Jackson's policy of favoring hard currency | |
| 359488697 | Booker T. Washington | promoted economic independence as the means by which blacks could improve their lot | |
| 359488698 | George Washington | led a colonial contingent that attacked a French outpost and lost badly, but welcomed as a hero in Virginia; first president | |
| 359488699 | Whig Party | a loose coalition that shared one thing in common: opposition to one or more of the Democrats' policies | |
| 359488700 | Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) | spearheaded the crusade for prohibition | |
| 359488701 | Workingmen's Party | the first Marxist-influenced political party in the United States |
