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Founding of Jamestown
Named after King James I of England, Jamestown, Virginia became the first permanent English settlement in North America. 104 settlers, mostly merchants and tradesmen, were entrusted with the task of -
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Colonial America
This era had Spain and England dominating the New World. England took most of the Altantic coast, while Spain took most of the Pacific coast. Many individuals who subsequently traversed to the New World fleed persecution and prejudice. -
The Great Awakening
The First Great Awakenings were started and refered to many as different religious revivals in American history. -
Thomas Paine
Wrote Common Sense (1776), written in a direct style common people could understand. He said America was no longer a bunch of colonies, and that it was logical for them to unite. -
Stono Rebellion
Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that became the largest uprising in the colonies with 42 whites and 44 blacks killed. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
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Revolutionary America Era
Since the Peace of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763 colonists thought -
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Early America
The Early America era begins with the Proclamation of 1763, which said people couldn't settle past the Appalachain mountains. This sparked anger in the colonists which lead to the American Revoluntionary war. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act. -
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Lewis was an explorer, solider and politician. He was the leader of the Lewis and Clark's expedition which was also called the Corps of Discovery. Clark on the other hand became a cultural attache to the Indian peoples they met. -
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Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War also known as the American War of Independence and the Revolutionary War in the United States, was the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which had declared themselves the independent United States of America. -
Henry Clay
Clay, a fellow "war hawk" with Calhoun, sought to implament the American system to raise tariffs and a strong national bank. -
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Federalist Period
The Federalist Party dominated the new American government through the election of George Washington as the first president. Their mission: to create a strong, centralized government with an industrialized future on the horizion. -
John Calhoun
Calhoun entered the political scene before the War of 1812 as a "war hawk" who fully endorsed the war. Calhoun aslo encouraged South Carolina to cecede from the Union, which is when Jackson forced him to back down. -
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The Young Republic Era
This era followed the independence of the United States from Great Britian and exemplified the formation of American government and values. -
Shay's Rebellion
Daniel Shay, a farmer, led a group of 1,100 farmers in a protest. The farmers tried to capture weapons, but the state militia defeated them. The Congress could do nothing to help. -
George Washington
Washington, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and the 1st President of the United States. Washington carved the way for a new nation to be carved out of the ashes of Great Britain's colonies. -
Sam Houston
Sam Houston was a solider and politician. He is best known for helping annex Texas into US. Mr. Houston was the first Governor of Texas. -
Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
Washington announced this neutrality between France and Britain due to America being such young and underdevelped country, -
John Adams
Before Adams was elected president, he was America's first vice president. Although he sevral successes during his presidency, such has the formation of the American Navy, two issues still define his presidency. Those issues being the XYZ Affair and the Sedition Acts. Both were passed out of fear and cowardace on Adam's part, something that haunted him even after leaving office. -
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson, a champion of the common man, became the first Secretary of State during Washington's election and went on to serve as Vice President during Adam's presidency. A full-fledged supporter of the Democratic-Republican party, which endorsed a less active central government and an agrarian-based society. -
Robert E Lee
Lee is the most famous for commanding the Confederate Army for the Civil War. -
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Westward Expansion
This era is built on the idealism of Manifest Destiny. Thousands of families settled west in hopes of a better life and jobs. Additionally, this also brought wars over land and arguments over slavery but a comprise was alway reached. -
James Madison
Madison, along with Jerfferson, founded the Democratic-Republican Party in 1791. Madison subsequently became Jefferson's Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809. Mr. Madison is mostly known for starting the War of 1812, thanks to War Hawks such as Henry Clay. Madison's wife, Dolley, is credited to saving numerous amount of painting in the White House before it burned. -
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Native American allies. -
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Age of Jackson
This era is also known as the "Era of Good Feelings" due to harmonias nature in which political parties agreed on domestic polices. -
James Monroe
Monroe was elected without much opposition, thanks to the weakened Federalist Party. Furthermore, Monroe bought Florida from Spain and ratified the Treaty of 1818, which allowed joint occupation of both Americans and Britains in the Oregon Country. However, his most important contribution was the Monroe Doctrine, which prohibited European intervention in the Americas. Lastly, Monroe supported shipping slaves back to Africa, and even has a city, Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, named after him. -
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was a writer and poet. He is best known for his book Walden. -
Harriet Tubman
Tubman an escaped slave ran the Underground Railroad with Stephen Douglas. They helped guide slaves to northern states and Canada. -
William Walker
Walker attemped to establish an American slave colony in Nicaragua, but ulimately got overthrown. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy sought to redeem his family name after his father's less than favorable presidency. Quincy sought to work on internal improvements for the country as a part of the American System. He wanted high tariffs in order to build roads and a national bank, and was sadly shot down by Andrew Jackson and his followers. Quincy continued to try to impliment his internal improvements, but with no success. Quincy, just like his father, left office feeling bitter. -
Andrew Jackson
Jackson's election in 1829 created a new political party the Jacksonian Democrats. Additionally, in December of that year Jackson advocated for the Indian Removal Act. Congress ended up passing this in 1830, forcing thousands of Native American tribes to relocate to reservations further west, some 4,000 Cherokee people died of malnutrition and disease. -
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Texas War with Mexico
The Texas War began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Alamo
The Alamo was a pivotal battle that flowed a cruel 13 day seige on the Alamo Mission. -
Marten Van Buren
At the beginning of his presidency Van Buren intended to follow in the footsteps of his successor, alas, he did not. The fiancial panic of 1837 did not help Van Buren's reputation. With limited resources, Van Buren had his hands tied as a five year depression hit and unemployment was at an all time high. However, Van Buren was adamently against Missouri's admission as a slave state and was nominated by the Free Soil Party in the election of 1840. -
John Wilkes Booth
Booth, a well known and respected actor, is mostly known for the assaissination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC. -
Trail of Tears
Due to Jackson's Indian Removal Act, the Cherokee nation had to give up their lnd and relocate to Oklahoma. -
William Henry Harrison
Harrison was favored among all the canidates, dispite the fact that he died of pneumonia after his 32nd day in office. -
John Tyler
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James K. Polk
Polk took America to victory in the Mexican-American War, annexing Texas. Polk also attempted to purchase Cuba from Spain to use as territory for slaves. -
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Mexican American War
A war between the U.S. and Mexico spanned the period from spring 1846 to fall 1847. The war was initiated by the United States and resulted in Mexico's defeat and the loss of approximately half of its national territory in the north. -
Zachary Taylor
Before getting elected Taylor was a general in the Mexican American War and was deployed to resolve conflict in a disputed area in Texas. After negotiations had failed Taylor commanded American forced to victory. -
Millard Fillmore
Fillmore managed to admit California as a free state, create the New Mexico territory, and pass the Fugative State Act (which forced slaves in the north to be sent back south). -
Franklin Pierce
Pierce has a tragic life before his presidency -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan served prior to the the American Civil War. He remained a lifelong bachelor. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. -
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Civil War
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. -
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Civil War
The Civil War era wrought with war. Even though slavery was a huge factor, Sectionalism played a role as well. -
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Reconstruction
This era characterized by the acts taken to rebuild the country after the Civil War. This rebuilding constitutes punishing the Confederate states for rebelling. -
Sherman's March to Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea is also called the Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War. The campaign started with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Johnson came to office as the Civil War concluded. The new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union. -
Ulysses S Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President. As Commanding General, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
Also called the Enforcement Act to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. -
Rutherford B Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President. As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.
