by year Flashcards
1756
Seven Years’ War
- resulted from an attempt by the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the province of Silesia, which had been taken from them by Frederick the Great of Prussia
- overseas colonial struggles between Great Britain and France for control of North America and India were also a cause of the war.
1763 I.
Peace of Paris
- The terms of the Treaty of Paris were harsh to losing France
- All French territory on the mainland of North America was lost
- The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley. The port of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi were ceded to Spain for their efforts as a British ally.
1763 II.
Proclamation
- boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
- prohibited the anglo-americans from settling on French colonized land
1764
Sugar Act - placed tax on sugar and molasses, disrupting the economy, rum was a huge part of export
1765
Stamp Act (1766 re-appealed) - direct tax on british colonies, prints on stamped paper, paid in british currency
1770
Boston Massacre - The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770
- a “patriot” mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers
- Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
1771
NC regulator movement
1773
Tea Act and Boston Tea Party - The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard
1774
First Continental Congress in Philadelphia
1775
American revolution (battles of Lexington and Concord) - The American Revolution was an epic political and military struggle waged between 1765 and 1783 when 13 of Britain’s North American colonies rejected its imperial rule. The protest began in opposition to taxes levied without colonial representation by the British monarchy and Parliament.
1800
US capital moves to Washington, Gabriel Prosser gathered 1000 rebellious slaves, was ratted out
1801
Second Great Awakening - Marshall chief justice of Supreme Court - Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835. During this revival, meetings were held in small towns and large cities throughout the country, and the unique frontier institution known as the camp meeting began.
1804-1806
Lewis and Clark Expedition - Lewis and Clark’s team mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains. They brought back journals filled with details about Native American tribes and scientific notes about plants and animals they’d never seen before. They also brought back stories—tales that made other Americans dream about heading west.
1803
Madbury v Madison
1804
Jefferson re-elected - During his second term, Jefferson focused on trying to keep America out of Europe’s Napoleonic Wars (1803-15). However, after Great Britain and France, who were at war, both began harassing American merchant ships, Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act of 1807.
1808
Madison president - The Federalists chose to re-nominate Pinckney, a former ambassador who had served as the party’s 1804 nominee, again alongside Rufus King. Despite the unpopularity of the Embargo Act of 1807, Madison won the vast majority of electoral votes outside of the Federalist stronghold of New England
1810
Macon’s Bill n. 2 - “An Act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France” became law on 1 May 1810. The statute, which became known as Macon’s Bill No. 2, prohibited British or French warships from entering American harbors or territorial waters.
1812
war between US and Bri*ish - war in north america, british supported native tribes and prevented US from further colonising territories
1814
Hartford Convention, treaty of Ghent - The Hartford Convention resulted in a declaration calling on the Federal Government to protect New England and to supply financial aid to New England’s badly battered trade economy.
A meeting in Belgium of American delegates and British commissioners ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814. Great Britain agreed to relinquish claims to the Northwest Territory, and both countries pledged to work toward ending the slave trade
1815
Battle of New Orleans - climax of British campaign to take over the city, fought after the treaty of Ghent was signed but not ratified by the US, British were decimated and lost their important generals
1817
The American Colonization Society
1822
Denmark Vesey, 9000, also ratted out
1831
Nat Turner, slave preacher, led a band of rebels, killed about 60 white people, more than a hundred blacks executed
1844
election - Henry Clay v. James K. Polk - re-occupation of OR and TX
1848
First wave feminism, Seneca Falls NY:
- Catherine Beecher
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Lucrecia Mott
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Susan B. Anthony
- Dorothea Dix
1820s
development of American literature
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Walt Whitman
- Herman Melville
- Edgar Allan Poe
