Period 1-5 Flashcards
Pre-Colombian exchange
1491
Columbus “discovers” the new word
1492
Spanish in the North America
1588
Jamestown
1607
Quebec (french colony)
1608
Bacons rebellion
1676
pueblo revolt
1680
first great awakening
1730-50
Thomas Jefferson is president against John Adams
1800
Louisiana Purchase –> doubled size of America
1803
Embargo Act: prohibits American ships from trading with foreign countries
1807
Declares war on Britain in the war of 1812
1812
McCulloch v. Maryland: establishes the principle of federal supremacy
1819
Missouri Compromise: allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
1820
Monroe Doctrine: states that European nations can not imperialize the Americas
1823
Indian Removal Act: forced Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral lands
1830
Texas declares independence from Mexico
1836
Mexican-American War
1846
Compromise of 1850: California was a free state and allowed popular sovereignty in the territories
1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act: allowed popular sovereignty in the territories and leads to a violent conflict over slavery in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas)
1854
Abraham Lincoln becomes president > Southern states leave the Union
1860
American Civil War begins with attack in Fort Summer by the confederates
1861
Emancipation Proclamation: freed slaves in confederate territory
1863
Civil War ends with the confederate army ( the south) surrendering
1865
13th Amendment: abolished slavery
1865
Reconstruction Acts” rebuild south after civil war
1867
14th Amendment: citizenship to all people born in America
(black people get citizenship)
1868
15th Amendment: right to vote regardless of race or color (still doesn’t include women)
1870
Compromise of 1877: marks the end of Reconstruction in the south > reconstruction failed
1877
