1607 - 1754
Jamestown, 1st permanent English settlement is established in VA
1607
Start of the French and Indian War aka The Seven Years War
1754
Stamp Act
1765
LA Purchase - US doubles in Size
1803
Texas Annexation
1845
Massachusetts (ships, lumber, fishing)
New Hampshire (ships, livestock, lumber)
Connecticut (rum, iron, shipbuilding)
Rhode Island (livestock)
The New England colonies
Regulated trade in order to benefit the British economy by restricting trade between colonies. English colonist often smuggled goods to get around this restriction
Navigation Acts
Shays Rebellion/Constitutional Convention
1787
End of Mexican American War. Texas territory is acquired by US
1848
13th Amendment - Slavery outlawed
1865
Virginia (tobacco, wheat, cattle)
Maryland (tobacco, wheat)
North Carolina (tobacco, furs)
South Carolina (rice, indigo, silk)
Georgia
Southern Colonies
The first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in Colony of Virginia in 1619, first instance of a democratic political system
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Independence
1776
James Monroe articulated the US foreign policy goal of ending European colonization in the Americas
Monroe Doctrine
Extremely popular novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, exposed the cruelties of slavery to a national audience and fueled anti-slavery sentiment
Uncle Tom's Cabin
First enslaved people arrive in VA
1619
Great Awakening
1730
British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of laws meant to keep American colonies obedient
Salutary Neglect
Economic developments of the early 19th century that changed the way Americans worked and did business
Market Revolution
The north, lacking the fertile soil of the south, relied increasingly on manufacturing which contributed to their victory in the "first modern war (civil war)"
Industrialization
Bacons Rebellion, beginning of the end of indentured servitude
1676
Puritans developed small towns with family farms, achieved a mixed economy of agriculture and commerce
New England Colonies
Created in response to Federalist party, felt that the Federal government would become too powerful and could jeopardize state and individual rights
Anti-Federalist
Belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
Manifest Destiny
Following the Civil War, Reconstruction was a term coined by Republicans who wanted to readmit the south into the US and help free African Americans
Reconstruction Era