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Boston Tea Party, incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
WHEN?
December 16, 1773
In the period of the American Revolution, the body of delegates who spoke and acted collectively for the people of the colony-states that later became the United States of America. THIS TERM most specifically refers to the bodies that met in 1774
the First Continental Congress
Boston Massacre, skirmish between British troops and a crowd in Boston, Massachusetts. Widely publicized, it contributed to the unpopularity of the British regime in much of colonial North America in the years before the American Revolution.
WHEN?
March 5, 1770
THIS was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
Stamp Act, in U.S. colonial history, first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice.
WHEN?
1765
IT was debated by the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between July 1776 and November 1777, and finalized by the Congress on November 15, 1777. It came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 colonial states.
The Articles of Confederation
IT superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789.
1789
Western half of the Mississippi River basin purchased from France by the United States; at less than three cents per acre for 828,000 square miles, it was the greatest land bargain in U.S. history. The purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically
WHAT and WHEN?
Louisiana Purchase 1803
The importation of slaves into the United States was formally, and finally, abolished
On January 1, 1808
When was Monroe Doctrine enunciated?
December 2, 1823
Franco-American Alliance, agreement by France to furnish critically needed military aid and loans to the 13 insurgent American colonies, often considered the turning point of the U.S. War of Independence.
WHEN?
Feb. 6, 1778
Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, U.S. military expedition, led by Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Lieut. William Clark, to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. The expedition was a major chapter in the history of American exploration
When was the expedition and when did they reach the Pacific Ocean?
1804-1806
1805
The act authorized the president to grant Indian tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their desirable territories within state borders (especially in the Southeast), from which the tribes would be removed.
What was the act and when did it come into force?
Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution.
When was it signed?
1836
It extended the reach of the institution of slavery into the free Northern states in 1850, stating that refugees from enslavement living there could be returned to enslavement in the South once captured.
Fugitive Slave Act
IT was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. IT comprised eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred against the United States during the American Civil War.
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South
THIS AMENDMENT formally abolished slavery IN THIS YEAR
13th Amendment 1865
THIS DOCUMENT prescribed the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce and broadly prohibited 1) anticompetitive agreements and 2) unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market. and WHEN was it passed by Congress?
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Constitution granted American women the right to vote. What was the document and when was it ratified?
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. 1920
SHE was the first woman elected to the United States Senate in her own right in THIS YEAR
Hattie Wyatt Caraway 1932
THIS DOCUMENT established benefits for old-age retirees and the jobless, as well as aid for dependent mothers and children, victims of work-related accidents, people who are blind, and those who have physical disabilities.
What was the document and when was it signed?
The Social Security Act 1935
This confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis 1962
Bombing of Vietnam begins.
1965
WHAT and WHEN caused the resignation of President Richard Nixon?
The Watergate Break-in. Or the Watergate scandal 1972
U.S.-sponsored THIS PROGRAM in THIS YEAR designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive.
Marshall Plan 1948