U.S. History Review Flashcards

Flashcards covering key dates, events, and concepts from U.S. History lecture notes.

1534

Act of Supremacy passed, creating the Anglican Church.

1588

English defeated the Spanish Armada.

1607

Jamestown was founded.

1618

Headright System established in Virginia to attract new settlers.

1619

House of Burgesses established as the first legislative assembly in the American colonies.

1620

Plymouth Colony founded.

1630

Massachusetts Bay Colony founded, known for the \"City Upon a Hill\" sermon.

1651

Navigation Acts passed to regulate colonial trade.

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion occurred as an uprising in the Virginia Colony.

1692

Salem Witch Trials started, a series of hearings and prosecutions.

1705

Virginia Slave Codes passed, establishing comprehensive limitations of slaves.

1730s/1740s

First Great Awakening, a religious revival.

1739

Stono Rebellion, a slave rebellion.

1754

Albany Plan of Union proposed, using \"Join or Die\" propaganda.

1754

French and Indian War started.

1763

Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French & Indian War.

1763

Proclamation Line established, prohibiting colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

1764

Sugar Act passed.

1765

Stamp Act passed.

1770

Boston Massacre occurred.

1773

Boston Tea Party occurred.

1774

Coercive/Intolerable Acts passed.

1774

First Continental Congress convened, created a militia and enacted the Continental Association.

1775

Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred.

1775

Second Continental Congress convened, issued the Olive Branch Petition and created a military with Washington as leader.

1776

Declaration of Independence issued.

1777

Battle of Saratoga occurred.

1781

Articles of Confederation adopted, also known as the \"Firm League of Friendship\".

1786

Shays’ Rebellion began.

1787

Northwest Ordinance passed by Confederation Congress.

1788

Constitution Ratified.

1791

Bill of Rights Ratified.

1793

Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality issued, declaring the U.S. neutral in the conflict between France and Britain.

1798

Alien & Sedition Acts passed.

1803

Louisiana Purchase occurred.

1807

Embargo Act occurred.

1815

War of 1812 ended with the Treaty of Ghent.

1820

Missouri Compromise occurred.

1823

Monroe Doctrine issued.

1830

Indian Removal Act passed.

1845

Texas Annexed.

1846

Mexican-American War started.

1848

Seneca Falls Convention occurred, leading to the Declaration of Sentiments.

1850

Compromise of 1850, a series of laws passed.

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, leading to \"Bleeding Kansas\".

1857

Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court decision.

1859

John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry occurred.

1860

Abraham Lincoln Elected, SC secedes

1861

Civil War Begins , started with the firing on Fort Sumter.

1862

Emancipation Proclamation issued after Battle of Antietam

1865

Civil War Ends

1865

13th Amendment Ratified, abolishing slavery.

1867

Military Reconstruction Begins.

1868

14th Amendment Ratified, granting citizenship and equal protection.

1869

Transcontinental Railroad Completed.

1870

15th Amendment Ratified, granting voting rights regardless of race.

1877

Reconstruction Ends.

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act passed.

1886

Haymarket Square Riot occurred.

1887

Dawes Severalty Act passed.

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act passed.

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson occurred, establishing \"separate but equal\".

1898

Spanish-American War started and ended.

1904

Panama Canal Construction Starts.

1914

Panama Canal Construction completed.

1906

The Jungle Published, leading to Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.

1909

NAACP Founded.

1914

WWI Starts.

1915

Lusitania Sunk.

1917

U.S. Declares War on Germany.

1920

19th Amendment Ratified, granting woman’s suffrage.

1929

Stock Market Crash occurred.

1925

Scopes Monkey Trial occurred.

1932

Bonus Expeditionary Force Defeated occurred.

1932

FDR Beats Hoover occurred.

1941

Pearl Harbor Attacked.

1945 to 1989

Cold War.

1954

Brown V. Board of Education Happened.

1964

Civil Rights Act Passed.

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1675

King Philip’s War (on and off until 1678)

1766

Stamp Act repealed but Declaratory Act passed

1798

Quasi-War with French starts until about 1800

1798

Virginia and Kentucky resolutions passed

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Marbury v. Madison

1807

Chesapeake and Leopard Affair

1816

Second BOTUS chartered

1819

McCulloch v. Maryland (TPTTITPTD)

1828

Tariff of Abominations

1833

Nullification Crisis resolved

1831

William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator published

1831

Nat Turner’s rebellion

1830

Indian Removal Act passed

1858

Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine

1868

14th Amendment (Naturalization, Equal Protections)

1864

Sand Creek Massacre

1876

Battle of Little Bighorn

1890

Battle of Little Bighorn

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed