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11,000 BCE
First Americans enter North
The first Americans to enter the new world were discovered around 13,000 years ago. They were likely game hunters from Asia and looking for some new prey. -
Period: 1436 to May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus
He was sailing to India for trade but accidentally went to America and was named the first person to find American until we found out about the Native Americans -
1492
Christopher Columbus finds "India"
Christopher Columbus wanted to go find India but instead he made some wrong turns and headed to America. There he found Native Americans and other unknown people and foods -
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Mercantlism
It was a trade policy that was put in place by the British to bring in lots of money from trading. -
Navigation act of 1651
It required all trade between the colonies and other places be transported by British ships. Needless to say no one was happy about this besides the British -
The Enlightenment
It was a time that the philosophical ideas from Europe where spreading around the world -
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Benjamin Franklin
He was a founding father of America and was not a president but some people think he was. -
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George Washington
He was in the civil war and after the war elected the first president of the united states -
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Thomas Jefferson
He was a founding father and wrote the Declaration of independence and was the 3rd American President -
French and Indian war
It was a battle of the colonies against the new french it was a very long battle. -
Proclamation of 1763
The king of England said that the colonies couldn't settle west of the Appellation Mountains. -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
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Andrew Jackson
He was a statesman and then elected to president, he didn't like Native Americans and kicked them out of the north and moved them west. -
Boston Massacre
British troops killed some people in a mod after they were throwing rocks at the guards and they shot people were angry. -
Boston Tea Party
The brothers of Liberty protested the government by throwing tea off of ships while dressed as Native Americans -
American Revolution
It was a war that went on between the colonies and the British government and in the end gaining the freedom of the United States. -
The beginning of freedom
America was founded after the colonizers from the British colones rebelled after they were charged with unfair taxes and other stuff they were unhappy about -
Declaration of Independance
It was a document written by the founding fathers to establish basic rules and regulations in the United States of America -
United States Constitution
Rules that said how the states and government did their business and how they should control people -
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Dred Scott
He was a slave that should have been freed but since two laws were contradicting themselves he was stuck a slave until he was later freed by his owners son. -
Westward Expansion
In 1803 the Louisiana Purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. By 1840 almost 7 million Americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous. -
Louisiana Purchase
It was land the Teddy Roosevelt bought with the United States money that gave them double the land they had before. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
They were two explorers that were one of the first Americans to cross over into the western side of the now United States of America -
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Lewis and Clark
They were on of the first explorers to go into the western part of America -
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Abraham Lincoln
He was the first president to believe that blacks and whites are equals, he freed slaves to end the civil war and was killed by John Wilkes Booth -
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Fredrick Douglas
He was a abolitionist speaker who brought light into the of slavery and why it should be abolished. -
Election of 1828
This election was between Andrew Jackson and Samuel Quincy Adams to become president. Andrew Jackson one by around 100 electoral votes. -
Jacksonian Democracy
It was the idea that Andrew Jackson was over using his power but in reality he was using it to its full potential. -
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Abolitionist Movement
It was the event that reformed the view of salvery and brought an end to it as well, -
Indian Removal Act
It was a law signed by Andrew Jackson that moved Native Americans west so the United States of America could gain their land and get rid of them from their land. -
Manifest Destiney
It was the idea that it was the god given right to explore the west. -
Mexican American War
It was a war that started because America felt like Texas belonged to them because they had more people in it than Mexico. When some troops were shot in Texas America felt as though Mexico was attacking them and they fought back resulting in a war. -
Compromise of 1850
Slave trade was abolished in D.C and California from this event officially joined the union. -
Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott was and African American slave that should have been freed because of the laws that say once free always free but he wasn't, the case went to the supreme court and they ruled him a slave. -
Election of 1860
It was the election that put Abraham Lincoln into the presidents seat and started a change in the whole United States, Abraham Lincoln won by a landslide. -
Civil War
The civil war broke out because of the different beliefs of slavery, the North thought slavery was wrong while the South encouraged it. -
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Era of Reform
It was the idea to make past mistakes right in industry immigration and other problems.