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1491
Voyage To The Unknown
To find a new trade route to India Europeans set out on a voyage across the Atlantic ocean. The voyage by ship from Europe to America was two months many would die making the trip.The unclaimed land was vast, wild and diverse with the population of Native Americans. -
1492
Spanish conquistadors Arrive
Conquistadors are Spanish explores, people such as Columbus and Cortez. Gold, religion and glory were factors for the Spanish and Portuguese exploration. The new land being claimed from these conquistadors is modern day Mexico, Central America, and Peru. -
1492
Columbus exchange
The Columbia exchange is a trading system between the New world (America) and the old world (Europe). The trade exchanged ideas, cash crops and diseases. -
Aug 3, 1492
Across the ocean blue
Christopher Columbus crossed the ocean blue in 1942 and killed a few natives too. Columbus had made several trips and was well known for his misconduct. Many credit him as a heroic person yet had never discovered new land as many had already explored and been to the new world. -
1512
The ecomienda System
The system was created by the Spanish to control the native Americans and exploit the resources. It also granted land to Spanish. -
1514
Black Legend
Bartolome de las casas was a Spanish writer who wrote about native Americans oppression and cruelty the population revived from the Spanish. He was sympathetic towards them he showed it in his writing but many justified the cruelty with religion. -
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James town was colonized and in the beginning many European colonized died from starvation, disease and the native american attacks. James town was saved by the cash crop tobacco which allowed the city to flourish. -
Half-way covenant
The half-way covenant was the puritan church trying to maintain control since it was losing political power. The covenant was a binding agreement which gave the church regain authority but made people upset and rebel against the church. -
Indentured servants
When wealthy British citizen came to the world, people would volunteer to become indentured servants. A person would give 5-7 years of freedom to work for the rich and start a new life afterwards. -
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Slaves at the time were in demand as indentured servants were becoming free.Over 12 million African slaves were traded. The first part of the triangle shipped slaves and goods. Second part ships raw goods to Europe. Third part of the triangle sells goods back to Africa for slaves on cargo merchant ships. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel bacon was a planter who took matters into his own hands as the governor Berkeley was not helping, in removing the native Americans from the land. Bacon and his supporters began slaughtering native Americans and over throw Berkeley. -
Salem Witch Trials
Mass hysteria occurred in Massachusetts because of "witchcraft". Many were charged with witchcraft and executed by hanging and in one case crushed. Salem witch trails was an example of the dangers of religious extremism. -
Stono rebellion
The stono rebellion Sometimes called Cato's Rebellion; occurred in South Carolina and was the largest slave rebellion in the mainland colonies. -
The French and Indian War
There are other name for this war such as the 7 year war. The war was fought between Britain and France who was allied with native Americans. After 9 years England won the territory over the Ohio river valley. -
Salutary neglect
After the French and Indian war, Britain ended the salutary neglect on the colonies by enforcing and creating new tax laws. In order to recover their money lost from war with France. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston patriots organized the Boston tea act. Boston was boycotting the tea in protest of the Tea Act and would not let the ships bring the tea ashore. On the December 16, 1773, colonials disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard. This was one of the staged revolts and reactions the colonist had on Britain's taxes. -
Battle of Lexington and concord
The shot heard 'round the world' The first battle of the American revolution war. Lexington occurred as a shot was heard by minutemen leaving Lexington, afterward fighting broke out. Concord occurred later and ended with British troops retreating so it was an American victory. -
The Start of the American revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt all Thirteen Colonies participated and won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. -
Battle of Yorktown
American victory that ended the Revolutionary War. Commander George Washington and the American troops along with French Regiments beat Cornwallis and his British troops. Cornwallis was surround on land and sea by the French naval in Chesapeake Bay fleet blocked his reinforcement. -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris formally ended the American revolution. After signing the treaty the New Country America had acquired the land from the west to Mississippi and liberty from Great Britain. -
The great awaking
The period had a shift in ideology, there was a dramatic increase. Sermons emphasized on individual religious experience versus religious experience through church beliefs. -
Louisiana Purchase
President Jefferson had bought the land from Napoleon at 3 cents/ acre. The Louisianan purchase was double the size of the united states. -
War of 1812
A small war between Britain and the united states caused by the impressment of American sailors. After the war it help eliminate all British influence. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri had been admitted as a slave state while Maine became a free state. Along with anything above the 36°30' line would be free, below would become a slave state. -
Lowell Mill System
Developed of textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, lead the factories use all the machinery possible to insure very few skilled workers were needed. Workers were almost all single young farm women, who worked for a few years and then returned home to be housewives. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine declared that the western hemisphere was closed from European colonization, any interference would be considered a threat. This was passed by John Quincy Adams. -
Market revolution
Improvement in transportation such as canals, Railroads, communication (telegraphs) and the production of goods rather than hand made items. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian removal act was passed under Andrew Jackson which caused Cherokee native Americans to move west. The journey was long, it killed many native Americas causing it to be named the trail of tears. -
Mexican War
A war between Mexico after the secession of Texas and the dispute over the Rio grande. Ultimately the us gained Texas and all of the Mexican Cession territory. -
Battle of fort sumter
A battle between the union and south over a fort. This battle is significant since it was the spark and the first shots of the civil war. -
Confederate Surrender
Robert E. Lee general had surrendered to General Grant. After the surrender the south had been left in financial and physical ruin. -
Gilded Age
Known for great progress and new innovation, at least on the front cover. The economy was being ruined by monopolies and workers were being missed treated. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese exclusion act was a retaliation from the nativism movement that wanted immigrants to stop taking their jobs and coming into the country. -
Closing the frontier
The land west had been taken and cleared of the Native Americans, the government had sold the land to people who could farm it. -
Pullman strike
Union strike grew violent with rail lines and equipment being destroyed. 30 were killed since President Cleveland had sent troops to stop the protest. -
Election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan was selected as a presidential candidate. He gave the "cross of gold" speech which referenced the bible and apply it to farmers and how the gold stranded was affecting them. -
Transcontinental railroad
The railroad was mainly build by Irish and Chinese immigrants. Connected the east and west allowing easy transportation. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Separate but equal policy was created and allowed discrimination against African Americans. It also signaled the Jim crow laws were not going to change. -
World War I
The United States entered after Germany used unrestricted submarine warfare to sink the Lusitania. Another factor was the Zimmerman telegraph. -
18th amendment
Banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. Crime rate went up as result since people created boot legged alcohol. -
Spanish Flu
an epidemic of influenza spread and was called the Spanish flu because it came from Spain. It also caused many moralities in Spain and the US. -
19th amendment
Women gain the right to vote nation wide. -
Progressive Era
people fought for social justice in many different movements. Carrie Nation sough to ban alcohol, Jane Addams fought for women suffrage, Ida Tarbell targeted monopolies. -
The great deppression
The great depression occurred when stock holders realized the economy was slowing down making them panic and sell their stock. Stock lost its value causing black Tuesday. -
Baby Boomer
Returning soldiers reunited with their other lover and had lot of babies. 4.3 million babies were born and the families moved out to the suburbs. -
Communists take over china
Mao Zedong took over china and changed the state communist. It was seen as a failure foe the US and the contaminant policy. -
The Korean war
Also called the forgotten war. After WWII Korea was divided and the north was under USSR control while the south was occupied by the US. War began because north Korea invaded south Korea but it ended in a stalemate. -
Interstate Highway System
Eisenhower pushed for legislation to build a new interstate highway system for homeland security. This impacted cities because it caused a growth in car use. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was a satellite sent into space by the USSR, which signaled the official start of the space race. Also lead to the creation of NASA. -
Berlin wall
After JFK refuses to remove troops from Berlin,Khrushchev builds the Berlin wall. Kennedy travels to west Berlin to support the citizens. -
USSR dissolved
The USSR dissolved into 15 smaller republics, this ended the cold war. -
9/11
On September 11 a series of suicide attacks were coordinated by al-Qaeda. Two airplanes crashed into the twin towers of the world trade center in NY. -
US in Iraq
An armed conflict that began in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein was the main suspect in the conflict. This unleashed a civil war in Iraq that as of now, still has yet to end -
Obama Presidency
Barack Obama became the first African American president in US history. Most known for Obamacare, it was a health care reform. -
LGBT Pride
Gay Marriage becomes legal in all 50 states. -
National Memorial for peace and justice
The memorial is dedicates to all the African Americans who's lives were lost due to lynching. The memorial is inspired by the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.
