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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Lands in the Americas
Columbus first set sale on august 3, 1492 with three small ships that left from Palos Spain. The ships were named Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. Columbus came across many Caribbean islands and claimed them for Spain. -
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Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution was an era where the first developments of astronomy, mathematics, physics and chemistry came out, which helped us get to our level of understanding today of all those concepts. This was the first tie people thought about the world differently. -
Jamestown
Jamestown is located in Virginia and was the first English settlement in the Americas. Jamestown was the capital for the colony of Virginia from 1616 to 1699 which is 83 years. According to William Kelso, Jamestown is where the British empire began. -
Pilgrims Land
After a 66 day journey, the Mayflower arrived in New England on November 11, 1620. The pilgrims were originally aiming for the Hudson River in New York but due to weather they ended up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. -
English seize New Amsterdam
The English seized New Amsterdam and renamed it New York on September 8, 1664. -
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French/Indian War
The French/Indian War started in 1756 and ended in 1763 with the treaty of Paris, this was also known as the 7-year war. The war was the North America war in a much larger war between Great Britain and France. -
Sugar Act (leading up to revolutionary war)
The sugar act was passed by parliament on April 5, 1764. This had arrived to the colonies at the time of an economic depression. The sugar act put a tax without representation on sugar and a few other products. -
Currency Act (Leading up to revolutionary war)
The currency act and the sugar act were both part of the parliament of Great Britain and were passed at about the same time. The currency act regulated paper money that was supplied by the colonies of British America, as you can imagine this and the sugar act greatly angered the people. -
Stamp Act (Leading up to the revolutionary war)
The stamp act was another act passed by parliament of Great Britain the following year on March 22, 1765. The stamp act made all American colonists to pay tax on every printed paper used. -
Quartering Act (Leading up to revolutionary war)
The quartering act was passed just a couple months after the stamp act by the parliament of Great Britain on May 3, 1765. The quartering act said that the people must provide British soldiers with food and or a place to stay if they asked to. So basically if British soldiers came and knocked on your door and they said they needed your place to sleep you could not refuse, this was really starting to cause some problems . -
Townshend Acts (Leading up to revolutionary war)
The townshend act happened a couple years after the quartering act in June 15, 1767 through July 2, 1767. The townshend act was a series of four acts that tried to force authority over the colonies by prolonging a recalcitrant representative assembly. The act was named after Charles Townshend because he was the main sponsor. -
Boston Massacre (Leading up to the revolutionary war)
Finally on March 5, 1770 the colonist had had enough and retaliated against the British soldiers, this was called the Boston massacre. The Boston massacre was a street fight that resulted in several colonist killed. -
Tea Act (Leading up to revolutionary war)
The tea act passed a few years after the Boston massacre on May 10, 1773. The tea act was another taxation without representation on tea because the east Indian company was bought out by the British, so this means that the colonist can only bu tea from the British which lead to the tax without representation. By this time the colonist had had enough. -
Boston Tea Party (Leading up to revolutionary war)
The colonist had had enough so on December 16, 1773, the colonist decided to dress up as Mohawk Indians and at midnight went onto the three British tea ships located on the Boston Harbor and dumped out around 342 chests of tea into the water. This was a protest against the tea act. -
Intolerable Acts (Leading up to revolutionary war)
About a year after the Boston tea party the parliament of Great Britain past an act called the intolerable act of 1774 which was made to punish the colonists for there past protests like the Boston tea party and the Boston massacre. This led to the Revolutionary war. -
Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was the first time there were any encounters of the American Revolutionary war. The battles took place at Middlesex county, and Province of Massachusetts Bay within the towns of Lexington and Concord. -
The Shot that started the Revolutionary War (Leading up to the revolutionary war)
The first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 which started the Revolutionary war. -
Declaration of Independence Radified
The Declaration of Independence was created June-July 1776 and was ratified on July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence states that the government has no overarching purpose and that they want to protect humans rights of life, liberty and property. -
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Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention happened on May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvanian. This convention was to determine how America was gonna be governed. -
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Jefferson Presidency
Thomas Jefferson's term lasted from March 4, 1801 to March 4, 1809. Jefferson was also the author of the Declaration of Independence and was the first to be inaugurated in Washington D.C.. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana purchase was the act of buying the territory of Louisiana from France in 1803. We paid France a total of 15 million USD to buy the land and pay are debts. The Louisiana Purchase did not only contain Louisiana it also consisted parts of Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri compromise is connected to the legislation passed by the 16th USA congress. This prohibited slaver in unorganized states and also made Maine a free state while Missouri was made a slave state to provide balance. -
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Jackson Presidency
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the U.S.A. and his presidential term went from March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837. Jackson became a national war hero after wining the battle of New Orleans during the war of 1812. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was confirmed and signed by Andrew Jackson (which was the president at the time) on May 28, 1830. This allowed the president to negotiate with southern tribes about the removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River for their land. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny was a belief that many settlers believed in 1845. It was the belief that the settlers were destined to expand across the north. This was what began the rapid growth of the United States. -
Dred Scott v Sandford
The Dred Scott case was a decision made on March 6, 1857 by the US supreme court on US labor law and constitutional law which said that even if you were born in america you could not be an american citizen if your ancestors were imported into the US as slaves. -
The Anaconda Plan
The anaconda plan was a three step plan to defeat the confederates early in the civil war. Step one was to form a blockade against the south, step two was to take over the capital by going around on ships, and step three was to take over the Mississippi river. -
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Lincoln Presidency
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States and his presidential term went from 1861 to the day he got assassinated which was April 15, 1865. Created the emancipation proclamation which said that all slaves held in geographical areas in rebellion against the US are free. -
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Attack on Fort Sumter
The Attack on Fort Sumter was the first battle that sparked the civil war and was the unions first defeat. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was stated by Abraham Lincoln that all slaves held in geographical areas in rebellion against the US are free. This was issued on January 1, 1863. -
Surrender at Appomattox
The battle of Appomattox was faught in the morning on April 9, 1865. This was the battle that ended the civil war and confirmed the victory of the Union. -
Lincoln Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United states and was assassinated on April 14 1865 by a stage actor named John Wilkes. -
Thirteenth Amendment Ratified
The thirteenth amendment was passed by congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865. The thirteenth amendment stated that slavery was no longer allowed in the United States. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882 the Chinese exclusion act was signed by the president and was passed by congress. This act said that Chinese were no longer able to immigrate the the United States for 10 years, this was one of the first major restrictive laws passed. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was one of the first laws to make it illegal to have monopolistic businesses. This act also would prohibit trusts. This act was passed on July 2, 1890. -
Plessy v Ferguson
On May 18, 1896 the Plessy v Ferguson case was ruled a seven to one majority by the supreme court. This created segregation laws which they thought made them equal but separate. -
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Spanish American War
Spanish American War was between the Spanish and America which started in April, 1898 because the Spanish fired at and sunk the USS Maine, the war ended later in August, 1898. -
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T. Roosevelt Presidency
Teddy Roosevelt's presidency started on September 14, 1901 and ended March 4, 1909. Roosevelt was awarded the metal of honor for his actions in Cuba, he was also the youngest president in US history. -
NAACP
The NAACP stands for the national association for the advancement of colored people and was founded on February 12, 1909 by W. E. B. Du Bois. The goal of the NAACP was to get rid of race based discrimination. -
Taft Inauguration
William Howard Taft was inaugurated as the 27th president of the United states on March 4, 1909. After Taft was appointed cheif justice of supreme court. -
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Wilson Presidency
Woodrow Wilson's presidency went from March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1921. Wilson past the Sherman Anti trust act of 1890 and established the federal trade commission. -
WWI Begins
WWl began because on June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which was the heir to the Austro Hungarian empire was murdered along with his wife by Serbian Nationalists. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal was built in 1903 to 1904. Theodore Roosevelt saw an opportunity and thought that it would be a good trade route and get goods shipped to and fro faster by a long shot. -
WWl Ends
World war one ended when Germany surrendered and signed an armistice that had been written by France and Britain on November 11th, 1918. This was considered the war to end all wars. -
Eighteenth Amendment
The eighteenth amendment established the prohibition of alcoholic drinks on January 16, 1919. This means that we are not allowed to transport, import, produce or sell alcohol. But this didn't stop people because they forgot to mention its illegal to consume, so before it became illegal to sell everyone bought as much as they could, some bought enough to fill up a ware house. -
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the most important treaties that has happened in US history because it ended world war 1. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the cultural explosion of African Americans in Harlem in the 1920s to mid 1930s. One of the main musical component to this time period was jazz. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The nineteenth amendment said that everyone has the right to vote and that they cant deny someone of a female sex which gave the women the right to vote on. on August 18, 1920. -
Gitlow v New York
The Gitlow v New York case on June 8, 1925 was one of a series of supreme court cases that defined how the first amendments protection of free speech would be affected. -
Stock Market Crash
The stock market crash was on October 29, 1929. It was one of the most devastating stock market crash in all of American history, which led to the great depression which lasted 10 years.
