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Period: 1492 to
US History: VHS Summer: Mike Maynard
The interactive timeline is going to help me manage my time and projects and assignments of my VHS World History Class during the summer of 2017. -
1607 Landing at Jamestown
A group of about 100 members of the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. http://www.historyisfun.org/jamestown-settlement/history-jamestown/ -
Nationalism
Nationalism involves patriotic feelings or pride in one's own country. The first sign of Nationalism was seen when settlers from all thirteen colonies lay down their lives together in battle during the Treaty of Paris. http://www.historyrocket.com/American-History/Nationalism-During-Colonial-America.html -
The Battle of Saratoga
he Battle was a turning point in the Revolutionary War and caused France to enter the war against Britain, helping Washington’s Continental Army and providing much needed supplies and support. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battle-of-saratoga -
Shays' Rebellion
Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in an uprising against what they saw as civil rights injustices. They were trying to overthrow the government. http://www.history.com/topics/shays-rebellion -
Signing U.S. Constitution
at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, representing 12 states (all but Rhode Island, which declined to send delegates), endorsed the Constitution created during the four-month-long convention. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/christy/ -
American Identity
The American Identity is how American's view themselves. America is considered a melting pot, a variety of backgrounds, races, colors. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/opinion/american-identity.html?mcubz=0 -
War of 1812
This was a war of Americans fighting to get their rights against the British Empire trying to get their independence from the British Empire once and for all. http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-war-of-1812.aspx -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to stop Missouri's for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise -
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Nat Turner and seven of his followers launched a violent rebellion in Virginia over two days killing more than 50 slaves. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4574 -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was the first major conflict driven by the idea of "Manifest Destiny"; the thought that America had right to expand the country's borders. http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war -
California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush which drove thousands of people to California in search of gold. http://www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849 -
Sectionalism
Sectionalism is identification with a geographic section of the United States and the cultural, social, economic, and political interests of that section. This was the North and the South in the mid 1800's. https://www.britannica.com/topic/sectionalism -
Democracy
The United States was not a Democracy in the first half of the 1800s. A Democracy is when all the people of the United States can vote on everything, and it is not limited to the white men. A lot changed in the second half of the 1800's and early 1900's to make the Country more democratic. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The initial purpose of the Act was to open up new farms and make new Railroad possible. The popular sovereignty clause of the law led pro- and anti-slavery elements to enter into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down. http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act -
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
Abolitionist John Brown, five of his sons, and three other associates murdered five proslavery men at three different cabins along the banks of Pottawatomie Creek. http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/pottawatomie-massacre -
Dred Scott Decision
This supreme court decision gave the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision -
American Civil War
The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery and states' rights, war broke out in April 1861. https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/brief-overview-american-civil-war -
Freedom
Freedom is how everyone should feel as Americans. After slavery was over, this was the land of opportunity, where everyone could live freely. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section2/section2_intro.html -
Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination -
Compromise of 1877
Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, marking the end of the Reconstruction era. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/compromise-of-1877
