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Jun 23, 1492
Columbus first reaches north america
On the eve of their interaction, native american, West African, and european people lived in complex societies. The early people were the ancestors of the many native american groups that inhabited noth american on the of eve of its encounter with the european world. -
Jun 23, 1521
The spanish dstroy the aztec empire
With the voyage of christpher columbus, the spanish bult a vast colonial emipre in the americas. Columbus voyages, spanish explorers took to the seas to claim new coloinws for spain. The explorer were lured by the prospect of vast land filled with golf andd sliver. -
Jamestown is foundd
In the begining in the earley 1600s, english established colonies along the eastern shore of north america. But in april of 1607, nearly four months after virginua company three ships had left england, -
Pilgrims settle in plymouth
Both northern and southern colonies prospered, many colonist began to question british authority. -
William penn founds pennsylvania
The King granted Penn the charter to Pennsylvania in hopes that it would rid him of the Quakers in England. Penn hoped to establish a society based on the principles of religious toleration and Quaker beliefs, including pacifism, egalitarianism, and a focus on families. Pennsylvania's system of governance included individual participation and guaranteed religious liberties, trial by jury, and habeas corpus.
Unlike the other colonies, Pennsylvanians emphasized good relations with Native American. -
French and indian war begins
Britain’s victory in the French andindian War forced France to give up its North American colonies. After French forces withdrew, the British took over their forts.
They refused to give supplies to the Native Americans, as the
French had. British settlers also moved across the mountains
onto Native American land. In the spring and summer of
1763, Native American groups responded by attacking settlers
and destroying almost every British fort west of the
Appalachians. -
British parilament the stamp act
An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same; and for amending such parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations, as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned. -
colonist stage the boston tea party
The patriots refused to pay for the tea they destroyed. So, in retaliation, the King of England passed a series of 'coercive' acts that were intended to bring the colonists back into line. From this point on, there were more and more revolts, and retaliation throughout the colony. These grew in size and scope, until 1776 when the United States of America declared independence from Britain. -
colonist stage the boston tea party
The patriots refused to pay for the tea they destroyed. So, in retaliation, the King of England passed a series of 'coercive' acts that were intended to bring the colonists back into line. From this point on, there were more and more revolts, and retaliation throughout the colony. These grew in size and scope, until 1776 when the United States of America declared independence from Britain. -
parliament passes the intolerable acts. first continrntal congress convenes
In December 1773, a group of colonists destroyed tons of tea in Boston, Massachusetts, that had been taxed without their consent, an act that came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. News of the event reached England in January 1774. Parliament responded with a series of acts that were intended to punish Boston for this destruction of private property, restore British authority in Massachusetts, and otherwise reform colonial government in America -
second continnental congress convenes
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Colonies declare independence
The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776. -
british surrender at yorktown
In the summer of 1781, after six years of war, the American Army was struggling. The British occupied New York City. A second British army lead by General Lord Cornwallis ravaged the South - capturing Charleston, Richmond, and apparently was heading for the Chesapeake Bay. Mutiny plagued the American army in New York and New Jersey. -
Daniel shays leads a rebellion against higher taxes
While Governor Bowdoin had acted decisively in crushing the rebellion, the voters turned against him in the next election. This high level of discontent, popular resistance, and the election of pro-debtor governments in many states threatened the political notions of many political and social elites. Shays' Rebellion demonstrated the high degree of internal conflict lurking beneath the surface of post-Revolutionary life. National leaders felt compelled to act to put an end to such popular action -
constitution is ratified
Before the Constitution would be adopted by the American people, nine out of the thirteen states (at the time) had to ratify the document. Ratification of the Constitution took place on June 21, 1788 when the ninth state (New Hampshire) agreed to ratify the Constitution. Eventually, all thirteen states would ratify the Constitution. The closest votes were in Rhode Island (34 yes to 32 no) and New York (30 yes to 27 no). Once the ninth state ratified the Constitution, the Congress set a timetable -
Geoge washionton is elected president
As the former leader of the Continental Army and chairman of the Continental Congress, Washington possessed the necessary credentials for the presidency, if not the enthusiasm. After months of appearing to sidestep, and even outright rejecting the idea of assuming the presidency, Washington reluctantly accepted Congress' decision. Runner-up John Adams became Washington's vice president. -
U.S. purchases the louisiana territory from france
By a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803, the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km (800,000 sq mi) of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The price was 60 million francs, about $15 million; $11,250,000 was to be paid directly, with the balance to be covered by the assumption by the United States of French debts to American citizens.
In 1762, France had ceded Louisiana to Spain, but by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso. -
Treaty of ghent is signed ending of war 1812
Treaty of Ghent addressed none of the original grievances that started the War of 1812, most Americans considered it a success. This just goes to show how little the War Hawks really cared about these issues: they had just wanted an excuse to go to war. Having started the war in hopes of conquering Canada, the US now barely got out without serious damage. Although celebrated as a victory in the young US, the war really had been a draw, and one in which Britain had fought with one. -
Congress passes the missouri compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line. In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. -
William LIoyd Garrison The Liberator
engagements and through the Liberator and other publications, Garrison advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves. This was an unpopular view during the 1830s, even with northerners who were against slavery. What would become of all the freed slaves? Certainly they could not assimilate into American society, they thought. Garrison believed that they could assimilate. He believed that, in time, all blacks would be equal in every way to the country's white citizens. -
Texas establishes itself as a republic, with sam houston as first president
Immediately planning another town nearby, the Allens decided on a site at the head of tide on Buffalo Bayou. They knew that pioneer Texans needed outside supplies and that the easiest way to get them was by water. Though other waterways in the region were rather shallow and often congested with debris, Buffalo Bayou was wide and clear. It had substantial banks and was deeper than the others. Yet, the Buffalo Bayou was on a desolate stretch of prairie. -
Native americans are relocated in the trail of tears.
The "Trail of Tears" was not just one road. There were the Northern Route, the Water Route, Bell's Route, Benge's Route, etc. Not just the Cherokee but also the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole tribes made their own trails that stretched from several hundred to about 1,400 miles. As the termini of the Trail were different, so was Tahlequah just one of the final destinations. -
Samuael morse sends first first telegraphs message
The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail. In 1830, Morse filed for a patent for his invention. In 1843, he received government funding to build a telegraph from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington D.C. On May 24, 1844 the telegraph was completed and this message, was sent to Abraham Lincoln "What hath God wrought?". California Telegraph Company put up lines from San Francisco to San Jose, Stockton, Sacramento, and Marysville in 1853. -
the war with mrxico brgin
The Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels, who fight each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces who seek to combat drug trafficking. Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for a few decades, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the United States. -
uncle tom cabin published
No less an authority than Leo Tolstoy included “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” on his short list of “examples of the highest art flowing from love of God and man.” Fifty years later, James Baldwin called the same book a “very bad novel” full of “excessive and spurious emotion.” What goes on here? The question belongs in the present tense because it is by no means settled. -
james buchanan is elected president
James Buchanan was nominated as the Democratic nominee for president. He upheld the right of individuals to hold slaves as constitutional. He ran against Republican candidate John C. Fremont and Known-Nothing Candidate, former President Millard Fillmore. Buchanan won after a hotly contested campaign and the threat of Civil War if the Republicans won. -
supreme court rules against Dred scott
In 1834, Dred Scott, a slave, had been taken to Illinois, a free state, and then Wisconsin territory, where the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. Scott lived in Wisconsin with his master, Dr. John Emerson, for several years before returning to Missouri, a slave state. In 1846, after Emerson died, Scott sued his master's widow for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived as a resident of a free state and territory -
women right conventionheld at senecca falls, New york
The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19–20, 1848. It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Boston-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her speaking ability, a skill rarely cultivated by American women at the time. The local women, primarily members of a radical Quaker group, organized the meeting along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, -
South carolina secedes
The doctrine of state's rights, the legality of secession, and the institution of black slavery had been issues of debate in the United States for decades before the election of Abraham Lincoln brought on the secession of the Southern states. Time after time the South had forced political compromises by threatening to dissolve the union, but by 1860 many Northern politicians had come to view the threat as a bluff and were sick of compromising when it came to slavery. -
Confedederacy iss formed cvivil war begin
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860. South Carolina asked the other slave states to join together in forming a new nation. By February 1861 six other states from the lower south followed South Carolina. They were Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. -
Battle of gettyburg and vicksburg
The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War,[7] it is often described as the war's turning point.[8] Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North. -
civil war end
This is a timeline of the conclusion of the American Civil War which includes important battles, skirmishes, raids and other events of 1865. These led to additional Confederate surrenders, key Confederate captures, and disbandments of Confederate military units that occurred after Gen. Robert E. The fighting of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War between Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac and Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was reporte -
ulysses s.grant is elected president
His given name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. Before leaving for West Point, he decided to reverse the names, but his appointment was in the name of Ulysses S. Grant. The Army never changed it's mind about U.S. Grant, so he finally began to use the patriotic name himself. Ulysses S. Grant set a high jump record at West Point that lasted for more than 25 years. Grant ran against the first woman to be nominated for President. Victoria Claflin Woodhall was nominated by the Equal Rights Party. Ulysse -
central pacific and union pacific the transcontinental
The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska[1][2] (via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, -
Red cloud, chief of the oglala sioux, state his people case in washionton, D.C.
Red Cloud had no hereditary title of his own but emerged as a natural leader and spokesman of his people through the force of his own character and through bravery in battle. Determined to protect the Native Americans’ prime hunting grounds, Red Cloud in 1865 led the opposition of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho when the U.S. government began to build and fortify a road from Fort Laramie, in present Wyoming, by way of the Powder River to Montana. -
hayes tilden presidential election result in deadlock
was intensely fought and had a highly controversial outcome. The candidate who clearly won the popular vote, and who may have won the electoral college tally, was denied victory. -
alexander graham bell invents the telephhone
The telegraph and telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph -
rutherfore b. hayes us elected president
was, and is still one of the most disputed and controversial presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes's 165, with 20 votes uncounted. These twenty electoral votes were in dispute in three states: Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina; each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was declared illegal. -
ruther b. hayes is inaugurated
The outcome of the election of 1876 was not known until the week before the inauguration itself. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the greater number of popular votes and lacked only one electoral vote to claim a majority in the electoral college. Twenty disputed electoral votes, however, kept hopes alive for Republican Governor Hayes of Ohio. A fifteen-member Electoral Commission was appointed by the Congress to deliberate the outcome of the election. -
mother jonas supports the grets stike of 1877
The most famous female labor leader of the nineteenth century, Mary Harris emigrated from Ireland with her family at age five—a decade prior to the potato famine and its waves of Irish immigrants. She first worked as a teacher in a Catholic school in Michigan and then as a seamstress in Chicago. She moved to Memphis for another teaching job, and in 186. -
thomas A. edison invents invents a workable light bulb
It was Thomas Edison in 1879, wasn't it? That's what many people think and were taught in school. Like most stories, however, there is a lot more behind the creation of this important and ubiquitous object than just Mr. Edison -
james garfield is elected is president
President Garfield was shot in a Washington railroad station, located on the Mall, by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker. Garfield died from his gunshot wound 11 weeks later on September 19, 1881 -
garfeild is assassinated. chester becomes president
"An accurate rendering" of the moment when Charles Guiteau shot President James Garfield as Garfield and Secretary of State James G. Blaine entered the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station. This appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 16, 1881. -
chester a. arthur succeeds garfelid assassination
James A. Garfield was shot in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881 by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 a.m., less than four months after taking office as the twentieth President of the United States. Garfield died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881, the second of four Presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln and preceding William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. His Vice President, Chester Arthur, succeeded Garfield as President. -
grover clevand is elected president
I do not think you can find anywhere a man whose career was more remarkable than that of Grover Cleveland. Honesty in office made him President of the United States, and that is a splendid thing to say of any man. In 1880 he was just a plain, ordinary lawyer in Buffalo, New York, made very few people knew him outside of that city. In 1884 he was being talked about from Maine to California and was elected President by a large majority. That was certainly a wonderful lift upward in four years for -
GRover cleveland is elected president
The Clevelands made their first home in America as far back as 1635, when a family of that name crossed the seas to Massachusetts, soon after the first settlers came. They belonged to the sturdy stock of the early New England people. Down they came from father to son till we meet with Richard F. Cleveland, who was the preacher in a small Presbyterian church in the town of Caldwell, New Jersey. Here, on the 18th of March, 1837, -
haymarket riot turn public seniment against unions
In the Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886, the police clashed violently with militant anarchists and labor movement protesters in Chicago. Seven policemen and several protesters were killed, leading to murder convictions for seven radicals, four of whom were executed. The strong public and state reaction against the Haymarket protesters has been called the first Red Scare in U.S. history, -
oklahoma open for settlement, the land rush begins
The opening of the Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory was of great interest to people across the United States in the late 1800s. The Indian's desire to keep the Territory for their exclusive use and occupation was complicated by the rapid growth of white population on its northern, eastern, and southern borders; and when the first railroad crossed it (1870-1872), -
sioux are massacred at wounded knee
The once proud Sioux found their free-roaming life destroyed, the buffalo gone, themselves confined to reservations dependent on Indian Agents for their existence. In a desperate attempt to return to the days of their glory, many sought salvation in a new mysticism preached by a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. -
congrss the passes the sherman antitrudt act
1890, first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts; it was named for Senator John Sherman. Prior to its enactment, various states had passed similar laws, but they were limited to intrastate businesses. Finally opposition to the concentration of economic power in large corporations and in combinations of business concerns led Congress to pass the Sherman Act. The act, based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce, declared illegal every contract -
grover cleveland is elected to second term
Grover Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House to Frances Folsom in 1886--and the first to have a child born in the White House, in 1893. -
Diminished u.s. gold reserve trigger the panic of 1893
In the spring of 1893, a precipitous drop in United States gold reserves triggered a national depression. Because Seattle was still rebuilding from the disastrous fire of 1889 and depended heavily on Eastern capital, the ensuing Panic of '93 hit the city hard with corporate bankruptcies, mass layoffs, bank failures, and white-collar crime. It ended Peter Kirk's dream of building the "Pittsburgh of the West" in Kirkland, ruined Seattle pioneer and developer David Denny (1832-1903). -
president cleveland send federal troops
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.[1] The American Railway Union, the nation's first industry-wide union, led by Eugene V. Debs, subsequently became embroiled in what The -
william mckinley is elected president
William McKinley, the twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born in Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 29th of January 1843. His ancestors on the paternal side were Scotch-Irish who lived at Dervock, Co. Antrim, and spelled the family name "McKinlay." His great-great-grandfather settled in York county, Pennsylvania, about 1743, and from Chester county, Pennsylvania, his great-grandfather, David McKinley, -
william mckinley is elected president
.President William McKinley was elected on November 3, 1896 over Democrat William Jennings Bryan. He would go on to win a second term and then be assassinated while in office. During his time in office, the US fought in the Spanish-American War. He also was a strong believer in manifest destiny. He said, ""We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny -
william mckinley is elected president
William McKinley, the twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born in Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 29th of January 1843. His ancestors on the paternal side were Scotch-Irish who lived at Dervock, Co. Antrim, and spelled the family name "McKinlay." His great-great-grandfather settled in York county, Pennsylvania, about 1743, and from Chester county, Pennsylvania, his great-grandfather, David McKinley, who served as a private during the War of Independence, moved to Ohio in 1814. -
wright brother acieve the first successeful
The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of three-axis control, which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium.[4] This method became standard and remains standard on fixed-wing aircraft of all kinds.[5][6] From the beginning of their aeronautical work, the Wright brothers focused on developing a reliable method of pilot control as the key to solving "the flying problem. -
appearance of halley comet cause widespread panic
is the best-known of the short-period comets, and is visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years.[1][10] Halley is the only short-period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye from Earth, and thus the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime.[11] Other naked-eye comets may be brighter and more spectacular, but will appear only once in thousands of years. -
woodrow wilson is elected president
was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican nominee William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. Like his arch-rival Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Wilson held a Ph. -
mckinley is reelected
McKinley presided over a return to prosperity after the Panic of 1893, and made gold the base of the currency. He demanded that Spain end its atrocities in Cuba, which were outraging public opinion; Spain resisted the interference and the Spanish-American War became inevitable in 1898.