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Oct 11, 1492
Christopher Colombus
When Columbus went ashore, where he encountered a group of people who would become known as the Taino, from their word for "noble ones." He planted Spanish banners and
renamed their island San Salvador, claiming it for Spain. They had glimpsed the profitability of the plantation system, realized the economis benefits of using native or local people for forced labor, and learned to use European weapons to dominate native peoples. -
John Winthrop ( Man Of Principle, Man Of God)
Puritan leader, John Winthrop, expressed the sense of mission that bond puritans together, in a sermon delivered aboard the flagship. He beleived that the English church needed reforming. he Also helped shape how Americans see themselves. Winthrop was willing to leave England because economic troubles had cut his income and political problems cost him his position as attourney. -
Colonial Resistance And Rebellion
Conflicts between Great Britian and the American colonists esculated, until the colonists finally declared their independence. -
War Of Independence
American victories reversed British advances during the American Revolutionary War. People fought on the British side because they were offered freedom from slavery. Most native Americans supported the British. -
Launching The New Nation
With George Washington as its first president, the United States creating a working government for its new nation. -
The Market Revolution
Invetions and economic developments in the early 19th century helped transform American society. Prople increasingly bought goods rather than make what they needed. New inventions helped fuel economic growth. New invetions also helped the farmers of the Midwest, too. The steel plow helped them prepeare the soil for the seeds. -
The Second Great Awakening
This movement emphazied emotional individual conversion. Transcendentalists and Unitarians stressed reason and the dignity of the individual. -
Reforming American Society
Throughtout the mid-19th century, man and women who saw problems with the American Society embarked on a widespread effort to solve them. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debate
During the Illinious senational campaign in 1858, Abraham Licoln and his oppnent, Senate Stephen A. Douglas, took part in a series of joint debate. -
Civil War
The Civil War began in April 1861, wehn confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, a Union in Charlseton, South CArolina, Lincoln issued a call for troops to fight to restore the union. Shortly after the nation's Southern states seceded from the Union, was began between the North and South. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Presidnet Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. -
Reconstruction
After the Civil War, the nation embarked on a period known as Reconstruction, during which attempts were made to readmit the South to the Union. This was aperiod of rebuilding the nation and readmitting Southern states to the Union. Many republicans worked together to shift control of Reconstruction from the executive branch to legislature. -
Expansion Of Industry
At the end of the 19th century, natural resources, creative ideas, and growing markets fueled an industrial boom. -
The Dawes Act Of 1887
This act tried to force the assimilation of Native Americans into white cultures. Reservations were broken up and some of the land was given to each adult family heard for farming. The policy failed cause the Native Americans were cheated of the best land. -
Railroads
The growth and consolidation of railroads benefied the nation but also led to corruption and required government regulation. Building and running railroads were difficult and dangerous work for thousands of workers The railroads helped link the nation. The railroads also simulate growth of the iron, steel, coal, lumber, and glass industries. -
Big Business And Labor
The expansion of industry resulted in the growth of big business and prompted laborers to form unions to better their lives. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act banned entry to all chinese expert students,teachers, merchants, tourist, government officails: 1902 Chinese imigration restricted indetinatly: Gentlemans agreements - Japanese. -
Complex Society
On the eve of their interation, Native American, West African, and Europeans people lived in complex societies. To the east and west of the Mississippi River, another series of complex societies developed - the Adena, the Hopewell, and the Mississipian. Those societies excelled at trade and at building massive earthen mounds as tombs and as platforms for temples and other buildings. -
Debt Peonage
Some Mexicans And African Americans were forced into debt peonage in the southwest. The debt peonage is a system that bound laborers into slaves in order to work off a debt to the employer. -
Propaganda
Proslavery advocates used the Bible to defen slavery and promoted the idea that enslaved Africans had an improved standard of living.
