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Period: 1491 to
Period 1-2 1491-1763
Native Americans, European sailors and explorers, early colonies -
1492
Discovery of America
Christopher Columbus found land east across the ocean. -
1502
Columbus 4th Voyage
Christopher Columbus left Spain on his fourth voyage to the New World, landing back on the islands of Martinique and Jamaica in -
1511
Church colonization movement
Catholic Church under Pope Julius II begins to participate in the colonization of the New World -
James Town
Jamestown was the first successful English colony in the future US, settled in Virginia -
Pilgrims
Seeking religious freedom from the church many thinkers flee to the new found Americas. -
First Thanksgiving
the newly arrived Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians gathered at Plymouth for an autumn harvest celebration -
Mayflower Compact
The boat arriving to the Americas set up rules and guidelines to follow known as the mayflower compact -
Plymouth
Plymouth was the first settlement created in Massachusetts by Separatists who south to create a religiously pure society. -
14th amendment
Expected all states to hold up citizens life -
First great Awaking
A new found respect and knowledge of Christianity found a new birth of thinkers and connected many everywhere. -
French and Indian war
The French and Indian War began in the colonies when French settlers encroached on land claimed by the British. -
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Period 3
The Revolution -
End of salutary neglect
After the french and Indian war England started to put more pressure on the colonies. -
Stamp act
Britain's first push for the colonies to help pay for the french and Indian war. -
Boston Massacre
After lots of push from the colonies an altercation a cured with many unarmed men where shot this led to more support for freedom. -
Tea act
The Tea act was large push for money that was met with lots of criticism from the colonist. -
Intolerable acts
an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures known as the Intolerable acts -
Boston tea party
many colonist fought unfair taxes like the tea act. the Boston tea party was a altercation where colonist dumped tea into the harbor. -
This First Continental Congress
a group of colonist wanted changes and list their grievances to parliament -
Second Continental Congress
voted to form a Continental Army, with Washington as its commander in chief -
Lexington v Concord
hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord, Massachusetts in order to seize an arms cache minute men where there to stop them this was the first shot of the revolutionary war. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
ended in British victory, but lent encouragement to the revolutionary cause. -
Valley Forge
Where Washington rested his troops during the winter. -
Declaration of Independence
5 guys who wrote their mistreatment from the king and why they want to be a new country -
Saratoga
The American victory Saratoga would prove to be a turning point of the American Revolution -
Yorktown
Trapped and overpowered, Cornwallis was forced to surrender his entire army -
1st party system
Federalist like john Adams fought for power against DR like Jefferson -
The 1800 revolution
Jefferson is elected president as a DR and marks the last time a federalist was president -
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Period 4 part 1
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Judiciary act of 1801
Changes the amount of judges it was a bill passed by John Adams in congress to keep the federal court with federalist. -
Louisiana territory
the Louisiana territory was purchased by Jefferson. -
Marbury v Madison
A supreme court case that gave the supreme court judicial review. -
Lewis and Clark
Jefferson hires Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana territory -
Embargo act
forbid ships to trading with other country's it was meant to help build internal growth. -
James Madison
James Madison is elected president -
Congress repeals Embargo act
Congress finally repeals the Embargo after lots of hate from citizens. -
U.S. declares war on Britain
U.S starts naval war with Britain -
The Missouri Compromise
Declared Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state -
Jackson
Andrew Jackson is elected president starting a Jacksonian era -
Tariff of 1828
Tax on British imported goods -
White Mans suffrage
All men are allowed to vote no matter income. -
The veto of the BUS
Jackson had to veto the bus because the power it gave to federal government -
Dorothea Dix
Helped mentally challenged people. -
1833 tariff compromise
the tariff goes down by 10% each year -
the force bill
To force south Carolina to pay there tariff -
William Henry Harrison
The Election was the first to use modern Technics of downing the other while using things to make a candidate appear better -
Joseph Smith killed
A mob broke in to his cell and killed Joseph Smith while he was on trial for purjury -
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Period 5 1844-1877
leading up to Civil war and civil war -
compromise of 1850
This was a sort of solution to slavery hoping to not have a civil war, brought in the fugitive slave law. -
California Gold Rush
A mass movement that started with the discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by James Wilson Marshall. That led to a large amount of people looking for gold resulted in California's -
Uncle Tom´s Cabin
This was instrumental in the movement towards the civil war -
Kansas Nebraska act
proposed that the Nevada Territory be made into a state and, to balance the slave owners, Kansas be made into a slave state -
Whig party
later the republican party was mainly made up by northerners, first time of solid south -
Bleeding Kansas
This was when the conflict of North and south went up because of the Kansas Nebraska act. -
Dred Scott v Stanford
court decision that although they went through a free state he still was a slave -
Abraham Lincoln
He was elected in 1860 and was the first republican president. This angered the solid south seeing their way of life torn away -
South Carolina secedes
The first state to secede marking the start of the confederacy -
Fort Sumter
this was the first Battle of the civil war, in South Carolina -
Commander Grant
brought on and led solders on Grants campaign -
Sand Creek Massacre
western colonists murdered, scalped, and disemboweled 800 Cheyenne Indians -
13th Amendment Ratified
The conclusion of the civil war abolishing slavery -
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period 6 1865-1898
Gilded age -
Ku Klux Klan founded
white supremacists formed the KKK to violate the rights of and incite violence against freed blacks. -
Andrew Johnson's impeachment
the first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives for High crimes -
15th Amendment ratified
forbade any state from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race -
Panic of 1873
from the Industrial Revolution caused the markets to crash and loans to go unpaid. -
Great Sioux War
Conflict between the Sioux and white settlers in the West continued even when the Sioux were herded onto a reservation -
The start of Labor Unions
Lots of fired employees the strike dd not work. -
civil rights movement
black people in the north and south were being victims of racial segregation this marks a long lime period of fighting for their rights. -
Haymarket Square Bombing
During a strike set up by the Knights of labor a bomb went of and killed police officers and civilians. The Knights of labor were blamed for it and many skilled works didn't join after this incident. -
Interstate Commerce Act
many workers wanted the railroads to be regulated because of the large monopoly. -
Peoples Party
The farmers alliance created a party to run of office although the didn't win they got their ideas to happen with the coinage of silver and more regulation on big business. -
Pullman Strike
The workers of Pullman railroad strike and brought hard hits to the railroad company Pullman decided to attach mail to every cart so the government had to step in and escort the carts. -
Spanish War
US declares war onto Spain following the sinking of the naval ship Maine.