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THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE
The fall of the Roman empire and the beginning of the European Renaissance in the late 14th century roughly bookend the period known as the Middle Ages. Without a dominant centralized power or overarching cultural hub, Europe experienced political, social, and military discord during this time. -
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BLACK LEGEND
The Black Legend is an alleged style of tendentious, subjective historical writing or propaganda demonizing Spain, its people and its culture in an intentional attempt to damage its reputation. they were a problem because people did not have the perspective from Native Americans. -
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KILLED BY DISEASES
many slaves, Native American, Spanish, European died from diseases many died from smallpox and influenza and many other diseases -
1511
INFLUENCE OF GOLD
Even at this early date, the Spanish monarchy was embarking on an ambitious and expensive foreign policy, sustainable only with the expectation that it would be financed by gold from the New World. King Ferdinand quickly became desperate for more: "Get gold, humanely if you can; but at all hazards, get gold!" he wrote to the New World colonists on July 25, 1511. This was to be the theme of the Spanish monarchy for centuries. -
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ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM
The encomienda system was created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas. -
May 12, 1572
ELECTION OF 1572
The Papal conclave, May 12–13, 1572 – papal conclave convoked after the death of Pius V, elected Cardinal Ugo Boncompagni, who under the name of Gregory XIII became the 226th pope of the Catholic Church -
IROQUOIS LEAGUE
Deganwidah and Hiawatha joined together and went from tribe to tribe. They convinced each tribe about the importance of peace and unity. They convinced the five tribes to form the Indian confederation called the Iroquois League.The Iroquois originally lived near Lake Ontario and along the Mohawk River in New York State. Around 1600, five tribes -- the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas -- banded together to form a confederacy -
PEQUOT WAR
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies -
TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there -
KING PHILIP'S WAR
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England and English colonists and their Indian allies in 1675–78 -
KING PHILIP'S WAR
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England and English colonists and their Indian allies in 1675–78. -
BACON'S REBELLION
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
PUEBLO REVOLT
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 also known as Popé's Rebellion was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico -
SALEM WITCH TRIALS
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693 -
BEAVER WAR
The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, encompass a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in eastern North America. -
SCOTS IRISH IMMIGRATION
English-speaking Presbyterians and Protestants from Ulster (Northern Ireland) of ancestry who moved to Ulster to help subdue Irish Catholic resistance in Northern Ireland after the "Nine Years War" (1594-1603), then were later dispossessed by English lords between 1717-1775; many who lost their land moved to the American colonies, settling along the Appalachian frontier from western Pennsylvania to Georgia -
CHICKASAW WAR
The Chickasaw Wars were fought in the 18th century between the Chickasaw allied with the British against the French and their allies the Choctaws and Illinois Confederation. -
GREAT AWAKENING
The Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism. -
STONO REBELLION
The Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed. -
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
SIEGE AT YORKTOWN
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington -
SHAYS'S REBELLION
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices -
SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
WHISKEY REBELLION
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
ELECTION OF 1796
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the first contested American presidential election and the only one to elect a President and Vice President from opposing tickets.Although Adams won, Thomas Jefferson received more electoral votes than Pinckney and was elected Vice-President -
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs. -
WAR OF 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies. -
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
The Missouri Compromise is the title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th United States Congress on May 8, 1820. -
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
TRAILS OF TEARS
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
SENECA FALLS CONVENTION
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". -
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
Temperance movements typically criticize alcohol intoxication, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or use its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition. -
ELECTION OF 1860
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and won by the Republican Party, with President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. -
BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War. -
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated -
BATTLE OF BULL RUN
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. -
SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN
The Second Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862 in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War. -
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. -
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
BUILDING OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
transcontinental railroad definition. A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah. -
ORGANIZED LABOR MOVEMENT
The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions began in 1881 under the leadership of Samuel Gompers. Like the National Labor Union, it was a federation of different unions and did not directly enroll workers.Strikes organized by labor unions became routine events by the 1880s.
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ANTI CHINESE MOVEMENT
From their arrival during the Gold Rush, the Chinese experienced discrimination and often overt racism, and finally exclusion. Action often in the form of legislation was used against Chinese immigrants and started as early as the 1850 Foreign Miners' License Tax law. -
CONSERVATION MOVEMENT
Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with environmental problems like waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability. This highly effective Progressive Era movement was distinct from earlier conservation efforts and later environmentalist reforms. -
PULLMAN STRIKE
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. -
PLESSY V. FERGUSON
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
ELECTION OF 1896
The United States presidential election of November 3, 1896, saw Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history. -
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. -
WORLD WAR 1
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
THE GREAT MIGRATION
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
PALMER RAIDS
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, and deport them from the United States. -
GREAT DEPRESSION
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States -
WORLD WAR 2
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
THE MARSHALL PLAN
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
VIETNAM WAR
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
THE LITTLE ROCK NINE
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
GREENSBORO SIT-IN
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis ,the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
MLK's LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL
The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. -
THE GREAT SOCIETY
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
MARCH ON SELMA
SNCC and SCLC organize the nonviolent march on Selma to protest voting discrimination. The march eventually turned violent because state troopers interfered to quell protest . The television broadcast of the violence helps to spread the message of the movement. -
MY LAI MASSACRE
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. -
KENT STATE MASSACRE
The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. -
THE WATERGATE SCANDAL
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. -
THE IRAN CONTRA SCANDAL
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
The Fall of the Wall On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” -
GULF WAR
The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert shields for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
COLD WAR COMES TO AN END
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end. -
FEAR OF TERRORISM
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. This attack kills 168 people. -
09/11
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. -
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Barack Obama was elected President on November 4th 2008. Affordable Healthcare Act on March 23rd 2010. To make sure the not so wealthy families had insurance this Act was signed .
