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Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, Christopher Columbus sails on his first voyage.
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John Cabot on his first voyage searching for the Northwest Passage. He discovers the coast of North America.
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First Expedition, led by Sir Walter Raleigh arrives at Roanoke Island.
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The first English settlement Roanoke Colony is established.
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Jamestown, Virginia is established and is of the first colony of the 13 Colonies.
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Colonist's plant and harvest tobacco in Virginia. Becomes a major source of income for the colonies.
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Earliest Plymouth Colony document is known as the Mayflower Compact. Becomes the first government in the new colonies.
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Salem Witch trials take place in a village in Massachusetts. Many puritans were killed under speculation of being a witch.
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Delegates from seven colonies met at the Albany Congress. They met to advocate the union of all seven colonies against the french.
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French and Indian War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
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States that no colonists may settle west of the Appalachian Mountains for safety reasons.
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Tries to stop sugar smuggling so Parliament reduced the tax rate so colonist would only buy from England.
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Required certain goods to have a stamp on them showing you paid your tax on that good.
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Parliament tries to compromise and repeals the Townsend act but keeps tea act.
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British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob of protesters in Boston.
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A group from the Sons of Liberty board a ship disguised as Native Americans and dump thousands of dollars worth of tea into the Harbor.
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It closed Boston Harbor and banned local town meetings.
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First Continental Congress forms in response to Intolerable Acts in Philadelphia.
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British troops are met by militiamen at Lexington and Concord and forced to turn around. The shot heard 'round the world begins violence of Revolution.
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The second congress meet to form plans and organize a army for war against the British.
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Declaration of Independence in signed. The colonies will fight for independence.
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Articles of Confederation are passed as a plan of government for the new nation.
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Treaty of Paris officially ends war and finalizes American victory.
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Bill of Rights is passed. The 10 amendments protect individual's rights.
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Proves that we can peacefully shirt from one leader to another when Jefferson is elected.
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This act created 16 new federal judges and other judicial offices. He wanted federalists to dominate the judicial branch of government.
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James Monroe was sent to New Orleans to buy more land east at the maxium price of $10 million
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After American merchant ships were being seized by British ships, Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act, which cut all trade with England.
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Led by William H. Harrison, Americans defeated the Shawnee's and Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory.
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A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressionism of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships
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It established clear boundaries between Canada and the United States and gave all land back.
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The first tariff passed by Congress with a function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition.
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Admitted Missouri as slave state and Maine as free state and aimaginary line drawn between slave and free states.
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The dispute in McCulloch involved the legality of the national bank and a tax that the state of Maryland imposed on it.
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Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams tied in their electoral votes. The election then went to the House of Representatives.
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A protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States designed to protect industry in the Northern United States.
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The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River.
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It reduced the existing tariffs to remedy the conflict created by the tariff of 1828.
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The party was formed opposing the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party.
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A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression.
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A forced relocation of Indians to west of the Mississippi.
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A member of the Democratic Party and an advocate of Jacksonian democracy. He expanded american land taking it from Mexico.
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The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836. It became the 28th state.
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A dispute over the border between Texas and Mexico resulted in armed conflict and war.
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The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory
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A solution to the slavery issue, The comrpomise included five points.
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This book changed the way people viewed slavery and redoubled efforts to abolish it.
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Originally the whig party, the republican party would become the new party of the north.
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The act proposed that the Nevada Territory be made into a state and, to balance the slave owners, Kansas be made into a slave state.
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A slave challenged his deceased owner's heir to his property the right for his freedom.
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Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
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This encouraged other Southern states to secede as well, creating the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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This was the first war that started the feud between the union and confederates.
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Granted 160 acres of free land to claimants, letting anyone move out west.
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A document that declared that all persons held as slave shall be then forever free.
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First pres to be assassinated, booth did it because he thought it would aid the south.
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The war between the south and north ends with the union winning.
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The 13th amendment banned slavery in the united states.
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves.
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Southern Democrats threatened rebellion over what they saw as a stolen election, hayes won.
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The wage reduction of workers started a feud with railroad workers and companies so most of the workers went on strike.
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Created by Booker T. Washington to educate African Americans.
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Organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police.
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The act broke up previous land settlements given to Native Americans in the form of reservations.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first United States Federal statute to limit monopolies
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The most bitterly fought industrial disputes in the history of U.S. labor.
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This U.S. Supreme Court case held the constitutionality of segregation under the separate but equal doctrine.
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The United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of a Battleship
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McKinley won a easy re election over Bryan.
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Henry Ford founded it and it would become one of the most profitable companies in America.
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The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company.
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In the 1904 presidential election, Roosevelt won the presidency in his own right in a landslide victory
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Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States.
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Taft won an easy victory in his 1908 bid for the presidency.
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Wilson became the only elected president from the Democratic Party between 1892 and 1932.
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A global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
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Ships started to become sunk by german bombers, US enetred the war.
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Peace treaty that brought WW1 to a end
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Fist world wide government to maintain world peace .
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The US stock Market crashed and started the great depression.
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The market crashed and banks could not give people there money, poverty was very rampet.
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Due to bad farming the top soil blew off of the ground and created dust storms in the midwest.
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Hitler starts to rise to power and become the dictator of germany.
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Japan drops bombs and planes onto navy ships in pearl harbour, us officially enters war.
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After pearl harbour the us enters WW2 after being threated by Japan.
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The us drops the atomic bomb on Japan to get them to surrender.
