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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Lands in the Americas
The three ships Columbus was leading were the Santa maria the Nina and the Pinta. he sets off from the ports of Spain. In 1492 Columbus sets foot on the Americas since the vikings. Columbus and his men go from island to island of the Bahamas, the natives Columbus assumed were Indians because he at first thought he was in Asia. -
jamestown
The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607. 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts.This was the beginnning of a series of cultural events that helped build the nation and the world. -
First Slaves (History of Slavery in America)
Dutch traders brought African slaves taken from a Spanish ship to At Jamestown, Virginia, approximately 20 captive Africans are sold into slavery in the British North American colonies. Dutch traders brought African slaves taken from a Spanish ship to Jamestown -
Pilgrims land
About 100 people, many of them seeking religious freedom in the New World, set sail from. England on the Mayflower in September 1620. That November, the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts. -
law of hereditary slavery (History of Slavery in America)
Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery meaning that a child born to an enslaved mother inherits her slave status. so basically you cannot escape slavery it is passed down to your great grand-kids -
French Indian War
The French and British dispute in order to secure the Ohio River valley, (an important trading area and access to the Mississippi river) With the battle of jumonville glen kicking off this . The Battle was mainly the British colonists verses The French, both sides receive help from local natives. -
Lexington and Concord
This battle kicked off the revolutionary war. Tension Had been building up for quite a while between colonists and British soldiers. Hundreds of soldiers were marching from Boston to seize a arms cache. Paul revere and others warned the people leading to the British being defeated in that battle and overall in the war. -
Deceleration Of Independence
the united states deceleration of independence, adopted by the united states congressional congress meeting. Which Pennsylvania state house, now known as independence hall. John Adams A leader in the movement for independence, persuaded the committee to let Thomas Jefferson write the first draft. Which was edited by congress to produce the final version known today. -
constitutional convention
This meeting was to modify the original founding constitution the articles of confederation. They wanted to do this because the current constitution gave congress little to no power. In total 55 delegates attended the meeting, excluding Thomas Jefferson, john Adams and john Hancock. -
Underground railroad (History of Slavery in America)
The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves from the South. Harriet Tubman was the conductor leading over 300 slaves to freedom. -
Cotton Gin (History of Slavery in America)
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, making cotton production more profitable. The market value of slaves increases as a result. creating a bigger reliance on slavery in the south, therefore causing a rift between the north and south -
Presidency of Jefferson
The main author of the deceleration of independence Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the united states beating john Adams in the race. As president Jefferson accomplished many things one of the main things being the Louisiana purchase. -
louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. got about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Importation of Slaves (History of Slavery in America)
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa. President Thomas Jefferson, who called for its enactment in his 1806 State of the Union Address. He had promoted the idea since the 1770s. It reflected the force of the general trend toward abolishing the international slave trade. -
Missouri compromise
Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which tipped the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress organized a compromise, accepting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state.This agreement was known as the Missouri compromise of 1820. -
Andrew Jackson presidency
was an American military hero and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Jackson was also very well known for his extreme cruelty towards the native American people, as shown in the trail of tears. Also Jackson was one of the main founders of the modern democratic party. -
Indian removal act
The act was signed by president Andrew Jackson. The Act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands.The Cherokee people were forced to leave their land east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to what is now present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Nat Turner rebellion (History of Slavery in America)
Nat Turner, an enslaved Baptist preacher believing himself divinely inspired, leads a violent rebellion in Southampton, Virginia. At least 57 whites are killed. This spurred the hearts of many Americans to be even more hateful towards Blacks. -
Compromise of 1850 (History of Slavery in America)
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California to the Union as a free state, allows the slave states of New Mexico and Utah to be decided by popular sovereignty, and bans slave trade in D.C. Giving the north an advantage in congress which raised tension between north and south with Black slaves in the middle of all of it. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (History of Slavery in America)
Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The legislation repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and pro slavery factions. -
Dread Scott v. Sanford
Dread Scott was a slave from 1833 to 1843 in Missouri. Scott filed suit in Missouri court for his freedom, claiming that his residence in a free territory made him a free man. The court concluded that Negros that ancestors were slaves could not be citizens and had no right to sue in court. Also that just because you move to a free state does not make you free. -
Haprers ferry History of Slavery in America
John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines -
Lincoln Presidency
The 16th president of the united states, The emancipator of the slaves. Lincoln also lead the north to victory against the south in the civil war and was the first president to get assassinated in united states history. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The first major battle of the civil war, the confederate bombarded the union at their unfinished fort in the harbor of Charleston south Carolina. The union were outnumbered 80 to 500 which resulted in their defeat. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the country was going on its third year of civil war. The proclamation Stated "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Slave codes (History of Slavery in America)
The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. In 1705 colonial legislatures made a declaration that would seal the fate of African Americans for generations to come. These would be known as the slave codes. With extremely harsh laws against the endured slave. -
Surrender at Appomattox (end of Civil War)
The outcome of the Civil War was that the North had won the war and slavery was abolished.April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. The impact of the Civil War was the evolution of new war weapons, and changes in the economy and peoples life style. -
Lincoln assassination
After failing in two attempts earlier in the year to kidnap the President. In the middle of a play that night, Booth slipped into the entryway to the President's box, holding a dagger in his left hand and a Derringer pistol in his right. He fired his pistol six inches from Lincoln. -
Thirteenth Amendment Ratified
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction". The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. Since there was little opposition to this and since it was easy to enforce, it was very effective. Slavery was ended by the Civil War and by this amendment. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first law preventing immigration into the United States. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that prohibited monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first step by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Louisiana enacted the Separate Car Act, which required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Plessy who was seven-eighths white agreed to participate in a test to challenge the Act, he was later arrested. Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that stated it was constitutional racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. -
spanish American war
Hostilities began in the proceeding of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.Spanish authorities made no adequate provision for shelter, food, sanitation herding the Cubans into recreational areas. Also millions of dollars were being lost from America in Cuba from trade, farming etc. So the U.S. Congress declares war on Spain. May 1, 1898 -
Roosevelt presidency
Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley. Young, strong and athletic he brought energy to the White House.He achieved many things one of them being A Nobel peace prize for his negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese war. -
Wilson Presidency
he 28th U.S. president, served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I. Woodrow Wilson’s second term in office was dominated by World War I. Wilson had wanted for peace during the first years of the war, until in 1917 German submarines launched submarine attacks against U.S. merchant ships. -
WWI Begins
The first world war began in August 1914. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Also there were alliances, militarism, nationalism imperialism and assassination that built up over time and the assassination of the archduke set off a domino effect. -
Panama Canal
The U.S acquired the 'Panama Canal' project from the French for $40 million. Colombia signed a treaty with the U.S. granting permission to construct the canal through their sovereign territory. Columbia rejected united states request to build a canal. Us navy supported the Panamanian revolt. US formally recognized panama as a sovereign nation. Basically they took what they wanted by force and gave it back later on down the road. -
Rise of the K.K.K.
William Joseph Simmons, revived the Klan. To establish real power the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast. This made them known as the invisible empire when the KKK blew from a few thousand to over 100,000 in a mere ten months -
Wilson’s 14 Points
Wilson gathered together a number of advisers and had them put together a plan for peace. This plan became the Fourteen Points.
The point of the Fourteen points was to make a strategy for ending the war. He set out goals that he wanted to accomplish through the war, he wanted to establish exactly what they were fighting for. -
End of WW1
agreement to stop fighting (armistice) was signed between France, Britain, and Germany on 11th November 1918, bringing four years of fighting in the First World War to an end. -
Treaty of Versailles
With the goal of developing a treaty that would punish Germany and meet the goals of the various Allied Powers. Negotiating the treaty, which would be known as the Treaty of Versailles. One of the many punishments given to Germany was that they would have to reduce their army and completely dismantle their navy. -
Harlem Renaissance
development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City this time period is known as golden age in African American culture in
the progress in literature, music, stage performance and art. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was difficult to enforce, even though the passage legislation known as the Volstead Act. The increase of the illegal bootlegging the establishing of speakeasies came with a rise in gang violence in America. -
The 18th Amendment
The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure This was because nobody was trying to enforce it on the local level even the police officers would beak the law in some cases. -
Nineteenth Amendment
In nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws the states and the federal government from preventing the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the based on their gender. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." -
Gitlow v New York
Gitlow was convicted under New York’s Criminal Anarchy Law, and punished him for advocating to overthrow of the government by force. the Court concluded that New York could prohibit advocating violent efforts to overthrow the government under the Criminal Anarchy Law. -
scopes trial
This case was a clash between modern science and religion, john scopes a Tennessee science teacher was arrested after teaching evolution to his class. famous people were brought from around the country such as William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, It took 9 minutes for the jury to deiced that john was guilty and he was fined 100 dollars. -
Stock Market Crash
The roaring twenties brought many this to american couture and science and one thing that effected it the most was credit, leading to 1929 when the stock market crashed, wiping out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock. When the stock market crashed in 1929.The most significant events started on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929. On that day, nearly 13 million shares of stock were traded. -
Roosevelt 1st Election
FDR was a fast working president and had a country relying on him to get them out of a depression. which pushed him in his first hundred days of office to begin a series of projects to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. -
CCC
As a part of the new deal Roosevelt founded a innovative federally funded organization that put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression on projects with environmental benefits. Called the CCC, giving jobs to the jobless and set an impression on generations of Americans to come. -
Social Security Act
Part of Roosevelt ¨new deal¨ he established a system that provided benefits for the old the injured at work dependent mother and children and the handicapped. -
FDR Court Packing Scandal
FDR proposed that there should be as many as 15 supreme court judges and people assumed right away that Roosevelt was ¨court packing¨ in order to gain more power in the supreme court and undermine the current judges that do not approve of his new deal. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and turned over the U.S.S. Oklahoma. This got the US involved in the seconded world war and its effect on modern history was big because this war effectively boosted america out of the economic whole it was in , and into A economic thrust upward. -
Manhattan Project. (shaped American history)
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. Cynthia C. Kelly, Oppenheimer was the actual builder of this weapon and this would shape modern Americans for generations to come. -
Technological revolution (shaped American history)
Technological revolution or also known as the third industrial revolution. A technological revolution increases productivity and efficiency. It may involve material or ideological changes caused by the introduction of a device or system. This system is multiple things such as the computer, the internet and also social media. -
JFK assassination (shaped American history
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. In Dallas Texas lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy one in the head and one in the neck. later that vice president Johnson became president. -
Apollo moon landing (shaped American history)
Apollo 11 was the first human manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. This is Important to american history because it is the end of a wild decade and it began a new era of innovation and exploration. -
Vietnam war (shaped American history)
The U.S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to stop communism from taking over South Vietnam. This was part of the idea that if one country became communist that others would follow suit so america was trying to nip the bud of this communist takeover. This effected many generations to come and this itself caused many other movements too such as the hippie movement -
911 (shaped American history)
The September 11 attacks were a series of 4 coordinated terrorist attacks caused by the extremist group ¨Al-Qaeda¨. This triggered the internal conflict that is now going on in Afghanistan and also is the one of the reasons for prejudice against Muslims in America today. -
Death Of Bin laden (shaped American history)
Mohammed bin Laden, a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is killed by US Special Forces during an early morning. The killing of bin Laden probably had a more important symbolic and informational impact than an actual effect on current operations. This shaped modern america in that in a way empowered Americans hurt by the attacks.
