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Nov 14, 1430
African slave trade
In the 1500's the european slave traders went to africa and took africans by force to be slaves. Over 10mil africans died during this event from diesese and labor. -
Oct 8, 1492
Columbus lands in New World
Columbus lands in the bahams at this date.
He travled from spain to the new world by ship. -
Nov 10, 1500
The Spanish Empire
uring the late 1400's and the 1500's, many Spanish conquerers such as Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizzaro all conquered some land in the americas by kiling enlsalving and slaughtering native americans. The spanish came to spread the word of god and get gold. They were horible to the natives. -
Nov 19, 1514
Spanish Borderlands
In mexico and peru, The spanish found many riches. But to get to these riches they had to kill many inca warriors and then they rampaged to get the gold and riches that they desired -
Nov 10, 1534
New france
France wanted in on the spanish's weath. so they sent some explorers such as Cartier and traded guns and swords for fur from the natives called the hurons. -
Jamestown First English seltelment
The english first settled in jamestone with poeple of a highstanderd of living and it didnt go as planned people had no idea how to farm and the natvies werents helping also the mosiqitos where killers. finally the english sent a captain and more people and it was ok from there because they had pokahantoss help. -
New netherland
In 1609 a man named Hary Hudson was paied by the dutch to sail to the Americas. He did and they landed in a spot and called in New netherlands. The Dutch were also fur traders but when the dutch were about ot fight the english the dutch leader said that they couldnt because of bad gun powder. The english then took over and called the place new york -
Starving time
John smith leaves to europe because of a gunpoweder explosia. And pocahantas and the native americans wont trade to the english. So they eat human and dog corpse's -
Maryland
Maryland was fonded by Lord Baltimore the second. Marlyand is the first colonie to have a law past stating that you can have freedom of religion -
the proclomation of 1763
The British made sure that the colonist stayed to the east of the apalachians mountains becasue they could stop war between indians to "Save Money" -
Stamp Act
Purchace a stamp for every evey paper used. This is becsue Britisn needs more money becasue of the wars. -
The Quartering Act
The colonist had to pay for everything the british soldiers needed. for example food,spices,place to stay, beer ect. this is for Britin to save money! -
The Townshend Acts
The british put tax on certain good such as glass, paint, pepper, and tea to get more money. -
The Tea Act
The british made the colonies only buy the Tea from Britin that was taxed. The colonies got mad and threw the tea into the ocean off of the boats -
The Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts are laws restricing the colonies to do stuff. Like Not being able to use the harbor or have town meetings and adding extra british troups in the colonies -
Olive branch potition
The colonists sent a letter to King George asking for peace and to stop the quarrel. But before the letter reached Kind George, he had already declared that all Americans were rebels and traitors. -
Seige of Boston
When George Washington learned that the army only had 36 barrels of gunpowder he sent a deperate letter to the colonies for gunpowder. He got a lot of gunpowder, but still didn't dare to take back Boston without cannons. He sent some people to an old British fort named Ticonderoga to get some cannons. They surround Boston with cannons and the british were so shocked that they fled to Canada. -
Lexington and Concord
The battle at Lexington and Concord was the first battle between the British and colonists of the seven year war to come. Till today, it is unknown who fired the first shot. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
2000 British marched on Bunker Hill. Israel Putman (Leader of American troops) told his soldiers to fire only when the british were very close. The British marched 3 times to get Bunker Hill. The colonists left because they had no gunpowder left. -
the Second Continental Congress
At this congress John Adams proposed to create a continental army. An amry made out of soldiers from all colonies and to lead this army John Adams suggested George Washington. All the delegates agreed. -
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, the youngest man of the Congress, drafted the Declaration of Independence, stating that all Americans would give their lives for independence. All members of the Congress signed this declaration, and the war began. -
Battle of New York
The american army and the british army just arived in New York. The americas took over the city but could not beat the british who were better trained and had more numbers. The British lost around 300 hunderd men and the colonist over 1400. -
Trenton
Geroge washington the good leader that he was gave his team a talk. This gave men inspiration. The crost the delware river and surprised attacked the british while they were haveing a christmas feast. -
Saratoga
Saratoga was swarmed with america milita to destroy the british.. The british were WAY outnumberd and were defeated. -
Ratification of the Articles of Confederation
The ratification of the Articles of Confederation took many years for many states had Arguments. in 1777 virgina was the first state to sign. It was finaly approved in march first, 1781 -
Yorktown
The british interted Yorktown but the americans and french were one step ahead and already surrounded yorktown. French battleships blocked the sea exit. The french and americans opened fire in october 1781. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris is a peace treaty signed by both American and British representitive. The treaty had 3 main thnigs frist the british woudl reconise the americas as an independanted nation. secnd the british would leave America and give the americans all of there land they had owned in america. The third is that the americans would give back the properties of the loyalist that were stolen during the war. -
Shay's Rebellion
After the war there was a huge money shortage in the USA. This was especially hard on the framers because they could not earn the money to repay the goverment becaue the army wasnt buying there crops anymore -
Constitutional Convention
Some people boycotted the convention because they were afraid of a strong central government. The convention was kept a secret but the guy took lots of notes so everyone knew what happend afterwards. -
Ratification of the U.S. Constitution
The New U.S. Constitution was ratified on 21 jun 1788. It made 3 branches of government: a legislature, a executive and a judical branch each branch had checks and balances to equal each other out. -
The Louisiana Purchase
America just wanted to buy new orleans. But france said that they had no use for it becuse they were in a war with england so they just sold all of louisana for 15mil dollars -
Spain Gives Florida to USA
Andrew Jackson was told not to invade florida but he did anyway. and spain was scared of war so they sold florida to usa for 5mil. -
The Indian Removal Act
This act made all indians get off there land and on to reserves so that the americans can finish there manafest destany. -
The Trail of Tears
This is the trail that the indians had to walk to get to the reserves the were at. They had to do this becaue of the indian removal act -
One reason Northeners were upset
Because the south wanted to make MO a slave State and that would make the congress mostly slave and then the north could do nothing about slavery. -
Texas is Annexed
Texas got annxed and there were alot of us people living there so they made it a us state. -
Oregon Treaty
Russia, Spain, Brittian and the US had control of Oregon but Russia and Spain decided to back down. So it was just britin and america but they didnt want war so they split it in half -
War With Mexico
American soldirers declared war on mexico. Both sides lost alot of men but in the end mexico lost land and has not grown at all and is still the same as it is today. -
Another Reason that the south were annoyed is.
That the North wanted to take away slavery for good and make all of the states free. The south are unhappy becuase that would take away there freedom. -
another thing that upset the north
That the southeners could just go in to free states and take african americans that looked liked slaves even if they werent. and the free states couldnt do anything about it. -
One reason that the southerns were upset
The southeners were upset when lincon become president because they knew that he could once and for all stop slavery for good and could make a civil war for america. -
Abraham Lincon elected
Lincon was elected president on march 4 1961. once he was elected president the southerns were sure that he was aginst slavery and was trying to stop it and this is one of the reasons that the civil war started. A little while after the war lincon was assasinated by john wylkes booth while watching a play.
