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Period: 1436 to Apr 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. He explored all over America, he was a very curl man, he killed a lot of Indians -
Apr 25, 1453
First Americans Enter North America
The first Americans that entered North America were called Pioneers. They settled in America and explored the lands -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus Lands
*Columbus didn't “discover” America — he never set foot in North America. During four separate trips that started with the one in 1492, Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola. He also explored the Central and South American coasts -
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Mercantilism
Mercantilism is a national economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation and, historically, to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver -
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 – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world. The government, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States’ heritage today. -
Navigation Act of 1651
Navigation Acts (1651, 1660) ... The Navigation Act of 1651, aimed primarily at the Dutch, required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels, resulting in the Anglo-Dutch War in 1652. -
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The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy" -
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
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George Washington
George Washington was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809 -
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 -
Proclamation of 1763
in 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
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Andrew Jackson
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds; among the victims was Crispus Attucks, a man of black or Indian parentage. The British officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for manslaughter, along with eight of his men; all were later acquitted. -
Boston Tea Party
this famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. -
American Revolution
The Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolution, arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. -
Declaration of Independence
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. -
United States Constitution Signed
sates a government that puts the power in the hands of the people
Separates the powers of government into three branches: the legislative branch, which makes the laws; the executive branch, which executes the laws; and the judicial branch, which interprets the laws Sets up a system of checks and balances that ensures no one branch has too much power Divides power between the states and the federal government Describes the purposes and duties of the government -
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Dred Scott
he was African american, also a slave -
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Westward Expansion
In 1803 the Louisiana Purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. By 1840 almost 7 million Americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous. The belief that settlers were destined to expand to the west is often referred to as Manifest Destiny. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana from France -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark were explorers, exploring all through america. Also explored throughout Louisiana -
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Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark are two guys that went and traveled through Louisiana and throughout the Louisiana Purchase -
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Abraham Lincoln
he was the 16th president and he was the president during the civil war, he was apart of the union. -
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman -
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Era of Reform
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. -
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Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man as that term was then defined. Originating with President Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for a generation. -
Election of 1828
Andrew Jackson taking a victory against John Quincy Adams. In this election more people were able to have a chance to be in there election, so not all wealthy guys. -
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Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionism is a general term which describes the movement to end slavery. This term can be used formally or informally. -
Indian Removal Act
A lot of Indian tribes were forced out of their homes, forced to move out and settle somewhere else. Andrew Jackson was the president at the time, he made it look like he was trying to help the Indians, but he really just wanted them out because they didn't match the society he wanted. more than 4,000 Indians died while traveling, from disease, ammonia and other. These days people call this the trail of tears. -
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Manifest Destiny
the god given right to expand west -
Mexican American War
Mexico and America went to war, America claimed that Mexico shaded American blood in their territory, so that's why they attacked. In reality Mexico shaded American blood on their own territory. Americans did not treat Mexicans right, they were curl to them and not trusting. They also fought for territory. -
Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, when slave trade was abolished. -
Dred Scott Decision
the Dred Scott had a unfair case, his slave owner took him to a free state and they lived there for a while, once the owner took him back to a slave state, he realized he should have been freed. the court was bias and racist, the jury never checked to see if there was a precedent, a case just like their's, so they had to remain slaves and could not be set free. -
Election of 1860
when Abraham Lincoln became president, and one against confederacy candidates, during the civil war -
Civil War
the confederacy against the union. Fighting whether or not to keep slavery or get rid of it and bring a free state or not