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Period: 600 to 1240
Kingdom of Ghana
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Period: 1230 to
Kingdom of Mali
The Empire of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic Coast to central parts of the Sahara desert. -
Period: 1400 to
Kingdom of Kongo
The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the founders of the kingdom were KiKongo speaking people. -
Period: 1492 to 1501
Voyages of Christopher Columbus
He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas. -
Sep 3, 1492
First voyage of Christopher Columbus
Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. -
Jun 7, 1496
Treaty of Tordesillas
agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. -
1519
Cortes conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire. -
English settlement of Roanoke
refers to two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to find the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
establishment of jamestown
Jamestowne is home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
pilgrims land in plymouth
Plymouth Rock was the site where William Bradford and other Pilgrims first set foot on land. -
Maryland granted to Lord Baltimore
King Charles I of England granted a charter to George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore. -
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King Philip’s War
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Bacon’s Rebellion
was an armed rebellion. -
Queen Anne’s War
second in a series of wars fought between Great Britain and France in North America for control of the continent. -
The Great Awakening
was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies. -
Period: to
7 Years’ War
The war between the French and the Indian is also known as the French and Indian War. -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the English Parliament to regulate shipping and maritime commerce -
Sugar Act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire. -
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. -
Tea Act
The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England. -
Intolerable Act
The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence signifies some of the principles and ideas of the founding fathers which the government of the United States follows today. -
The Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Ratification of the Articles of Confederation
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States. -
The Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops. -
Shay’s Rebellion
The causes of the revolt, which became known as Shays Rebellion was money or the lack of money. -
The Northwest Ordinance
Confederation Congress chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
The US Constitution
The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress -
Louisiana Purchase
The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803. -
Embargo Act
It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports. -
Mexican Independence
The revolutionary tract called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land, and racial equality. -
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War of 1812
The American victory on Lake Champlain led to the conclusion of U.S.-British peace negotiations in Belgium. -
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend
victory in central Alabama over Native Americans opposed to white expansion into their territories. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state -
Texas declares independence
The formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution -
Period: to
Mexican-American War
The main cause of the war was the westward expansion of the United States. -
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. -
The Compromise of 1850
Was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
The Dred Scott Decision
An enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857