Politics and Power

By mirellemahmoud
  • 1492

    Columbus sails to Western Hemisphere

  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • 1499

    Vespucci reaches Brazil

  • 1521

    Hernan Cortes leads Spanish forces to defeat Montezuma

  • 1550

    Encomienda is replaced with repartimiento

  • Sugar Act

  • Quartering and Stamp Act

  • American revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Articles of Confederation ratified

  • Ratification of Constitution

  • Annexation of Texas

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed

  • Stricter Fugitive Slave Act

  • Dred Scott case decision

  • John Brown Raid

  • Boss Tweed

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Black Codes

  • Transcontinental railroad is completed

  • Little Big Horn

  • Booker T Washington head of Tuskegee Institute

  • Dawes Act of 1887

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

  • Spanish American War occurs

  • NAACP created

  • World War 1 begins

  • 19th Amendment ratified

  • Black Tuesday

  • World War 2 Begins

  • NATO is created

  • Korean War

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks refuses seat on bus

  • Martin Luther King Jr. I have a Dream Speech

  • March on Washington

  • Black Panther Party