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Christopher Columbus landed in america and thought he was in Indian but he saw Native Americans captured them and brought them back to Spain. he set sail n august 3rd 1942 n the hopes of finding India and came across the Bahamas and Spain captured this place
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Spanish settlers capture and bring slaves from Africa to Santos Domingo. Which is now the capital of the Dominican Republic.
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The Trans Atlantic slave trade was a trade between three regions trading Africans copper sugar. This trade greatly effected the world economy making it easier to trade around the world wit the middle passage.
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100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia company founded an English settlement in north america on the banks of the James river. disease and conflict brought Jamestown to he brink of failure. Until a new group of settlers came with profitable supply of tobacco
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Pilgrims were people who was seeking religious freedom in the new world. Settling in Plymouth on the western side of cop cod forcing them to survive their over the winter because the mayflower prevented them of getting any farther because of the rough seas.
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Massachusetts becomes the first state to legalize slavery by passing its body of liberty giving legal sanction to certain kinds of slavery.
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Germantwn Quaker Petition was a petition to protest African American slavery this was one of the first protest to try and stop slavery. this petitions argued humans rights and the unjust nature f slave holding.
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The Edict is a promise from King Charles the second of Spain that any male slave n a male plantation that escaped to Spanish Florida would be granted freedom.this promise would work fr the next 80 years as a safe haven for male black slaves.
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Slavery in South Carolina and Georgia completely relied on rice as there economic gain from slavery. And of which these states produced large amounts of rice because the plantations were s large and they had s many slaves.
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This Act a act t enslave any human that was a non white christian which was the main source fr many worsening slave laws after this. basically slave codes to be the consolidation of slavery in Virginia.
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The French and Indian War was a 7 year war in which the British and the french battled for the French land. In which ending a peace conference n 1973 of British receiving Canada and Florida from Spain. But permitted France to keep its West Indian sugar islands and gave Louisiana to Spain.
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The battles of Lexington and Concord was the battles that started the american revolutionary war that lasted about 8 years. over hundred British troops marched to Boston to take the arms cache and failing miserably retreating under incredibly intense fire
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The Declaration of Independence are very important documents Thomas Jefferson wrote to communicate with Britain Americas case for freedom and independence from them. That was voted on at the Continental Congress of which was revised by Richard Henry Lee and later adopted by the congress on August 2nd.
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The Constitutional Convention was a convention that they wrote up the United States constitution. That had may backlashes like shays rebellion, The Articles of Confederation and the Annapolis convention.
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Thomas Jefferson was a president of the united states from match 4th 1801 to march 4th 1809. That conducted the Marvelous Declaration of Independence we have today. He is our founding father and Americas leading figure in their early development during the American Revolutionary War.
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Louisiana Purchase is a America made from France buying the western half of the Mississippi river. This purchase greatly helped the United States doubling the United States size. Which made the country stronger
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To keep the power balance of the congress between free states and slaves the Missouri Compromise was made and passed in 1820 forcing Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. Three years later the Missouri compromise was deemed Unconstitutional in the Supreme court. In the Dred Scott decision . Ruling the congress have no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories and repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act.
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Andrew Jackson was a president from 1829-1837. And became the leader of the new democratic party of that time. A major supporter of states rights and slavery´s extension into western territories. And most importantly played a major role in the relocation of the Native Americans living in the east of Mississippi.
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The Indian Removal Act was a act signed by Andrew Jackson on may 28th 1930. To Negotiate with the Southern Indian tribes for them to leave federal territory west of the Mississippi river in exchange fr their lands.
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The Underground railroad was a successful network led by Harriet Tubman t help blacks escape from the plantation. this railroad operated from the 18th century and none knows when it ended.
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This was a major case abut how the Missouri compromise is unconstitutional. Hoping to end slavery but Scott went back t court and they deemed no African of pure blooded African descent could be a citizen.
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president elected on March 4th 1861-April 15th 1865. Abraham Lincoln is very important because he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. that declared to forever free slaves within the confederacy.
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The attack on the Fort Sumter is the attack that started the civil war in America Union the North vs Confederates The South over weather there should be slavery in the south and north.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act is the Act signed by President Chester A Arthur. TO restrict the Chinese from migrating to the United States. This was the first significant law restricting immigration to the United States.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and direct order issued by Abraham Lincoln September 22nd 1862 That deemed all slave to be free men and women. After the Union victory at Antietam.
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The Surrender at Appomattox was one of the last battles of the civil war which trigger many the surrenders across the southern Confederate fleet.
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On April 14th 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth in the presidential´s box at Ford´s Theater in Washington DC.12 days later John Wilkes Both was tracked down and killed y the union soldiers on a Virginia farm.
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The Thirteenth Amendment is the amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. This was passed by the Senate on April 8th 1864 and passed by the house January 31st 1865.
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The 15th Amendment is a amendment to give any citizen of the united states the right to vote n matter race or color. this amendment is to prohibit the federal state and governments from denying any american citizen the right to vote.
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Sherman Anti Trust Act is an Act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. this was the first thing passed by the US congress prohibit trusts.
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Plessy vs Ferguson is a case in the supreme court where racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. and this ruling set back civil rights in the United States for decades.
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The Spanish American War was a majr conflict between the US and Spain that disrupted spanishs clonial rule in America. And Resulted in the US taking the territories of the Western Pacific and Latin America.
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Theodore Roosevelt was a president from September 14th 1901 to March 4th 1909. he became te 26th president of the United States. He Brought America out of isolation and become a world power.
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Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president from 1913 to 1921 and help america through WW1. he was a big advocate for democracy and world peace.he negotiated a treaty that had a plan for the league of Nations. And received the noble peace prize.
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The WW1 Kicked into gear when Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir t the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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After the failure f the french construction team in the 1880s The United States decided to build a canal across a 50 mile stretch across Panama isthmus. This canal help elimante disease carrying mosquitoes
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The Harlem Renaissance is a Cultural celebration for African Americans.. After having to deal with many centuries of slavery and struggle for abolition. White supremacy was quickly building in the south where 90 percent f African Americans Lived s in about 1890 they started to migrate t the north for a new and brighter future which ignited the African American pride.
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On November 11th WW1 ended. The war left 9 million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded. and after the war there was a peace treaty called the treaty of Versailles. but unfortunately that didint last very long because the punishments on Germany were to harsh
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The Eighteenth Amendment is the banning of transporting alcoholic beverages. Which arose the crime rates
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The Treaty of Versailles is a treaty f the negotiations f the splitting f France. and the negotiation weather to dismember Germany and what there punishment should be.That Germany must pay for all the damage f the war which put Germany in a economic depression and forced them to go to war.
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The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote and voice there opinion on government issues or presidency's
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Gitlow vs New York is a supreme court decision that they ruled Gitlow being an anarchist to go t prison because they were afraid of communists and the bill f rights had no effect at this time when it comes to states.
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The Stock Market Crash is a Governor shutdown tat append because Americans buying to may stocks and not being able to pay off the debts. Which resulting in one of the worlds greatest depression we ave ever seen
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Anti Miscegregation Laws are laws put forth to step relationships between whites and blacks. And deeming them as criminals for such behavior,
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This was an act signed by president Lyndon B Johnson. Aimed to overcome the 15th amendment and the legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented the African Americans the right to vote. so they created an impossible literacy test that African Americans had to pass to vote
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Loving v. Virginia is a case to stop the miscegenation laws that blacks and whites cant have intimate relationships. So loving lost the case and both the man and women was sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other . And is the reason why we have loving day on June 12.
