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Aug 1, 1492
Columbus Lands in America
Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. His journeys marked the beginning of centuries of conquest and colonization. -
Jamestown
The founding of Jamestown was America’s first English colony it was established in Virginia. After eight months, only 60 of the 214 pioneers were still alive because of they were being influenced to new diseases that they have never been before. -
Pilgrims Land
Mayflower arrived in New England on November 11, 1620 after a voyage of 66 days. Only 52 people survived the first year in Plymouth out of the 102. -
French/ Indian War
The French/Indian war began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war was started because the French and Britain both wanted to extend their Territories toward the Ohio river which cause conflicts with the people that were already there. -
The stamp act - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The Stamp Act 1765, passed by the British Parliament in 1765 was the first direct tax imposed on the British colonies in North America. The goal of the tax on printed material including newspapers, magazines, legal documents, insurance policies and many other types of paper material was to help finance for the British troops in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The Boston Massacre was an incident between the British soldiers and a crowd of colonists in Boston, Massachusetts. The incident caused British soldiers to open fire on the crowd, killing five and wounding six men. -
Boston Tea Party - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The Boston tea party happened when a group of 70 men went on three British ships in the Boston harbor and threw tea in the sea. The destruction of the tea was a protest against the Tea Act which was passed by the British Parliament earlier that year and gave the British East India Company monopoly on tea sale in the colonies. -
Passage of the Intolerable Acts - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The Boston tea party caused the British Parliament to pass a series of laws that are known as the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts. These closed the Boston harbor for all shipping until the city would pay for the destroyed tea, limited political authority of the colonists, made legal persecution of British officials more difficult and extended the boundaries of the Quebec province to the lands claimed by the American colonists. -
Convocation of the First Continental Congress - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The colonies decided to boycott British goods and ban the export of American goods to Britain if the Intolerable Acts would not be repealed. In order to effectively carry out the boycott, the delegates also established the Continental Association and called for the Second Continental Congress that was to be held if their protest would not achieve the desired effect. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The British sent hundreds of British troops to seize the colonists military stores at Concord. The British plans were discovered the local militiamen gathered at Lexington to intercept the British troops. -
Lexington and Concord
This battle was the start of the American Revolutionary War. The battle was between Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America. -
Declaration of Independence
Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4,1776. The main purpose of the declaration of independence was to explain to foreign countries why the colonies separated fro great Britain. -
Adoption of the Declaration of Independence - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence which made the 13 colonies independent from British control. The war continued on because the British didn't want to give up its northern colonies. -
Battles of Saratoga - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
This battle marked the turning point of the American Revolution which made France support the colonies against Britain. The American troops prevented British soldiers from breaking trough their lines to make it to their troops in Albany. -
Surrender of Yorktown - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The British commander Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis realized he didn't have any chance to defeat Franco-American army so he tried to leave. His attempt failed. So his only option was to surrender. -
Signature of the Treaty of Paris - ROAD TO REVOLUTION
The American Revolution formally ended with the Treaty of Paris. The British Empire accepted defeat against its colonies and recognized independence of the United States of America. -
Constitutional Convention
The constitutional convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the old Pennsylvania State House on May 25 to September 17, 1787. The purpose of the constitutional convention was to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. -
Jefferson Presidency
Thomas Jefferson was president from March 4, 1801 to March 4, 1809. He was the first ever president to be inaugurated in Washington DC. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the declaration of independence. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana purchase was a agreement between France and the United States for the us to receive 800,000 square miles which doubled the untied states in size. the land that was purchased stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. -
*U.S. slave trade with Africa ends
Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States…from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.” With 4 million slaves in the south the economy of the south depended on slaves and if they were taken away the economy of the south would fall. -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to maintain a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states. The slaveholding states feared that if they became outnumbered in Congressional representation that they would lack the power to protect their interests in property and trade. -
Jackson Presidency
Andrew Jackson became the seventh president and served from March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837. He became a national war hero after defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. -
Indian Removal Act
The law allowed the president to relocate Indian tribes to federal land in return for their land. Although the bill provided only for the negotiation with tribes east of the Mississippi on purchasing the land the united states forcefully made the Indian tribes relocate. -
*Texas war for independence
Texas revolutionary government formally declared its independence from Mexico. Texans defeated the Mexicans and captured Santa Anna. -
*Mexican American War
Mexico took the Nueces River as its northeastern border, while the us claimed the rio grande river. The day Mexican troops got to the rio grande river Mexican troops open fired on us troops which started the Mexican American war. -
*California Gold Rush
The California gold rush began when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The new of gold in California brought 300,000 people to California in search of gold and wealth. -
Dredd Scott v Sanford
In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States. They also ruled that slaves could not sue in Federal courts. Which means they could not expect any protection from the Federal Government. -
*Minnesota Joins the Union
Minnesota was the 32nd state admitted to the union. Minnesotas economy started to develop on logging and farming which helped industrialize Minnesota. -
Lincoln Presidency
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States he served through March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865. Lincoln presided over the Union victory in the American Civil War brought the emancipation of slaves. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War -
Emancipation Proclamation
On September 22, after the Union victory at Antietam, he created a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The emancipation proclamation made all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." -
Surrender at Appomattox
On April 9, 1865 in Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Lee's army had little food, and they began to desert in large numbers on the retreat. -
Lincoln Assassinated
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He was killed by a well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth. -
Thirteenth Amendment Ratified
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The necessary number of states ratified it by December 6, 1865. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. It was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. It was based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v Ferguson case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case is about 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. -
Spanish American War
Spanish American War began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. -
T. Roosevelt Presidency
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He became the President after the assassination and death of President William McKinley. -
*Ford motor Company Founded
The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that originated in Dearborn, Michigan. Between 1908 - 1927, Ford made some 15 million Model T cars. -
WWI Begins
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914 triggered a chain of events that resulted in World War 1. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). -
Panama Canal
The United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904. The canal created a water passage across the isthmus of Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. -
WWI Ends
Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918. Germany signed an armistice (agreement for peace and no more fighting) that had been prepared by Britain and France ended the war. -
Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment made the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal in the untied states. Later on this amendment would be repealed by the 21st amendment. -
Treaty of Versailles
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty made new German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. The right was known asa women suffrage. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a movement represented a rebirth of African American culture in the United States. The renaissance was aimed at revive black culture with pride. -
Wilson Presidency
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States. Wilson led the United States through world war 1. He helped negotiate a peace treaty that would help influence the creation of the League of Nations. -
Gitlow v New York
U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 8, 1925, that the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protection of free speech, which states that the federal “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech,” applied also to state governments. -
Stock Market Crash
Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. America and the rest of the industrialized world fell downward into the Great Depression.
