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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. -
Christopher Columbus Lands Jamestown
Jamestown had become the hub of the first sustained clash between English people and native Americans, seat of the first representative government in the Western Hemisphere, and destination of the first Africans to arrive in chains in English America. -
Navigation Act of 1651
It was the trade between the English and other colonies -
Benjamin Franklin
He was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
George Washington
George Washington was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence -
French and Indian War
this war was between the French and the British. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America -
Mercantilism
Mercantilism is a national economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation -
Stamp Act
it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, newspapers and dice for virtually all business in the colonies -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States -
Boston Massacre
People were slaughtered in the streets between the mob and the British. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. -
Declaration of Independence
It's an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. -
American Revolution
he American Revolution was a colonial revolt. -
United States Constitution Signed
The Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention and signed at the same place as the declaration of independence -
Dred Scott
He was a slave that fought for his freedom -
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Two men were the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. -
First Americans Enter North America
The first Americans were Lewis and Clark -
Lewis and Clark
They were the ones that led the Lewis and Clark Expedition -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States -
Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States -
Election of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election between Andrew Jackson and John Adams. -
Abolitionist Movement
It was the act that went against slavery -
Indian Removal Act
It was an act made by Andrew Jackson that forced Native Americans to move west. this cause many to die of sickness because of how cold it was. -
Westward Expansion
It was the movements that included Americans traveling west -
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Mexican American War
this war was for land and because Mexico felt like the U.S tried to take over the land they owned. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
A case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled that a slave Dred Scott who had resided in a free state and territory where slavery was prohibited was not thereby entitled to his freedom -
Election of 1860
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election -
Civil War
This war was between the Union and the Confederate and the fought for the ending of slavery -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman he died in 1895 -
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