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Apr 28, 1013
the crusade war
summary the crusade war was a religous war between the christians and muslin over the holy land importance no one won the crusade war thus leaving no more blood shed -
Oct 28, 1347
black death
summary The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347 when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea Meanwhile in a panic healthy people did all they could to avoid the sick. Doctors refused to see patients; priests refused to administer last rites Shopkeepers closed stores Many people fled the cities for the countryside but even there they could not escape the disease importance the black ended in 1350 -
Aug 3, 1419
voyage of columbus
summary he was born in italy in 1492 he thought he could sail west to east to get to india the king and queen funded his travel they gave him three ships called the nina penta and the santa maria impotance he helped spain become even richer when he died -
May 20, 1498
vasco de gama first to travel from europe to india
summary Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast The Portuguese explorer was not greeted warmly by the Muslim merchants of Calicut and in 1499 he had to fight his way out of the harbor on his return trip home
impotance he gathered many things silks and spices ect back to europe impotance he came back with a lot of things for his king -
Apr 2, 1513
ponce de leaon finding the fountain of youth
summary On April 2 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León and his crew became the first recorded Europeans to set eyes on Florida. Legend holds that they made this discovery while searching for the Fountain of Youth a magical water source supposedly capable of reversing the aging process and curing sickness impotance he finaly gave up looking for the fountain before he died trying impotance he was the first to find florida -
Oct 31, 1517
95 theses
in 1517 martin Luther penned a document attacking the Catholic Church’s corrupt practice of selling indulgences to absolve sin His 95 Theses which propounded two central beliefs that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds impotance when martin luther was kicked from the church he made his own religion lutherism people still use today -
May 25, 1539
hernado de sota
summary By May 18, 1539, de Soto and his fleet at last set out for Florida. On May 25 they landed at Tampa Bay For the next three years de Soto and his men explored the southeastern United States facing ambushes and enslaving natives along the way After Florida came Georgia and then Alabama importance hernado discorved alot of land -
Apr 30, 1541
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
summary 1540, Coronado led a major Spanish expedition up Mexico’s western coast and into the region that is now the southwestern United States. Though the explorers found none of the storied treasure they did discover the Grand Canyon and other major physical landmarks of the region impotance he was the first to discover the canyon impotance he was the first to find the grand canyon -
massachusetts bay
summary In 1628, a group of distinguished Puritan businessmen formed a venture named the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay which was initially conceived as a profit making endeavor in the New World impotance massachuseets made a lot of money from their import shipbulding,lumber,food,export,corn,fish,seafood,and charamberries -
connecticut establishment
summary farmaing was hard they could onlyfarm for their familys and the soil was bad the way they earned there money was from fish selling the one thing they could grow was wheat and corn impotance even though it was hard living there connecticut wouldnt have been found in that year -
salem witch trails
summary The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them were women importance enventually the people in salemr realized that witches were not real and not killing people for that -
the french and indian war
summary the french and the indian war lasted from 1756 to 1763 forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years’ War. In the early 1750s France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley impotance the british was loosing the war at the start but won at at the end -
the freanch victory
summary the death of gen. braddock led troops to attack for duguesne the french had many indians on there side but braddock beileved the indians were weak and counldn't win importance the french was the land but the british soon won -
the stamp act
summary The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers legal documents, licenses, newspapers other publications and even playing cards were taxed The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier importance the stamp made many people mad and want to seperate -
the sons of liberty
summary In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it came to be known as the Sons of Liberty. And grow it did! These were not the leading men of Boston, but rather workers and tradesmen. It was unseemly that they would be so agitated by a parliamentary act. Though their ranks did not include Samuel and John Adams/importance the radciacl group hurt many brits -
the boston massacre
summary The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5 1770 between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones and sticks and a squad of British soldiers 5 olonists were killed and this made the rovolution one step closer importance this made many colonist mad and wanted to help in the seperation from the the british in the revolution -
the continaental congress
summary The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies which became the governing body of the U.S.A. during the American Revolution. The Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three incarnations importance the croongress seperated from the britsh -
the indepedpendce of the united states
summary The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776 importance the united states finnaly seperated the british and became a country -
the battle of yorktown
summary On this day in 1781, 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 at Yorktown, Virginia in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War impotance the battle was the last of the revloution importance it was the last battle of the revolutionary war -
under ground rail road
summary The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada it wasn't ran by any single organization or person Rather it consisted of many individuals many whites and black importance the under ground railroad helped many slaves escape from slavery -
western exapanion
summary After the War of 1812 much of America's attention turned to exploration and settlement of its territory to the West, which had been greatly enlarged by the the purchased andrew jackson made there was much more land that hadn't been discovered importance because of lewis and clark there was much more things that america discovered -
the war of 1812
summary In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade importance the british was forced out of the us
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the trail tears
summary In 1838 and 1839 as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the Trail of Tears because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died impotance none -
the indian removal act
summary After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1829, President Andrew Jackson signed this into law on May 28, 1830 impotance none -
texas war for independence
summary In 1821, Texas was part of Mexico. The land was cheap, so many Americans settled in Texas. Mexico tried to stop them but they still came. Slavery was against Mexican law, butAmericans brought slaves to Texas. Many American settlersand Tejanos, or Mexicans who lived in Texas, wanted tobreak away from Mexico. They did not like laws made bySanta Anna, Mexico’s president. The Tejanos and Texansdecided to fight for independence importance the us won texas from mexico -
california gold rush
summary On January 4, 1848, James Marshall picked up a piece of metal at the mill that looked like gold. He took the metal to Sutter. They tested it and confirmed that it was gold word got out! By late 1848, word had spread across the country. On December 5, 1848, President James Polk speaking to Congress confirmed accounts of gold. The discovery of gold in California i
importance after the gold rush sivler was found in nevada and ended the rush after that there were 100,000 thousand people -
the dred scott case
summary Dred Scott was a slave who sought his freedom through the American legal system. The 1857 decision by the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case denied his plea, determining that no Negro, the term then used to describe anyone with African blood, was or could ever be a citizen impotance the lost of his case made many abolishonist mad and a step closer to the war -
the battle of ft sumter
summary On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day impotance the union managed to get the ft back -
assassination of lincoln
summary Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. on April 14, Booth himself a well known actor at the time masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward By murdering the president and two of his possible successors importance before the death of abraham lincoln died he got to free the slaves
