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Period: 200 to Dec 4, 1300
anasazi
(the ancient ones) thught to be the ancestors of modern pueblo indains. -
Period: 200 to Dec 8, 1400
hohokam
the canal digers. lived in modern phoenix area. -
Period: Dec 4, 1350 to Dec 4, 1500
aztecs
empire of warriors and famers. defeted by cortez. -
Period: Mar 4, 1394 to Nov 13, 1460
henry the navigator
duke of Viseu -
Period: Dec 8, 1450 to May 29, 1500
bartolomeu dias
a Portuguese explorer. first to sail to southern tip of africa. -
Period: Dec 13, 1450 to Dec 13, 1499
john cabot
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America -
Period: Dec 8, 1451 to May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus
first Italian to start colonizing the americas. -
Period: Mar 9, 1454 to Feb 22, 1512
amerigo vespucci
demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's -
Period: Dec 13, 1466 to Jun 29, 1520
moctezuma
the Aztec emperor who met Hernan Cortes -
Period: Dec 8, 1467 to Dec 8, 1520
pedro alvares cabral
known to discover brazil, cabral -
Period: Dec 8, 1480 to Apr 27, 1521
ferdinand magellan
first to circumnavigate the earth. -
Period: Dec 8, 1485 to Dec 2, 1547
heman cortes
caused the fall of the aztecs. -
Period: to
iroquois league
confederacy of nations formed to protect themselves from invaders. -
Period: to
john jay
signer of the Treaty of Paris -
Period: to
alexander hamilton
chief staff aide to General George Washington -
Period: to
andrew jackson
was the seventh President -
Period: to
henry clay
was an American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky -
Period: to
abolitionist movement
historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free. -
Period: to
Second Great Awakening
religious revival movement during the early 19th century -
Period: to
whiskey rebellion
during the presidency of George Washington. first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
alien and sedition acts
passed by the Federalist Congress of 1798, and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams -
Period: to
nat turner
slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks -
marbury v madison
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Period: to
dorothea dix
American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums -
louisiana purchase
US bought louisiana from france -
Period: to
william lloyd garrison
American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer -
Period: to
war hawks
war with Britain around 1812. -
Period: to
hartford convention
ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems -
Period: to
elizabeth cady stanton
American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement -
missouri compromise
twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free -
monroe doctrine
It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression -
tariff of abominations
designed to protect industry in the northern United States -
jacksonian democracy
political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man -
mormon movement
Mormons started their movement into the West in 1846 -
treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic -
Period: to
seneca falls convention
discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman -
Period: to
california gold rush
period in American history which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall -
gadsden purchase
29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico -
Period: to
radical republicans
Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party -
bull run
unexperenced soliders. confederte victory. -
anaconda plan
starving out the south.blocked ports. -
Period: to
freedmen's bureau
help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War -
battle of shiloh
suprise attack on camp. jhonson died bled out. -
bull run 2
attack pope. confederte victory. -
battle of antietam
union found confedertes plan of attack. norh was in lowest point. bloodest battle. -
fredericksburg
confederte victory. northern press hated presedent. -
Period: to
reconstruction
period in United States history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union -
gettysberg
bigest death toll in the civil war. pickits charged union. -
chancelior ville
robert e lee vs joseph. lee split army in two. confederate win. confederte won high ground. -
battle of atlanta
forsed civilians to leve homes. union win. -
shermans march to sea
frigiten people into leving the town. easy win for north burned way through carolina.divide and councor. -
battle of petersburg
union win. cut off supply lines. confederte lost a quarter of army. -
appomattox court house
surender from south. end of war. -
Black Codes
Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom -
civil rights act of 1866
white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude -
14th amendment
granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed -
15th amendment
15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote
