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1400
Age of discovery
Historical period between the 15th and 18th century where Europeans found America and colonized the "new world". They had found that the natives lived in the land and tried to claim what was not theirs. -
1492
Columbian Exchange
Exchange of goods,idea,disease, and people between the americas,Africa, and Europe in 1492. The Natives Americans would also be affected if this by small pox and wiped out a majority of the Natives. -
1492
Discovery of the New World
When Christopher Columbus set sailed to find a route to west Asia, instead he discovered North America. This discovery made Christopher famous and when he came back to Spain he was then a celebrated her. -
1493
Inter Caetera
It granted significant lands to the Spanish. It stated any land with no christians living in it is free to be exploited and discovered and was issued by Pope Alexander VI. -
1512
Encomienda System
Conquistadors made a system to enslave the Indians and take their land. They were supposed to protect and Christianize the Indians. -
1517
Battles of Religion
A monk named Martin Luther sparked protests and reformation. New Kingdoms would protest and tried to stop Catholicism from spreading. -
1525
Atlantic Slave Trade
It was the first slave trade voyage to ever be recorded. It went from America to Africa and Africans were treated as cargo when came in to the ship. -
Jamestown Virginia
Jamestown was founded in a swampy area and was the first successful English colony but at first it was going bad for the British because they were trying to find gold and silver. Instead they found disease and nearly resulted in starvation. -
English Colonization
Due to the Colombian exchange the English population increased from 3 million to 4 million. As a result people started to move to America because it was advertised as a utopia. -
Dutch Colonization
The Dutch colonized New Amsterdam because they had expstablished a seaport. New Amsterdam was the most diverse out of all the colonies. -
Rhode Island
Puritans of anew England felt that other religions were intolerable. Roger Williams would go against church authority and formed his own colony called Rhode Island for religious salvation. -
Pequot War
In 1637 the Pequot war killed an English fur trader because the Pequot Indians specialized in fur trading. The war resulted in the deaths of 500 Pequot Indians nearly wiping them out. -
Bacon's Rebellion
A planter by the name of Nathanial Bacon began his rebellion to overthrow the Governor. Governor Berkeley didn't want to help exterminate the Indians nor listen to the planters. -
Stono Rebellion
Slaves were rebelling because the Spanish had promised them freedom of whoever escaped from British colonies. By the end of the Rebellion 24 whites died and 200 slaves died as well. -
Proclamation of 1763
British government forbade British colonists from settling west if the Appalachian Mountains and for the people that lived there needed to move back to the east. -
Sugar act
British were deeply in dept due to the war and they placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molases. -
Stamp Act
It was meant to help pay for the British army in America. Placed tax on all legal documents and new papers. -
Townshed Act
Set laws passed by parliament after stamp Act crisis that stated new taxes would be applied to imported goods. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. In result 5 colonists killed -
Second Continental Congress
Organized a continental and declared George Washington to lead the army and appointed committee of fire to draft the Declaration of Independence -
Shays Rebellion
An army of 1,500 angry farmers forcibly restrained the state court from foreclosing mortgages on their farms. -
Marburg v. Madison
Court case in which William Marbury sued James Madison for not delivering John Adam's commission about Marbury becoming judge. -
Louisiana Purchase
Doubled the size of the US opened up land for expansion Jefferson changed his interpretation from strict to loose on this issue. -
Hartford Convention
New England merchants opposed the embargo and other trade restrictions and the war of 1812. Advocated the right of states of states to nullify federal laws. -
Era of good feelings
Named for presidents Monroe's two terms and a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion. -
Panic of 1819
Was a natural post war depression caused by overproduction and the reduced demand for goods. It was her really blamed on the national bank. -
Second great awakening
Series of religious revivals peaking in 1820s that resulted in Methodism and baptism becoming the largest denominations in U.S. And would host large religious tent revivals. -
Erie Canal
Opened as a toll waterway connecting New York to the Great Lakes. This helped connect the Northern cities to the agrarian West. -
Election of 1840
Martin Van Buran ran for re-election against William Henry Harrison the whigs emphasized how poor Henry was in order for him to gain popularity. Henry won the election but died when he went into office and John Tyler took his place. -
Mexican War
The cause of this war was Texas belonged to Mexico at first and the United States annexed the state and Mexico fought to get their land back which resulted in the US winning the war. -
Compromise of 1850
After the war there were more free states than slave states and ssouth was upset over this so to end the Fued Henry Clay came up with the Compromise of 1850 which allowed enforcement of fugitive slave law and New Mexico and Utah were opene to the vote on slavery. California would also be a free state. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown was an abolishionist who wanted the slaves to achieve freedom by starting a slave uprising and attempting to raide on the armory. He would eventually failed. -
Election of 1860
In result of Abraham Lincoln winning the election of 1860 South Carolina begins to sucede from the Union and later many more states would sucede which were the south and called themselves the "Confederate States of America". -
Battle of Gettysburg
This would the Confederate's last attempt to invade the North and the Battle was considered the "Turning Poiint" of the civil war and the North would end up winning this Battle. -
Confederate Surrenders
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Grant resulting that the North won the war and the South lost. -
Asassination of President McKinley
President William McKinley was shot twice by Leon Czolgosz who the son of an anarchist he survived but eight days later he died and as replaced by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Great Migration
When African Americans moved from the south to the north to avoid Jim Crowe laws and job scarcity in the south. -
Submarine Warfare
Germans would challenge the British blockade with a new naval weapon which was the submarine and threatened any ships with submarine warfare -
Esponiage Act
People were tried for 20 years in prison if they tried incite rebellion in the armed forces or they obstruct the operations of the draft -
Zimmerman Telegraph
was a secret diplomatic communication issued from German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
Sedition Act
This would prohibit anyone from making "disloyal" or rude remarks about the U.S. government -
Treaty of Versailles
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. It reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. -
Hoover on the economy
President Herbert Hoover launched a statement "any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish" -
3.2 million people unemployed
By 1930 more than 3.2 million people were unemployed and up from 1.5 million before the stock market crash of October 1929. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust bowl would start to worsen conditions for Farmers from the plains and would have no choice but to migrate west in search for work. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for president
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president over incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover. This occurs During the Great Depression. -
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the New Deal this would provide jobs and funds for federal projects through a number of agencies. -
Fireside Chat
After the Inauguration Presidnet Franklin D. Roosevelt held an evening of addresses to the American people broadcasted on radio. -
WW II
Germany would invade Poland in 1939 and would ignite the Second World War in which case FDR would sign the neutrality act which would end arms embargo and authorized cash and carry exports. -
Levittown
An Entrpreneur named William J. Levitt began building the largest housing project in American history. On a thousand acres on Long Island Levitt built 17,000 homes to accommodate 82,000 people. -
Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan
On March 12, 1947 president announced the Truman Doctrine a policy plan to keep communism from spreading to politically unstable countries. -
Berlin Blockade
As Americans and soviet forces occupy Germany clashed over punishment and rehabilitation plans for the country, soviets cut off Berlin. -
Communist revolution in china
The People's Liberation Army led by communist leader Mao Zedong ousted Chang Kai Shek's nationalist government in China 1949 -
NAC-68
The National Security council had issued the classified report NSC-68 in 1950 which outlined a plan that would snap American Cold War policy for years to come. -
The Korean War
The Korean War began on June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea in effort to unify the two countries. The UN and the United States would soon intervene -
Hydrogen Bomb Test
In 1952 the United States exploded a hydrogen bomb on Enjwetok, an island in the Pacific Ocean. The detonation would destroy the island and would send up a three mile wide mushroom cloud. -
Richard Nixon
Conservative, Richard Nixon is elected president he claims to represent the silent majority of Americans that are through with social change and violence of the 1960's. -
Bombing in Cambodia
Nixon escalated the war by bombines Cambodia in 1970 to shut down the shut down the Ho
Chi Minh Trail -
The president goes to china
In 1972 president Nixon became the first US presidnet to visit communist china in an attempt to discuss foreign policy with Mao Zedong. -
Water Gate Scandal
Nixon ran for re election but was scared to lose it so workers from his campaign were caught breaking in to the Democratic National head quarters to steal their "Game Plan" for the election. -
Jimmy Carter
In 1976 Democratic Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter wins the presidency and was heavily influenced by international issues. he also made peace with the Middle East with the camp David accords. -
Muslims lead Revolution
In 1979 Muslim leader led a revolution that led to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran while he was out of the country. Revolutionaries wanted a strong and religious Leader known as the "allatoyah". -
Iranian Hostage crisis
Iranian fundamentalists seized the American embassy in Tehran and held fifty three American diplomats hostage and were finally release on January 20, 1981 the day Ronald Reagan became president.
