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Christopher Columbus
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1512
The encomienda system
The encomienda system was created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas. -
James town established
James town is England's 1st American colony. -
New Amsterdam is established
Was tolerant of many religious and and became the most religiously and ethically diverse colony in America. -
The Pequot War
Was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies. -
Mercantilism
Wealth could be kept by a nation if its colonies provided raw materials to the mother country and the mother country could sell finished goods to the colonies. ... However, mercantilism also led to inflation and alienation in the colonies. -
Navigation Act
The Navigation Acts were designed to regulate colonial trade and enabled England to collect taxes in the Colonies. -
The Quakers
They formed a settlement at Salem, New Jersey, in 1675. In 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn, a Quaker, a charter for the area that was to become Pennsylvania -
Bacon' Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley -
Pueblo revolt
was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, -
The Great awakening
was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. -
The French and Indian war
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
Seven years War
The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp act
Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Boston tea party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Intolerable acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies. -
The Tariff of 1816
The Tariff of 1816 is notable as the first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition. -
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Missouri Compromise. an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri. -
Monroe doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823. -
Andrew Jackson is elected president
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States -
Womens Suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and some Australian colonies and western U.S. states in the late 19th century. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
Senaca falls convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman -
Abraham Lincoln is elected
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States -
The start of the Civil War
The election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America; four more joined them after the first shots of the Civil War were fired. -
The homestead act of 1862
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862. -
The emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation,was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
The 13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected president
Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected President of the United States. -
Rockefeller incorporates standard oil
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868. -
Civil rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era in response to civil rights violations to African Americans. -
The Invention of the telephone
The telephone is a technology that has become an integral part of our life since it was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. -
1890 Sherman Antitrust act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Homestead steel strike
Henry Frick, Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Steel and plant manager at Carnegie's Homestead steel plant, shuts down the factory and locks out its employees when negotiations with representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers break down. -
plessy vs ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson is a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. -
The black legends
an alleged style of tendentious, subjective historical writing or propaganda demonizing Spain, its people and its culture in an intentional attempt to damage its reputation -
Pure drug and food act is passed.
It regulated food and drugs that moved in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture, sale or transportation of poisonous patent medicines. -
Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism. -
World War 1
Known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe. -
18th amendment is passed.
established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
The great depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
World War 2
A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Ronald Regan is elected.
He created Reganomics. -
Tax reform act of 1989
The U.S. Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to simplify the income tax code, broaden the tax base and eliminate many tax shelters. -
The Berlin wall fell.
The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the fall of communism and the birth of democracy in the Iron Curtain countries. -
The Persian gulf war begins
international conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. -
The Soviet union collapsed.
the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state -
9/11 terrorist attack
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States. -
Barack Obama is elected president
Barack Obama was the first Person of color to be elected president.
