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Oct 11, 1347
Black Death
*it all started when trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. All the people aboard had either died or had been effected and were gravely ill.
*12 trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. they tried to send them back out to sea before it spread
*over the next five years Black Death would kill more than 20 million people in Europe–almost one-third of the continent’s -
Oct 12, 1492
christopher columbus discovered north america
*columbus discovred america by accident. He was in search for a western sea routw from europe to asia
*columbus opened a new world for ecploration and settlement, europens knew nothing of the western hemisphere, and was the most important landing in history.
*after many rejections, the spanish sovereighns agreed to finance the trip -
Nov 12, 1516
smallpox was intrduced in the new world
*Europeans brought smallpox and other diseases to the New World and it killed off as much as 90 percent of the native population
*the natives had were not immune to the disease, therefore wiping out near all them.
*Europeans saw smallpox as an illness almost every child has while growing up, many Europeans once had smallpox or were around it, they developed immunity. This immunity helped Europeans to be uninfected when smallpox epidemics occurred in -
English founded Jamestown
*Captain John Smith became the colony’s leader in September 1608 and established the "no work, no food" policy
*a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America
*Famine, disease and troubles with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the edge of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. -
Pilgrims landed at plymouth
*out of the 102 passengers, only half remained alive by spring, due to cold and disease
*the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod(Massachusetts). A scouting party was sent out, and in December the group landed at Plymouth Harbor, where they would form the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England
*To ensure the colonists continued to respect the rule of law, 41 of the men aboard the ship signed the Mayflower Compact, (the governing principles of the Plymouth Colony.) -
The Boston tea party
- They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea *The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.
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american revolution
*this started when a conflict from growing tensions between Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown
*France was on the colonists side suring the American Revolution in 1778, turning what had been a civil war into an international conflict.
*After French helped the Continental Army force the British surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had won their independence -
Georg Washington
- was the first President of the United States
- He was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- he died at his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, at age 67.
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Lewis and Clark expedition
*this expedition was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
*lewis and clarks journey lasted from May 1804 to September 1806
*the secondary objective of this mission were scientific and economic: to study the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and establish trade with local Native American tribes. -
the capitol was burned down
*The building was under construction when it was set on fire, with only the north and south wing built
*it was made of fire proof materials such as sheet iron, marble, sandstone, zinc, and copper, making the damage not as severe
*British forces overran the capital city on this date setting fire to the US capitol -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
- Abraham Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his Confederate sympathies. *At 10:15, Booth slipped into the box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer into the back of Lincoln’s head.
