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8000 BCE
First Americans Enter North America
The first Americans entered north America, which was the beginning of people living on North America. -
Period: 1436 to 1506
Christopher Columbus
Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, who sought out to discover India, and helped to begin the colonization of the Americas by Europeans. -
1492
Christopher Columbus Lands
Columbus lands on America, and without this, that which is now America would not have been formed without Columbus, he claimed to have discovered America, and this event started the colonization of North America. -
Jamestown
It was the first established colony in the New World by Europeans and lead to many more like it being founded. -
Navigation Act of 1651
Required all English-American trade to be carried out through the vessels of wither England or America, and led to the Anglo-Dutch War. -
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Mercantilism
This was an event that started with the Navigation Act of 1651 and ended with the American Revolution, and was promoted by the British government to increase wealth and prosperity, while spreading merchants across America and Britain. -
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The Enlightenment
It was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, and revolutionized the views on religion, art, etc. -
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin was one of the founding fathers of America, and a well-known figure in American history, as a politician as well as a civil activist. -
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George Washington
Washington was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. -
French and Indian War
The war between Great Britain, the French, and the Colonies, with supporting native American allies on all sides, in which Great Britain won. -
Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain, forbade the colonies from traveling and settling west of the Mississippi, which was one of the factors leading up to the the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act
An act by the British government that opposed a tax on stamps and paper in the colonies, that also was one of the factors leading up to the American Revolution. -
American Revolution
A colonial revolt in which the Thirteen Colonies, revolted from Britain, and won their independence. -
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Andrew Jackson
Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, who began the era of Jacksonian Democracy, and signed the Indian Removal Act. -
Boston Massacre
An incident in Boston, in which British soldiers shot and killed several unarmed people as a result of an argument and protest. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty, in which the members of the protest rushed onto ships, and the imports and tea overboard in protest, this also led to political unrest in the colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The document drafted by the colonies declaring their independence from Great Britain, and as a seperate nation. -
United States Constitution Signed
The Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention, and America formed their values to live by. -
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Dred Scott
Scott was was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803, in which the U.S. bought much of the land West of the Mississippi -
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Westward Expansion
Mainly as a result of the Louisiana Purchase, Americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous, this also lead to the idea of Manifest Destiny. -
Lewis and Clark Expidition
The first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, and it was an exploration to determine the colonization opportunities of the new lands. -
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Lewis and Clark
They, at the request of President Thomas Jefferson, led an expedition to survey the land West of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana Territory, that had been purchased from France in 1803. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, he was the president during the Civil War, and was also evidently, an abolitionist. -
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Manifest Destiny
This was the idea of many Americans that the settlers were destined to expand to the west, acquiring new land, and colonizing it, this idea made many colonists expand out west and settle on that land. -
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Frederick Douglass
Douglas was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman, who was a devoted abolitionist, and one of the first politically recognized African-Americans. -
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Era of Reform
This was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s, in which industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government were attempting to be solved. -
The Election of 1828
The election was between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, in which Andrew Jackson won, this event led to many other events, including Jackson beginning the Trail of Tears. -
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Jacksonian Democracy
The period in which Andrew Jackson was president, and led the country by listening to the people and trying to assist them more, but also as many believed overstepping the bounds of the presidential office, this led to many issues in the country, and questionable actions by Jackson himself. -
Indian Removal Act
It was an act signed and approved by Andrew Jackson, authorizing the government to negotiate, and then authoriize the removal of the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. -
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Abolitionist Movement
The movement to end slavery, undertaken in America by both blacks and whites, which led to more equality between races. -
Mexican American War
was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848, in which the United States won. -
Dred Scott Decision
The decision in which was when Dred Scott and his wife filed for freedom under the law, due to the fact that they had lived in a free territory for a period of time, where the Supreme Court ruled that he was still to be enslaved. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise between the North and the South, where the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was, the American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Civil War
The civil war was a war that was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy mainly over slavery.