United States History

By Julian H.
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    First American to Come to North America

    The oldest artifact and human remains discovered in North America are said to be around 11,500 years old.
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    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus was an explorer from the Old World that discovered the Americas when searching for India.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus Lands

    Christopher Columbus was the first person from the old world to discover the Americas.

  • Jamestown

    A very important and one of the first British colonies in the Americas.
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    The Enlightenment

    A time period when philosophy and the understanding of the world gained much popularity.

  • Navigation Act of 1651

    When England tightened control on their colonies by requiring all goods to be transported on English or Colonist vessels.
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    Mercantilism

    Mercantilism was an economic practice that Europe used primarily in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries on their colonies.
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    Benjamin Franklin

    He was one of the founding fathers of the United States.
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    George Washington

    The first president of the United States, who fought in both the French and Indian war, and the Revolutionary war.
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    Thomas Jefferson

    Drafted the declaration of independence, was a founding father, and was the third president of the United States.
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    French and Indian War

    This was a war for territory in which the French and Native Americans fought the new Americans

  • Proclamation of 1763

    This proclamation tried to get colonists to not settle anywhere west of the Appalachian Mountains.

  • Stamp Act

    This British act that was passed on the colonies required all colonists to pay taxes on every piece of paper that they bought.
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    Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson was the seventeenth US president and was the one who did the Indian Removal Act, also known as the trail of tears.

  • Boston Massacre

    An event in North America in which British troops fired on a group of colonists and cause a lot of anger, which helped to fuel the Revolutionary War.
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    William Clark

    William Clark was on of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

  • Boston Tea Party

    A political protest by the colonists trying to stop British taxing of the colonies.
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    Meriwether Lewis

    Meriwether Lewis was one of the leader on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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    American Revolution

    The War that let the colonist gain their independence and create their own country.

  • Declaration of Independence

    The American document that said that the colonists were independent from Britain.

  • United States Constitution Signed

    The day in which the rights of the people of America were agreed upon.
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    Era of Reform

    This was an era of widespread social activism.
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    Dred Scott

    A black man who caused a lot of controversy by suing his owner and saying that he should be free.
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    Westward Expansion

    This was the event in which, after the Louisiana purchase, settlers started to move to the West.

  • Louisiana Purchase

    When America almost doubled it's land by purchasing the Louisiana territory from France.
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    Lewis and Clark Expedition

    When a group of Americans traveled west through the United State's newly acquired territory to see where they should settle.
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    Abraham Lincoln

    The sixteenth US president, also the one who emancipated the slaves, was the president during the Civil War, and was the first president to ever be assassinated. Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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    Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass was a freed slave that influenced and inspired abolitionists throughout the US.
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    Jacksonian Democracy

    Jacksonian Democracy is the belief that the president should do more for the common people, even if that means giving him more power.

  • Election of 1828

    The election in which Andrew Jackson became the president of the United States.

  • Indian Removal Act

    When Andrew Jackson forced all Native Americans to move west on what was afterword named the trail of tears.
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    Abolitionist Movement

    The Abolitionist Movement was the movement in which many people tried to emancipate the slaves and stop inequality and segregation.
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    Manifest Destiny

    The term manifest destiny was coined in 1845, but what it means is the belief that the US should spread throughout the world. The term is mostly associated with the seventeenth century, but the belief still exists in some parts of the country.
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    Mexican American War

    A war for the Texas territory that was fought between Mexico and the US.

  • Compromise of 1850

    This was a compromise between the North and South to try to avoid conflict that could lead to war.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    This was a court case in which Dred Scott sued his owner and stated that he should be free, and this sparked a lot of controversy and abolitionists to start taking action.

  • Election of 1860

    This was the presidential election in which the winner was Abraham Lincoln.
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    Civil War

    The war between the North and South in which the main political conflicts were slavery and states rights.