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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who though discovered a new place and killed and enslaved Native Americans. This impacted many things that were not necessarily a good thing. -
1492
America
In 1492 America was "found" by Christopher columbus and is know the place were many live. -
1492
Christopher Columbus Lands
Columbus didn't “discover” America — he never set foot in North America. Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola. He also explored the Central and South American coasts. -
1565
First Americans Enter north
Spain established several small outposts in Florida. founded in 1565, was repeatedly attacked and burned, but was the first permanent European settlement in what is now the continental United States. -
Jamestown
The founding of Jamestown, America's first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world. -
Mercantalism
Mercantilism was a popular economic philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. the British colonies were moneymakers for the mother country. The British put restrictions on how their colonies spent their money so that they could control their economies. -
The Navigation Act of 1651
The Navigation Act of 1651, aimed primarily at the Dutch, required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels. -
The enlightenment
The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement that took place primarily in Europe and, later, in North America, during the late 17thand early 18thcentury. Enlightenment philosophy was skeptical of religion — especially the powerful Catholic Church — monarchies and hereditary aristocracy. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
French and Indian War
A war that lasted 7 years between France and Great Britain. The British then ended up winning this war. -
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, which forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stap act
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that stamped on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre happened because the British soldiers opened fire on a group of Americans which killed five men. -
Boston Tea Party
342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Declaration of independence
declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. -
United States Constitution Signed
This was the same place the Declaration of Independence was signed. The Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention—now known as the Constitutional Convention—which convened from May 25 to September 17, 1787. -
George Washington
George Washington was the first precedent of the united states. He was one of the founding father of the United States. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an 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. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs. -
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark where two men who traveled westward through what is now Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark to lead an expedition to the West Coast. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. -
Election of 1828
The Election of 1828 was between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson ended up winning the election based on the amount of electoral votes he got. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States. He was the president during the Indian Removal Act of 1830. He told the people that he was going to support the Indians, but ended up betraying them. -
Jackson democracy
Jacksonian democracy was a political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man as that term was then defined. with President Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for a generation. -
Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionist Movement is a fancy definition which means the movement to end slavery and slave trade. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was the act that was signed by Andrew Jackson claiming that he was going to support the Natives but ended up betraying them. -
Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion is when more than 7 million Americans had to travel westward in order to find a better place to live and have land -
Manifest destiny
the belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
The Mexican American War
The Mexican American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. -
Compromise of 1850
the Compromise of 1850 was a new version of the Fugitive Slave Act.Clay introduced an omnibus bill covering these measures. Calhoun attacked the plan and demanded that the North cease its attempts to limit slavery. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was an African American man who fought for his right of being free, which he then later got to be free -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott's Decision was to go to court and tell the jury why he shouldn't be enslaved based on the fact that he was a slave in the north and then went back to the south, and during that time you were considered free if you were enslaved in a free country. -
Election of 1860
the Election of 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln won against Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was the 16th president of the united states. He believed that slavery was a sin. He also started the civil war and was killed by John Wilks Booth in 1865. -
Civil war
The civil war was the civil war that went on from 1861 to 1865, and was about the controversy over slavery. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. -
Era of reform
a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s. the eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government.
