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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus arrives in America
Columbus arrives -
Jan 1, 1552
Devastation of the Indies By Bartlome Las Casas is written
writes of Columbus brutality to natives killing them and pillaging villages -
Indentured servants first arrive
Worked for years at a time to hhopefully make enough money to buy some land when they are done. -
"City upon a hill" wrote by John Winthrop
Wrote about how church in city is important too inspire puritans -
Bacons Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon leads rebellion of lower class raiding upper class estates -
"A Letter Concerning Toleration" wrote by Jogn Locke
Talked about religous freedom, keeping government and religon seperate, infliuenced Constition -
Salem witch trials
Many people were tried and executed for witch craft in salem -
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French and Indian War
This war put Brittan in great debt which they had to tax the colonys to make up for -
Proclamation of 1763
A line that the colonists could not cross -
Sugar act
Britan taxed colonists on sugar -
Stamp act
British taxed colonys on documents that were frequently used documents -
The Quarting act
British forced colonists to hoouse British soldiers during peace time -
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Stamp act congress
First oganized meeting by colonies to start to rebel -
Boston massacre
5 people were killed by British in snowball fight -
Tea act
British taxed colonists on tea -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists raided british ship disguised as indians and threw tea into the ocean -
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Intolerable Acts are passed
These acts sent colonists over theedge and are thought to have started the war -
America declares independce from Britan
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Treaty with the Delawares
Treaty with Native tribe stopping fighting -
Articales of Confederation adopted
This was the first try aat the consititution and proved to fail -
Constitution is signed
Lays the ground work for the government we have today -
Bill of rights ratified
These basic human rights are the frist ten amenments to the Constitution which lays the ground work for Americas government -
Address to President
Cheif Sharitarsh asking for peace to President Monore -
President Andrew Jacksons message on Indian removal
President writes to COngress about how humanily and nicely he is removing indians from their homeland. -
Enrollment act
Enrollment act allows for rich to pay 300 dollars to geto out of serving -
14th amendment
Amendment allows for all US cirizens to have equal rights and treated the same by the law -
Dawes act
Act passed to give natives reservations but in this act spoke of natives as individuals instead of tribes -
Gospel of Wealth is written by Andrew Carnagie
He writes responsibilty of self made upper class rich people -
John Burnetts story on removal of Cherokees
Talks about the trail of tears which occured in 1838-1839. Soeaks about how awful it was to the natives and how poorly they were treated -
Peter Pan opened
The show peter pan shows racial undertones -
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Prohibition
time period where alcohol was illegal 18th amendment made it illegal 21st amendment made it legal again -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trail
Italian immigrants Nicolas Sacco and Bartolemo Vanzetti are guilty of murder according to the court. Evidence was flimsy. Many think they were executed because they were italian and had radical ideas -
Theodore de Bry illistrations of Bartolome las Casas writing
Ilistrations depicte Columbus cruelity in the Americas -
The Corperation
Documentry shedding light on the curuption of corporations -
EEOC vs Abercrombie
Court case over who can work at abcrombie due to religous reasons -
McCutchen v. FEC court case
Court case about campaign financing