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May 27, 1501
Encomienda
System of forced labor that the spanish inflicted on the native Americans. Spanish excuse was to protect natives and teach Christianity but it was vastly abused. This system led to the Popé Rebellion. The system was ended partly by the rebellion and partly by Bartolomé de las Casas. -
May 28, 1550
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas begins debate over native American rights by saying that the natives were abused by the Spanish rulers and colonists. He brought issue to the Spanish capital, Valladolid. His ideas were radical in that he believed the natives were fully human and should be treated as so. -
First North American Settlement
The Spanish conquistadors made Santa Fe, NM the first settlement in North America. It later became the site of the first uprising. -
Popé Rebellion
Pueblo Indians led by Chief Pope attacked Santa Fe in order to drive the Spanish out. 2,000 warriors killed 400 of the Spanish colonists and forced those remaining to leave. This rebellion led to more tolerance and the removal of the encomienda system in 1717. -
Tea Act
This act was a monopoly to a British tea company. The British East India Company had an excess of tea so they received the monopoly in order to "sell good tea cheap." However it didn't work because the Americans wanted the choice to buy whatever tea they wanted irregardless of the price. -
Boston Tea Party
This was the colonists' response to the Tea Act. After many days of the colonists refusing to unload the tea, the British soldiers were going to but the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and poured it out so they could not. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts placed Massachusetts under military rule. They closed the Boston Port. The Quartering Act was one part and it made it so that Boston citizens would have to quarter any British soldiers. The Quebec Act was another part that gave the British special priveleges. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The British wanted to steal military equipment from the colonists. However, the minutemen intercepted them and refused to move. Someone fired the "shot heard round the world." Eventually the minutemen retreated. The British find more minutemen in Concord and do not get the weapons. These battles started the American Revolutionary War. -
Shay's Rebellion
Daniel Shay led the rebellion where the courts were shut down.They did this so that the government would be unable to pass bills. He and the other farmers wanted the government to loosen the restriction that were on taxation following the war. -
Meeting of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government
This was a meeting of the delegates from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia where they had planned to regulate international trade as a country. However, due to the lack of presence, they had to continue the meeting the next year. This upset many people and was one cause of many revolutions such as Shay's Rebellion. -
Philadelphia Convention of 1787
The plan was to revise the Articles of the Confederation because of the need for reform and rebellions that had occured. However, they ended up writing the Constitution which stated, among other things, that the people would vote every four years for a new president. In the beginning, they drafted two plans: the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan. The end result was the Great Compromise which created the two house congressional system. -
Northeast Ordinance
Created five new states that lie between the Ohio RIver and the Mississippi River. All of these new states had slavery outlawed in their borders. The ordinance also acknowledged that Native Americans had a claim to the land and that they needed to receive better treatment. -
Market Revolution
This was a work shift from homes to factories. It made the shift from women doing the producing. Previously it had been the Cult of Domesticity where the woman's place was in the home and she had to provide food, shelter, love, and friendship. -
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Through the meeting, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others wrote and published the Declaration of Sentiments. It was based off of the Declaration of Independence. Their goal was to get social, political, and religious rights for women. -
Harriett Beecher Stowe
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which introduced the idea that African American people were still people. Before and for some people after, they were considered property and not worthy of the vote or full humanity. -
Francés Willard
Founded the Women's Christian Tempranance Union. This was the most powerful lobbying group in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. People realized that since women were the biggest anti alcohol advocates, they needed the vote to help the cause.
