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13,000 BCE
Natives travel the Bering Strait
The ancient land bridge where Native Americans traveled from Asia to America -
951
Norse in America
500 years before Columbus was born the Norse landed in America -
1484
Bartolome de Las Casas born
He debated Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in the Valladolid Debate; Spanish priest that wrote about the atrocities the Spanish committed against the Native Americans and sought to end the encomienda system; his writings were later used by the British to perpetuate the "Black Legend" -
1492
Columbus "discovers" america
Christopher Columbus sailed west from Spain to find new route to India be he instead landed in america -
1492
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was the trading of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World -
1492
PreColumbian Era ends
The period before Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World, when North America was populated by Native Americans ended when Columbus landed in america -
Jun 11, 1494
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
He debated Bartolome de Las Casas in the Valladolid Debate. He used Aristotelian Doctrine (some people are predisposed to be slaves) to justify treatment of the Native Americans, and he supported forcing natives to convert and accept Spanish king. -
First successful European colony
Jamestown founded in virginia -
First spanish settlement
established at Santa Fe new mexico -
Establishment of New Amsterdam
dutch established the seaport on Manhattan island -
The Pequot "war"
Natives killed an English fur trader so Connecticut and Massachusetts send soldiers to kill the tribe -
New York
The British take new Amsterdam from the dutch and renamed it new York -
Bacon's Rebellion
rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley because he would not collect more land to help struggling/poor farmers. -
Pueblo Revolt
an uprising of most of the Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in Santa Fe. -
End of French and Indian War
war ends and Britain starts enforcing laws and taxes in the colonies, first trigger of revolution -
Sugar Act
passed by Parliament and imposed taxes on sugar -
Stamp Act
parliament put a tax on all paper products -
Stamp Act Repealed
Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 but then passes a Declaratory Act that gave it complete control over the colonists. -
The Boston Massacre
British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was protesting -
Boston Tea Party
colonist threw British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea -
Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson won the presidency against Aron Burr due to the support of Alexander Hamilton. This was surprising because Hamilton hated Jefferson and was friends with Burr. -
Louisiana purchase
President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory using the same argument he had criticized earlier. -
Death of Alexander hamilton
After losing the election Burr blames Hamilton and challenges him to a battle, where he shots and kills Hamilton -
Steamboat invented
Robert Fulton designed a steam engine for a steamboat that could move against the current of the river and against the wind -
War if 1812
A war fought because Britain refused to lift trade restrictions and continued impressment -
Tariff of 1816
issued a 20% tax on all imported goods -
Declaration of Indepence
america declares its Independence from Britain -
Missouri compromise
Missouri granted statehood as a slave state and slavery baned in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel -
Indian Removal Act
President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal act to send Native Americans who lived west off the Mississippi to live on reservations. This lead to the Trail of tears where many natives died. -
compromise of 1850
compromise to please the south and balance number of free and slave states -
Dred Scott decision
supreme court rules dred could no sue because he was property -
election of 1860
Lincoln wins the presidency -
Battle of fort sumter
first shots fired and start of civil war -
suspension of habeas corpus
president Lincoln suspends habeas corpus to keep southern supporters in jail -
Lincoln assassination
President Lincoln is shot dead by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the end of the civil war -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn
Native American people led by Chief Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River. -
President Garfield assassination
Garfield is assassinated in Elberon New Jersey -
Homestead Strike
When workers of the Carnegie Homestead steel plant went on strike to protest their harsh working conditions -
McKinley gets elected
McKinley wins the presidency due to the help of business men Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and JP Morgan. -
President McKinley's Assassination
McKinley is shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans for the south into the cities in the north. -
Armistice
The Armistice was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany that agreed to end the fighting on the Western Front. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in New York. With the renaissance came the rise of the flapper and jazz music. -
Herbert Hoover Election
Herbert Hoover elected president and promised Americans a term filled with economic opportunities. -
Crash of 1929
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. It was the most significant predicting indicator of the great depression. -
FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States for 4 terms. -
US Officially Switches to gold standers
The status of silver was slowly diminished through a series of legislative changes from 1873 to 1900, when a gold standard was formally adopted. -
Court packing scandal
In order to pass more executive orders with little resistance from the supreme court FDR tried to pack the court with democrats who would help him pass his orders. -
Brown VS Board
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. The case involved segregation of public schools which was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about American missiles in Italy and Turkey. In defense the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba. This is often considered the closest the Cold War came to full-scale nuclear war. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The act was worked on almost immediately after JFK was assassinated. -
Martin Luther King JR
On April 4, 1968 civil rights leader Martin Luther King JR was assassinated. James Earl Raywas arrested on June 8 in London at Heathrow Airport and charged with the crime. -
Robert F Kennedy
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced that the country was ready to end segregation, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. -
Moon Landing
In 1969 the United States put the first man on the moon and officially won the space race. The race was between the Soviets and the US each trying to out do the other and prove their the best. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, by police officers of the Ohio National Guard. 29 guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds killing four students and wounding nine others. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On this date in 1989 the Berlin wall which had been up for 30 years. It was built to keep the people of the soviet side of Germany in, to stop them from leaving and causing the soviet side crash economically. -
World Wide Web
When the World Wide Web was made public people went crazy. The web connected people from all around the world in seconds, allowed information to be transferred quicker, and brought the rise of any new and different businesses. -
Collapse of Soviet Union
On December 26, 1991 the soviet union collapsed. The collapse was caused by the soviets trying to keep up with the USA in military defense. -
President Clinton Signs NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement was an agreement between Canada, the USA, and Mexico. The agreement allowed trade between the 3 countries, this was a good and bad thing for america. It allowed for new good to be brought into the country, but it also opened an opportunity for big businesses to take their factories to mexico where labor is cheaper. -
Oklahoma
The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City using a truck bomb. The bombing killed 168 people injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the building. -
Twin Towers Attacked
On September 11, 2001 terrorist hijacked 4 planes. 2 were crashed into the twin towers, aka the world trade center. 1 was crashed into the Pentagon and 1 was headed for Washington D.C but the passengers of that plane fought the terrorist and crashed the plane into an open field before it could reach Washington. -
Barack Obama
On November 8 2008 Barack Obama was elected president of the United States of America, Making him the first African American president of the US. This event caused most of america - especially minorities and young people- to celebrate this huge event in history.
