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The printing press is equivalent to a modern day computer.
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Thus laying down the foundation for early Spain.
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Huge change for England
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The famous sailing of the blue in 1492
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first english claim to North America
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Setting the stage for modern-day America
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The first permanent French settlement in North America
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all but 60 of the 500 colonists died.
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The most successful of all the English colonies
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Most rapid growing of all the English colonies.
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Making the modern-day states we all know
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protected South Carolina from French & Indian attacks coming from Florida.
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One of many French forts taken over by the British.
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States that no colonists were to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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British soldiers shoot 5 colonists.
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Stating that all the colonies must buy their tea from the British East India Tea Company.
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Arranged an economic boycott of England.
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General Gage seized American weapons at Concord, Massachusetts.
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Declared independence from the British. Birth of our modern country.
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England recognized American independence.
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Clearly showing that America was in need of a stronger central government.
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meeting held in Philadelphia.
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France sells Louisiana to America for $15 million.
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America declares war on Britain because of Trade interference and the impressment of U.S. Citizens into the Royal Navy.
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Henry Clay divided free-states and slave-states evenly at 36degrees 30'.
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Denied European countries the ability to colonize in the Western hemisphere
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John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives.
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 ordered all native-americans out of the country and into Indian territory.
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Mexican troops attack the Alamo Mission at San Antonio de Baxar.
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A book about the positives and negatives of owning slaves written by James Buckingham.
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Texas wins indepependence from Mexico, and we decide to take Mexico from them.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her anti-slavery novel, most likely fueling the fire of the Civil War.
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The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was still the property of his owner.
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Lincoln and Douglas held 7 debates in 7 cities, in which all of the debates discussed slavery.
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Confederate soldiers fight for independence from the Union, thus starting the Civil War.
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Declares all slaves in the Confederate States of America as free citizens.
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President lincoln addresses the Nation of the Union victory at Gettysburg.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
