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Jan 1, 1400
Mayas
Built a sophisticated culture with written language.Established a numerical system.Created an accuate calendar. -
Jan 1, 1438
Incas- (Picture of Incas flag)
Created a powerful empire of perhaps 6 million people.Developed a complex political system. Made a large network of paved roads. -
Aug 22, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Went on a Westward Voyage with support from Queen Isabella. Columbus commanded 90 men, and three ships named Nina, Pinta,and Santa Maria.Landed in Bahamas,Cuba,Caribbean,and discovered a colony of Hispaniola. -
Jan 1, 1495
African Slavery
All africans were sent to American against their will.African society was primitive and uncivlized.Trade States of west africa resulted in slaves being traded for finished goods. -
Jan 1, 1497
Arrival of the English
To English the new world seemed attractive because of Scare Land.Englands growing wool and cloth industry were eager to expand trade.There was an increase attractiveness of acquiring colonies, which could become the source of raw materials and a market for the colonizing power's goods. -
The tobacco Company
A man named John Rolfe cultivated the crop in Virgina.Tobacco planting soon spread up and down the James.Tobacco growers needed large areas for farmland. -
Growth of Public Education
In massachusetts a law was passed that required every town to have a school.Quakers started to operate church schools.Dame Schools developed by holding private classes in their homes. -
Flintlock Muskets
Indians made effective use of a relatively new European weapon from the english called the Flintlock Musket.It replaced the earlier staple of colonial musketry. The matchlock rifle, was proved too heavy,cumbersome, and inaccurate to be effective. -
Stono Rebellion
Occured in S.C. where slaves resisted their masters.100 blacks rose up, seized weapons and killed several whites.The uprising was crushed and participants were executed. -
The Great Awakening
Appealed to women, and to younger sons of the third or forth generation of settlers.Every person is to start new with there relationship with God.Some broke away from their families and communities to start a new life. -
The Spread of Science
There was an increase in Scientific knowledge.Early colleges established chairs of natural science and introduced the scientific theory from Europe.Ben Franklin came up with the idea of electricity. -
The Stamp Act Crisis
This act fell on everyone. This was an act of taxing all printed documents.This was an attempt by England to raise revenue from the colonies. -
The First State Constitutions
Connectict and Rhode Island already had goverments that were republican in all but name.They simply deleted references to England and the king from their charters and adopted them as constiutions.This developed that all constitutions must be written down. -
The Boston Massacre
A mob of dockworkers started to throw snowballs at the british. Captin Preston of the British regiment lined up several of his men in front of a building to protect it.Several British solidiers fired into the crowd killing 5 colonists. -
Women's Rights & Roles
Most women were in charge of farm and businesses.Women were required to house and feed the British. Some women went out to fight during the war,protested,or just stayed home and tried to provide for the family. -
The Constitution of 1787
Madison comes up with the idea of soverignty and limiting power. He decided that all power,at all levels of goverment flowed ultimately from the people. The idea of checks and balances evolved stating no single group would ever be able to dominate and the centers of powers would check on eachother -
Maintaining Neutrality
John Jay was sent to secure compensation for the recent British assaluts on American shipping.Jay's treaty provied a American sovereignty over the entire Northwest and produced a resonably satisfactory commerical relationship.Pinkneys treaty evolves which states Americans can navigate the Mississippi. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney revolutionized the cotton economy of the South. The invention made the task of removing the seeds of short-staple cotton quckly and efficiently. He helped introduced the concept of interchangable parts to the United States. -
Poor Richards Almanac
This was the most famous almanac in the eighteenth-century.Ben Franklin published this in Philadelphia.There was a wide availably of reading due to the spread of printing technology. -
Deism
Deism had originated among Enlightment philosophers in France, attracted Jefferson and Franklin. They accepted the existence of God, but they considered him a remote "watchmaker". From this point the Second Great Awakening is becoming a dramtic come back. -
Exploring the West
Jefferson helped plan an expedition that was to cross the continent to the Pacific Ocean, gather geographical facts, and investigate prospects for trade with the Indians.Lewis and Clark were the leaders of this expedition. The travels helped create an impression among Americans that the land between the Missouri and Rockies was an uncultivatable desert. -
The Louisana Purchase
Livingston and Monroe signed an agreement with Napoleon for the Louisana territory.The Northwest Territory was eventally divided into states, The first of these states was admitted to the Union as the state of Louisiana. -
Marshall and the Court
Marshall served as a chief justice of the United States. He molded the development of the Constitution by strengthening the Supreme Court, increasing the power of the the federal goverment, and advancing the interests of the propertied and commercial classes. Marshall held that a land grant was a valid contract and could not be repealed even if corruption was involved. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea began a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill. New forms of prison discipline were designed to reform and rehabilitate criminals. Indians were moved to a place where they would be allowed to develop to a point in which assimilation might be possible, -
The Early Railroads
Stockton and Darlington railroad was the first line to carry general traffic. The first company began actual operations called the Baltimore and Ohio which opened a thirteen mile stretch.The railroads supplanted canals and all other forms of transportation. -
Slave Codes
Southern slaves could hold no property. The whites had to obey by the slave codes of no teaching of a slave to read or write.A owner of a slave could kill one, and it would not be considered a crime. -
The Monster Destroyed
Jackson was determined to destroy the banks or "monsters".He could not legally abolish the Bank before the expiration of its charter.He weakened the bank by removing the goverment's deposits from it.The bank of the United States died in 1836 -
The Mexican War
Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande and attacked a unit of American soldiers. Kearny brought the disparate American forces together under his command,and by autumn 1846 he had completed the conquest of California.Polk and Trist came to an agreement with the new Mexican goverment on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Vicksburg
Grant bodly moved men and supplies-over land and by water-to an area south of the city, where the terrain was reasonably good.Grant attacked Vicksburg from the rear. Vicksburg had to surrender bc of lack of nutriton. The whole length of the Mississippi had to be split into two. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida was a black journalist that started a anti-lynching movement.The movement attracted whites and blacks, particulary women, The goal was for the national goverment to do what state and local govermnets in the South were generally unwilling to do: punish those responsible for lynchings. -
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