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Aug 3, 1492
Discovering America
Columbus was the name of the man who discovered the great America with the three ships he had from the Spanish port from Palos. (The Nina, The Pinta, The Santa Maria) were the name of the ships. -
Merchantilism
Held a nation's power was a product of wealth and a nations wealth was measured by its stock of precious metals. -
First English settlement
There were 105 men that sailed up the stream from England and began a settlement named "The Jamestown" which was the first English colony to only have success in America. -
Sugar Act
This was adding tax to Molasses and Suger and other items such as (coffe, sugar, lumber and iron etc.) This hurt the British indies cause the French West had it cheaper. It was six pence per gallon until Grenville made adjustments so then it became three pence per gallon, but more items were added to have tax. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, also known as the Boston riot, was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonies refused to pay taxes for tea and other items so they decide to dump all the tea into the sea. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts were names describe a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The U.S began in dept of the Revolution in order to pay the dept off the put taxes on "spirits" as they called it which is Whiskey. This was all done by Alexander Hamilton. The west rufused to pay. The excise collectors were threatned in different ways. Since the west strongly disagreed with this they Burned down the house of the Federal tax collector John Neville as this they see who was against their rebellion. George Washington sent 12,950 troops area to quell the Rebellion. -
U.S Purchase
The united states purchases French territory west of the Mississippi By Napoleon expected money and the money was to go towards the War. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican
War gave the U.S. title to lands from Texas to the
Pacific and north to Oregon territory. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive slave act was a big deal in the U.S it was a group called "Compromise of 1850" the antislavery abolitionists gained California as a free state and slave-trading, this was also common in Texas this continued commonly and then it all came down to a thing called the Underground Railroad it had over 3,000 homes and "stations" so called. This was a passage to get to Canada. September 18, 1850 this was the date Slavery ended. -
Civil War.
Civil war for a reason of dealing with taxes. Abraham wanted to tax the South much more then the North would be taxed; so the Southern thought it would be necessary to secede to save them from being over taxed. -
World War II Begins
Septemeber 1st Germany goes and intrudes Poland without any warning World war II begins . Septemeber 3rd New Zealand, South Africa, Britain, France all get into War within a week. -
Civli Rights Movement
Students and others protested U.S involvment in a war berween communist and non-communist forces in Vietnam. (1955-75) -
Collapsion
Communism collapsed in Europe in 1989 because of economic failure due to that in 1991 the United States emerged as the the world's sole superpower. -
Brack Obama
He attended Law school as well as when he became the first African-American. Sworn in on January 20, 2009. He is the 44th President of the U.S. -
Neolithic Revolution
The most important technological standing ever to occur in human history was the domestication of plants and animals. These developments were called the Neolithic Revolution and they allowed the development of urban centers, trade and most of the other things we consider to be components of civilization. Date (8000 B.C.E - 5000 B.C.E) -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent. -
World War I
(Great War, War of Wars, First World War)
This conflict involved all of the world's great powers.
Known as The Allies and Central powers, there were 9 million Europeans killed because of the technology the Allies had. -
Missouri Compromise
1818 Missouri became it's own state and the people of Missouri wanted to make it another slave state but the Congressmen of the North disagreed. In 1820 an agreement called the Missouri Compromise that allowed Missouri to come into the Union as a slave state and Maine would be a free state.
