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It was a flow of goods between the Americas, Europe, and Africa. It was significant because people, animals, plants, and diseases passed from continent to continent.
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This was Christopher Columbus’s first landing in the New World. It is significant because this how the New World was discovered
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Conquistadors recieved grants for a number of Native Americans in exchange for gold or labour. It was significant because the Native Americans were enslaved and land was taken from them.
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Because of King Charles V of Spain, they authorized Coronado to explore norhtern lands in search for wealth and resources
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It was the first slave trade voyage from Africa to the Americas
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The first English colonists wanted gold and silver, but got sickness and disease. So for a cure, they built Jamestown to help the sick.
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The Pueblo peoples did a surprise attack on the Spanish. The Indians destroyed buildings and killed more than 400 Spaniards
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It was a voyage from New York to Africa. They brought back Africans and were enslaved.
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Slavery was predominated and was important for trade in colonies. This created slave revolts because of the unfair treatments
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This was a way of seervice to give legal agreements to those in need of a servant. This was a way for families to send their kids to the new world.
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It was conflict between Britain and France over North American land. It was also known as the Seven Years' War. Fur traders wanted access to the Ohio River valley.
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It was a way to end the French and Indian war. It also created a line past the Appalachian Mountains
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It was a law that imposed imported wine, coddee, and textiles into the coloinies.
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It was passed so that British troops were stationed in colonies during the Seven Years' War. This required colonists to pay a tax on all forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
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This document was signed so there was new free and independent states to print and distribute
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It was used to define the relationship of the 13 new states.
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James Monroe wanted Western Hemisphere closed to further European colonization and threatened to use force to stop further European interventions in the Americas.
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It was signed by President Andrew Jackson to argressivelly remove Indians from their lands in order to make resettlements
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Leaders of South Carolina advanced the idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law and could, in effect, "nullify" the law.
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Because of President Andrew Jackson's abuse of presidental power, a group of anti-Jackson political parties formed the Whig party.
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Cherokees were removed from their land by troops and were sent to Oklahoma. More than 4,000 Cherokees died en route
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President Abraham Lincoln declared that African Americans could be recruited into the military
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President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC.
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It was a group that was organised to scare/kill black people
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It was providing that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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It was completed when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met. Chinese and European labourers were recruited to help lay 1800 miles of track
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Hiram Revels became the first African American to serve in Congress. During 1865 and 1977 many African Americans served in state and local politics
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Immigrants, primarily from Europe, arrived in the United States.
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US troops slaughtered about 200 Sioux, many of them women and children.
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It held its first convention and ratified the Omaha Platform documenting the tenets of the party.
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Louisiana passed th Separate Car Act. Homer Plessy boarded a train and announced that neither white nor inclined to move to a section for African Americans. He was arrested for violating the act.
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Granted women the right to vote
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Germany invaded Poland
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American forces were able to destroy much of the Japanese air fleet. It was the most important battle of the war in the Pacific. It destroyed 248 Japanese planes and four Japanese carriers
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Plans were developed by Dwight Eisenhower to attack German troops. US troops sent down more than 160,000 troops and was supported more with 5,000 ships and 13,00 aircrafts
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United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It killed and destroyed about 30 percent of the population immediately.
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Segregation of public school children based on race was unconsitutional
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Four black college students sat down at lunch counter and were refused service
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It prohibits literacy tests as a requirement for voting
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MLK was shot and killed by James Earl Ray outside of King's hotel room
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Gender equality for all rights
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Terrorists executed a series of attacks by Al-Queda leader, Osama bin Laden
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Enforcement agencies and the justice department more power in investigating and dealing with suspected terrorists.
