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Jan 1, 1450
The New Colonists
People from spain, france and netherlands migrated to america.
Happen in Jamestown Virgina -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus left spain
Left spain to go to america -
Jan 1, 1520
Mayan Civilization
Spanish begin conquest -
Jan 1, 1520
Mayflower
Mayflower Compact signed -
Pocahontas
First native american female to be respected
Saved John Smith twice
Had three names..Pocahontas, Rebecca,Motako -
13 Original Colonies
Virginia
Massachusets
New Hampshiere
Maryland
Conneitcut
Rhode Island
Georgia
Pensylvania
New York
South Carolina
North Carolina
New Jersey
Delaware -
Virginia
Founded in 1607
Founded by London Company
Became Royal Colony 1624 -
The slave trade
In 1619 people would traavel to africa and other countries to trade materials for people
Those people would be brought back to america and treated as slaves -
Massachusets
Founded by Puritans
Founded in 1620
Became Royal Colony in 1691 -
New Hampshiere
Founded in 1623
Founded by John WheelWright
Bacem ROyal Colony in 1679 -
SmallPox Outbreak
The pilgrims transfered thier diseasesto the indians which led to ravage smallpox outbreak that soiled the good relationship between the two parties -
MaryLand
Founded 1634
Founded by Lord Baltimore -
Conneticut
Founded by Thomas Hooker
Founded in 1635 -
Rhode Island
Founded in 1636
Founded by Roger Williams -
Delaware
Founded in 1638
Founded by Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company -
North Carolina
Founded in 1653
Founded by Virginians
Became Royal Colony in 1729 -
South Carolina
Founded in 1663
Founded by Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II
Became rpyal colony in 1729 -
New Jersey
Founded in 1664
Founded by Lord Berkeley and SIr George Carteret
Became Royal Colony in 1702 -
New York
Founded in 1664
Founded by Duke of York
Became Royal Colony in1685 -
Pennsylvania
Founded in 1682
Founded by William Penn -
Benjamin Franklin
Born on this date
Was a printer
MArried to Anne Child -
New Orleans
founded by the french -
Georgia
Founded in 1732
Founded by James Edward Oglethorpe
Became Royal Colony in 1752 -
George Washington
Born in Westmoreland, Virginia
General at the Revolutionary War
Became first presifent of the United States -
Boston Tea Party
Happen in Boston, Massachusets
18,000 was how much the tea costed
Overthrew because of the taxes of the british -
Adoption of the Declaration of Independence
In Philadelphia,Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress adopted theDeclaration of Independence.It was a grea step toward equality and justice.
The document stated thatall men are created equal and banned slavey. It brought relief to many men in the U.S -
Ohio Outlaws Slavery
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Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson asks congress for funds for an expedition to explore the Mississippi River -
The War of 1812
Refered to the "Second War of Independence"
32 month military conflict between the United States and Great Britian -
The Missouri Compromise
An agreement passed in 1820
Between the pro-slavery and anti-slaveryfactions in the United States Congress
Prohibited slavery in the former louisiana Territory -
Treaty of Guadalupe
Treaty ended Mexican-American War
Gave U.S Texas and the RIo Grande as its boundaies -
Abraham Lincoln
Saved the Union,freed the slaved and presided over America's second founding
Became president in 1860 -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln
Declared "all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of the states, thencefoward, and forever free"
It did not end slavery -
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle fought around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Between Union and Confederate forces
Durig the Armerican Civil War -
Abraham Lincoln
Assianation took place on good friday
First american president to be assainated
Shot by John Wilkes Booth -
The rainroad
the first transcontenintiel railroad was created
Connected the east and west coast
Made getting people and goods around faster -
15th Amendment
Prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizens the right to vote based on the citizens "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" -
Andrew Carnegie
AndrewCarnegie created the Carnegie Steel Industry in 1870
Became very wealthy over the next 20 yers
in 1901 he sold his Steel Industryfor 480 million dollars -
Thomas Edison
Was very imortant man in history
Created the phonograph in 1877, The light bulb in 1879 and the motion picture camera in 1888 -
George Eastman
Wasvery important in the photography business
Invented the roll film in 1883and the Kidak camera in 1888
with the invention of that, it helped photography become more advanced -
Civil rights Act
declared unconsituional -
Theodore Roosevelt
Whether busting trustsor building canal, he embodied the "strenuous life" and blazed atrail for twentieth-century America.Teddy became president in 1901 -
Start of WW1
Assasination of Arch Duke Franz ferdinand of austriaby Yugoslav nationalist Gavielo Princip in Sarajevo -
End of WW1
This was the end of WW1 -
Womens right to vote
19th Amendment
Gave all american women the right to vote -
Charles Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
First person to fly a plane across the Atlantic Ocean.
Flew from New YOrk to France
Fought as a pilot in World War 2 -
Herbert Hoover Elected President
Won election of 1929
Known for the Hoover Dam
Tried to combat the stock market crash 8 months after he was elected -
Start of WW2
Hitler's aggression in Europe and Japan's imperialistic values in the Pacific sparked the single largest scale war in the history of the world -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprised military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy
Reason why the United States entered into WW2 -
Columbus found land
the land he found is now called the "bahamas" -
End of WW2
Japan surrenders to the United States -
Korean War
Was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorius Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of WW2 -
NASA
Established for peacefulapplications in space science.
Became operational on October 1, 1958 -
Endangered Species Act
signed into law by President Richard Nixon to protect critically imperiledspecies from extinction -
Vietnam War Memorial
Opened in Washington Dc
Honors U.S service members og the U.S Armed Forces who fought in the Vietnam War
