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Oct 11, 1492
The exploration of the new world
Christopher Columbus set sail all arpund the world on october 11th he reached a small island of lucayos and came across the native americans. After christopher columbus spain launched many voyages of exploration which had a serious effect on the native americans -
British and frances clash
The french had better relationships with the natives americans causing problems with the british. in 1763 the war ended with french defeat. France surrendered most of its North American land to the british -
stamp act
The stamp act required colonists to place stamps on certain items. Some coloists opposed bristish taxation because they felt as if they were not represented in the parliament. The colonists were furious and boycotted. -
tea party
American merchants resented their loss of bussiness , a group of colonissts dumped tea into the boston harbor in protest after the british enacted other laws to raise there taxes. -
intolerable act
To punish Massachusetts parliament passed the intolerable act after the government spent immense amount of money to subjugate massachusetts. the act was passed to punish them for the Boston tea party -
The Declaration of independence
After Thomas Pamphlet commen sense powerfully argued in favor of independence that shifted with colones attitudes to opposed the british rule -
Bill of rights
Delegates agreed to a governement with three branches. Federalists favored the new constitutio Antifederalists feared that the federal would be to strong. The framers of the constitution promsed to add a bill of rights. By 1791 the requried number of states approved the first ten amendements. -
Market Reolution
People increasingl bought goods rather than make what they needed allowing the idea of new inventions that helped fuel the economic growth in the first half of the 1800s. -
social reform
women had little to no rights and revoleted and demanded the rights they deserved. The second great awakeing emphasize emotional indivial conversion and stressted the dignity of the individual. the effort to end slavery was a important part of the reform and the relgious view offered hope for enslaved african americas -
Thomas jefferson elected
Jefferson wanted to make the federal governemnt smaller. At the same time the supreme court acted to increase its power.Jefferson expanded the territor with the Louisiana purchase. -
Indian Removal act
Forced the Native Americans out of the southeast -
Strike of 1834
The lowell mills announced a 15% wage cut, furious 800 mill female workers organized a strike to demand there rights -
compromise of 1850
Henry Clay wrote the compromise in an attempt the satisfy both North and South. Congress approed the compromise, which allowed california to enter the Union as a free state. -
The start of the civil War
Lincoln issued a call for troops to fight to restore the union after the confederate foreces fired on fort sumter beinging the civil war. -
The emancipation Proclmation
The proclamtions stated that on the 1st of january of the new year all people being held as slaves shall be forever free and will reconginze and maintain the freedom of such persons. -
The end of the civial war
Lee and the surrendered at appomattox. The war ended and the Economic gap between the north and the south widened. And the thirteen Amendment abolished slavery -
invention of the railroads
The railroads although difficult and dangerous to build led to help link the nations. Railroads also stimulated growth of iron, steel, coal, lumber, and glass industries, and also helped the growth of towns and cities. -
chinese exclusion act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major law restricting immigration. It banned all enrty of chinese immigrates. freezing the chinese communtiy in 1882. -
Dawes Act
Reservations were broken up and some of the land was given to each adult family the act tried to force the assimlation of the Native Americans into white cultures. The Natives rejected this, and the policy failed -
Gentlemans agreement act
limited the emigration of all unskilled japanses workeres in exchange for the repeal of the san franisco segregation order
