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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Dec 31, 1541
Exploration Around the World
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus Finds the New World
Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean to find new land for the country Spain. He sailed on August 3, 1492 and found the new land on October 12, 1492 -
Oct 12, 1492
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange occured after Columbus found the New World. This was the exchange between plants, animals, and diseases in the old and new world. -
Jan 1, 1499
Amerigo Vespucci Voyage
Amerigo made the first 2 voyages to the new world, thinking it was Asia, but it was actually the continenrt "America". Later on a mapmaker named the America's after him -
Jan 1, 1519
Hernando Cortes
A conquisador from Spain who took over an Aztec Empire in Mexio. -
Jan 1, 1535
Jacques Cartier
This French explorar founded the St. Lawrence River and also the current country of Canada -
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Colonization & Freedom for America
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"Thanksgiving"
This was one of the first steps of peace that the Native Americans and Pilgrams made together, which was when the Wampanoag Indians helped the desperate Pilgrams how to harvest food and fish.. -
Growth for Slavery
More whites wanted to buy slaves at "Slave Auctions" & by 1775 500,000 slaves toiled in the American Colony -
Colonial Seperation
Around the 1700's, the English Colonies started to seperate into regions, the New England (New England), Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies -
Immagrants Population Increase
In the English colonies, immagrants arrived daily from around the world because they dreaded for a new beginning in a new home, with land. -
French and Indian War
The Colonists & Britian fought the French & Indian to try to gain the Ohio Valley territory. The British won but the debt made the British raise taxes. -
Quartering & Stamp Act
The Quartering Act required soldiers to live in residents house and to be fed. The Stamp Act was a tax that had to be paid on printed materials -
The Boston Massacre
Unemployed labors attacked a guard of Boston Customs House & when others came to his aid the attackers throw oyster shells and snowballs. Some soliders started to shoot while this occured and 5 of the rioters were killed -
Tea Act
The colonists could only buy British Tea -
The Boston Tea Party
Colonists were angry about the only act being on tea in 1770. In return to the British doing that, men diguised as Indians boarded a tea ship in Boston, theses people, while many others were watching, threw hundreds of chest of tea overboard into sea. -
First Continental Congress
Delagates from all 13 colonies met in Phildelphia to disscuss issues -
American Revolution
This was the war that America fought in for freedom between 1774-1781. The areas they fought in were Lexington & Concord, Ticonderoga, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge,and lastly Yorktown where America won there freedom -
Signing of Declaration of Independence
When the English colonies became the United States of America -
Treaty of Paris
This is when the Treaty of Paris was signed, which officially ended the war -
The Constitutional Convention
When delegates had a meeting in Philadelphia to help revise the Articles of Confederation -
George Washington Presidency
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Trans-Appalachian Frontier
This is an event where people from the East started to move west because of things like the Gold Rush and new land expansion. -
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Settlement in the New Country, America
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John Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
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The Louisiana Purchase
When Thomas Jefferson was president, he bought Lousiana and it's territory from the French so it is easier for trade down the Mississippi river -
James Madison
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War of 1812 Started
This was when James Madison was "pressured" into war because of everything happpening like impressment. This war also helped gain America more respect and freedom. -
James Monroe
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John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson
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Indian Removal Act Occured
The Native Americans got pushed out of the East coast, their territory, by president Andrew Jackson and they had to move west. -
Martin Van Buren
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Trail of Tears
This was the winter where the U.S. Army moved 15,000 Natives on this trail to move west after the Indian Removal Act. On this trail 4,000 people died. -
William Henry Harrison
