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Oct 11, 1492
Columbus Stumbles upon the Americas
Columbus led his three ships- the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria- out of the spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His objective was to sail across the sea to india, where the riches of gold, pearls and spices awaited. What he didn't know, was that there was land between him and his destination, this was the Americas. -
Jamestown
Jamestown was a settlement located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony. The Colony was founded on May 14, 1607, it was the first permanent English settlement in America. -
First African Slaves in America
Jamestown's cheif crop was Tobacco, and since the town seemed to be running on this crop, the colonists needed more labor work to harvest the crops. In 1619 the first slaves were brought to america. -
The Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower compact was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, it was signed by the pilgrims who were the people who crossed the Atlantic in the Mayflower Ship. -
French & Indian War
The French and Indian war was a battle for the control much of North America, thought the fights began in 1754 the war really didn't start until 1756. The war was between the French, and their allies the Indians, against the British, and it was also part of a bigger war in europe. When the French lost, they signed the Treaty of Paris(1763), this gave Britan control over Canada and the french areas east of the Mississppi -
British Tax Acts
The purpose of the British tax Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. -
Fisrt Continental Congress
The first continental congress was a convention of twelve delegates from the thriteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philedelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Boycotting British goods
Boycotting of british goods began on December 1st 1774 in an attempt to get Britain to redress the grievances put on the colonies and to get britain to repeal the intolerable acts. -
Battle of Lexington
The Battle of Lexington was one of the opening battles of the Revolutionary war against the British. -
Articles of Confederation
Was the first written constitution or plan of government of the U.S. and specified how the national government was to operate. The articles was eventuyally replaced by the current constition in 1789. -
The Battles of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga was considered a turning point in the Revolutionary War, for it conclusively decided the fate of a british general John Burgoyne. From Burgoyne's surrender, the french king decided on negotiations with the americas forming a Franco-American Alliance. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in America, as the surrender of Cornwallis' army prompted the British government eventually to negotiate an end to the conflict. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783, it was ratified by the Congress of the Confederation in January 14, 1784, and by the King of Great Britain two months later in April 9, 1784. This formally ended the American Revolutionary War between Britain and America. -
Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. -
louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. -
Nulliification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. The controversial and highly protective Tariff of 1828 was enacted into law during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. -
Annexation of Texas
The Texas Annexation of 1845 was the annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States of America as the 28th state. This act quickly led to the Mexican-American War in which the U.S. captured additional territory extending the 19th century southern U.S. territorial acquisitions from Mexico all the way to the Pacific Ocean. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands that would help settlement in them, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries and to settle there. -
Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America to fight for independence.Twenty free states in which slavery already had been abolished, and five slave states that became known as the "border states" supported the federal government. After four years of war, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed in everywhere in the nation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward, in a proclamation, declared it to have been adopted. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments.
