American history i

American History I

By jessilynhubbard
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Credited with "discovering America".
  • 1519

    Hernando Cortez

    Conquered the Aztec Empire.
  • 1534

    Francisco Pizzaro

    Conquered the Inca Empire.
  • 1539

    Hernan de Sato

    Assisted Pizzaro with the conquest of Inca.
  • Period: 1565 to

    Spain

  • Period: to

    England

  • Dutch Republic

  • France

  • Period: to

    King Phillips War

  • Period: to

    Revolutionary War

  • Declaration on Independence

  • Pickney's Treaty

    Spain was afraid of the alliance between Great Britain and the US

  • Constitutional Convention

    Delegates met to revise the Articles of Confederation but decided to create a new constitution.

  • Judiciary Act

    Federal law remained the "supreme law of the land"

  • Cotton Gin

  • Jay's Treaty

    British began stopping seamen and forced them to serve in the British army.
  • Period: to

    Amendments 11-27 added to the Constution

  • Interchangeable parts

  • Election of 1800

    Battle between the federalists and the democratic republicans

  • Steam Boats

  • Embargo Act

    British continued capturing sailors because of Jays treaty.

  • Erie Canal

  • Steel Plow

  • The National Railroad

  • Telegraph

  • Gold Rush

  • Gold Rush

    Settlers move west to try to farm gold.

  • Lincoln's Assassination