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Apon Marco polos return to Europe in 1292, he wrote the story of his adventures in China.
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The printing press came into use in Europe in 1448.
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Columbus left Spain with three ships on August 12, 1492. Ten weeks later on October 12, 1492, he arrived in the Bahama Islands. Columbus thought he had reached the coast of Aisia.
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Columbus took possession of San salvador.
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Ponce de Leon explored Florida in 1513.
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French claims to North America began with the entrance of Verrazano into New York harbor in 1524.
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By 1540 the Spanish empire in America extended from from the tip of South America north-ward to California and from California east-ward to Florida.
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Champlain founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in north America.
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By the 1770's Americans had come to think of themselves as something different from the people of England or of Europe, they were Americans.
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The first Continental Congress met in September 1774. The second would meet again in May 1775.
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A article called "Common Sense" helpede convince Americans that independence from England was desireable.
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Richard Henery Lee introduced a resolution calling for the independence of the American colonies. Congress approved it and a committee headed by Thomas Jefferson was appionted to write a Declaration of Independence.
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The Declaration of Independence was announced to the world on July 4, 1776.
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On October 19, 1781 Coenwallis surrendered. This marked the end of major fighting in the American Revolution.
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Washington took the Oath of Office.
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France and england go to war. Americans wanted to go with Frances side, and others wanted to go with England. All in all at the end, America decided to try and be friends with both.
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President Jefferson was scared that the French owned Louisiana so he bought New Orleans and some other land around it to protect them. But he wanted Louisiana so he sent Monroe to france to aid Livingston about buying it from the french. Napoleon said he would sell for $15 million. Jefferson saw his chance and he took it.
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America declared war on England because they were taking our ships and our men hostage. We won alot of battles, we killed the Indian leader Tecumseh(causing less Indian trouble on the northwestern frontier) and our national anthem was writen by Francis Scott Key. He was a prisioner on a British ship.
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Was a document that said all land north of latitude 36*30' in the Louisiana Purchase was made free land.
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Monroe stated to congress that there could be no more colonization. Nations already having them could keep them but they could not expand. And also that the US would not interfere with European affairs.
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Jackson lost the election of 1824. He belives that there was a "corrupt bargin" that took place in congress in tha choice btween him and John Adams. Four years later he came back and won the election of 1828. He got his revenge for tha "corrupt bargin".
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In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.
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After winning its independence from mexico, Texas asked to be annexed, or added, to the US. their request was denied at firstbut in 1844 Texas was again asking for admission to the Union. Mexico threatened to go to war against the Union if Texas was annexed.
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, and the incumbent Stephen Douglas, a Democratic Party candidate, for a seat in the United States Senate.
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Uncle Toms Cabin was a book that was publishe dand it was pointed mainly on slavery. It talked about all the wrongs of slavery.
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The Dred Scott decision was a Supreme Court case in the 1853. The Court ruled that since blacks were not citizens of the United States, Dred Scott could not sue his former master.
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Was the opening battle of the civil war.
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Slaves in Confederate states which were not back in the Union by then would be free, but slaves in the Border States were not affected.
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The Gettysburg address is a speech that was given by President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, Virginia. It is one of the most famous speeches in United States history.
