AP US History

  • 1492

    Columbian Exchange Begins

    Columbian Exchange Begins
    it was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas that transferred and it also relates too the European colonization and the trade.
  • 1492

    christapher colombus"Founds" New World

    Christopher Columbus did not discover the Americas not even he was he even the first European to visit the New World according too what I found
  • Period: 1492 to

    European Expansion Era

    Europe sought to expand trade routes to find new sources of wealth and bring Christianity to the East and any newly found lands
  • 1500

    spanish encrnienda system begins

  • 1500

    spanish cata systems begins

  • Period: 1500 to

    Triangular Trade

    Triangular trade or triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually is cotton, food, or slaves which only went to those three parts
  • Period: 1500 to

    Middle passage

    This was part of the triangular trade where forcibly many African slaves were being transported.
  • 1520

    Small Pox Begin Spread on Native Americans

    Small Pox Begin Spread on Native Americans
    Small pox has effected on native americans and spreaded and also children could get infected from small pox and people has died from it
  • 1521

    spanish conquest hernan cortez conquers the aztec empire

  • 1534

    England splits from the catholic church

    England splits from the catholic church
    this was in 1534 after the pope denied King Henry VIIIs request for a marriage annulment the break with Rome and the creation of a new English church was driven, then they split.
  • London Company Gains Charter For Set Up English Colony

    The London Company was an English joint-stock company established in 1606 by royal charter by King James I too establish the colonial settlements
  • Jamestown Virginia Colony Founded

    Jamestown Virginia Colony Founded
    Jamestown Colony, first permanent English settlement in North America. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold. Then if was defeated by the spanish
  • Period: to

    Colonial Era

    history of European settlements from the start of colonization in the early 16th century, 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands launched major colonization.
  • Tabacco introduced to virginia colony by john rolfe

  • Virginia House of burges

    The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia
  • First african american slave arrive in jamestown, virginia colony

  • Plymouth, Massachusetts Colony Founded

  • •Mayflower Compact

    The Mayflower Compact originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower
  • New Hampshire Founded

  • french found quebecon the st lawrence river and engage in the fur trade

  • dutch new amsterdam becomes capital of new netherland

    New Amsterdam becomes New York Dutch Governor surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland.
  • City Upon a Hill” John Winthrop

  • The Great Migration to Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Maryland Founded

    Maryland is a state in the MidAtlantic region of the Southeastern United States bordering Virginia and was founded in 1788
  • Thomas Hooker Founds Connecticut

    Thomas Hooker founded the Connecticut Colony after a disagreement with the church leadership in Massachusetts fundamental Orders of Connecticut
  • •Roger Williams Founds Rhode Island

  • Harvard College Founded in Massachusetts

    Harvard College, around which Harvard University eventually grew, was founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has still been here
  • Delaware Founded

  • Fundumental Orders of Connecticut (1639

  • Maryland Toleration Act

    It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies and created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body
  • North Corolina Founded

  • Navigation Acts and Mercantilism

  • South Carolina Founded

  • •New York Founded

    New York was founded in 1778 and now one of the most populated city in the us
  • New Jersey Founded

    new Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States and was founded by the year 1787
  • King Phillips War

    King Philip's War was an armed conflict in 1675–1678 between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their indigenous allies
  • Bacons Rebellion

  • Pueblo Revolt

    Pueblo Revolt
    Pueblo Revolt was also known as Popé's Rebellion or Popay's Rebellion,The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province. It was pueblos people against the Spanish.
  • Quaker William Penn Founds Pennsylvania

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment Era

    The Age of Enlightenment was a intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe
  • John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government Plublished

  • English Bill of Rights

    U.S. Bill of Rights. The English Bill of Rights encouraged a form of government where the rights and liberties of individuals were protected
  • Salem Witch Trails (1692)

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    Salutary Neglect Policy

    Salutary neglect was an unofficial British policy in the colonies that greatly affected Massachusetts in 18th century. it was an intentional lack of enforcement
  • The Great Awakening

    Great Awakening, religious revival in the British American colonies It was a part of the religious ferment that swept western Europe
  • Georgia Founded as a Debtors Colony

  • Stono Rebellian

    Stono Rebellian
    stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. They collected slaves and it was the largest slave uprising
  • Stono Rebellion

    The Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies and lots of africans were killed
  • French and Indian War Begins

    The war began in 1754 and ended 1763 it was against the british and new france
  • French and Indian Wat Ends

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

  • Period: to

    Revolutionary Era

    The Revolutionary War also known as American Revolution it was a push for independence
  • Sugar Act

    it is just and necessary that a revenue should be raised and revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
  • Stamp Act

    an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    Homestead Act, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of land.
  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Transcontinental Railroad Completed
    y founder Leland Stanford drove the last spike that marked the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. which was used for used for transporting goods.
  • social Darwinism Theory Gains Popularity

  • Nativism Spreads

  • The "New South" wants industrialization

  • Industrialization begins to boom

    Process by which an economy is transformed from primareily argicultural to one based manufacturing and factories
  • Standard Oil Company Founded by John D. Rockefeller

  • Jim Crows Laws Begin In South

    Jim Crows Laws Begin In South
    Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation
  • Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall

  • Telephone Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • Reconstruction ends

  • Period: to

    Gilded Age

    the Gilded Age was an era that occurred during the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900 rapid economic growth
  • Light Bulb Invented By Thomas Eddison

    Light Bulb Invented By Thomas Eddison
    By January 1879, at his laboratory in Menlo Park, Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light.
  • 3rd Wave Of immigration (new immigrants)

    3rd Wave Of immigration (new immigrants)
    the industrial work force expanded and became more diverse new immigration arrived in the north
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    U.S. federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laberers for 10 years.
  • Pendleton Act

    Pendleton Act
    illegal to fire or demote gov. official for political reasons
  • Haymarket Massacre

    Haymarket Massacre
    Haymarket massacre was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    The Dawes Act regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    In 1887 Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation.
  • Andrew Carnegies Book " Gospel Of Wealth"

  • Sherman Anti- Trust Act

    Sherman Anti- Trust Act
    U.S. Federal law act that fore bade and organized that interfered with free trade
  • Carnegie Steel Company Founded By Andrew Carnegie

  • Homestead Steel Labor Strike

    Homestead Steel Labor Strike
    Homestead steel strike, was an industrial lockout and strike battle was a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
  • Pullman Labor strike

    Pullman Labor strike
    Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the U.S. turning point for US labor law
  • plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case