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In search for a shorter route to India Columbus instead ends up in the Caribbean where he finds bigger fortune.
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An exchange between The Americas and The Old World during the 15th and 16th century.
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A Spanish labor system that was meant to redefine the population of the Natives.
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A social system by the Spanish meant to differentiate every class of person by their race/ethnicity. (Spanish being at the top)
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A disease brought by the Spanish and ended up killing many Natives due to the weak immune systems they had.
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Hernan Cortez, Spanish Conquistador, known for conquering the Aztec Empire and claiming Mexico for Spain.
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England split from the Catholic Church because of a man wanting annul his marriage and the church wouldn't agree.
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The first official colony that was founded in The New World.
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In an effort to control the burgeoning trade, the French Crown granted monopoly rights to a succession of merchant companies. ... It was under these terms that merchant companies established the first permanent French settlements along the St. Lawrence River – Tadoussac in 1600, Quebec in 1608, and Trois-Rivières in 1634.
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Once tobacco was introduced to the colonists it became a very big item to sell.
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African slaves also became an "item" that was very good to sell.
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The House of Burgesses was the first elected general assembly in the colonies, paving the way for the democratic society formed during the Revolution.
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Plymouth was founded in 1620 that was the first permanent puritan settlement.
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Written by men aboard the Mayflower and was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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New Hampshire was founded in 1622 when John Mason and Fernando Gorges got a land grant from the council of New England in 1638. In 1641, New Hampshire was claimed by the Massachusetts colony.
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In 1624, it became a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic and was designated as the capital of the province in 1625. By 1655, the population of New Netherland had grown to 2,000 people, with 1,500 living in New Amsterdam.
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Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans that their new community would be "as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us", meaning, if the Puritans failed to uphold their covenant with God, then their sins and errors would be exposed for all the world to see.
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The Great Migration refers to English Puritans went to Massachusetts and towards the West Indies.
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Maryland was founded in 1634 by George Calvert.
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Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan colonial leader, founded Connecticut in 1635
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The Pequot War was a war held in 1636-1638 between New England and the Pequot tribe.
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Williams fled Massachusetts before prosecutors could send him back to England. He established the settlement of Providence on Narragansett Bay in June 1636, on a gift of land from the Narragansett Indians.
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Massachusetts General Court founded Harvard College for rich white men to be educated.
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Delaware was first settled by the New Sweden Company in 1638. Their first settlement was named "Fort Christian", after the queen of Sweden. In 1655, Peter Stuyvesant captured New Sweden for the Dutch. In 1664, when the English captured New Netherlands they also took control of Delaware territory.
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The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. They wanted the government to have access to the open ocean for trading.
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The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony.
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121 settlers led by John White landed on present-day Roanoke Island on July 22, 1587. It was the first English settlement in the New World.
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The Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 1142, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth.
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The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which aimed to use the American colonies to bolster British state power and finances.
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South Carolina, part of the original Province of Carolina, was founded in 1663 when King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as the Lords Proprietors.
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The New York Colony was founded in 1626 by the Duke of York and other colonists on Manhattan Island. Named after the Duke of York and Albany, the brother of King Charles II of England.
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The New Jersey Colony was founded in 1664 by Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
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King Philip's War is considered the bloodiest war per capita in U.S. history. It left several hundred colonists dead and dozens of English settlements destroyed or heavily damaged. Thousands of Indians were killed, wounded or captured and sold into slavery or indentured servitude.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place in 1676. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley.
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680— also known as Popé's Rebellion or Popay's Rebellion– was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, larger than present-day New Mexico.
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It was designed to "appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands... and to grant 'pre-emption rights' to individuals" who were living on federal lands.
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Texas wanted slavery and Mexico had already abolished it and didn't let them have it. Texas wanted it more than being a part of a nation so they fought for freedom of Mexico
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Many immigrants, mainly Irish and German were moving to the north for jobs.
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James Polk was only a president because he wanted to accomplish one goal.. and that was to move out west and get land.
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President Polk annexed Texas after being a country for 9 years. He annexed it for the want of more land in the West.
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Frederick Douglass wrote about his life as a slave but also wrote the autobiography as a way to tell freed men that they should keep pushing.
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An unsuccessful proposal in 1846 in order to ban slavery in the territory acquired from the Mexican- American War.
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The Oregon Territory was owned by many and was later claimed by Britain and the U.S. later on it was split in half one part going to the British and the other to the U.S.
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The Mexican American War was over Texas being annexed into the U.S. although the war didn't begin until Polk sent troops to Texas to 'unintentionally' start the war.
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The terms of the treaty ended the war and Mexico gave up Texas and also 55% of it territory
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The Mexican Cession was gained as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This led to Mexican loosing over half of its territory.
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The Free Soil Movement was very short lived and was only used to enforce that there shouldn't be any slaves in the west because Northerners were afraid of the slaves stealing their jobs.
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Gold was found in California and once the announcement was made everyone made a move to Cali in order to get lucky and find gold.
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An escaped slave that took the risk of coming back to the South in order to help other slaves who are trying to escape.
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The Fugitive Slaw stated that any runaway slaves were able to be returned to their masters which caused many slaves to runaway to Canada or towards Mexico because the North wasn't safe anymore.
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The Compromise of 1850 stated that California was a free state and that Utah and New Mexico could vote whether they should or shouldn't be a free state and it also created the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this anti-slavery novel in order to get peoples attention of what is going on in with slavery and how they treat them in the South. When President Lincoln met her he said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"
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The Gadsden purchase was land bought from Mexico in order to provide the land necessary for a Southern Transcontinental Railroad. The purchase of the small piece of land was $10 mil.
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Bleeding Kansas was a nickname earned after the big fight that was held for years between the people of the state due to the argument of whether slavery was wanted in the state or not.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was made after Kansas and Nebraska were angry because Utah and New Mexico got the right to vote whether they were a free state or not. This act completely repealed The Missouri Compromise.
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The republican party was made as a way to fight the Kansas-Nebraska Act and also to stop the expansion of slavery into American Territories.
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In 1856 Representative Preston Brooks, a pro slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a cane to beat Senator Charles Sumner, a Republican abolitionists from Massachusetts, due to the argument over what to do with Bleeding Kansas.
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Dred Scott was enslaved African American who was taken to the North and tired to make him work there which was illegal and Scott took Sandford to court and the court said that he is still going to be a slave no matter what happened.
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John Brown was also another person who started the Civil War. He took it into his own hands to raid an arsenal in the south and the south took it as an act of war.
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Lincoln was a part of Republican party and once he won the election the South threatened to succeed which they eventually did do and cause the beginning of the Civil War.
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The Transcontinental Railroad was a railroad system that connected the West to the North in ordered to transport goods all over the U.S.
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The idea that Charles Darwin had when talking about plants, animals, and nature was being used for the social pyramid. The theory was degrading people by what money they make in the economy.
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Nativism was a policy that didn't favor immigrants in the U.S. because they're not from there.
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John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company and found ways for oil to be sold which made him one of the richest men during the Gilded Age.
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Boss Tweed was an American Politician otherwise known as a political boss in Tammany Hall who preyed on immigrants and bribed them to vote for a certain politician and in return they got a job and a place to live.
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The Telephone (telegram) let people communicate without having to wait for a response for months instead they receive an answer within minutes
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The Reconstruction Era started in ordered to fix what was destroyed during the Civil War and once it came to an end the Gilded age started which industrialization boomed afterwards.
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Once the lightbulb was invented by Thomas Edison it was brought into factories which extended hours for laborers
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The 3rd wave of immigration brought in at least 23million immigrants, mostly from Europe to U.S.
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The Chinese Exclusion act prohibited Chinse from entering the U.S,. for 10 years even after that it still continued.
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The Dawes Act stated that any native land that was in the U.S. was the governments to take.
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The Gospel of Wealth is a book that helps people build up wealth and later on what to do with it.
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Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Steel Company and also became one of the richest men during the Gilded Age.
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The Homestead Act was an act that let citizens buy public land in the West for cheap and people were able to improve it and later on own it themselves.
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Industrialization was becoming a major thing throughout the U.S. and made the U.S. what it is now
