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Christopher Columbus an explorer and a navigator, travels across the Atlantic Ocean hoping to find a route to get to China/India. Instead, he found himself in the Caribbean, which was when he "found" the New World.
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Named after our boy Chris, the exchange was a trade between the New and Old World that involved technology, animals, plants, cultures, diseases, and other things.
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This was a period of time in which multiple European countries traveled the world to find new trading routes and trading partners in order to increase their own wealth.
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The trade between America, Europe, and Africa which consisted of raw materials, slaves, and manufactured products.
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The middle passage was the trip that slaves had to take to reach the New World in cramped boats.
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As a result of the Columbian exchange, the old world brought with it diseases that the natives had no pre-built immunity to them.
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King Henry the VIII wanted to divorce his wife, but couldn't under the Catholic Church. So the obvious next step would be to split from the church and appoint yourself the leader of your new church, the Church of England.
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In 1607, the Virginia Company came to the New World to start a settlement. They picked Jamestown, and it became the first permanent settlement in the New World.
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This era covers the time before the revolution started and the establishment of the constitution. Also, I saw the numbers for this era and I started to think about Fetty Wap
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John Rolfe introduced tobacco to the colony. The crop grew very well due to the very fertile soil and warm climate and became very easy to grow as a cash crop.
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The House of Burgesses was the first elected general assembly in the colonies, making it an example for the future on how to make a legislative body.
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It was the first document to establish self-government in the New World/colonies.
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John Winthrop used this phrase referring to Boston, saying that they were the model city for everyone else to see.
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Williams founded Rhode Island as a place of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state.
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Harvard was founded in 1636, making it the first institution of higher education in the New World.
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The orders were the first written constitution in the colonies, which stated and limited the powers of the government.
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This act was meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers.
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Mercantilism was the deal that the colonies would only trade deals with Britain and not other countries. The navigation acts said that all exports from the Americas had to go to Britain.
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The rebellion started as a way to get a change in Virginia's Native American-Frontier policy.
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It was an intellectual movement that brought forth more ideas about religion and politics to the average person. This led to the beginning of the revolution.
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These were a series of prosecutions of people who were accused of performing witchcraft.
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This policy says that Britain will let the colonies can break some of the laws, as long as they are making a profit and benefitting from the colonies.
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It was a religious revival that reintroduced the importance of religion to the people of the colonies.
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James Oglethorpe thought of the idea and presented it to Parliament. It was a way for people in debt to pay off their debts via labor.
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The war begins over a land dispute near the upper Ohio River Valley between the British and the French
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The war ends with the Treaty of Paris, leaving France with no more land in the New World.
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A British order that said that the colonists couldn't expand past the App. mountains
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This act passed by parliament which imposed a tax on all paper goods and legal documents in the colonies.
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This was a confrontation between british soldiers and colonists, which ended with five people dead, and a very angry group of colonists thanks to Paul Revere and Samuel Adams
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In response to the taxes imposed on them, the colonists decided to boycott British goods. Some rebels decided to dumb British tea into the Boston harbor.
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Britain, in response to the Boston Tea Party, Britain passed the intolerable acts. This closed down the Boston Harbor as punishment to the colonies.
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Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, which was a pamphlet that convinces people that rebellion is the right option if you have common sense.
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This is the document that the colonies used to declare their independence from Britain which contains the grievances that the colonies had.
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Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, a book about the Free Market Economy, its pros and its cons.
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The winter proved to be a great trial for the continental army as they suffered from starvation and cold weather.
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The Articles of Confederation served as the U.S's first constitution passed by the Second Continental Congress. It formed a weak federal gov't, so it didn't work out too well.
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This was the last major battle of the American Revolution, which ended with the British Army surrendering after being surrounded by both the colonists and the french.
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Shays' Rebellion was an uprising against increased taxes from the state gov't. This rebellion showed how weak the federal gov't was, as they couldn't do anything about this as they would be interfering with the state gov't.
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A series of essays written by Hamilton and friends to convince people to ratify the United States Consitution.
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Delegates from every state came together to discuss and write a new constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation.
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Consitution that followed the Articles of Confederation. This constitution called for a stronger federal government and a separation of powers.
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A compromise made by the big and small states that they would have a bicameral legislature, split into congress and the house of representatives.
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A compromise settled in the constitutional convention that stated that only 3 out of every 5 slaves would be counted towards a state's population. This was done to figure out the amount of representation slave states would get in the House of Representatives.
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The bill of rights was the first amendment given to the U.S constitution. They lay out the basic civil rights and liberties that an American citizen has.
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The French overthrow their monarchy, and are trying to make a better political system, as they were inspired by the American Revolution
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Washington gets elected unanimously to be the first president of the United States.
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The cabinet was made to aid the president in making decisions. They were usually highly ranked people in legislature or had some expertise that the president didn’t have.
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Written in the constitution, Washington D.C. would be the new capitol of the country, replacing Philadelphia role as the capitol.
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Hamilton proposed the idea of having a national bank with a national currency, which would make financial situations easier. The creation of the bank made it easier to establish a federal system to collect taxes for the gov’t
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Washington, after 8 years of being in office, writes the Farewell Address as his final advice to America on how to run the country without ruining it. He writes about avoiding foreign events, and avoiding the two party system.
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Scott Key, trapped on a British ship, watches the British attack on Fort McHenry. After the attack, he sees an American flag still standing. This inspires him, and he writes what it now our National Anthem
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This was a revolution against Mexico, as Texas didn't like Mexican Law.
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Texas joins the United States after being its own republic, separate from Mexico. It becomes the 28th state.
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The Mexican-American War begins, due to a border dispute between Mexico and the United States. The border in question was Texas' southern border.
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The Wilmot Proviso was an attempt to outlaw slavery in the Mexican Cession. It was unsuccessful, but it made the issue of slavery be more apparent in the political landscape of America.
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The treaty officially ended the Mexican American War and settled Texas' border to be the Rio Grande River. It also gave American the possession of the Mexican Cession, which would end up being split into more states.
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The Mexican Cession is a territory given to the United States by Mexico, as settled in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It was ceded to the United States for $15 million.
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The Free Soil Movement formed a political party, whose main goal was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories.
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The Gold Rush occurred after gold was found in Sutter's Mill in California, which would prompt many people to head west in attempts of finding gold. Most wouldn't find any, but this rush increased the population in the new territories.
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The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, stopped the slave trade in Washington D.C., let Utah and New Mexico practice popular sovereignty, and enforced the Fugitive Slave Act.
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The Gadsen Purchase was a territory that the United States bought from Mexico for $10 million. The purchase was made to be able to elongate the transcontinental railroad.
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The Kansas Nebraska Act let the new territories of both Kansas and Nebraska on whether slavery was to be allowed in their respective states via the use of Popular Sovereignty. This will eventually cause Bleeding Kansas.
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As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, people flocked to the territories to try to sway the vote to their ideals on slavery. This would lead to violent confrontations between people who were pro-slavery and anti-slavery.
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Senator Sumner was caned by a pro-slavery southerner who he had criticized in a speech.
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Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus, which let's the military be able to arrest and detain people who they thought were trying to interfere with their cause.
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Act that promoted migration westward, with the promise of land after five years of living there.
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The transcontinental railroad, a railroad that spans across the entire country west to east, was finished. Mainly built by Chinese immigrants =
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Factories and Industry become more common around the country, which causes an increased demand for unskilled labor.
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Darwinism and the idea of "survival of the fittest", starting being applied to social classes and the economy during the Gilded Age.
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As there was an increase of immigration to the U.S, there was a spread of nativism, people who believed that immigrants were worse than US-born citizens
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Rockefeller founds Standard Oil and starts to dominate the oil industry, creating jobs and a monopoly.
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Political Bosses, such as Tweed, started to have more increased political power as immigration rose. This made elections very rigged
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The timespan in the United States usually known for its big economic boom, but also had some shady political practices thrown into the mix.
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More migration to the U.S, causing population increase and more industrialization
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The Chinese Exclusion Act prevented the immigration of Chinese into the US due to the increased feeling of nativism
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The Dawes Act removed Natives from their land, in an attempt to merge them with urban society
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Carnegie wrote his book about philanthropy, stating that people who are rich should give back since they're better than the lower class people.
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Carnegie starts to get a monopoly over steel, as it's vital to create buildings. If you wanted to build a building, you had to go through Carnegie
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