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Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus Discovers America
Christopher Columbus (31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator. Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria out of the Spanish port of Palos on Aug, 3 1490's. Columbus and his crew discovered America in 1492. -
First Slaves Into America
Slavery in the United States was a form of slave labor which existed as a legal action in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776, and continued mostly in the South until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. The first English colony in North America, Virginia, acquired its first Africans in 1619, after a ship arrived, unsolicited, carrying a cargo of about 20 Africans. -
The Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Almost half of the colonists were part of a group seeking the freedom to practice Christianity. It was signed on November 11, 1620 by 41 of the ship's 101 passengers. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War. -
Colonial Boycott
A british Tax on many american good imported from Britian. -
The British Tax Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America.
The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War. -
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was the political uproar during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
The Declaration of independence
The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America demanded independence in July of 1776. -
The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was the first written constitution or plan of government of the New America and specified how the national government was to operate. It was drafted in 1776-77 and became the working constitution, although it was not formally ratified until 1781. The Articles backed up the Congress in its supervision of the American Revolution, its diplomacy with Europe, and its territorial issue -
The Battle Of York Town
Battle of Yorktown, in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. The Battle proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, as the surrender of Cornwallis' army prompted the British government eve -
The Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 ,formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America. -
The Constitution
A document supporting the fundamental principles upon which the American republic is conducted. Drawn up at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the Constitution was signed on Sept. 17, 1787, and ratified by the nine states by June 21, 1788. -
Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. -
The Luisianna Purchase
By a treaty of the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 800,000 sq mi. of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The price was about $15 million; $11,250,000 was to be paid directly, with the balance to be covered by the assumption by the United States of French debts to American citizens. -
The Nulification Crises
The Nullification Crisis was a crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the boundaries of South Carolina. -
The compremise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which saved or protected a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories taken during the Mexican-American War . The compromise avoided secession or civil war and reduced conflict for four years. -
The Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America to fight for independence. Twenty mostly Northern free states in which slavery already had been abolished, and five slave states that became known as the "border states" supported the federal government. -
The Emancipation Proclimation
6.The Emancipation Proclamation was established on January 1st, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln(16th President), and was made to free all slaves. But unfortunately not all slaves were freed. The South wanted to keep the slaves so they started the Civil War. When the war was over, the south had lost and agreed to give up their slaves. All thanks to Abraham Lincoln. -
The Thirteenth Admendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and mis-treatment to African Americans,except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. -
The Missuori Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. before the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise!