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-Spread scientific knowledge
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-54 million people inhabited both Americas
-Spilt into different tribes
-Developed different languages, religions, cultures, & ways of life
-Developed advanced agriculture practices -
-Was looking for water route to Indies & found the Bahamas
-His discovery eventually convulsed Europe, Africa, & two Americas -
-Divided Portugal & the New World
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-Cartographer thought Vespucci explored New World before Columbus & named continent, America, after him
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-Explored Florida
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-Discovered Mississippi River
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-Found pueblos throughout Arizona, New Mexico, & east Kansas
-Discovered Grand Canyon of Colorado River & bison -
-Proclaimed province of New Mexico
-Founded Santa Fe -
-Rolfe perfected raising & curing method of tobacco that eliminated the tang
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-20 Africans were sold as slaves
-Planted seeds for North American slave system -
-House of Burgesses is first legislature in America
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-Epidemic caused by English killed 3/4 of natives
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-Hartford was founded
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-Maryland & Virginia establish colleges
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-Laws created for slaves
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-Created Carolina
-Charles II granted eight of his nobles land -
-Managed to secure fertile land
-Named Pennsylvania after his father -
-Tens of thousands slaves arrived in America
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-Thousands of slave arrived in America
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-Ignited in Massachusetts by Jonathan Edwards
-Edwards preached about believing in salvation through good works & dependence on God's grace -
-Founded Georgia
-Last of 13 colonies to be founded -
-Import tax on molasses, sugar, & rum
-Did that to curb trade with French West Indies -
-Victory for freedom of press
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-Called War of the Austrian Succession
-Struggle between France & Britain mastering North America -
-Princeton was founded in Princeton, New Jersey
-Called College of New Jersey -
-Students learned "live" languages & other subjects
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-Intended to spread out the colonial development of manufactoring with industry
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-Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
-Called The Academy -
-Controlled colonies' currency system
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-Founded in New York, New York
-Called King's College -
-French & Indian War erupted
-Was beginning of open hostitilites between colonies -
-Made for defense
-Fails & shows disunity of colonies -
-George III becomes the King of Great Britain
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-Search warrents to enforce Navigation Acts
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-Ended American Revolutionary War
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-Closed frontier off to colonial expansion
-Established & defined new colonies -
-Uprising by American Indian tribes
-Inspired by revivalists preaching Delaware prophet -
-Ended French & Indian War
-French lost all territory -
-Dissatisfied about frontier protection in Pennsylvania
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-Tribes organized against British movement
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-Restricted settlement west of Appalachians
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-Scots-Irish protested the Quaker's oligarchy's lenient policy toward Indians
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-Parliament passed this act to effectively control currency
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-Modified version of Sugar & Molasses Act
-Reduced rate of tax on molasses
-Listed foreign goods to be taxed -
-England in debt
-Cut Molasses Act in half -
-Prevented printing of colonial money
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-Taxed printed materials
-Kept troops in colonies -
-Enforced non-importation
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-Protests Stamp Act
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-Colonies support troops
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-Taxed lead, paint, glass, & tea
-Colonies react by non-importation -
-Street fight against British & colonists
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-Organized by Samuel Adams
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-Burned British ship
-Attempted to collect taxes -
-Reduces tea prices
-Gave England a monopoly -
-Dumped tea into sea
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-Punished Boston
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-Closed Boston's ports
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-Called for the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River, & east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states
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-Divided the Northwest Territory into townships
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-Convention called by Virginia to discuss a uniform regulation of commerce
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-55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic
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-Provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory
-Listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory -
-Post-Revolutionary clash between New England farmers and merchants
-Tested the precarious institutions of the new republic
-Threatened to plunge the "disunited states" into a civil war -
-Written and published in several New York State newspapers to persuade New York voters to ratify the proposed constitution
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-Constitution was ratified
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-George Washington was inaugurated as President of the United States
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-Period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history
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-French minister that arrived in the United States & passed out letters authorizing Americans to attack British commercial vessels and Spanish New Orleans
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-Rebellion by farmers in western Pennsylvania against a federal tax on the production of whiskey
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-Final battle of the Northwest Indian War
-Indians were defeated by British -
-Treaty between the United States and Great Britain
-Credited with averting war, resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, & facilitated ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars -
-Established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain
-Defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies
-Guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River -
-Political statements in which the legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional
-Resolutions argued that the states had the right & duty to declare unconstitutional any acts of Congress that were not authorized by the Constitution -
-Series of laws passed created to restrict the public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution
-Criticized Adams' Federalist policies -
-Jefferson was elected as President of the United States
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-Acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana
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-Regulates commerce between Native Americans and non-Indians
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-Andrew Jackson became a war hero at the Battle of New Orleans
-Final major battle of War of 1812 -
-Occurred in the election of James Monroe
-Period in political history that reflected sense of national purpose & desire for unity with Americans -
-Acted as quasi-military commanders to acquire Florida territory
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-Passed by Henry Clay
-Protective tariff designed to protect American industry against British -
-Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William H. Crawford, & Henry Clay were running mates
-All ran Democratic Republicans -
-Erie Canal finished construction
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-American Temperance Society founded in Boston
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-Thomas Jefferson & John Adams both died on 50th anniversary of Declaration of Independence
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-First American railroad was built in Massachusetts
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-Raised the Tariff of 1824
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-Essay written by John C. Calhoun that declares the Tariff of 1828 unconstitutional
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-Andrew Jackson is elected President with John C. Calhoun as Vice President
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-Signed by President Jackson
-Granted authority to move Indians to the west -
-Published the Liberator
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-President Jackson vetoed a bill to recharter the Bank of America
-Argued that the bank's policies favored corporations & moneyed aristocracy -
-More moderate than the Tariff of 1828
-Still left the South dissatisfied -
-Written by John C. Calhoun
-Issued by South Carolina state legislature
-Adopted measures to enforce this ordinance -
-Lucretia Mott organized the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia
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-Created by Henry Clay that cutback tariffs
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-Published "Nature" that set forth ideas known as Transcendentalism
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2,000 mile historic east-west wagon route
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-Whig Party
-Became President -
-Whig Party
-Became President -
-Sent first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore
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-Elected President
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-Presidency overthrown
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-Democrat
-Became President -
-Oregon & Canada established 49th Parallel
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-Conflicts between Mexico & America
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-Ended the Mexican-American War
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-Elected President
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-Admits California as a free state
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-Elected as President
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-Purchase by James Gadsden
-For United States' transcontinental railroad -
-Suceeds Fillmore because of his death
-Becomes President -
-Establish government
-Banned slaves & blacks from Kansas -
-Killed 5 slavery supporters in Kansas
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-Becomes President
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-Court case versus Sanford
-Black American slave that sued for his freedom -
-Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas
