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Columbus set out looking for a trade route to India. He sets off with 3 ships with help from Spanish Monarchy
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Pope Alexander VI set up an imagenary line that divided the Atlantic. Spain got any unclaimed land to the west and Portugal got unclaimed land to the east
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Ponce de Leon was first to explore Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth. At first he thought it was an island and died from an arrow from an Indian.
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Hernan Cortes attived in the Aztec city Tenochtitlan. Eventually he attacked and destroyed the whole city.
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Francisco Pizarro attacked and defeated the Incan culture. He brought back much wealth to Spain. -
The Spanish Armada was defeated when attacked by ships set on fire and crashed into them by the English. Many ships of the Spanish Armada were damaged and sunk.
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King James I gave a charter to the Virginia Company of London to settle. Also this charter gave the rights to colonists that they would have had in England.
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About 100 men landed and settled the land they called Jamestown. Many died quickley.
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Henry Hudson explores the Hudson river and Delaware bay. He died 2 years later in 1611
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20 African slaves were sold to Jamestown.
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Only one person died on the ship on this journey. They landed after 65 days on the ocean.
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The first Thanksgiving was celebrated at Plymouth.
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Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore as a plantation colony. It was the fourth English colony settled.
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England gained Jamaica and it was good for growing sugar. Sugar in Jamaica was like tobacco in Virginia
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Funded by William Penn when he received a grant of land from the English crown. The debt was owed to his father but was given to him when his father had died.
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In Salem Massachusetts 19 accused witches were hanged. People were hanged because of many different reasons.
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North Carolina and South Carilina were separated. They each became one of the colonies.
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North Carolina colonists fought against the Indian's who attacked. The colonists won easily with help from South Carolina.
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Georgia was meant to separate the main English colonies from Spanish Florida.
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John Peter Zenger was arrested for libel accused by the governor.
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Johnathan Edwards started the Great Awakening where people cared less about the church and more about themselves.
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John Peter Zenger was brought to the trial for libel and was not guilty when his lawyer convinced the jury.
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The first copper coins were minted in Connecticut.
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England declared war on Spain resulting in attacks between Spanish Florida and the English colonies.
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50 black slaves were hanged when there plans to rebel were revealed. This happened in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, funds a trip for Vitus Bering to Alaska.
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The American Philosophical Society was founded in Philly by Benjamin Franklin.
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England limits the power of the American colony's iron to protect the English iron plants.
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England passed the Currency Act to ban the printing of paper money in the colonies.
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The first general hospital was founded in Philly.
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The war started because there was land issues near the Ohio River Valley.
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England declares war on France when the French and Indian war spreads to Europe.
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The first Indian reservation was created in New Jersey and was about 3000 acres.
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The Cherokee Indians and the southern colonies started a war with each other.
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This French Fort was captured by the English.
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The population of colonists reached 1,500,000. Boston was mostly burned in a fire.
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Ottawa Indians attacked forts west of Niagara destroying many. Led by Chief Pontiac
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Near Pittsburgh, Pontiac's forces were defeated.
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This treaty ended the French and Indian War. It also traded Florida from Spanish control to English for control of Cuba.
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The sugar act was taxes added to the colonists to pay for the french and indian war.
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The stamp act was passed and placed taxes on all printed goods.
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The sons of liberty formed together against taxation without represetntation.
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The stamp act was repealed by parliament to make the colonists less angry.
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The townshend acts restricted trade, and added taxes to more products and tea.
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In Boston, British soldiers were provoked and attacked colonists. They killed several and this caused a bigger dislike for the British in America.
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In Boston Harbor, colonists attacked a British trade ship and threw the crates of tea into the water.
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The British closed the Boston Harbor for the Boston Tea Party and limited trade.
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The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to protest to the king.
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The British attacked these two settlements to raid the colonists of gunpowder.
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The Second Continental Congress met and apponted george Washington as commander of the American forces.
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Britatin declares war on the colonies officially.
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The Declaration of Independence was signed by the members of congress.
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George Washington crosses the delaware river and captures Princeton and Trenton New Jersey.
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The Americans defeated the British in Saratoga New York in this battle.
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George Washington and his forces stay at Valley Forge in the winter.
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The British captures Charleston South Carolina.
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The colonists and French together defeated the British in Yorktown.
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The Revolutionary War ended.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed and Britain recognized American Independence.
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The French Revolution started.
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The Constitution was formally put into effect in the United States.
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The first official census was taken in the U.S.
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The Bill of Rights was formally adopted into the Constitution
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King Louis XVI was beheaded as part of the French revolution.
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Washington said that the U.S shouldn't have any alliances and try to stay out of wars with other countries.
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People rebelled against the excise tax placed on whiskey. Washington sent the military to put down the rebellion.
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The Alien Act raised the Naturalization process from 5 years to 14 years. The Sedition Act made it illegal to criticise the President of the United States.
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Jefferson defeats Adams for presidency.
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This act allowed the Federalist party to keep power in a majority Democratic-Republican Congress.
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This brought the naturalization process down from 14 years to the original 5 years.
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The Judiciary Act of 1801 was repealed when Jefferson was in office.
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Marbury wanted to go to court to gain his "right" to be an appointed judge.
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The U.S. bought $15 million dollars of land at 3 cents per acre from Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Lewis and Clark were sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase in the north.
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Zebulon Pike was sent to explore the southern part of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Jefferson made the Embargo Act which stopped all foreign trade which hurt the country and made people start to smuggle goods.
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Madison was elected the president of the United Sates of America.
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One of the opening battles of the War of 1812
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America declares war with the British.
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The American Colonization society was founded to send freed slaves back to Africa.
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It was proposed to ban slavery in Missouri although there were already at least 2000 slaves in Missouri.
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New York gave Blacks the right to vote.
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Denmark Vesey lead a slave revolt in Charleston.
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The African colony of Liberia was founded and the capital was name Monrovia after President Monroe.
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The Erie Canal was finished. It was a great occasion in trading history.
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Nat Turner lead a slave revolt in Virginia that killed 60 whites. They were mainly women and children.
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Garrison started printing his newpaper the Liberator.
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The British abolished slavery in the West Indies.
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After the British freed slaves in the West Indies, Garrison and Tappan founded this society.
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The US Post Office was made to burn all mail concerning abolisionist material.
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The actual resolution that ordered the burning of the mail.
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A mob killed abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy.
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President Harrison died shortly after taking office and John Tyler took over for him.
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Frederick Douglass published his autobiography. It was titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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Texas was finally annexed in this year.
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The dispute over the Oregon boundary was settled with Britatin.
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There were small disputes and battles over the mexican border.
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The US declared war with Mexico and it lasted until 1848.
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The Free Soil Party was organized to try to limit slavery.
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Lincoln won the election of 1860.
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South Carolina seceded from the Union and was follwed by several other states.
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The Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis as the president.
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Fort Sumter was attacked and this battle was the first battle of the Civil War.
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Lincoln ordered a naval blockade of the south.
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The First Battle of Bull Run took place and the south defeated the north with ease.
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McClellan was appointed as the new commander when Lincoln fired McDowell.
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The two ironclad ships fought to a draw and made wooden ships obsolete.
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McClellan set out to capture Richmond in his Peninsula Campaign.
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David Farragut captured New Orleans and control of the Mississippi River.
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The Second Battle of Bull Run resulted in Confederate victory again.
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The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest battle of the war with 26000 men dead, wounded, or missing.
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It declared all slaves were free but wasn't a legal legislation.
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McClellan was fired for the second time after the Battle of Antietam.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg resulted in huge losses for the Union when the Confederates lost only about one third of what the Union lost.
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Grant was appointed Command of the Union Forces.
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Sherman's forces captured Atlanta Georgia.
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Lincoln was reelected as President of The United States over McClellan.
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Sherman started his march to the sea where he destroyed everything in his path.
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Lee surrendered to Grant in the village of Appomattox Couthouse.
