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He sailed and found the new world
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He returned with cattler, swine, and horses which reached america a few years later.
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Divided the world with portugal the "heathen lands" of the New World.
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Ponce de Leon was looking for the fountain of youth.
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Vasco Nunez Balboa was a Spanish Conquistador who discovered the Pacific Ocean. He set sailed off the coast of Panama and said he was king of all the lands that the sea touched.
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Cortes arrived in 1519 and conquered Mexico until 1521.
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Aztecs attacked the Spanish.
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Cut off all resources to the Aztecs
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He discovered the Mississppi and Arkansas while on a gold expidition.
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Sir Francis Drake returned from a trip around the world on his ship. When he returned he had brought Spanish booty on his ship.
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Lost his life at sea
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After Sir Humphrey's death at sea, Sir Walter Raleigh organized an expedition and landed on Roanoke Island.
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A joint - stock company was made called the Virginina Company of London.
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They settled here but it was extremely unhealthy and many people died.
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Spain founded New Mexico and claimed it.
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Ordered his troops in Jamestown to attack the Indians and raid their camps/burn their homes.
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De La Warr introduced "irish tactics" and his troops raided villages, burned houses, confiscated provisions, and torched corn fields.
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He was beheaded because of Ovlier Cromwell.
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By 1700, the black slaves out numbered the amount of white settlers in the new world.
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This is when North and South Carolina officially split and became royal colonies.
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Georgia was the last of the 13 colonies to be founded.
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John Peter Zenger, was aquited of libel in New York and established freedom of the press.
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George Whitefield spread the Great Awakening by providing a different style of preaching.
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South Carolina slave revolt
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Joseph the second of Austria was born.
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The first encyclopedia was published
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Passed by English Parliament banning the issue of paper money in the New England colonies.
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France loses the North American colonies and Spain cedes from Florida in exchange for Cuba.
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The French and Indian War (Seven Years War) ends
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Brought together in NYC 27 distinguished delegates from nine colonies.
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The families had to house and feed the British soldiers in America.
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Reaffirmed parliment's right to "bind" the colonies in "all cases whatsoever."
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Light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. Made this tax an indirect customs duty payable to the Americans.
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New York Legislature is suspended by Parliment
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Junipero Serra was a friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California in the Las Californias province in New Spain.
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About sixty some colonists set upon a about ten redcoats and the redcoats attacked the "innocent" colonists.
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All of the Townshend Acts except the tea tax is repealed
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The Committees of Correspondence were formed
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The British East India Company is granted a tea monopoly
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Sons of liberty disguised as indians hurled chests of tea into the sea to protest the tax on tea and to make sure that its cheap price did not prove and "invincible temptation" to the people.
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Boston customs official, John Malcom, was paraded after being tarred and feathered.
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Acts designed to chastise Boston in particular, but Massachusetts in general.
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Closed the harbor until all damages were paid and order could be ensured.
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The province of Quebec was extended all the way down to the Ohio River which gave the French more land.
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The Association boycotts British goods
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By 1775, Britain ruled 32 colonies in the new world.Including Canada, the Floridas, and Caribbean islands.
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A British commander in Boston sent troops to Lexington and Concord. They were to sieze stores of colonial gunpowder and capture the ring leaders. At Lexington, the "Minute Men" didn't leave fast enough and shots were fired starting the battle.
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The Peruvian Indians revolted against Spain.
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Written constitution for the colonists
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The first play was perfessionally performed in America.
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the area would be subordinate to the government first. when it reached sixty thousand people it could be a state.
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put a tax on whiskey. it lead to the whiskey rebellion.
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it gave rights to the people of the United States
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it was a group of framers and was put down by the army.
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john adams becomes president
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passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution's
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Was tried for treason but was let go.
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forces under General Hull cross into Canada at Sandwich. The invasion is quickly stopped, and American forces are forced to withdraw. By August 16, Hull surrenders Detroit.
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The US forces, commanded by General Winchester, sustained severe loses including 100 dead and 500 men captured. They surrendered to British Colonel Henry A. Proctor.
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British planned both a land and sea assault. Determined American militia who held the line and blocked the way to Baltimore blocked the land assault. To reach Baltimore by water it was necessary to capture Ft McHenry. In an event immortalized by the Star Spangle Banner despite an overnight bombardment- the fort held and the British were stopped.
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the USS "Hornet", under the command of Captain James Lawrence, engaged and destroyed the British vessel, the HMS Peacock off of the coast of Guyana.
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American forces, under General Henry Dearborn, captured the British base at York, Canada.
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Major George Croghan successfully defended Ft. Stephenson from an attack by the British and Indians under Colonel Proctor.
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Commodore Perry defeated the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie.
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British forces commanded by General Proctor were forced to withdraw. The American forces catch up with the surrendering British and Indians and decisively defeat them. Tecumseh, the Indian chief, was killed in the battle.
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US forces were defeated at a battle near Niagara Falls, on Queenston Heights. The US officers were unable to convince militia troops to cross into Canada to provide reinforcements and supplies.
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British captured American Fort Niagara. They then went on to capture Buffalo
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The treaty reflected the state of the war, a stalemate.
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USS Wasp successfully attacked and captured three British ships: the HMS Three Brothers, the Bacchus" and the Atlanta. The Wasp successfully stopped the British advance to New Orleans.
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Most people didn’t like blacks, early abolitionists advocated shipping them back to Africa.
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In the Treaty of 1818, the United States divided/shared the area with the British
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Denmark Vesey won money in a lottery to buy freedom & plotted a rebellion in Charleston, SC
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West African coast; was established for former slaves
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Nat Turner led a rebellion that killed 60 Virginians (mostly women and children.)
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Fears of revolts from blacks; Jailings, whippings, and lynchings were done to prevent discussion of the slavery problem
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National gov. destroyed abolitionist material & called on southern State officials to arrest federal postmasters who didnt agree
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had a rope tied around him and was dragged through the streets of Boston by the Broadcloth Mob
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Southerners in the House passed this resolution. Required any anti-slavery appeals to be put tabled without debate.
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A small number of Canadians started a rebellion. They were joined by hundreds of Americans who were wanting to help Canada gain freedom from the British. The Americans also gave supplies
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Reverend Elijah Lovejoy’s printing press was destroyed four times and he was killed by a mob
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War between lumberjacks from Maine and Canada near the Aroostook River
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First recorded bowling event in United States,in knickerbacker, New York.
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United States Supreme Court rules blacks free
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The first child labor law is established in Massachuetts
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The first wagon train started in Mass. with over 1000 members
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James K. Polk won the election of 1844 against Henry Clay.
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First morse code tapped
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30th state becomes Winscounsin
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Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first women to earm a medical degree
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first women became an ordained minister
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A black college called Lincoln University was chartered
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Michigan State was established
