College History 1

  • Printing press
    Aug 29, 1450

    Printing press

    The printing press was introduced and faciliated the spread of scientific knowledge.
  • Diaz
    Aug 30, 1488

    Diaz

    Diaz sails and rounds the sothern tip of Africa
  • Aug 28, 1492

    arrival to the new world

    In 1492 Eurpeans had arrived to the new world.
  • Bahamas
    Aug 30, 1492

    Bahamas

    Columbus lands in the Bahamas
  • Return to carribean island of Hispaniola
    Aug 29, 1493

    Return to carribean island of Hispaniola

    Columbus returned to the caribean island of Hispaniola with multiple ships full of swine, horses, and cattle. It also contained twelve hundred men.
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Aug 30, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    The treaty of Tordesillas is made up between Spain and Portugual
  • Spain
    Aug 28, 1500

    Spain

    Spain became the dominant exploring and colonizing power
  • Balboa
    Aug 30, 1513

    Balboa

    Balboa claims all land that is touched by the pacific ocean for spain
  • Hernan Cortes
    Aug 29, 1519

    Hernan Cortes

    Hernan Cortes set sail from Cuba with many horses and several hundred men bound for mexico.
  • Attack of the Aztecs
    Jun 30, 1520

    Attack of the Aztecs

    The Aztecs attacked, driving the Spanish down the causeways from Techtitlan
  • Giovanni da Verrazano
    Aug 29, 1524

    Giovanni da Verrazano

    The italian mariner Giovanni de Verrazano was dispatched to probe the easter seaboard.
  • Incas
    Aug 30, 1532

    Incas

    Pizarro crushes the Incas
  • spanish fortesses
    Aug 30, 1565

    spanish fortesses

    the spanish built fortresses in St. Augustine
  • James I

    James I

    James I becomes king of England
  • Rolfe

    Rolfe

    Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
  • war ends

    war ends

    The first Anglo-Powhatan war ends
  • slave code

    slave code

    Barbados slave code adopted
  • Pope rebellion

    Pope rebellion

    Popes rebellion in Mexico
  • French expeditiom

    French expeditiom

    French expedition down the Mississippi river under La Salle
  • Spanish settlements

    Spanish settlements

    Spanish began to establish setlements in Texas
  • slave trade

    slave trade

    the first continental congress calls for abolition of slave trade
  • Copley

    Copley moves to England to aoid the disruptions of war.
  • Complete Abolition

    The contentential congress called for complete abolition of he slave trade and a summons to which most states responded positivly.
  • Quakers

    Quakers

    Philadelphia Quakers found the world's first antislavery society
  • New Jersey Constitution

    New Jersey Constitution

    The New Jersey Constitution temporatily gives women the vote
  • women voting

    New Jersey's new constitution for a time enabled women to vote
  • Continental Congress

    Continental Congress

    The colonies are called upon by the Continental Congress to draft the new constitution
  • Abigail Adams

    Abigail Adams

    Abaigail teases her husband about it he ladis starting a rebellion
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation adopted by the second Continental Congress
  • translation into france

    When congress adopted the Articles of Confederation it was translated into French so it could convince France that America had a genuine government in the making
  • Massachusetts adopts the first constitution

    Massachusetts adopts the first constitution

    Massachusetts adopted the first constitution drafted in the convention and ratified by popular vote
  • ratification

    The articles are ratified by all thirteen states
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederatiom are put into effect
  • "Mumbet"

    after she over heard the Revolutionary-era talk about the "rights of men" she sued her master for freedom from slavery. She won.
  • Society of the Cincinnati

    Military officers form the Society of the Cincinnati
  • Census

    Census

    This is when the first official census came
  • Washington

    Washington

    Washington is reelected as president
  • Jays Treaty

    Jays Treaty

    Aa treaty John Jay had signed between the united states and Great Britain
  • Battle of fallen timbers

    Battle of fallen timbers

    was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    When farmers became angry when there was a tax put on whiskey. This had many people start to rebel and make men come down to stop them. Only few died.
  • Treaty of Greenville

    Treaty of Greenville

    was a treaty of friendship and peace between the United states and the indians
  • Wahingtons farewell address

    Wahingtons farewell address

    Washington wrote this letter to the people of America and it explained things like why they should stay neutral.
  • XYZ affair

    XYZ affair

    confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.
  • Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

    Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

    were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799
  • Alien and sedition acts

    Alien and sedition acts

    Four bills passed by federalists. The alien acts made it to where you had to live in america for 14 years before being a legal american. The sedition acts put anyone in prison who says something bad about the federal government
  • Convention of 1800

    Convention of 1800

    Treaty between france to settle problems that have occured during the Quasi-war
  • election of 1800

    election of 1800

    Jefferson beats adams for presidency but the vice president Aaron Burr had 73 votes also and eventually Jefferson won and became president
  • Judiciary Act of 1801

    Judiciary Act of 1801

    Had supreme court go from 6 to 5 justices and eliminated their circuit duties
  • Changes

    Changes

    The Judiciary act of 1801 is repealed and the naturalization law is revised
  • Maurbury v. Madison

    Maurbury v. Madison

    This case it what helped form basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
  • Justice chase

    Justice chase

    This was the year where Justice Chase was impeached.
  • Peace treaty with Tripoli

    Peace treaty with Tripoli

    Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary.
  • Burr

    Burr

    Burr was trialed for treason when he shot Hamilton in one of their fights.
  • Emargo act

    Emargo act

    created an uproar with americans and calls for war with Britain
  • Madison

    Madison

    Madison is elected as president
  • Madison

    Madison is elected as president
  • Non-Intercourse act

    Non-Intercourse act

    In 1809 the Non-intercourse act replaces Embargo act
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Battle of Tippecanoe

    Fought between the Indians and Americans near Lafayette leb by Govenor William Henry Harrison and Shawnee leader Tecumseh
  • War

    War

    The United States declare war on great Britain
  • Vesey

    Vesey

    led a Giant slave revolt that involved thousands of slaves in the city and from plantations.
  • Hello Texas

    Hello Texas

    Mexico has opened Texas to American settlers
  • Erie Canal

    Erie Canal

    The erie canal was now completed and could start to help transporting goods easier and faster.
  • Railroads

    Railroads

    This is when the first railroad in the united states showed up making traveling and transporting goods easier.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    This is when they forced the indians to move west of the Mississippi river. They went on the trail of tears which killed many and was really hard to go on.
  • John Deere

    John Deere

    John Deere develops the first steel plow
  • Common wealth v. Hunt

    Common wealth v. Hunt

    Massachusetts declares labor unions legal in common wealth v. Huint
  • walker tariff

    walker tariff

    successful attempt by president james polk to lower federal teriff rates to help the economy and trade in southern states
  • mexican war

    mexican war

    ended in 1848 fought between the U.S and Mexico the united states won
  • Battle of buena vista

    Battle of buena vista

    saw the United States Army use artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican Army in the Mexican–American War
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
  • california gold rush

    california gold rush

    All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad
  • President Fillmore

    President Fillmore

    fillmore assumes presidency after Tylers death
  • Clayton- Bulwer Treaty

    Clayton- Bulwer Treaty

    It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher stowe publishes uncle toms cabin
  • president Pierce

    president Pierce

    Pierce defeats Scott for presidency
  • Gadsen purchase from mexico

    Gadsen purchase from mexico

    an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico
  • William Walker

    William Walker

    becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    Dred scott went to court to become freed but through decisions going against stuff like the Missouri compromise led to upset in the north
  • Panic of 1857

    Panic of 1857

    financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
  • The debates

    The debates

    lincoln and douglas went through a series of debates and became known as ther great debates
  • Harpers ferry

    Harpers ferry

    Brown led an attack on harpers ferry and not everyone showed which led in the help of his death