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Columbus enters the islands of the Bahamas
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John Cabot explores the atlantic coast of Canada
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Cortes defeats the aztecs with 17 horses and 600 men
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Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca's of Peru in 1532.
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored the coast of California in search of San Fransico.
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daughter of henry VIII and Anne Bolelyn. She enforced the protestant religion
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menendez finds florida and claims it for spanish
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The Spanish cut off a foot from each survivor.
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Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson Bay
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Rolfe becomes known as the father of tobacco because of this
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The Plymouth Colony was founded in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore and was the second plantation colony.
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the second anglo pohatan war takes place 12 years after the first war
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Along with sugar from barbados, they also brought back a slave code
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Native's cause this because Roman Catholics were trying to supress their religion
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created in Pennsylvania
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Worcester Porcelain company founded
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Ben Franklin created the lighting rod
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First one published in 1755. established by postal service
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also french and indian war. France loses to north america
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British commander defeats Nawab at Plassey
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British took Quebec from the French
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went from 1760-1851
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formed together against taxation without representation
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Repealed because they had many problems with the taxes
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Juniper Serra found first mission chains
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Dartmouth college founded
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dressed as mowhawk indians and dumped tea into the habor
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Battle of Saratoga occured
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Quakers found the first antislavery society
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Parliament said they were at a rebellion
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British burn down town of Norfolk, Virginia
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Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called common sense
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Jefferson was chosen to write a draft of the declaration
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George washington's ar,y was dominated by British
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Washington crossed Delaware river and attacked hessians on night of christmas
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Where Washington retired for the winter
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London had plan to capture hudson calley river
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French decidea to aid American
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Holland and Spain decide to allie against Britain
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Arndold gives info to British about American troops
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British surrender at Yorktown
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Articles of confederation adopted
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Washington talk about rebellion
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This Daily Universal Register of London published their first issue
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The founder the the shakers dies
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Treaty of fort stanwix signed
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The first play appeared in America
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Delegates gathered in Philadelphia to write the constitution
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farmers protest tax on whiskey
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Indians paid to move off of land
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Washington warned that political parties would split the country and said not to make permanent alliances
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Adams appoints 16 new judges (midnight judges) to 16 newly opened positions in court
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Lewis and Clark explored the new Louisiana Territory
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America opens trade with all nations except Britain and France
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one of the most important court cases in American history
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inaugurated President of the United States.
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Asserted the right of the Supreme Court to deem things unconstitutional
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Canada invasions fail
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America declares war on Great Britain
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America gains control of Lake Erie thanks to Oliver Hazard Perry
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Used to connect waterways
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This panic happens because of overspeculation of western land.
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Missouri is admitted as the twenty-fourth state of the Union.
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Monroe begins his second presidential term.
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When Henry Clay is left to decide who becomes president, John Quincy Adams bribes him
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Jackson easily wins after 4 years of campaigning.
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Indians forced to move west to oklahoma, they take the trail of tears.
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A local slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner, a black slave, killed sixty white citizens.
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The first wagons crossed the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail
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South compromises after the Tariff of Abominations and the Tariff of 1832 which lessened the Tariff of Abominations
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a presidential nominating convention held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in December 1839
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Poorly paid workers fight for labor unions and win.
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Many people rushed to California for the riches of gold
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This treaty revolved around building the Nicaragua Canal
