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Chris Columbus sails the Atlantic Ocean and comes upon a new land .
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At first he thought he saw an island but later found out it wasn't. He was looking for gold until he was killed by an Indian arrow.
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He conquered the Aztecs then later on made it into Mexico. He did this by conquering the city Tenochlitan.
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He attempts to sail around the world but died along the way and his crew fin ished the journey for him.
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The last empire of the Incas is finished off by Pizarro as he makes the 300 year long Inca civilization come to an end.
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He was ordered by his king to find gold and a water passage from France to Asia
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Him and his crew traveled west from the present state of Florida and came across the Mississippi River which is now one of his discoveries.
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Starting in central America, he makes his way down into Mexico exploring all the land he came across.
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In 1542, Cabrillo explored California for Spain. He also proved that it was not an island.
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in order to protect St. Augustine, the Spanish built a fortress. It was made out of a stone called coquina.
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It was off the coast of Virginia and after finding this the leader who was Sir Walter Raleigh sent men back to England to get necessities.
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He led explorations through pueblo territory and abused the pueblo people badly.
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It was the first permanent English settlement in North America. These people went through many hardships and brought back cannibalism one winter because they werent prepared for winter.
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John Rolfe perfected the tobacco and which grew very good in rich soil. It was addictive and was on high demand.
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The Roman Catholics tried to convert the Indians to thier religion but it ended bad as the Pueblos burned down all the Catholic churches and killed many priests.
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Stated how the colonies were now independent.
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Inspired the colonists to fight for independence from Britain in the summer of 1776. It showed why independence was so important and what it could do for the colonies.
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George Washington led this attack and it was considered to be a sneak attack. This victory inspired the soldiers to serve longer.
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Fought between the American army and British army. The British ended up capturing the city.
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The British ended up winning the battle and it made sure that Philadelphia was kept in British hands.
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America ended up victorius adn this showed that the Americans could win.
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Great Britain Declared war on France which was very important during the Revolutionary War.
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It was fought in Monmouth County, New Jersey and Geroge Washington was the head of the COntinental army.
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A very improtant victory for the Continental Army under General Daniel Morgan.
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It was a victory for the Patriots over the Loyaltists in South Carolina.
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Even with Cornwallis having 8,000 troops in Yorktown he still had to surrender.
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Nathanael Greene forced general Cornwallis to leave the Carolinas which was very important.
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This was very important and caused Britain to collapse.
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This treaty was one of the many treaties known as the Peace of Paris and was very generous to the U.S land wise.
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Between the Native Americans and Great Britain and was signed in present day Rome, New York.
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It was led by THomas Jefferson and it basically made a process for surveying, planning, and selling townships.
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Series of protests made by American Farmers against state and the enforcement of tax collections.
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Split up the townships and land into 6 by 6 mile sections.
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It established the federal judiciary of the U.S.
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69 memebers of congress casted their ballots to elect him which made him the first president of the United States.
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An excise tax is a tax on luxury goods.
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It's the first 10 amendments of the Constitution and it confirmed the fundamental rights American citizens.
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Washington was elected president for his second term and the decision was once again unanimous.
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Washington sent 14,000 troops and settled the dispute quickly and it also showed the government was powerful.
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It was the final battle of the Northwest indian war between the native americans and the Americans.
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It was a treaty between the United States of America and multiple Native American tribes which established the annuity system.
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Fixed the Southern Boundary of the United States at 31 degrees N Latitude.
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3 different people were sent to France and got turned down and sent ack to America.
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The Alien acts increased the years from 5 to 14 in order to become a U.S citizen while the Sedition Acts basically went against the constitution and said that no one can talk bad on the government.
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In the long run, it stated that the Alien and Sedition acts were unconstitutional.
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It was a United States victory in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom and the Tecumseh's Confederacy.
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Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of British Royal Navy which ensured control of the lake for the rest of the war.
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It's part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System.
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The Erie Canal was thus completed in eight years at a cost of $7,143,000.
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The Baltimore to Ohio railroad was the first railroad in the U.S. The first section opened in 1830.
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He based a lot of his work off of a lot of other people and he patened his product.
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During the riot, a convent of Roman Catholic Ursuline nuns was burned down by a Protestant mob.
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Deere found that cast-iron plows were not working very well so he came to the conclusion that a plow made out of highly polished steel would be able to handle the soil conditions of the prairie.
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In 1840 Martin Van Buren wanted to restrict federal employee's work days to 10 hours. This was the first time an American president had introduced legislation to limit the numbers of hours worked.
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Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled that labor combinations were legal provided that they were organized for a legal purpose and used legal means to achieve their goals.
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Fast ships that sent ship cargo to foreign nations.
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Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.
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The riots were a result of rising anti-Catholic sentiment at the growing population of Irish Catholic immigrants. Theriots helped fuel criticism of the nativist movement.
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a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland.
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He patented the first practical American sewing machine. This helped to make clothes better and faster.
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It helped to lay the groundwokr for the civil war and caused Europe to side with the north.
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The republican party was mainly supported by the northerners. This was shown when their first candidate got 11 of 16 northern states on his side.
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It allowed the people living in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether they wanted slavery or not.
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Brooks beat up Sumner because he was making fun of his family and they had two completely different views on slavery.
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Kansas had the highest amount of casualties in the civil war due to the facts that proslavery and free states both went into Kansas in order to get the state to be either free or a slave state.
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John Brown along with other abolitionist visciously murdered five pro slavery supporters.
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This conflict arose because he was not considered to be an american citizen so he shouldn't of been in court in the first place.
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It was caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
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It reduced the tax a lot mostly due to southern and agricultural states.
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It was published by Hinton R. Helper of North Carolina and it attacked slavery and made southern leaders very angry.
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It was 7 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas which eventually ended up getting Lincoln noticed and led to his presidency later on.
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John Brown led slaves to a rebeelion against slavery but was ended when Brown was captured.
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South Carolins breaks away from the Union becuase Lincoln was elected president.
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It tried to solve the problems brought up from the secession crisis by addressing the fears and grievances about slavery that led many slave-holding states to contemplate secession from the United States.
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It included three other candidates: John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln with mostly no support from the south.
