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The printing press helped to spread knowledge. It made communication easier throughout the towns.
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Christopher Columbus was looking for a direct water route to the Indies. He accidentally discovered the Americas instead.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas divided Portugal and the New World. Portugal received Africa, Asia, and part of Brazil.
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The New World was named America because a cartographer thought that he had a trip to the new World before Columbus. Vespucci actually explored South America.
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Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean.
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Ponce de Leon explored Florida. He first thought that it was an island. He was in search of gold. He supposively found the "fountain of youth".
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Hernando de Soto and 600 men went on an expedition. They were searching for gold. Soto and the 600 men discovered the Mississippi River in the process.
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Francisco Coronado went on an expedition through new Mexico and Arizona in search of golden cities. He only found adobe pueblos. He later founded Grand Canyon.
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Raleigh tried to settle in the coast of Virginia on Roanoke Island. He did not succeed at this, but the reasons are unknown.
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In 1606, they sent 3 ships filled with settlers to Virginia. Approximately 40 of the died on the journey there. Once arriving dozens more died of disease and starvation.
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After Pocahontas helped the Indians and the settlers make a connection, John Smith took over the settlements. He did not allow anyone who didn't work to eat. He forced everyone to put in effort.
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Juan de Onate founded the capital of Santa Fe and proclaimed Mexico.
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De La Warr became the govenor of Jamestown. He led troops in campaigns against the Irish.
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John Rolfe improved the methods of raising tobacco to get rid of the bitter tang. It created a demand for new labor and land.
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The First Anglo- Powhatan War was ended by the creation of a Peace settlement.
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The first legislature in America was the House of Burgesses. The London Company authorized the settlers to have an assembly.
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During the Civil War Charles I dismissed the Parliament.
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The Powhatan people were considered extinct.
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Slavery made up the majority of the population due to the need for labor in Carolina.
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The last of the 13 colonies was founded, Georgia. 126 years after Virgina and 52 years after Pennsylvania.
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This act imports taxes on molasses, sugar, and rum.
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Jonathan Edwards begins the Great Awakening. This was religious revivals that spread across the American colonies.
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John Peter Zenger is arrested and accused of seditious libel by the Governor.
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There was a slave revolt in North Carolina.
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The Great Awakening religious revival movement begins in Massachusetts. The movement lasts ten years and spreads through out all of the American colonies.
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Also known as the War of Austrian Succession. It took place in the British Provinces. The only successul action was in Massachusets.
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Princeton College was founded.
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Students learn "live", language, and other subject.
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The Iron Act is passed by the English Parliament. This limited the growth of the iron industry in the American colonies.It protected the English Iron industry.
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Founded the city of Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
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The Currency Act restricted the emission of paper money by the colonies of New England.
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Also known as the Seven Years' War. This war was between the French and the Native Americans. It began as a dispute over two rivers.
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Columbia was founded in New York.
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Quebec surrenders to Engand.
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William Pitt becomes England's Secretary of State. This causes the French and Indian war to escalate.
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George III became the King of Great Britain.
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Last a year. It was an uprising by American Indian tribes.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War.
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The Proclamtion Act of 1763 was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade,
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This was a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to expire.
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Scots-Irish protested the Quakers oligarchy's lenient policy towards Indians.
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The Stamp Act was passed. The heavey taxation of textiles and other luxuries begins to anger the colonists.
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When nessecary all colonists were required to house, feed, and care for soldiers.
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The Sons of Liberty first formed in Boston to protest taxation without representation.
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Because only lessening its taxes would not satisfy the colonist, the Paraliament decided to completely repeal the Stamp Act
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This was a series of acts that was proposed by Charles Townshend. This act taxed goods and restricted trades
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During the Boston Masacre, the British killed five members of the Boston Mob.
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Because trade officials refused to return tea to Britain, colonists threw the barrels of tea overboard into the Boston Harbor.
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The thirteen colonies were outraged when the Paraliament passed these acts.
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The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. They had this meeting to protest against the king.
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This was one of the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War in the two Massachusetts colonies, Lexington and Concord.
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The British attempted to capture Adams and Hancick when eight Americans were killed.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a Battle in Massachussetts. Britian lost over 300 soldiers and suffered from approximately 900 injuries.
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The Declaration fo independence was signed. It reported that the colonies viewed themselves as independent states and no longer had to follow under British rule.
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General Gates defeats General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York
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Congress adopts the American flag with thirteen stars and stripes as the national flag.
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General Gates and the American defeated the British General Burgoyne.
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This was the first constitution. It was an agreement between the thirteen founding states that legally established the United States.
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The Continental Congress, with France, ratifies the Treaty of Alliance.
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Washington and Clinton's troops fight a standoff in the state of New Jersey.
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In Yorktown, Virginia Cornwallis surrendered to Washington and the allies.
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The Battle of Yorktown combined the forces of America and France and defeated Britain in one of the last major battles of the Revolutionary War.
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Benedict Arnold leads the troops that burnt down the port of New London, Connecticut.
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The British Army surrenders in Yorktown.
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Britain recognizes America's independence.
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Benjamin Franklin invented the Bifocals.
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The Judiciary Act determined the number of Federal Courts and Judges that we had.
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Jefferson proposes the Dollar as our unit of curency. Congress accepts it.
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Eli whitney invented cotton gin.
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Jay's Treaty causes the withdraw of the British troops from the United States.
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People in Western Pennsylvania rebel due to the excise tax place on whiskey.
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Pinckney's Treaty opens navigation on the Mississippi River with Spain.
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Three men were sent to France to negotiate a deal with the French.
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Congress established a Library of Congress.
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United States makes the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to explore the new land.
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Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr because he refused to fire his gun.
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The Embargo Act forbids the American ships to leave their own waters.
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A small army led by Henry Harrison and defeated the Indians.
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The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 but the fighting continues.
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The United States won this Battle against the British, sending them down into the Gulf of Mexico.
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The construction of the Erie Canal began during this time.
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The Treaty with Britain sets the fourty-nineth parallel.
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The Missouri Compromise preserved the power in Congress between the slave states and the free states.
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Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation.
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The Monrow Doctrine established the policy of the United States against the European intervention in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
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Thomas Cole establishes the Hudson River School of Landscape and Painting.
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John Quincy Adams is elected the president by the House.
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The Spoils System was the method of appointing officials to government office based on one's political concerns rather than how fit one was for office.
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 moves eastern indians west into Mississippi.
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COngress passed the Homestead Act which said that land was $1.25 per acre for 160 acres and they had 12 months to
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Nat Turner led an inneffective antislavery movement in Virginia.
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Samuel Morse designs an improved electtromagnetic telegraph.
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Santa Anna was elected the President of Mexico.
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Texan Independence was declared and Sam Houston was elected.
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Stephen Austin founds a new colony located in Texas.
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This battle, led by Santa Anna, was a fight for freedom between the United States and Mexico over the Texas territory.
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The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of the Native American Indians from the southeastern parts of the United States.
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General Scott devised the Anaconda Plan to defeat the South during the Civil War.
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Daguerre invents the first form of photography called Daguerreotype.
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This treaty defines the Canada and United States border.
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Santa Anna's presidency is overthrown in Mexico.
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The peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War was created.
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Gold is discovered in California.
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California is admitted to the United States as a free state but with the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.
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Mexico and America sign the Gadsden Treaty, purchasing a region of present Arizona from Mexico.
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Bessemer invents a process that allows the mass production of steel.
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Dred Scott's jury was over when they decided that he was a slave and could not sue for his freedom.
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Oregon is admitted to the US as a state.
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LIncoln win the election of 1860 and becomes the 16th president of the United States.
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Fort Sumter is fired on and they surrender.
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The Union is defeated at the First Battle of Bull Run.
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The United States sets aside public land for State Colleges.
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The Union loses in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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The Union loses in the Battle of Chancellorville with an army of 17,000, while the South on has 13,000.
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This is a huge victory for the Union because they fought a defensive battle.
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West Virginia is admitted to the United States.
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Sherman marches through Virginia with the "scorched earth" policy and General Lee surrenders.
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John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln.
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Shay's Rebellion forces court systems in Massachussetts to close.
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Federalist Papers began to publish in the newspapers.
