College History I

  • Christopher Columbus lands in New World
    Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus lands in New World

    He landed in the Bahamas. Made it there because Spain helped pay for him.
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Jun 7, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    The treaty between Spian and Portugal. Spilt South America between them.
  • Iroquois confederacy founded
    Apr 2, 1500

    Iroquois confederacy founded

    A group of indian tribes that came together to crush the Europeans. They lived by what is now New York.
  • Period: Sep 5, 1513 to May 10, 1521

    Ponce de Leon explores Florida

    Thought it was an island. Went to find gold and fountain of youth.
  • Period: May 2, 1519 to Aug 5, 1521

    Cortes conquered Mexico

    Wanted the gold that the Aztecs had. Took the land after the Aztecs died from smallpoxs.
  • Pizarro conquers Incas
    Aug 29, 1532

    Pizarro conquers Incas

    found sliver there in Peru.Pizarro wiped out all of the Incas.
  • Period: Oct 5, 1540 to Nov 8, 1542

    Coronado expolers southwest

    They did not find anything worth them going there again in California.
  • Period: Mar 18, 1565 to

    England crush Irish uprising

    Elizabeth made them become Protestant or she killed them
  • England defeats Spanish Armada

    England defeats Spanish Armada

    130 ships went into the English Channel. Spain lost control of there people.
  • Founding of Jamestown

    Founding of Jamestown

    Was looking for gold. They died from the winter
  • Spanish found New Mexico

    Spanish found New Mexico

    they found some gold there and it was a good place for Catholic missons.
  • First Anglo-Powhatan War ended

    First Anglo-Powhatan War ended

    A war with the Indians and ended in a peace treaty.
  • House of Burgesses established

    House of Burgesses established

    This is an assembly to flourish on America soil
  • Maryland founded

    Maryland founded

    founded by Load Baltimore. Had many plantations there for slik and tabacco
  • Second Anglo-Powhatan War

    Second Anglo-Powhatan War

    The Indians lost again and they had to move from there land.
  • Charles II becomes king of England

    Charles II becomes king of England

    Took King after his father was killed.Named the Carolinas after himself.
  • Carolinas founded

    Carolinas founded

    Hoped to make sugar plantions and export wine, slik, and olive oil. There many export was rice.
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    Tuscarora War

    In North Carolina. They beat the Tuscarora Indians.
  • North and South Carolina separates

    North and South Carolina separates

    It was people who were in poverty and religious dissenters. They did not have rights to the soil, but they raised tobacco and crops on the small farms they had.
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    Yamasee War

    In South Carolina. Beat the Yamasee War after this all the Indian tribes were gone.
  • Georgia founded

    Georgia founded

    Was to be a buffer from the Carolinas from the Spanish. It exportewd slik and wine.
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    Zenger free-press trial in New York

  • Johnathan Edwards begins Great Awakening

    Johnathan Edwards begins Great Awakening

    Congregationalist minister.Edwards came from Puritan, Calvinist roots
  • Great Awakening Begins in Massachusetts

    Great Awakening Begins in Massachusetts

    The movement will last ten years and spread to all of the American colonies
  • George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening

    George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening

    he began preaching in parks and fields in England on his own.
  • South Carolina slave revolt

    South Carolina slave revolt

    Tried to march to spanush Florida but they were stopped. The slaves were more manageable then indentured servants.
  • England declares war on Spain

    England declares war on Spain

    . As a result, in America, hostilities break out between Florida Spaniards and Georgia and South Carolina colonists.
  • Russia founded Alaska

    Russia founded Alaska

    Frederick II "the Great" crowned king of Prussia.
  • 50 slaves are hung

    50 slaves are hung

    in Charleston, South Carolina, after plans for another revolt are revealed. .
  • Start of King George's War

    Start of King George's War

    The war beinging the French and Indain war. this war was between France and England, the Indians helped the Freanch.
  • Princeton College founded

    Princeton College founded

  • King George's War ends

    King George's War ends

    1744
    King George's War (ends 1748) American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession
  • Ohio River Region explored

    Ohio River Region explored

    Ohio River Region explored by American frontiersman Christopher Gist.
  • the Academy of Pennsyvania founded

    the Academy of Pennsyvania founded

    It is in Philadelphia,PA and is Nonsectarian.
  • French take Fort Necessity

    French take Fort Necessity

    In Pennsylvania.
  • Quebec

    Quebec

    The British win the Battle of Quebec.
  • Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures

    Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures

    They wanted to stop slave trade but Britain did not allow it.
  • George III becomes King

    George III becomes King

    Died in 1820.
  • British seizes Cuba and the Philippines from Spain

    British seizes Cuba and the Philippines from Spain

    They beat the Spanish and told the islands from them .
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    All French gets the east of the Mississippi. they dont get New Orleans though it is given to the British.
  • Smallpox

    Smallpox

    Men at Fort Pitt infect besieging chiefs with blankets from the smallpox hospital. Soon there was an epidemic, the Indians retreated and died.
  • Canada n east of the Mississippi River is ceded to Britain

    Canada n east of the Mississippi River is ceded to Britain

    Canada and the territory east of the Mississippi River is ceded to Britain by France
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    replaced the stamp acts
  • British troops occupy Boston

    British troops occupy Boston

    they take over
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd.
  • all townshend acts repealed except tea tax

    all townshend acts repealed except tea tax

    they thought they were unfair so they took them away
  • committees of correspondence formed

    committees of correspondence formed

    a group of leaders
  • Governor Hutchinsons provokes Boston Tea Party

    Governor Hutchinsons provokes Boston Tea Party

    his acts made start to get upset
  • british east india co. granted tea monopoly

    british east india co. granted tea monopoly

    The Company was granted an English Royal Charter
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts

    The acts triggered outrage and resistance
  • battle of Lexington and Concord

    battle of Lexington and Concord

    The first shots starting the revolution were fired
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    2,400 British troops against 1,500 Americans
  • Battle of Brandywine

    Battle of Brandywine

    british got the land
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

    spain helped americans
  • Battle of Germantown

    Battle of Germantown

    americans won
  • Articles of confederation adopted

    Articles of confederation adopted

    it did not work very well and they had to get ride of it.
  • Battle of Monmouth

    Battle of Monmouth

    americans won
  • Battle of Cowpens

    Battle of Cowpens

    . It was a turning point in the reconquest of South Carolina from the British
  • Greene leads Carolina campaign

    Greene leads Carolina campaign

    dependable officer
  • French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown

    French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown

    make british general stop
  • Battle of Kings Mountain

    Battle of Kings Mountain

    americans won
  • Norths ministry collapses in Britain

    Norths ministry collapses in Britain

    britian fails
  • land ordinance of 1785

    land ordinance of 1785

    its slipt up the land into thirty-six sections of one square mile each. it was to use to help pay off the national debt.
  • shays rebellion

    shays rebellion

    armed insurrection by farmers in W Massachusetts against the state government
  • northwest ordinance

    northwest ordinance

    the area would be subordinate to the government first. when it reached sixty thousand people it could be a state.
  • washington elected president

    washington elected president

    did not have any runing mates. was just picked by the people because he was a great leader.
  • judiciary act of 1789

    judiciary act of 1789

    set the number of Supreme Court justices at six.one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices.
  • first official census

    first official census

    first count of how many people there were in the United states.
  • excise tax passed

    excise tax passed

    put a tax on whiskey. it lead to the whiskey rebellion.
  • bill of rights adopted

    bill of rights adopted

    it gave rights to the people of the United States
  • louis XVI beheaded

    louis XVI beheaded

    in the Temple prison with his family, tried for high treason. They executed the King with their hats on
  • France declares war on Britain and Spain

    France declares war on Britain and Spain

    They did not like britian and wanted to over power them.
  • whiskey rebelion

    whiskey rebelion

    it was a group of framers and was put down by the army.
  • washington's farwell address

    washington's farwell address

    it was what he wrote and said to everyone when he retired.
  • john adams becomes president

    john adams becomes president

    he was the second president.
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    virginia and kentucky resolutions

  • alien and sedition acts

    alien and sedition acts

    passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution's
  • jefferson beats adams for presidency

    jefferson beats adams for presidency

    beat adams and won over burr.
  • louisiana purchase

    louisiana purchase

    bought it for 15,000 dollars. jefferson did it without voting on it.
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    lewis and clark expedition

    went to exploir the west
  • Burr treason trial

    Burr treason trial

    was for alleged conspiracy. he was let go
  • treaty of ghent signed

    treaty of ghent signed

    signed with russia and the united states.
  • Jefferson founds University of Virginia

    Jefferson founds University of Virginia

    the college is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. it was founded by thomas jefferson.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    it s was for the problem on slavery and split up the new states to split up between anti and pro slaverly.
  • slave rebellion

    slave rebellion

    it was a big rebellion but was put down.
  • Webster dictionary

    Webster dictionary

    made by noah webster
  • Mormon Church found

    Mormon Church found

    Mormon type of religon founded by gold plates.
  • Nat Turner slave rebellion

    Nat Turner slave rebellion

    they killed 60 people in Virginia.
  • British abolish slavery in the West Indies

    British abolish slavery in the West Indies

    they did it to help with trade in the North
  • Gag Resolution

    Gag Resolution

    could not talk about slavery in Congress
  • mob kills abolitionist

    mob kills abolitionist

    they attacked the people that did not beleieve in what they did
  • canadian rebellion

    canadian rebellion

    rebell with slavery
  • Oberlin College admits females

    Oberlin College admits females

    they let females into the college so that they could learn
  • American Slavery As It Is

    American Slavery As It Is

    it was a book written in the 1800s
  • Harrison dies

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    college history

  • Aroostook war

  • Polk defeats Clay

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    Mormon migration to Utah

    got kicked out of New York. Young took them to Utah
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    Mexican War

  • Battle of Buena Vista

  • Seneca Falls Womens Rights Convention

    Seneca Falls Womens Rights Convention

    was held in Seneca Falls and it was a group of women working to get rights for themself.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    written about a women accused of adulturare