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Christopher Columbus discovered America
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Columbus returns to New World with ships of men and animals
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Spain and Portugal divide the New World along a line established in Treaty of Tordesillas
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Spanish conquistador Cortes defeats the Aztecs and claims Mexico for Spain
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Francisco Pizarro defeats the Incas for Spain
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de Soto reached the Mississippi with his troops while exploring the American southeast
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Elizabeth I is coronated as Queen of England
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Spanish fortress in Florida founded
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Francis Drake is first Englishman to successfully circumnavigate the Earth
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Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony in North America
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England beat the Spanish Armada in the English Channel
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First Virginian colony of Jamestown is settled
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Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in peace settlement
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The London Company allowed settlers to assemble
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King James revoked the London Company's charter and made Virginia a royal colony
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Maryland "Catholic Haven" was founded by Lord Baltimore
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West Indies sugar plantations began to use large-scale slavery
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Strict slave code enacted in Barbados
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Carolina is named after Charles II
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Powhatan tribe considered extinct 39 years after end of Second Anglo-Powhatan War
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War between Britain and France; mostly in the colonies
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New England militias captured Port Royal, Acadia
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Awarded Britain trading rights to Spanish America
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War between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and Georgia
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War between Britain and allies France and Spain; New England militias invaded Cape Breton Island and captured Louisbourg
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Treaty that handed Louisbourg back to France
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Begun by George Washington; became a global conflict
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Colonies met to discuss Indian tribe loyalty, colonial unity, and common defense against France
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One of the first battles of the French and Indian War; George Washington's only career surrender
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British forced 4000 Acadians to move to Louisiana
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James Wolfe captured Quebec; basically won the war for Britain
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France was permanently pushed off the North American continent
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Pontiac led tribes to drive colonists out of Ohio Valley, including Detroit
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Issued to protect colonists from violent Indians; perceived as a restriction on the colonists' freedoms
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First law passed by Parliament that inflicted taxes on the colonies for the crown
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Tax on paper goods that was used to support the military presence in American colonies
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Colonists and Redcoats clashed; resulted in the death or injury of 11 citizens
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Formed to spread spirit of resistance to the British crown from town to town
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Colonists, in opposition to the tea tax, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor
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Colonial delegates met to discuss their relations with Britain; wrote the Declaration of Rights and created The Association
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Formed by Philadelphia Quakers
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By Second Continental Congress
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Drafted convention and ratified by popular vote
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Put into use as the governing document
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Upset veteran farmers stage rebellion
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Only 5 states send delegates
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12 states send delegates to write Constitution
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Majority of 9 states make new government official
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Elected first President of the United States of America
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Bloody rebellion begins
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Formally put into effect
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Bank of the United States is created
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Bill of Rights to Constitution put into effect
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Federalists and Democratic-Republicans are clear opposing parties
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Moonshiners in Southwestern PA oppose excise taxes
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John Adams voted 2nd president of the US
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Talleyrand tries to bribe American diplomats
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Thomas Jefferson slated as 3rd president
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Peace with Franc e is resolved
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Called Louisiana Purchase
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embark from St. Louis to explore the new Lousiana Purchase.
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Aaron Burr's treason trial takes place
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Embargo Act from America to all European countries, especially France and Great Britain takes effect
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James Madison elected the 4th president of the US and the 3rd president from Virginia
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Says that if France or Great Britain repeal their decrees first, America will restore trade with them.
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Supreme Court has power over the state courts
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United States declares war on Britain
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Instead of attacking Montreal, 3 forces to Detroit, Niagara, and Lake Champlain fail
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During a battle of the War of 1812, the British plunder and burn the nation's capitol
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America and Britain came to terms at Ghent and signed this document - ended the last conflict between America and Britain
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Federalists hold Hartford Convention to draw up their grievances with the government
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Tariff of 1816 is put into effect to protect New England manufacturers
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the Rush-Bagot agreement between America and Britain establishes the border between Canada and Britain the longest unfortified border in the world - to this day.
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Jackson invades and takes Spanish Florida for the United States (though frowned upon by many American politicians)
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the Panic of 1819 abruptly ends the Era of Good Feelings
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Justice John Marshall declares the constitutionality of the national bank
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Creates Missouri (slave state) and Maine (free state)
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Justice John Marshall emphasizes the binding qualities of a contract
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Secretary Adams puts forward the Monroe Doctrine
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John Quincy Adams is elected as a minority president: minority of the popular vote.
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one of the first utopian societies
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Society (mostly consisted of women, pastors, and businessmen) who called for the effort to stop drinking alcohol
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First American religion established in New York's Burned-Over District
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Turner's slave crew kills 60 people
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Americans try to help French Canadians, British Canadians attack the American ship the Caroline
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After contracting pneumonia at his inauguration speech
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Conflict with Canada over a road through Maine
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Texas becomes a United States territory
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War between Mexico and America over the Texan border and the California Territory
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Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
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In Seneca Falls,NY women's rightists meet and write the Declaration of Sentiments
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Influx of people to the new California Territory when gold is struck
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Compromise includes California as a free state, Utah and New Mexico as popular sovereignty states, a strict Fugitive Slave Law, outlaw of slave trade in Washington, DC, and $10 mil to Texas
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Maine Law of 1851 is passed; first law that enforces prohibition
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Franklin Pierce becomes the new US president
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Purchased to build a railroad to California
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Purely sectional party of all northerners
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Japan is no longer isolated from the modern world
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Created by Stephen Douglas, proposed popular sovereignty in the Nebraska and Kansas territories
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Leaked before deal goes through, infuriates Northerners
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Sen. Charles Sumner brutally beaten with a cane; faced 3 year recovery
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Supreme Court rules that slaves are property, not people
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"popular" sovereignty constitution in Kansas is not passed
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This book claimed that the real victims in the South was the non-slaveowning whites
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Lincoln challenges Douglas to a series of debates; become crucial 2 years later
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John Brown tries to steal arms from Harpers Ferry, VA and free slaves
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First state to secede
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Becomes a minority president
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South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded before Lincoln took office
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Confederates attack Union fort
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Slow McClellan finally leads his men on a wild goose chase through Virginia
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Significant naval battle that revolutionized naval warfare
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Confederate counterattack that caused McClellan to be removed from commander of the Union Army
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Bloodiest day of the Civil War with major repercussions to the South for the result of a military draw
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Rash frontal attack on Lee's army in Virginia
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Lee's most brilliant victory but cost him Stonewall Jackson
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Last real chance for the Confederates to win the war
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Reopened the Mississippi to Northern control
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Freed all slaves in the Confederacy
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Pillaged Georgia in the name of the Union
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Established to educate free blacks
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The end of the Civil War
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Shot at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth
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Outlawed slavery
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Used principles of the Civil Rights Bill and integrated it into the Constitution
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Closest president to actually being removed from office
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Pardons them of treason
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Universal manhood suffrage
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The "end" of Reconstruction and the beginning of the 2nd United States of America
