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The early Native Americans, being the first on the land for many years.
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Seafarers from Scandinavia landed on the northeastern shoulder of North America believing to have found undiscovered land.
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An island was sighted by his crew in the Bahamas.
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Discovery of the Bahamas led to four continents; Europe, Africa, and the two Americas.
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17 ships unloaded twelve hundred men, cattle, swine and horses to the New World.
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Spain divided with Portugal the "heathen lands" from the New World.
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Giovanni Caboto was sent by the English to explore the northeastern coast of North America.
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Balboa was hailed discoverer of the Pacific Ocean as he fought the tremendous waves off of Panama.
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Hernan Cortes set sail from Cuba looking to take over Mexico City and all the gold and silver within it.
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Started with his 5 tiny ships from Spain in attempt to sail around the world.
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Cortes laid seige on the city and capitulated Mexico City.
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Ascended to the English throne was Elizabeth and crushed the Irish uprising with her troops.
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Seadog who made his way around the planet collecting Spanish "booty".
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Spanish abused Pueblo's and cut off one foot of each survivor and claimed the land.
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The plantation colonies of Virginia, Maryland, the West Indies, and the Carolinas were discovered and claimed.
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Europe planted three primitive outposts in three corners of the continents in three years; Spanish at Santa Fe in 1610, French at Quebec in 1608, and English at Jamestown in 1607.
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Spaniards founded a capital of New Mexico called Santa Fe.
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A massive disease hit Chesapeake leading to a series of Indian attacks leaving 347 settlers dead, including John Rolfe.
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Indian uprising where Pueblo rebels destroyed every Catholic church and killed many priests along with Spanish settlers.
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Gerogia settlement was formally founded as a chief settlement in 1733.
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John Peter Zenger is arested and accused by the Governor. The Great Awakening movement begins for ten years.
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Zenger was brought to trial for seditious libel.
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England declares war on Spain, and many uprisings of slaves begin to appear in the Carolinas.
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50 slaves were hung in South Carolina as a result of a slave revolt.
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When France and Spain allied against England.
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Limited growth of Iron industry in the Americas by the English Parliament.
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Banned paper money in the New England colonies, proposed by the English Parliament.
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American Colonists gain a victory over the French.
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Braddock lands in Virginia and claims chief of English.
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England declares was on France, spreading the ongoing war to Europe.
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William Pitt takes charge as England's Secratary of State.
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England is finally defeated of the ongoing war.
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Fort Niagra is captured by the English, then war breaks out between Indians and southerners.
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British defeats French and gains control of Canada.
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The population in America reaches 1,500,000.
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British successfully attack the Spanish.
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England decalares war on Spain.
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France and England divide treaty borders prior to a brutal war.
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Signed by King George III of England to English settlements beginning to form in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Native Americans destroyed many British forts.
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Sugar Act, colonists began getting taxed for the debt of the French and Indian War.
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Sons of Liberty banned together against taxation without representation.
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Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City.
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Stamp Act is repealed.
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Townshend Act began restricting trade and taxing tea and other goods.
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The established 21 missions in California.
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Five Americans were killed at the Boston Massacre
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50 rebels protest the taxation by throwing crates of tea into the Boston harbor.
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Britiain blockades the Boston Harbor.
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First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia to protest King George.
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The American Revolution begins.
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Britain declares war on American patriots.
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The Declaration of Independence is signed by members of Congress.
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The Americans defeat Britain in New York.
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Congress is granted sole authority over the new national government.
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He captured British Forts in the Ohio Valley.
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British siege Savannah, Georgia.
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British capture Charleston South Carolina
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British were defeated at Yorktown by French fleets and American and French troops.
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The Revolutionary War ends.
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Britain recognizes American Independence, which leads to the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
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The treaty is ratified and the Revolutionary war finally ends.
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George Washington becomes the first president.
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The Bill of Rights were ratified.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
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Farmers began to rebel because they put an excised tax on whiskey.
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Vermont and Kentucky were added to the U.S.
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John Adams becomes the second president of the United States.
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Passed to forbid unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.
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The Library of Congress was founded.
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Thomas Jefferson became the third President of the United States.
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The Louisiana Purchase Treaty was created.
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Lewis and Clark explore the Louisiana Territory.
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This series of wars begun between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa.
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An Act was passed to prevent the importation of slaves into the United States.
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The slave trade between the United States and Africa is ended.
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James Madison becomes the fourth president of the United States.
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The Battle over the Indian Territory had begun.
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The War of 1812 between America and the British empire had begun.
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The Treaty of Fort Jackson ended the Creek War.
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Andrew Jackson becomes national hero of the Battle of New Orleans.
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With the election of James Monroe they ushered in the one-party system.
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Andrew Jackson acts as a commander of the newly aquired Florida Territory.
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Passed to promote Henry Clay.
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Neither Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford, or John Adams gained the majority, and the election was sent to the House of Representatives.
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The election of 1824 was decided; John Quincy Adams becomes president.
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Erie Canal is complete and pushes for economical growth in New York.
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American Society for the Promotion of Temperance founded in Boston.
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First railroad is completed in Massachusetts.
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Jefferson and Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Andrew Jackson is elected president.
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Signed by President Adams to protect the Tariff of 1824.
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The South Carolina exposition is protested.
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Indian Removal Act is signed by President Jackson forcing all indians to move west.
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William Loyd Garrison begins publishing the Liberator.
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"South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification," was written by John C. Calhoun.
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Compromise Tariff of 1833 was passed, to eliminate the Tariff of Abominations.
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The term Whigs was adopted as a political party.
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Specie Circular was invented by President Jackson.
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The Transcendentalists began to publish their work.
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He sent the first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore.
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Santa Anna is overthrown as president in Mexico.
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United States goes to war with Mexico.
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Zachary Taylor is elected president.
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Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto Oregon organized as a territory.
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Compromise of 1850 admits California as a free state.
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The Fugitive Slave law is enacted as Fillmore is elected president.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.
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America and Mexico signed the Gadsden Treaty.
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Fillmore dies in office, succeeded by Franklin Pierce.
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Free soilers establish a government to ban slavery and blacks from Kansas.
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Invented process that allowed for mass production of steel.
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James Buchanan is elected president.
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Dred Scott supreme court decision, slavery case.
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Lincoln and Douglas ran against each other in the Senate race, Douglas won.
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Orgeon is admitted as a state.
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South Carolina secedes.
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Public Land is set aside for state colleges.
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Major Union victory at Gettysburg.
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Lincoln is assasinated by John Wilkes Booth.
