Coming to America

By ymanuel
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus arrives in New World

  • May 13, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    the treaty that Spain maintainted claims to all of South America except Brazil

  • Virginia Company Charter settles in Jamestown by the Chesapeake Bay

  • John Smith leadership saves Jamestown

  • Samuel de Champlain estb in Quebec for France

  • Period: to

    Starving Time in Jamestown

  • John Rolfe discovers cash crop, tobacco

  • House of Burgess

    the representative gov't of Virginia

  • First Africans brought to Americas

  • Wlliam Bradford leads Pilgrims to Plymouth and Mayflower Compact

  • Virginia becomes a colony

  • Roger Williams estb Providence

  • Lord Baltimore proprietarship

  • New England Confederation unity of colonies in New England

  • Act of Religious Toleration

  • Mercantilism

  • Period: to

    Navigation Acts(1651,1660,1663,1673)

  • John Winthrope combined lands for Puritans

  • Half Way Covenant

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • King Phillip's(Metacomet) War

  • William Penn lead Quakers

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Great Awakening begins

  • Stono Rebellion

    slave rebellion in NC

  • Albany Congress/Plan

  • French and Indain War starts

  • Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War

  • End of Solutary Neglect

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    cant go to land won in french indian war

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

  • Quatering Act

  • Boston Massacre

  • Commitee of Correspondence

  • Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts/1st Continental Congress

  • Lexington and Concord

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Olive Branch Petition

  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine

  • Declaration of Independence/2nd Continental Congress

  • Articles of Confederation

  • British surrender @ Battle of Saratoga

  • Treaty of Paris/American Indy.

  • Period: to

    Postwar Depression

  • Land Ordinance(Congress could sell land)

  • Shay's Rebellion

  • Northwest Ordinance

  • Connecticut Compromise

  • Constitutional Convention

  • The Federalist Papers

  • Washington becomes president

  • Judicary Act

  • Period: to

    2nd Great Awakening

  • Bill of Rights

  • Bank of United States

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Jay's Treaty

  • Pinckney Treaty

  • Election Adams v. Jefferson

  • John Adams becomes president

  • XYZ Affair

  • Alein and Sedition Act

  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

  • 1800 Election Jefferson v Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson becomes president

  • Period: to

    Antebellum

  • Judicary Act

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Embargo Act

  • End of international slave trade

  • Non-intercourse Act excluded trade with France and Britian

  • BUS expire

  • War of 1812

  • Hartford Convention

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • 2nd BUS

  • Tarrif of 1816 to protect American industries

  • James Monroe becomes president

  • Period: to

    Era of Good Feeling

  • Darmouth v Woodward

    government can't interfer with contracts

  • Adam-Onis Treaty (US gets Florida)

  • Panic of 1819 (over speculation of land)

  • McCulloch v Maryland

    states can't teax federal agencies

  • Missouri(1820) Compromise

  • Cohen v Virginia

    Supreme Court can overrule state

  • Denmark Vessey slave rebellion

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Gibbons v Ogden

    Only Congress can regulate interstate trading

  • John Quincy Adams becomes president

  • Andrew Jackson wins president

  • Period: to

    Mass Politics

    the increasment of voting to all white male adults

  • Indian Removal Tribe

    to move southern Indian tribes from south to west of the MS river

  • First railroad company Baltimore Ohio railroad

  • Period: to

    Old Immigration

  • Period: to

    Increase in canals

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Worcester v Gerogia

    Geaorgia can't interfer with Native land

  • SC nullification crisis

  • Jackson vetoes 3rd BUS

  • Compromise Tarrif of 1833 by Henry Clay

  • Force Bill by Andrew Jackson

    president could use force to get taxes

  • Specie Circular

    all payment must be gold and silver and leads to Panic of 1837

  • Texas Declares independence from Mexico

  • Panic of 1837

    due to overspeculations, crop failures and Europe panics

  • Horace Mann founded The Common School Journal

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

  • Amistad captured JQA argued they should be freed

  • Election of 1840 Martin Van Buren vs William Henry Harrison

  • William Henry Harrison becomes president

  • 30 days later William Harrison dies and John Tyler becomes president

  • Commonwealth v Hunt

    allowed Unions

  • Prigg v. Pennsylvania

    North doesn't have to follow Fugitive Slave Law of 1793

  • James K. Polk becomes president

  • Texas annexation to US

  • Mexican-American War

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Declaration of Sentiments for women

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    ends mexican-american war
    US pays mexico 15 million dollars
    US gains CA,NM,AZ,UT,OK,NV,WY,CO,KA

  • California gold rush

  • Cotton becomes #1 cash crops

  • Slave Codes

  • Period: to

    Increase in railroads

  • Compromise of 1850

    Mexican cession states had popular sovereignty
    CA is a free state
    more strict fugitive slave law
    slave is outlawed in DC
    Texas gets paid money of debut

  • New Fugitive Slave Act

  • Maine passes first dry law

  • Uncle Tom Cabin's by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Gadsen Purchase

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    overturned MO compromise KS would be slave and NB free

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Caning of Sumner

  • Dred Scott v Standford

    saying slaves were propeirty protected in 5th amendment and MO was deemed unconstitutional

  • John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry

  • SC suceeded from Union

  • Abraham Lincoln becomes president

  • Firing on Ft. Sumner

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Shiloh

    Confederacy wins

  • Homestead Act

    gave land to those who settled out west
    land was bad

  • Morril Act

    grant public land to states for schools

  • Battle of Antietam

    truning point - Union wins
    bloodiest war

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • NY draft riots

    "rich man war, poor man fight"

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Confederacy last lunge to get in the North and defeat by the Union

  • Sherman captures Atlanta

  • Freedmen's Bureau

    most effective in education for slaves
    rarely 40 akers and a mule happened

  • Lincoln assassinated

  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox

  • Period: to

    Reconstruction

  • 13th amendment

  • Reconstruction Act

    divided the South in to 5 militrazied zones controlled by Union generals

  • 14th Amendment

  • Knights of Labor

    included blacks and women

  • Munn v Illinois

    state gov't can regulate public interstate commerce

  • Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president

  • Compromise of 1877

    Hayes beats Tilden
    reconstruction end and troops tooken out
    railroad through texas
  • Period: to

    New Immigarion

    Eastern Europe

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Pendleton Act

    ended spoils system ,must take a test for gov't jobs

  • Pullman Strike

  • Skyscrapers in Chi-town

  • Haymarket Square bombing

  • AFL

    only skilled workers-- led by Samuel Gompers

  • Wabash Case

    states can't regulate interstate commerce

  • Dawes Act

  • Hull House

  • McKinely Tarrif Act

    highest tarrif by far

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    break up monopolies and trust and uneffective and curved labor unions

  • Safety-value

    the promise if stuff go bad you can move out west

  • Populist Party

  • Homestead Steel Strike

    president sides with business and charge workers on strike

  • Cleveland rejects Hawaii that was illegally taken

  • Hawaii annexed

  • U.S.S Maine sinks

  • Teller Amendment

    tells Cuba that they'll have independence after they over throw Spanish

  • Open Door Policy/Treaty of Paris (ends Spanish-American War)

  • Boxer Rebellion in China

  • Teddy Roosevelt becomes president after McKinnely dies

  • Platt Amendment

  • Roosevelt settle steel strike

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    because Britian owes money to Latin America

  • Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Gentlemen's Agreement

    limiting of Japan passports to US

  • NAACP formed

  • farmers are minority of population

  • Shirtwaist Fire