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Oct 2, 1492
When Christopher landed foot on North America
Christopher discovered the North Americas but was not the first person to step foot in America. -
Oct 26, 1513
Juan Ponce de Leon
Arrived in Florida and was the first non native person to set foot on the United states besides the vikings. -
Oct 27, 1558
Foudning of the Puritans
It was found by some people who were returning clergy exile under Mary. This was a movement of the church of England. -
Jamestown
the first real settlement. -
Massachusetts Bay
Founded by the Puritans who believed that the church needed to be purified. -
Indentured servants
People who wanted to come to the new world but then payed for their voyage by working as servants till they payed it all off. -
Slaves
Slave came over to Jamestown to work in the tabacco field and other areas to help the town. -
Act of Uniformity
public prayer and ceremonies. -
Tobacco farms
When they didn't find gold they started to produce tocacco to make money. -
Salem Witch Trials
Some religious people throught that others believed in the devil and not God. To stop the possessions of the people they started killing them -
Knowing who Columbus was
Christopher Columbus wasn't known in the 1700s -
Thomas Paine
Lived till June 8, 1809. Was one of the founding fathers of our country. He inspired the rebels to declare freedom from Great Britain. -
Thomas Jefferson
He lives from 1743-1826. -
French & Indian War
The Ohio river valley brought up arguements so then led to a war. -
British colonies win
They won their first great win at Louisbourg -
Losing
The French lost one last battle in montreal and lost their last foothold. -
Treaty of Paris
7 years war ended with the treaty of Paris which was -
Peace Conference
Britian got Canada from France and Florida from Spain -
Stamp Act
England taxing the Colonies. -
Andrew Jackson-Life
Lived from 1767-1845. Him and his family believed in what the Revolutionary war stood for. -
Boston Tea Party
Colinists went on board a tea boat and threw all the tea over board. Two years later the Revolutionary war broke out. -
Revolutionary War-Dates
to september 2 1783. This war the war where the new world finally became an independent country. -
The French Coming into the Revolionary War
The French came in on the Colinists side of the war which help the colinists to win the battle of Yorktown. -
Wining
When the United States officialy won their intependence from Great Britian. -
1st Amendment
First Amendment was passed. -
Doubts of Our Fathers
Jeffersons was more radical and snipped out everything supernatural like the virgin birth and resurrection -
The boom of tobacco
The 1800s is when tobacco really became popular -
Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
He's the "best spokesman" we have for the American ideals of liberty, equality, faith in education, and in the wisdom of the common man. When in reality he took out lots of information of the religion. -
Seminole War
The first seminole war was from 1817-1818. -
Italian Immigrantes
When the first italians came to the new world to start a new life. -
Gold Rush
From the Cherokee indians finding gold resulted in the gold rush. -
Andrew Jackson
Was president from 1829-1837 -
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was when american soldiers made the natives move west because they wanted their land. -
Georgia Law
Prohibited whites from living on Indian territory. -
Virginia Historical Society
They were founded in 1831 -
2nd Seminole War
The 2nd war was from 1835-1842. -
Greeks
15,000 Greeks went west. -
The Cherokee
These perople were moved to the werst of the Mississippi river. They were also dived into 13 groups and discovered gold in Georgia. -
31,000,000 Buffalo
Between 1868 and 1881 the Americans killed 31,000,000 buffalo. -
Buffalo
There was a mass killing of the buffalo by the americans. -
Tobacco farms-mules
Tobacco was farmed by hand labor and mules -
What is left
By 1885 there were only 500 buffalo left. -
Lynching
more than 20 Italians were lynched -
Bloodiest Lynching
The bloodiest Lynching was in New Orleans. -
Columbus
1st commemoration of Columbus' journey. -
Tobacco farms-hours
It took 900 man labor hours to work one acre of tobacco -
Columbus Day
Declared it would be celebrated on October 2. -
New York takes sexual education from the puritan church
The puritains did not belive in sex ed just to stay abstanent. -
The corperation
Major bussinesses short cut the nessasary protocall to get more money. If they get caught they don't care because they can afford the concequences. -
McCutcheon vs. FEC
This limits the amount of money one person can give to a national party or federal committies.
