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A wealthy kingdom for numerous reasons, while one is being the Trans-Saharan Trade.
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Their great wealth came from gold and salt mines. They controlled important trade routes across the Sahara Desert to Europe and the Middle East.
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Became a major source of slaves for Portuguese traders and other European powers.
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They made a variety of artwork for show and religious, social, and economic use, and they built an incredible capital of Gao.
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Columbus made a total of 4 voyages to the Americas setting the stage for European exploration and colonization leading to the Columbian Exchange.
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Columbus sets sail from Spain to find all-water route to Asia.
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Agreed by the Spanish and the Portuguese on the newly claimed land in the New World.
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After three months of fighting, Cortes defeated the Aztec Empire. In 1521, smallpox decimated the population.
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The Roanoke Colonies attempted to establish settle in North America to harass Spanish shipping, mining for gold and sliver, discovering a passage to the Pacific Ocean and Christianize the Indians
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The first permanent British settlement in the North America
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The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom, or find a better life.
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Cecil's father, George Calvert, had received a royal charter for the land from King Charles l.
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English laws that regulated English ships, shipping trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies.
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Cause of a the trial and execution of three of Metacom's men by the colonists.
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The first rebellion in the American colonies. A protest against raids on the frontier.
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Second in a series of wars fought between Great Britain and France in North America for control of the continent.
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A movement that altered religious beliefs, practices and relationships in the American colonies.
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Known as the French and Indian War, when fighting between French and the colonists merged into a European conflict which involved Austria, France, and Russia against Prussia and Britain.
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First tax on the colonists, used on sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric,and printed calico to raise British Parliament revenue.
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The new tax required American colonists to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper used.
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Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
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The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
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The 13 colonies would cut their political connections with Great Britain.
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A decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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The Articles created a weak government and a loose confederation of sovereign states.
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The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown ended the American Revolutionary War.
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A series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts and led to a full-blown military confrontation in 1787.
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A method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
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The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it.
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Rebellion with farmers and distillers in Pennsylvania to protest the whiskey tax enacted by the government.
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These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
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A deal between the U.S. and France, in which the U.S. received 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports.
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A conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.
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A U.S. victory in Alabama over Native Americans opposed to white expansion into their territories and which largely brought an end to the Creek War.
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The admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, maintaining the balance of power between North and South.
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The revolutionary tract called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land, and racial equality.
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Many American settlers and Tejanos, or Mexicans who lived in Texas, wanted to break away from Mexico. They did not like laws made by Santa Anna, Mexico's president.
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Helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.
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It ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The war had begun almost two years earlier, in May 1846, over a territorial dispute involving Texas.
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Necessary because the North and the South were badly split on the issue of the lands that had been taken from Mexico in the recent war.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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The decision argued that as a slave, Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court.
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The state seceded because a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, had been elected president.
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Differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. The event that triggered war came at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay.
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Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
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Confederate forces launched a surprise attack against Union troops, but Union forces ultimately hung on and won.
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Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." It freed 3.1 million out of nation's 4 million slaves.
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A Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3-day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.
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Lincoln was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 A.M..
