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An Italian explorer sailing for Spain who believed that Asia (India) could be reached by sailing west from Europe. His first voyage was in 1492, wherein he discovered North America (Caribbean islands) and named it the West Indies. He will make four voyages to the new world without fully realizing what he had discovered. -
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. From Europe to Africa, Africans to work as slaves in the Americas and West Indies, and items, mostly raw materials, produced on the plantations, -
When about the English along the eastern seaboard. there were plenty of French, Spanish, Dutch and even Russian colonial outposts on the American continent–but the story of those 13 colonies. -
Historic Jamestown is home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America. They was dominated by Spain voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century. -
King James 1 reign a group of around 100 men and women in September 1620, many of them members of the English Separatist Church later known to history. Two moths later three-masted merchant ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts. -
The New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620. 10 years later, known as the Massachusetts
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One of the original English settlements they settle in 1630 by a group about 1,000 puritan.The Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of America around the Massachusetts Bay. -
The Middle Colonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America. King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia,The English soon absorbed Dutch New Netherland and renamed it New York. -
The British American colonies mainly between about 1720 and the 1740s. under the leadership of Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, -
The Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France 1750s, France’s expansion into the Ohio River -
The Sons of Liberty formed in the summer of 1765 to oppose the act. Colonists passionately upheld their rights as Englishmen -
342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown -
British regulars and American provincials, marking the beginning of the American Revolution. -
the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain“these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.” -
a period that marked the triumph of morale and military discipline over severe hardship. Following the American failures at the nearby battles of Brandywine and Germantown, Washington led 11,000 regulars -
bridge between the initial government by the Continental Congress of the Revolutionary period and the federal government provided under the U.S. Constitution of 1787. -
Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia (May 25–September 17, 1787), ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation.All the states except Rhode Island responded to an invitation issued by the Annapolis Convention of 1786 to send delegates. -
the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which were adopted as a single unit on December 15, 1791, and which constitute a collection of mutually reinforcing guarantees of individual rights and of limitations on federal and state governments. -
France by the United States; at less than three cents per acre for 828,000 square miles (2,144,520 square km), it was the greatest land bargain in U.S. history. -
The expedition was a major chapter in the history of American exploration.On January 18, 1803, U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson sent a secret message to Congress asking for $2,500 to send an officer -
conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. -
measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state (1821). -
John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives after Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes but failed to receive a majority. -
Industrial Economic took more than a century in the United States, but that long development entered its first phase from the 1790s through the 1830s. -
The Battle of the Alamo during Texas’ war for independence from Mexico lasted thirteen days, from February 23, 1836-March 6, 1836. "Remember the Alamo!" battle cry while fighting against Mexican forces in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. -
The Indian Removal Act was signed into by President Andrew Jackson, the president to lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
President Polk's administration won the Mexican-American War but failed to solve the slavery debate. This was a fight about United states and Mexico. The us won and became 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory. -
The California Gold Rush in California that began after gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852. 1848 John Sutter built water-powered sawmill along the American River in Coloma, California, approximately 50 miles (80 km) .24 January he found gold. -
In the United States exiting a system before the civil war, They escape slaves from the south and they helped by sympathetic Northerners, -
The"great compromise" was whit Henry Clay of Kentucky and by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union. -
An abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery. -
They have a small war in the united states for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine. -
Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, -
The Mexican War, however, had added new territories, and the issue flared up again in the 1840s -
South Carolina seceded from the Union. Five days later, 68 federal troops stationed in Charleston, South Carolina, withdrew to Fort Sumter, an island in Charleston Harbor. -
in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, -
the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond. Before the American Civil War (1861–65), the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country. -
four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states tats from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. -
American Civil War, fought 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that was a crushing Southern defeat. -
The main address at the dedication ceremony was a two-hour speech delivered by Edward Everett, the best-known orator of the time. -
Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union. -
After a weeklong flight westward from Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate Gen.This signaled the beginning of the end of the protracted Civil War. -
the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. In western Europe and the Americas. -
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