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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Seperation of Land
America is split into three large colonies, southern land owned by spanish, Middle america owned by french and the smallest eastern colonies by britain.This was a time of strict boundaries made between the three countries newly found land. -
Sep 6, 1521
The Spanish Expand
The fall of the Aztec Empire and capture of its ruler Cuauhtémoc , left Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortéz in charge of a vast and largely unfamiliar land. He and his troops terrorized and abused the natives in thier search for riches. -
May 30, 1539
De Soto to the Mississippi
On May 30, 1539, Fernando de Soto landed on the west coast of present-day Florida and began Spain's colonization empire in North America. De Soto traveled north through Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Alabama taking him three years. Next he journeyed towards Mississippi and became the first European to see the Mississippi River. As a result of the De Soto expedition, the spread of European disease led to the near demise of the Native American culture near the Mississippi River. -
King Phillips War
the bloodiest conflict in the seventeenth century, began with a massacre of a colonist at Swansee, Plymouth, by a band of Indians. The war was started by King Phillip after three of his people were executed by the English for murdering an Indian. This led to the temporary devastation of the frontier communities and later eradicated native resistance to the white man's westward movement in the northeastern region. Whole Indian villages were massacred and entire tribes were decimated. -
American Revolution, and Constitution
The small thrirteen colonies after unfair taxing, unlawful representation, and a few massacre outbreaks, revolt and declare independence from thier mainland Great Britain, starting a war between the two. Great Britian being a world power had better equipment, more resources, and outnumbered americans 3 to 1.The revolutionists were smart and headstrong. Despite losts and setbacks they stuck it through it, wrote a constitution and made the great country we live in today. -
Loiusiana Purchase
Napoleon Bonaparte leader of france, on his quest to conquer and build a empire of all europe, suffers from major economical losses, and decides to give up all thier land in america entirely to fund their conquest, so he sells Loiusiana which is half of united states at this time(828,000 square miles) for 15 million dollars. (3 cents an acre) -
War of 1812
Britian attempts to occupy America. Britian attempts to restrict american trade and fires upon some merchants ships sparking the second war between the young country and britain -
Democratic Party Created
In the 1828 Presidential Elections opponents of Andrew Jackson told all who would listen that Andrew Jackson was a "Stubborn Jackass" Jackson was proud of his reputation for stubbornness and even wanted to use it as a good quality, so started using a donkey on his campaign posters. -
Treaty of Guadalope Hidago
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.-Mexican War. Signed on 2 February 1848, it is the oldest treaty still in force between the United States and Mexico. As a result of the treaty, the United States acquired more than 500,000 square miles of land spanning from Texas to California. Making the United States whole in its land we have today, despite Hawaii and Alaska which come later. -
The Mexican War Ended
America won the war against Mexico, seizing land from texas to California. This posed a problem: would the states be free of slave states? To deal with this, Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which made California free and allowed the people to pick in Utah and New Mexico. This ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery was called popular sovereignty. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was an abolitionist who wrote this book to show the evils of slavery. This book, which was a best seller at the time, had a huge impact on the way that northerners viewed slavery. It helped further the cause of abolition and even Abraham Lincoln recognized that this bok was one of the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War. A powerful book moves a whole nation. -
Seward's Folly
Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. -
Panama Canal
The construction of the Panama Canal begins under French auspices, although its eventually failure on the sea level canal in 1893, would be bought out by the United States twenty-four years later under President Theodore Roosevelt. -
American Outlaw
Western outlaw Jesse James is shot to death by Robert Ford, a member of his own band, for a $5,000 reward -
France's Gift
The Statue of Liberty arrived for the first time in New York harbor. -
Flood
The deadliest flood in American history occurs in Johnstown, Pennsylvania when 2,200 people perish from the water of the South Fork Dam after heavy rains cause its destruction. -
U.S. overtakes Hawaii
On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president. -
Boxer Rebellion
In 1900, a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. United Nations formed to end the uprising in China. -
Wright Bros.
was the very first flight by a manned, controlled, heavier-than-air aircraft that flew under it's own power. In other words, it was the first flight of an airplane. -
General Ford Model T
Ford builds and demonstrates the first Model T automobile to americans, the first ever standard affordable cars that could be mass produced. -
Titanic
The "unsinkable" ship Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, losing at least 1,517 lives (some accounts say even more), making it one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history.Edward Smith as the captian. -
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WW1
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (the Allied Powers). U.S. doesn't join until 1917. The unstablility caused by World War 1 would make way for the Nazi uprising two decades later. -
Prohibition Begins
The Prohibition of alcohol is passed by congress, my americans are outraged, millions of dollars worth of alcohol are destroyed or dissappear. -
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Great Deppression
A economical crash sends America into a long state of poverty and reformation is made due to the various flaws in society,goverment, and buisnesses -
Empire State Building
Completed (1931): When the Empire State Building opened, it was the tallest building in the world - standing at 1,250 feet tall. -
A Woman What!
Amelia Earhart receives major attention in the 1930s as the first woman pilot to conduct major air flights.She was a very talented pilot that proved woman are capable of much more than credited in 1930s. Inspiration to all women went missing during a flight. -
FDR
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president of the U.S. -
Prohibtion Ends
Prohibition in the United States finally ended in 1933. On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment -
United States Marine Corps Corruption
general Smedley Butler confesses to the U.S. Congress that a group of industrialists contacted him, requesting his aid to overthrow the U.S. government of Roosevelt and establish what he claimed would be a fascist regime in the United States -
Babe Ruth
Famous baseball player Babe Ruth performs his last year in Major League Baseball, with the struggling Boston Braves promising and delivering a winning season. -
First Immigrants
The first person ( besides natives) to discover America was Leif Eriksson. Many sources say that Christopher Columbus was the first to find the Americas, but other sources say that Leif, along with other Vikings, found them about 500 years earlier.
