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1492
Christopher Columbus
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. -
Period: 1518 to
Middle passage
Slaves were taken from Africa and taken to the Americas or West Indies and use for manual labor and the materials collected were sent back to Europe -
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in north America -
Southern Colonies
The Carolina Colony stretched south from Virginia to Florida and started planting corn in the 1690s. Split into north and south Carolina in 1729 -
Pymouth Colony
The first permanent English colony -
New England Colonies
The New England Colonies started from a group of Puritan separatists in 1620 the Plymouth Colony was formed and in 1630 the Massachusetts Bay Colony was formed -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
One of the original English settlements that was settled by 1,000 puritans -
Middle Colonies
King Charles ll the territory between New England and Virginia to James, the Duke of York and the land was named New York -
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Great Awakening
A time when a religion started to sweep across Europe and the revitalization of religion in the region. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was started because the French's expansion into the Ohio river and the war ended in 1763 -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was nullified by protesting and rioting colonists who would do stamp burning and outright refusal to use stamps -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a fight between a crowd and British troops and happened mostly because the British troops wanted to cut a tree -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party incident was when 342 creates of tea were thrown into the Boston harbor because of a tax -
Battles of Lexington / Concord
Initial skirmishes between British and Americans, marking the start of the American Revolution -
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American Revolutionary War
The American Revolution was the war that gave the 13 American colonies independence -
Declaration of Independence
Document that announced the separation of the 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Right were the original 10 amendments -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was when George Washington and 11,000 troops stayed in Valley Forge during a bad winter -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was when George Washington defeated British general Charles Cornwallis -
Article of Confederation
The Article of Confederation was an article that established the sovereign states -
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Abolitionist
The movement responsible for creating the climate needed to end the transatlantic slave trade. The movement started in western Europe and the Americas -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention took place to amend the Articles of Confederation. All states except Rhode Island excepted the invite sent by the Annapolis Convention. -
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was when factories started rise and people moving to "cities" because they had factories -
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Underground Railroad / Harriet Tubman
The underground Railroad was a system used to help slaves escape. The slaves were helped by sympathetic northerners to fight against Fugitive Slave act -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was when the U.S doubled its size when they bought land from the French -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was when Lewis and Clark explored the land the U.S had bought during the Louisiana Purchase -
War of 1812
The British didn't want to treat the U.S as an equal and messed with ships out at sea -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was were Missouri was added as a slave state and Maine was added to even things out and then the a line was decided to keep slave and free states equal -
Election of 1824
The Election of 1824 was where John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives but Andrew Jackson had the most votes -
Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was where Texas fought for their independent from Mexico -
Mexican-American war
The Mexican-American war started because of annexation of Texas and confusion where Texas border was if it was on Nueces River or the Rio Grande. -
California Gold Rush
People rushing to California after finding gold in a mine -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 happened because California would be in both north and south territories. After the election of 1848 it was left to the courts to decide if California was a slave state or not -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was an abolitionist novel. 300,000 copies were sold after the first year it was published. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was were Americans moved west to claim land in Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, California.