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Important History of America

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  • Christopher Columbus
    1436

    Christopher Columbus

    An Italian explorer who covered 4 voyaged across the Atlantic sea during his journey he met natives. He took over their land which he discovered and killed many natives while during this discovery.
  • Mercantilism

    Mercantilism

    It was a way of trading there were colonies that gave to the mother country which was England.
  • The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment gave many ideas like philosophers who got to show the way they think through books and their skepticism to show different opinions on what they think of things.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    One of the founding fathers also he was a polymath who had very good knowledge. He also was an author and helped out during the American Revolutionary War
  • George Washington

    George Washington

    Founding Father of the United States also was the first president. Commander in Cheif of the Revolutionary War. He also fought in the French and Indian War
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Made the Declaration of Independence was the 3rd president of U.S. He was also responsible for the Louisiana purchase that expanded America
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    An American soldier and a political leader. He was the seventh president of America. He was also the one wo start the Indian Removal Act
  • Lewis ans Clark

    Lewis ans Clark

    Made a journey west of Mississippi which was known as the Louisiana Purchase.they discovered a native woman who helped them out on the unknown land.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    He was the 16th president of America. He abolished slavery and gave rights to black people also he lead the confederates(north) who agreed to black having rights
  • Jacksonian Democracy

    Jacksonian Democracy

    Is a strict democrat party about how, Jackson did well for the people but some may disagree and say it is a "poltical impluse tied to slvaery"
  • Westward Expansion

    Westward Expansion

    traveled west in hope to find land to be successful this had happened right after the Louisiana Purchase that doubled the country size
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    John O'Sullivan used the term Manifest Density in a New York article. Manifest Destiny was used to explaining that settlers should move across the contenit to speard their idead abd their cultures
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    The Dred Scott case was a slave named Dred Scott V. Sandford who wanted his freedom because he believed he could be free. He lived in a free state for couple years and brought it up to the supreme court.
  • Federick Douglass

    Federick Douglass

    He was an abolitionist he was an anti-slavery activist he protests against Jim Crow and the lynchings happening to slaves.H talked his own ideas about America and also and he welcomed anti-slavery poltics.