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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus discovers the New World
Christopher Columbus found America. He viewd the Native Americans as inferior and did what he told them to do. This effected them by the natives not being able to live freely. They were commanded to do what the Europeans wanted and were enslaved, raped, and murdered.
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Aug 13, 1519
Hernan Cortes conquers the Aztecs
He invaded Mexico and completed the conquest in 1521 of the conquest of the Aztec empire. He then established the new colony of New Spain.
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Bartolome de Las Casas
He was the first priest in the Western hemisphere and chief architect of the no longer existing "new laws." The laws were against indian enslavement and he published "Brief Relations of the Destruction of the Indies." This had gruesome examples of the colonists treament of the indians.
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Founding of Jamestown
It was founded in Virginia by the colonists of the London Company. At the end of the year, the orginial 105 settlers went down to 32. This is because of starvation and disease. John Smith was captured by a Native AMerican chief, Powhatan, whos daughter, Pocahontas, saved John Smith from death. The diseases would later exterminated the colonists.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Nathan Bacon and tobacco planters asked to attack Susquehannock Indians, who have been raidimg on colonists settlements, but were denied permission. WIth the refusal of Governor Berkeley's the colonists burn Jamestown, which killed many Indians before order is back in October.
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French and Indian war
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Proclamation of 1763
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Treaty of Paris
This was negotiated between Great Britain and the United States. This ended the revolutionary war and saw America as independent.
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Treaty of Greenville
This marked the end of an undeclared and multi-tribal war that began in the late 1770s. This was led by the Shawnees and they fought to resist American expansion into Ohio. In 1795, over a thousand Indian delegates gave up two-thirds of Ohio. This was part of Indiana and the sites of Detroit, Toledo, and Chicago. The Indians were promised a permanent boundary between theirs and Americans.
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Louisiana Purchase
This adds to the United States French territory from the Gulf of Mexico to the Northwest.
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Tecumseh and Prophet
[Latinlibrary](>http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/nativeamericanchron.html</a>)Tecumseh is the Chief of the Shawnees. His brother is called the Prophet. They founded Prophetstown of Indian people who believed that signing treaties with the U.S. government would lose the Indian way of life. Tecumseh organized a defensive confederacy of Indian tribes in the Northwestern.The goal is to make the Ohio River the boundary betweenUS and Indian land. William Henry Harrison destroyed the town. -
Creek War
The Creek War was started by General Andrew Jackson and he sought to end Creek resistance to ceding their land to the US government. The Creek was defeated and at the Treaty of Fort Jackson, the Creek lost 14 million acres. To count the Creek dead, whites cut off their noses and they also skinned their bodies to tan as souvenirs. This was the largest cession of territory ever made in the southeast.http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/nativeamericanchron.html</a>
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Indiana Removal Act
The president was authorized to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States. It was for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
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Worcester vs. Georgia
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Trail of Tears
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/nativeamericanchron.htmlEven though Cherokee had the right to stay on their lands, President Jackson sent troops to remove them. Many were imprisioned and 1500 perished. The rest began an 800-mile forced march to Oklahoma . 4,000 Cherokee died during the removal process -
Oregon Trail
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Gold discovered in California
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Passage of the Homestead Act
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Sand Creek Massacre
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Diminished Buffalo Herds
By the 1870s, hundreds of thousands of buffalo hides were being shiped eastward each year. Around 1.5 million were packed aboard trains and wagons in the winter of 1872-73 alone. The buffalo herds lowered to a crisis point for the Indians.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/american-buffalo-spirit-of-a-nation/introduction/2183/</a>
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Gold in the Black hills and the Ft. Laramie Treaty
George Armstrong Custer found gold in the Black Hills of Dakota and this set off fortune-hunters into the most sacred part of Lakota territory. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty required the government to protect Lakota lands from white intruders but federal authorities instead protected the miners on the path Custer blazed for them. They called it "Freedom's Trail" and the Lakota called "Thieves’ Road." <a href='http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-timeline4.html' >http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na -
Battle of Little Big Horn
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George Armstrong Custer and 250 soldiers attack the Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Little Bighorn. Custer and 210 men are killed. This reaches the east for the Independence Day Centennial celebrations. The federal government spent the next two years looking for the Lakota and killed some and forcing most onto the reservation. -
Nez Perce War
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This occurred when the U.S. army responded to some American deaths along the Salmon River that may of been committed by the Nez Perce. About 800 Nez Perce fled 1,500 miles. They were caught 30 miles south of the Canadian border. They were sent to Indian Territory in Oklahoma even though the U.S. government promised to allow them to return to their homeland.
