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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Discovers The New World
On August 3rd, 1493, Christopher Columbus selled across the sea with his three ships; The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria, and discovered a New World. Columbus's view on Natives were that they were inferior over Europeans, although they were extremely timid people. -
Aug 13, 1521
Hernan Cortes Conquers the Aztecs
The battle between the Spaniards and the Aztecs occured due to European settlement. Cortes and his army invaded the land that the Aztecs were living on, and made them leave the place. Cortes view on natives is that they aren't a threat to him. -
Jan 1, 1552
Bartolome de Las Casas
Bartolome was born in November, 1484. He was a spanish priest in the 16th century and a settler in America. There he witnessed the horrible punishment and trearmment of Native Americans, therefore he worte a book called, "A Short Acoount of the Destuction of the Indies". Bartolome view of Native Americans is that he sympothizes for them. -
Founding Of Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English Colony, in which was founded in 1607 by John Smith. It was founded in Virginia, and it helped shape the nation and the world. Its affect on Native Americans is that they living there before the English people arrived, which caused lots of hostility. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. Many native americasn were attacked during this attack against Berkeley. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war lasted through 1754-1763 and was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
In the Spring of 1763, Pontiac, the chief of the Ottawa people, decided to go to war against the British. After uniting several Native American groups, including the Ottawa, Delaware, Shawnee, and Seneca peoples, Pontiac's forces attacked forts along the frontier and burned down several towns before British troops were able to stop them. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty eliminated French power in North America and ended the revolution. This casued Native Americans, allies of the British, to loose their land to American settlers. -
Treaty of Greenville
12 Native American nations signed the treaty of Greenville, in which they agreed to give up part of southern Ohio and Indiana in exchange for a yearly payment of $10,000 from the federal government. -
Lousiana Purchase
The United States bought Lousiana from France for $11.25 million. It also agreed to take on French debts owed to American citizens. The Senate approved and the United State's size doubled. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
A secret expedition arranged by Jefferson, to sail into the Lousiana Territory to trace the Missouri River and find a route to the Pacific ocean. Jefferson chose Meriweather Lewis and William Clark. -
Tecumseh and The Prophet
Tecumseh is a Shawnee leader, beleived that native americans needed to unite to protect their lands. Him and his brother, The Prophet, called for a spiritual rebirth of Native American cutures. -
Creek War
War that resulted in U.S. victory over Creek Indians, who were British allies during the War of 1812, resulting in vast cession of their land in Alabama and Georgia. -
Indian Removal Act
Mnay Americans beleived that if they were to move the Natives to the Great Plains, the conflict with them would end. Therefore congress pushed for the Indian Removal Act, which provided money for relocating Native Americans. -
Worcester v. Georgia
The cherokee thought it was unfair that they had to resettle, so they decided to hire lawyers to sue the state of Georgia in order to challenge the state's attempt to extend its authority over cherokee lands. -
Trail of Tears
A journey in which the Cherokees's traveled; 2,000 died in camps while waiting for the recolation to begin, 2,000 more died of starvation, disease, and exposure. -
Oregon Trail
The mountain men had curved out several East-to-West trails that helped settlers travel and the most popular route was the Oregon Trail. -
Gold Discovered in California
Many Californians new that gold was there. Luckily, James W. Marshall was the first who unexpectedly discovered gold while overseeing of a sawmill on the American River. -
Passage Of Homestead Act
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. -
Sand Creek Massacre
On November 29, 1864, seven hundred members of the Colorado Territory militia embarked on an attack of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian villages. -
Diminished Buffalo Herds
The life of the buffalo was all but inseparable from the life of the Native Americans. When the Native Americans got to what we now call America some 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, they came upon what is now considered a legendary sight - the vast herds of buffalo which roamed the Plains. -
Gold In The Black Hills and the ft. of Laramie Treaty
The Black Hills gold rush and the consequent local mining industry began with the Custer Expedition of 1874. As Custer led his 1000 men through the Hills, two miners attached to the undertaking uncovered small quantities of gold near present day Custer, South Dakota. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army -
Nez Perce War
When a white settler killed a Nez Perce warrior in 1876, the incident set off a chain of events that led to war. The conflict casued many Native American groups and allies to fight against the USA.
