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Christopher Columbus led three ships out of the Spanish port of Palos to sail west until he reached Asia, where riches of gold and pearls awaited.
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Hernan Cortes invaded Mexico in 1519, and completed his conquest of the Aztecs in 1521.
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Jamestown104 English men came to North America to start a settlement. They picked Jamestown, Virginia, and it became the first permanent settlement in North America.
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King Philip's WarKing Philip's War was between current Native American inhabitants and of southern New England and English colonists.
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BaconNathaniel Bacon leads tobacco farmers and asks permission to attack the Susquehannock Indians and are denied. They burn Jamestown and kill many Indians after being deinied.
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warFrance’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought more conflict with the claims of British colonies, and a series of battles led the British to officially declare war in 1756
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Pontiac's War was a war launched in 1763 by Native Americans primarily from the Great Lakes Region, Illinois Country and Ohio Country, and were not satisfied with postwar policies of the British.
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Proclamation of 1763In an attempt to ease some of the tensions with Native Americans, the Proclamation of 1763 was signed. It forbids any English settlements west of the Appalachian mountains and requires any settlements already over there to return to the east.
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TecumsehTecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee people. His significance to American history was that he wanted to unite the northern and southern Indians by talking about Indian resistance across large territories.
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Treaty of ParisThe Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolution and by right of conquest, the United States now claims all Indian lands east of the Mississipi River.
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The Treaty of Greenville marked the end of a multi-tribal war that began in the late 1770s and was led by the Shawnees to resist American expansion into Ohio.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between France and the United States in which the US gained land west of the Mississippi River.
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Thomas Jefferson commissioned this expedition to explore the northwest territory in order to observe a transcontinental route.
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The Creek War was started by Andrew Jackson to end Creek resistance to giving their land up to the U.S. government.
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The Indian Removal Act authorized the president to pursue ownership over all Indian lands east of the Mississippi River.
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Thefirst Cherokees that regused removal began the march westward to their new lands in present day Oklahoma.
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The Homestead Actmakes Western lands belonging to Native Americans available to non-Indian American settlers.
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Sand Creek MassacreColonel John Chivington leads the US cavalry and kills over 150 Arapaho and Cheyenne. This becomes known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
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Gold was found in the Black Hills and many fortune hunters went searchin for it but the Ft. Laramie Treaty required the government to protect the lands from intruders.
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George Armstrong Custerignored warnings of a lrage Sioux army and led 250 soldiers to attack the forces of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at the Little Bighorn. Custer and 210 of his men were killed.
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Nez Perce WarThe Nez Perce War started because the United States army heard of some American deaths said to be the doing of the Nez Perce.