Native American Timeline

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  • Dec 6, 1492

    Columbus discovered the New World

    On August 3 1492 he led 3 ships west to actually go to Aisa but instead he found the New World. He also found the Native American poeple. He told them about Christianity. While in contact they gave the native poeple new dieases they later on killed many of the population.
  • Aug 12, 1521

    Hernan Cortes takes down the Aztecs

    Cortes conquers the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain. They were in Tenochittitlan long enough tp start a small pox eqiuemic to take down the Aztecs. More thsn 3 million of them died from smallpox.
  • Jan 1, 1552

    Bartholone de Las Casas

    He was given the job to be the protectors of the Indians. He was given instructions to serve us an adviser regarding issuse involed th Indians. He would have to speak on their behalf during any legal action.

  • Founding of Jamestown

    The Virgina Company of England had a daring propersition to set sail to the new world. Then they found land which would be later on called Virgina and the first settlement in American. They quickly went under many people died from many disease, lack of food and clean water, and also Indians. They fought with the Indians but later on came to a settelment with them.

  • Bacons Rebellion

    Bacons Rebellion fought from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacaon. It started with the Doeg Indians on the Potomic River. Indians began to raid the Virigin frontier. Some saw the Saaquchannock War an opportuning for agenral Indain war that would yeild Indains slaves and land.

  • French and Indian War

    Noth America main cause of a war between france and Britain to control colonial territory. The dispute was wheather the uppor ohio river valley was a part of the French or British empier. Also which national culturen would control the hesrt of North America. The British won.

  • Proclamation

    proclamanationIt was issued by the British King Gorege the 3. It was made following British victory over France in the french and indians wars. Was percived as being benifical to the Indains and Great Britain. The victory of the wars was enable to monopolize the fur trade. Also the triangle trade.

  • Treaty of Pairs

    When the American Revoloution came to a end when the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris on this day in 1783. Britain formally recognized the independence of its 13 former American colonies. . On July 4, 1776, more than a year after the first volleys of the war were fired, the Second Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was ratified by the Continental Congress on January 14, 1884.

  • Treaty of Greenvile

    treaty of greenvile American army commanded by Anthony Wayne defeated a Native American force led by Blue Jacket of the Shawnee at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.The Americans and natives spent the next eight months negotiating a treaty.On August 3, 1795, many Indinas formly signed the treaty.The American government also agreed to give the natives $9,500 every year in goods

  • Louisiana Purches

    United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France.Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north.Negotiations moved swiftly, and at the end of April the U.S. envoys agreed to pay $11,250,000 and assume claims of American citizens against France in the amount of $3,750,000.

  • Lewis and Clark expedition

    Lewis and ClarkLewis and Clark led an 8,000-mile expedition to the West coast and back from 1804 to 1806. Also called he "Corps of Discovery,"The 28-month expedition explored western lands never before seen by Americans. Clark had many skills he was a good boatman, it was important to him, becasue he led 80 percent of the water also a good map maker.

  • Tecumseh and the prophet

    the prophet Head of Native American Northwest Confederacy and his forces were defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.Two Shawnee brothers, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa also known as the Prophet ttried to unite all of the tribes in the Mississippi Valley region against the settlers. The Prophet went very well and created the Northwest Confederacy that included the Shawnee, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek tribes, among others.

  • creek war

    The creek war led to Jackson's recognition by Madison's administration as a Major General in the U.S. army, in command of the Seventh Military District.Inaddition the Creek nation was essentially crushed.Only a fraction of which had been in rebellion. Last, but not lease They were forced to cede three fifths of the present state of Alabama and one fifth of Georgia.

  • indian removal act

    inidan removal act was signed into law by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830.By doing this he authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi.During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government. inclosing ,Around 4,000 Cherokees died on this forced march, which became known as the "Trail of Tears."

  • Worcester vs Georgia

    In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held a trial in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians
    Samuel Worcester, a missionary, defied Georgia through peaceful means to protest the state's handling of Cherokee lands. Next, in the 1820s Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees, who held territory within the borders of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. last but not least , In the late 1820s the Cherokees established a constitutional government.

  • Traill of Tear

    At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Last but not least,The federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River.

  • Oregon Trail

    The Oregon Trail is a 2,200 mile almost 3,500 km historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.Next Oregon Trail was laid by fur trappers and traders from about 1811 to 1840 and was only passable on foot or by horseback. the Oregon Trail and its many offshoots were used by about 400,000 settlers, ranchers, farmers, miners, and businessmen and their families.Today modern highways such as Interstate 80 follow the same course

  • Gold Discovered in CA

    CA GoldOn January 24, 1848, an event occurred in Coloma that would radically impact the history of California and the Nation. Marshall was building a sawmill for Captain John Sutter. Nearly 80,000 immigrants poured into California during 1849. When the gold started to run out, many weary miners headed home. California achieved statehood in 1850 , decades earlier than it would have been without the gold.

  • Passage of the Homested act

    homested actFreeman met some local Land Office officials and convinced a clerk to open the office shortly after midnight in order to file a land claim. Freeman became one of the first to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Homestead Act, a law signed by President Abraham Lincoln. Early methods for relocating unsettled land outside the original 13 colonies were arbitrary and chaotic. Lots that had been on the market for 30 years, for example, were reduced to 12 ½ cents per acre

  • Diminished Buffalo Herds

    buffalo heardsCaptain Francis Dodge command Buffalo Soldiers a settlement of Mescalero Apaches in the most remote region of New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains and attacked them, killing ten Mescalero Apaches and taking 25 ponies.173 Blackfoot men, women and children were slaughtered by U.S. soldiers on the Marias River in Montana. The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified. Women continued to be second-class citizens.

  • Gold in the Black Hill

    gold in the black hillsThe Treaty of Fort Laramie also called the Sioux Treaty of 1868. Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux and Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by U.S. law. They forced the U.S. to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands in Nebraska to poor land in Oklahoma. The United States Supreme Court upheld an award of $15.5 million for the market value of the land in 1877, along with 103 years worth of interest at 5 percent, for an additional $105 million.

  • Battel of Little Big Horn

    Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse wereDetermined to resist the efforts of the U.S. Army to force them onto reservations. In 1875, the U.S. Army ordered all the hostile Indians in Montana to return to their reservations or risk being attacked. Lastly , Crazy Horse was killed in 1877 after leaving the reservation without permission. Sitting Bull was shot and killed three years later in 1890 by a Lakota. policeman.

  • Nez Perce War

    [Nez Perce War](http:// http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nez-perce-fight-battle-of-big-hole)A small groupof Nez Perce Indians clash with the U.S. Army near the Big Hole River in Montana. At firstthe tribe's first contact with the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the peaceful Nez Perce had befriended and cooperated with the Americans.The US pressure to force these last resisters to comply finally led to the outbreak of the Nez Perce War of 1877.Colonel John Gibbon attacked the sleeping Indians with a force of 183 men. Miles decisively defeated the Nez Perce at the Bear Paw

  • Sand Creek Massacrue

    sand creekOn this day in 1864,Sand Creek massacre were rooted in the long conflict for control of the Great Plains of eastern Colorado. The Native Americans ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments.