Politics and Power By mirellemahmoud 1492 Columbus sails to Western Hemisphere 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas 1499 Vespucci reaches Brazil 1521 Hernan Cortes leads Spanish forces to defeat Montezuma 1550 Encomienda is replaced with repartimiento 1764 Sugar Act 1765 Quartering and Stamp Act 1775 American revolutionary War 1776 Declaration of Independence signed 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified 1788 Ratification of Constitution 1845 Annexation of Texas 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed 1850 Stricter Fugitive Slave Act 1857 Dred Scott case decision 1859 John Brown Raid 1860 Boss Tweed 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Black Codes 1869 Transcontinental railroad is completed 1876 Little Big Horn 1881 Booker T Washington head of Tuskegee Institute 1887 Dawes Act of 1887 1891 Battle of Wounded Knee 1898 Spanish American War occurs 1908 NAACP created 1917 World War 1 begins 1920 19th Amendment ratified 1929 Black Tuesday 1939 World War 2 Begins 1949 NATO is created 1950 Korean War 1954 Brown v. Board of Education 1955 Rosa Parks refuses seat on bus 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. I have a Dream Speech 1963 March on Washington 1966 Black Panther Party