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Johannes Guttenberg had developed the moveable printing press.
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He landed on San Salvador, He had made his first voyage.
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He led a Spanish fleet to the coast of present day South America.
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Juan Ponce De Leon landed on the Carribean island of Puerto Rico.
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He had conquered Spain and founded the city of San Juan.
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He said that the church was to wealthy and abused its power.
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He was a Portuguese navigator who had set out with a Spanish fleet to sail down the east coast of South America.
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Joined him on an expedition to North America.
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By 1534 Pizarro and his Native american allies had conquered the entire Inca Empire.
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King Henry VIII founded the Church of England, or the Anglican Church.
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Was the first English settlement.
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The Dutch founded New Netherland in 1613 as a trading post for exchanging furs with the Iroquois.
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John Rofle married Pocahontas, daughter of the Powhattan leader, in 1614.
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The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact.
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They had grown some 3-4 million people.
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This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
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This allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
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Colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into the Boston Harbor.
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Delegates from 12 colonies met again in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress.
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On July 4Th the 13 colonies issued the Declaration of Independence and broke away from Great Britain.
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General Clinton landed a force of 14,000 troops around the port city.
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Spanish official closed the lower Mississippi River to U.S shipping.
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Which set up a system of surveying and dividing western lands.
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Farmers in three western countries began a revolt, starting the Farmers Rebel
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Shays's forces were defeated by state troops.
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Madison began writing down a huge list of proposed amendments.
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This act created three levels of federal courts and defined their powers and relationship to the state courts.
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By December 1791 the states had ratified 10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizens rights.
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George Washington died at Mount Vernon, Virginia on December 14.
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Congress declared war on Great Britain.
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John Adams was elected president.
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This became the first locomotive in the United States to carry passengers.
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A system of messengers on horseback and began to carry messages west.
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He headed toward Manassas with another 10,000 Confederate troops.
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Poised outside Richmond, the Confederate army in Virgina came under the command of General Robert E. Lee
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Lincoln finally wrote the Emancipation Prolamation, which was the order to free the Confederate slaves,
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Jackson's troops met Pope's Union forces on the battlefield in august in 1862, this 3 day battle became known as the Second Battle Of Bull Run.
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This was a key battle that finally turned tide against the Confederates.
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Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau, an ageny providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South.
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This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Amerians.
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He was the first president to be impeached.
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The first continental railroad ic completed.
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In 1868 Congressed proposed the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave African Americcan men the right to vote.
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The first national labor union was founded.
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He invented the tellphone
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Thousands of union members in Chicago went on strike because they wanted an eight-hour workday.
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It was one of the busiest imigration centers, and was located in the New York Harbor.
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It took place at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead steel factory in Pennsylvania. The Union members there protested a plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs.
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Workers began this strike whisch stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs,
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General Grant's troops began the Siege of Vicksburg in mid-May 1863, cutting off the city and shelling it repeatedly.
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The most southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservation.
