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10,000 BCE
First Americans Enter North America
If the first Americans had never entered North America, our current civilization and society wouldn't be the way it is today. The first Americans who enetered North America changed history. -
Period: 1451 to 1506
Christopher Columbus
In 1492, Columbus was trying to sail to Asia. Instead he landed in the Bahamas. Because of this, people often say that Columbus discovered America. Historians know now that this is not true. When the Spanish learned that Columbus had found a "New World," many other people, called conquistadors, went there too. This led to the Spanish colonization of the Americas. -
1492
Christopher Columbus Lands
Christopher Colombus claimed to have discovered America. He was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. -
Jamestown
In the early 1600s, there once was a group of people who wanted to start a colony in Virginia. When they reached Virginia, the colonists settle on a swampy area in the southern area of North America. They called their new home Jamestown after King James I of England. -
Mercantilism
An economic system designed to benefit a mother country by the creation of colonies to gather resources. -
Navigation Act of 1651
The Purpose of the Navigation Acts was to encourage British shipping and allow Great Britain to retain the monopoly of British colonial trade for the benefit of British merchants. -
Mercantilism
Mercantilism was an economic system designed to benefit a mother country by the creation of colonies to gather resources. The goal of mercantilism was to run trade surpluses, so that gold and silver would pour into London. -
The Enlightenment (1685-1815)
The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement in the 17th and 18th centuries which focused on individual rights and the power of a government. -
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was known as "the First American," was an American statesman whose efforts were critical to the success of the American Revolution and the unification of the 13 colonies into a new nation. He assisted Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and helped legitimize the U.S. Constitution in 1787. His effective diplomacy, creative nationalism, promotion of civic virtue and devotion to republicanism earned him high rank as a Founding Father. -
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George Washington
George Washington was the first President of the United States (1789–1797), the commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the president of the United States who bought Louisiana fram France/Napoleon Bonoparte. -
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
The French and Indian War was caused by a long struggle between France and Great Britain for territory and power. Native Americans fought with France and, as a result, colonists called it the French and Indian War. It was a war between the French, English and their Native American allies which made the English colonies about twice the size they were before -
Proclamation of 1763
A law passed by England's Parliament which drew a line in the colonies in order to keep colonists and Native Americans separate after the French & Indian War. -
Stamp Act
This law required colonists to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they used. Newspapers had to be printed on stamped paper. Wills, licenses, and even playing cards had to have stamps. The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised taxes from the American colonies. -
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the president of the United States during the Indian Removal act. He became the seventh President of the United States of America. He was the first Democrat and is on the Twenty Dollar Bill. -
Boston Massacre
Tension had been brewing between colonists and British soldiers living in Boston since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce additional taxes on common products such as paper, glass and tea. British troops were stationed in Boston to maintain order. The civilians reacted to the redcoats like they were invaders by taunting them through name calling, spitting and fighting. -
Boston Tea Party
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
American Revolution (1775-1783)
A war in which the American colonies won independence from Great Britain. The American Revolution led to the creation of a new nation. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declareation of Independence was a proclamation by which a country, group, or people asserts publicly that it has become independent of a governing power -
United States Constitution Signed
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. -
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Dred Scott
Dred Scott v. Stanford 60 U.S. 393 (1857) was a United States Supreme Court landmark decision. In 1857 the court ruled that African Americans, whether free or slaves, were not citizens of the United States. Because they were not citizens they could not sue in a Federal court. Dred Scott sued in federal court. He lost. -
Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion was the movement of the United States towards the Pacific Ocean. It was based on Manifest Destiny and the result of it was the growth of the US. If not for Wesward Expansion, the US wouldn't be the size it is today. It started in 1803 when the Lousiana Purchase occured. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was an American-French land deal in 1803. The United States purchased about 827,000 square miles of land from France for $15 million. The land purchased, which was called the Louisiana Territory, started on the west side of the Mississippi River and spanned all the way westward to the Rocky Mountains. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
The Lewis and Clark expedition was meant to explore the territories that had been acquired by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was when Thomas Jefferson asked Congress to fund an expedition through the Louisiana territory to the Pacific Ocean. Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery to find a water route to the Pacific and explore the uncharted West. -
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Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition that built relationships with Native Americans in what became the central and western United States. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 – April 15 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He served as president from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. Just five days after most of the Confederate forces had surrendered and the war was ending, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln. -
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American in the 19th century. He was born as a slave in Maryland, but learned to read and escaped to the North in the 1830s. -
Era of Reform
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States. Between about 1820 and 1850, American reformers devoted themselves to such causes as ending slavery, promoting women’s rights, and improving education. -
Election of 1828
This expansion of democracy did not yet include African Americans, Native Americans, or women. Still, over one million Americans voted in 1828, more than three times as many as voted in 1824. The majority of them voted for Andrew Jackson. -
Jacksonian Democracy (1829-1837)
Jacksonian Democracy was a period in time where the president truly listened to and represented the common people, but was accused of overstepping the power of the presidency. -
Indian Removal Act
In 1830, just a year after taking office, Jackson pushed a new piece of legislation called the "Indian Removal Act" through both houses of Congress. It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their lands -
Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed “all men are created equal.” The goal of the Abolitionist Movement was to abolish slavery. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the idea that it was a God-given-right for the United States to spread from the East Coast to the West Coast. Manifest Destiny influenced Westward Expansion and caused the US to be the US it is today. -
Mexican American War (1846-1848)
The Mexican–American War was an armed dispute between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. -
Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was enacted stating that if you a slave, no matter where you run away, you are always a slave and can be reclaimed to your original owner. Dred Scott, a slave in Missouri went to court to ask for his freedom because he and his owner lived in a free state for four years. The Supreme Court ruled against his favor. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln already had an advantage going into the election, based on his competition, because Lincoln has all of the Republicans on his side and his competition was supported by divisions of the Democrats because they had split. His competition was divided three ways and he had a larger supporting group. Lincoln won the election. -
Civil War (1861-1865)
The Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865 between the North and the slave-owning states of the South -
The Enlightenment (1685-1815)
The Age of Enlightenment was an 18th century cultural movement in Europe. The Enlightenment's most important idea was that all people can reason and think for themselves.Freedom, democracy, and reason were influenced as a result of the enligtement years. -
Emily Renee Anema was born
On August 6, 2004, Emily Anema was born. Wow, just WOW! She is now a 13 year old girl that attends the 8th grade. So far, she has totally definitely changed the US history. *cough cough