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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus's first voyage was on Aug.,3 1492.He went to palos, spain. -
Jamestown settlement
In1607 about 100 boys and men traveied to present day Verginia. The settlers built forts alongside the river. They named it James town after KingJames the 1rst. -
The Plymouth Colony
About 100 men, women, and children sailed across the Alantic Ocean. They took a English ship called the Mayflower. Pilgrims landed on a Cape Cod and built a colony. They named it The Plymouth Colony. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act put a tax
anything on printed papper. -
boston tea party
a protest agianst tea because king george put a tax on it. the sons of liberty all threw tea overboard into the boston harbor. -
decleration of indipendence
Congres asked Thomas Jeferson and four others to wright a decleration of independence .Congres needed a document to declare wiy the colinies had to becom indipendentfrome dritin -
Aritcals of Confederatation
The Aritcals of Confederatation gave congress very little power.Hte states accepted the Articals in 1781.The Articlas gave congress the power to declare war,make peace treaties,and make peace treaties whith other Nations,incuding the Amercan Indan Nations. -
Treaty of Paris
By France, was ready to make peace with Britain. The two countries signed an agreement called the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty gave Britain control of Canada and most of the land east of Mississipi River. -
Contitional Coimitetee
Delegates met from the states met in Philadelphia to change the Articles of Confederation.This meeting is now called the Contitional Coimitete. -
Washington elected
Washington was elected in 1789. He was the 1st president elected. His home state was Virginia. The party was Nonpartisan. -
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was born in slavery. Sojourner Truth spoke in favor of abolition and womens rights. She also made a speech called " And Aint I a Women"?. Her speech was a significant argument to recognize womens rights.
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Louisiana Purchas
Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana . It doubled the u.s.a.
Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to see about the people,land,plants, and animals in the new territory and beyond. -
Orgeon Trail
President James Polk believed in manifest destiny he wanted orgeon to belong to the united states ,polk sighned a treaty with britan to set the border between the western united states. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Thomas Jefferson chose Merriweather Lewis and William Clark to lead an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory.They had to gather information about landforms,plants,animals and western climates.They had to learn cultures of the western Indians too.
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Lewis and Clark expedition end
In spring 1805 they continued to the headquarter of the Missour River, struggled across the Continental at Lemhi Pass, and headed west along the Salmon, clearwater,snake, and Columbia River to the Pacific. They landed at the mouth of the Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon on November 5,1805.The explorers began their journey home on March 23,1806. -
Robert Fulton Steamboat
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the war of 1812
In 1812 Congress declared war against Britain. The United States also wanted to drive britain out of Canada. -
The Buring of Tthe White House
In August 1814, in Wwashington D.C Dolley Madison collected inportant papers to taken to saffety. British forces burned the white house the capital and other buidings in Waaashington. -
Erie Canal
because roads were so poor at the time, rivers and canals were fastest and most cheapest way to gather and ship goods. Canals made it easy to travel on water and for shipping. And in 1825,the Erie Canal opened-ya-hoo! The canal connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie! More canals were built throughout the East, and by 1840, more than 3,000 miles of canals crossed the Eastern part of the nation! -
Steam Locomotive
James Watt already mentioned the idea of a high-pressure Steam Engine in his patient of 1769.A Steam Locomotive is a Railway
Locomotive that produces its power through a Steam Engine. -
telegraph
A telegraph is a machine that sends eletric messages over eletric wires it was ivented in 1835 . Samuel f.b. Morse improved it and tested it out in 1843 . To send messages you would have to use the morase code . -
Battle of the Alamo
Texans shouted ''Remember the Alamo'' at the battle. His goal was to capture the Alamo. Santa Anna and his crew got a surprise attack. They captured Santa Anna and to gain his freedom he agreed to give Texas it's independance. Even though the Alamo is gone they got their freedom. -
trail of tears
In Georiga,the Cherokee had added parts of the settlers culture to their own traditions.The americans were in the louisiana purchase and made indians move from their homes but they gave the indians some land in the louisiana mountains. The indians were a little happy but they didn`t want to be moved from their home.It was a long journey to the mountains and thousands of indians died on the way. -
Seneca Falls convention
A convention in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss their rights. About 3 hundred people came to this meeting. The Seneca Falls Convention marked the beginning of the womans rights movment. It started in 1848, July, 14.
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Ohio womens rights convention
Elizabith Cady Stanton was with the Ohio womes ritghts convention. most of women were with the Ohio womens rights convention. -
Womens Suffrage Asso.
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman wasa born slave in Maryland.She returned 19 times to lead others freedom.She risked being caught and tryed to end slave.She hepled about 300 people escape and get to the North.She became a symbol of the abolitionist movement. She died in 1913
