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1492
INTRODUCTION OF TOBACCO
Tobacco was introduced to Europe in 1492. Before "king cotton," tobacco was the biggest cash crop. -
1492
COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE
The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between The America's and Europe -
Jun 7, 1494
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
This treaty divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. -
1512
ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM
The encomienda system was used during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, whereby conquistadors (conquerers) were granted the towns of the native people they conquered. -
1525
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there. The slave trade used mainly the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. -
1565
ST AUGUSTINE ESTABLISHED
St Augustine was the first permanent Spanish settlement in North America. It was established in modern day Florida. -
JAMESTOWN IS ESTABLISHED
The first English successful settlement. It was named after the King of England; named James I. -
HOUSE OF BURGESSES
The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.[1] The House was established by the Virginia Company, which created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America, and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants. -
PEQUOT WAR
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies. -
STONO REBELLION
The Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed. -
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
BOSTON MASSACRE
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. -
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
The United States bought land from France for 15 million. This causes the US to double in size. -
WAR OF 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies. -
TREATY OF GHENT
Treaty between the US and the UK. This treaty ended the war of 1812. -
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
MONROE DOCTRINE
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding European countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO
The treaty was signed at the end of the Mexican War going on between the US and Mexico. In result, Mexico gave land to the US for $15 million. -
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN IS PUBLISHED
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. -
GADSDEN PURCHASE
The Gadsden purchase was an agreement between the US and Mexico in which the US bought 29,670 square miles of land. The US needed this land to be able to build the transcontinental railroad. -
HARPER'S FERRY RAID
The Harpers Ferry raid conducted by fanatical abolitionist John Brown and 21 followers in October 1859 is considered one of the major events that ultimately led to the American Civil War. Brown was hanged December 2 for murder and treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia. -
HOMESTEAD ACT
This act was passed during the civil war, and it allowed any American and freemen to obtain 160 acres of federal land. This opened up migration towards the west. -
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
Bloodiest 3 day battle of the war. Is considered to be the turning point because it was the South's last attempt to invade the North. -
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He was watching a play at Fords Theatre in Washington DC when he was shot. -
KU KLUX KLAN FOUNDED
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population. -
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866
The first United States federal law to define US citizenship and affirmed that all citizens were equally protected by the law. It was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of Africans born in or brought to America, in the wake of the American Civil War. -
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1875
A United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service. -
BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN
This battle was fought between the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne and the US. Tensions had risen before because gold was discovered on native land and settlers started pushing the boundaries. This battle resulted in a loss for the US. -
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. -
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba. -
GREAT MIGRATION
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970 -
DUST BOWL
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of America. -
D-DAY INVASION
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. He pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
THE MARSHALL PLAN
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
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BERLIN AIRLIFT
The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin. They flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the West Berliners up to 8,893 tons of necessities each day, such as fuel and food. -
SPUTNIK LAUNCHED
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. -
FIRST SIT-INS ARE EXECUTED
Greensboro first day. Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond leave the Woolworth store after the first sit-in on February 1, 1960. -
BERLIN WALL WAS CONSTRUCTED
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), the wall completely cuy off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin -
MLK ASSASSINATION
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening -
TAX REFORM ACT OF 1986
The U.S. Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to simplify the income tax code, broaden the tax base and eliminate many tax shelters. -
PERSIAN GULF WAR
A war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
LOS ANGELES RIOTS
A series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992. -
OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGS
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995 -
9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 -
BARACK OBAMA ELECTED PRESIDENT
Barack Obama became the 44th president of the united states in 2008. He made history by being the first African American president.
