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An Italian explorer sailing for Spain who believed that Asia (India) could be reached by sailing west from Europe. His first voyage was in 1492, wherein he discovered North America (Caribbean islands) and named it the West Indies. He will make four voyages to the new world without fully realizing what he had discovered. -
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first permanent English town in North America. Established in 1607. Financed and organized by The Virginia Company of London. About 105 colonists departed from England in 1606, they reached Chesapeake Bay in 1607. -
100 English men and women boarded the Mayflower and left England for America. They landed in Cape Cod. In late December the Mayflower anchored in Plymouth. That was where the pilgrims settled and formed the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England. -
puritans, came across for religouse freedom and land. -
King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia in 1664, to the Duke of York. New York one of the most diverse colonies in the New World. In 1680 he granted 45,000 square miles of land west of the Delaware River to William Penn who was a Quaker. -
Slaves were forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to the new world. One of the most popular trade routes. The Africans were being enslaved in America. took between 21-90 days. -
English Puritans (pilgrims) arrived in Plymouth in 1620. Massachusetts settlements grew, they created new colonies in New England. -
was a " religious revival" in the British American colonies. Religious ferment that swept through western Europe. Pietism and Quietism in Europe mostly among Protestants and Roman Catholics and as Evangelicalism in England under the leadership of John Wesley. -
Between Britain and France. France's expansion into the Ohio River Valley caused repeated conflict having to do with the claims of the British colonies. From 1756 to 1763 -
British parlament tried to raise taxes on paper such as legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. Protest from the colonists, who effectively nullified the Stamp Act by outright refusal to use the stamps as well as by riots, and stamp burning. Sons of Liberty formed in 1765 to oppose the act. -
March 5 someone posted a handbill ostensibly from the British soldiers promising that they were determined to defend themselves. That night a crowd of Bostons roamed the street. A soldier has attacked an oysterman. The crowd pelted the barracks with snowballs, which caused the soldiers to react, one soldier got trapped by the mod and fired off his musket. -
342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
First battle of Britian military and American colonists. -
13 of Great Britian's colonies won political independence and formed the United States. In 1778 the conflict was a civil war within the British Empire, but afterward it became an international war as France and Spain joined the colonies against Britain.
(Join or Die)
(Don't tread on me) -
Document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
winter camp for the continental army, under George Washington. from 1777-1778
Washington decides to last the winter with his army, Washington's men loved him and would follow him anywhere -
Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington’s army in 1781. Virginia marked the conclusion of the last battle of the American Revolution and the start of the nation's independence.
British sourrendered to Washington -
The Articles of Confederation was a written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States. -
emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade -
1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. -
Samuel Slater opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that looked very similair to a British model. Increased the speed that cotton thread could be spun into yarn. -
The first 10 amendments in the Constitution, written by James Madison.he Bill of Rights derives from the Magna Carta,the colonial struggle against king and Parliament, and the english bill of rights. -
The United States bought 828,000 square miles from France for 15 million dollars. -
military expedition led by Lewis and Clark, to explore the Louisana purchase and Pacific northwest. -
War between US and Britain, over British violations of US rights.Ended with the treaty of Ghent. -
Compromise of the North and South, passed by congress that allowed Missouri as the 24th state -
John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives. Congress picked not the people -
First US policy offically respecting the legal and political rights of the American Indians.
(Trail of tears) -
Texas’s war for independence from Mexico. The Alamo became a symbol of their struggle for independence -
Rapid rush of people looking for gold in California, more than 300,000 people came to the area looking for riches -
annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande -
system in the Northern states before the Civil War by which escaped slaves from the South were secretly helped by sympathetic Northerners, in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Acts, to reach places of saftey. -
Effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union. -
novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist novel,popular among white readers -
territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States towards the west. Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California
Trappers trappin beavers. -
A slave who had resided in a free state and territory, and was not granted his freedom -
seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories. -
small civil war in the United States, fought between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people -
South Carolina seceded from the Union.North considered the fort to be the property of the United States government. The people of South Carolina believed it belonged to the new Confederacy. -
11 Southern states that seceded from the Union. -
freed the slaves of the Confederate states
Abraham Lincoln -
turning point of the war
Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North -
Abraham Lincoln freed slaves of the confederate states. -
Turning point in the war that the south lost.
Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North trying to discouraging the enemy. -
Speech gave by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, to honor everyone who died. -
War between United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
Over half Americans will die -
One of the final battles of the Civil War. Robert E. Lee briefly engaged Ulysses S. Grant before surrendering to the Union at Appomattox Court House.