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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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Is when a forced voyage of enslaved Africans traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to the new world.It was a one leg triangular trade route that went from Europe to Africa.In 1518 many African people made a 21 to 90 day overcrowded voyage trips that were manned by Great Britain,Netherlands,Portugal,and France. -
Was the first settlement to be established on May 14, 1607. It is located near the present day of Williamsburg. The town gave England its first stronghold in the new world. -
They stretch from Virginia to Florida and to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.In the 1690s planters from the south produced corn,beef,lumber,Pork and rice. -
In September 1620 a group of hundred men and women set sail into the new world on a voyage called The Mayflower. In late December the Mayflower got to Plymouth where half of the settlements died. It then became the first colonial settlement for New England. -
A group of puritans which later are called pilgrims who found Plymouth colony in 1620.Then ten years later the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a small group of puritans to establish another settlement.
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Was settled in 1630 by a group of one thousand refugees.The colony obtained from king Carlos was the ability to trade and colonies. In the 1640 more than 20,000 settlements were in Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
King Charles ll In 1664 gave the territory in between New England and Virginia. Most of the dutch people that were in the territory that king Charles gave stayed put with made New York the most diverse and prosperous colonies in the new world. -
Was under the leadership of George Whitefield in 1720. The Great Awakening was also a reaction against the increases in secularization in society and was also against the principal churches in American society. -
Britain declared war on France in 1756 and lasted to 1763 which was settled with Britain claiming Canada from France and Florida from Spain. The war started at Ohio river valley which brought conflict to Britain colonies. -
The revolution began in Britain when people switch from hand made to machine made. The start of the revolution was attributed to a person named Samuel Slater. -
In 1765 Britain tried to raise the taxation to all the colonies which they were taxed with using commercial and legal paper, newspaper, pamphlets, cards, and dice. In the summer in 1765 the Sons of liberty was formed which later opposed and destroyed the stamp act. -
Started on March 5, 1770 Britain made an act called the Townsend Act that angered the people in Massachusetts. They then boycotted and harassed the troops from Britain which ended up with the death of Christopher Seider on February 22. -
In 1773 Britain taxed tea on the colonies intended to help aid the financially that Britain had. The tea was only to be delivered by the East India Company and only then they were also allowed to sell the tea to less than the usual amount the tea would cost. The result of the tea act was that the people in Boston had thrown 342 chests of tea into the ocean. -
Started in 1775 which was the beginning of the American Revolution against Britain. It is unknown who was the one who fired the first shot that started the revolution. The resentian of America melted away from Lexington while Britain settled in Concord. -
Was when America won Britain in 1775.The war lasted for over a decade which made France and Spain join the war. -
Was when American colonies separated from Britain which was approved by the Continental congress in 1776. On the 4th of july was when the Declaration of Independence was adopted which is celebrated as a national holiday as Independence day. -
Were created in 1776 and accepted by congress in 1777.The article made it that congress had no power to request money or troops from any state. -
n the year 1777 11,000 regulars settled in valley forge in the west of Schuylkill river which was led by George Washington. Valley Forge was considered to be a defensible one and strategic route which is located on leading a trade route and farm supplies. -
Has started on December 19, 1781 in that George Washington's fame has grown when he and his army won a war that was thought impossible to beat.George Washington with 5,500 French troops went to fight the British that were settled in New York.In 1783 the revolutionary war has ended with it being the treaty called the treaty of Paris. -
Has taken place in the state house of Pennsylvania in 1787 which was started over Shays’s rebellion asking for a stronger government. As such all the states except Rhode Island came to the invention from the Annapolis Convention. -
Is when all the first ten amendments were adopted in 1791.It was made to guarantee to give the people rights and the limitation to the federal and state government. -
In 1803 all of France territory was purchased from the United States.It was the greatest purchase of land that was made in US history.The purchase made it so that the United States doubled its size. -
Lewis and Clark started their expedition in 1804. Thomas Jefferson asked Lewis if he could go and explore the land he had purchased from France then Lewis went and selected Clark as the co-commander. -
It was a battle between the United States and Great Britain who fought over the U.S Maritime right.The battle ended with the Treaty of Ghent. -
Missouri was made into the 24th state in the United States was started the begging of the American Civil War. -
The railroad was made to go against the Fugitive Slave Act.The railroad went to the north were the slaves were safe from fugitive-slave hunters. -
Was a time when John Adams was elected by the House of Representative.It was also at that time that Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral vote but failed. -
The war started in the place know as Fort Sumter and on April 12 1861 Anderson open fired on Fort Sumter witch showed that the fort had 3,000 shell in half a day., -
The Indian Removal Act was for the Indians to exchange their land and to settle in the unsettle western land. -
It was created to end slave trade and chattel slavery.It was also called the abolition movement in the Western Europe and the Americas. -
The battle was taken during the war of Independence for Texes who were a battle with Mexico.The battle of Alamo was near a fort that Texes was at it took 13 days for Mexico troops to overpower the fort. -
The supposed of the continued expansion of the United States of America be the American Civil war. -
The war of Mexico and America was about weather Texas ended at the Nueces River witch was Mexico's claim or ended at the Rio grand witch was America claim.In the end America won and earned 500,000 square miles of Mexico's territory. -
In the early 1848 gold was found in California in Sutter's Mill. Ather the discovery of gold there were 4.000 gold miners and ather another year has gone there were now 80,000 gold miners in the area. -
The Compromise was about requesting the territory of California to prohibit having slaves in that state. -
The person that created the novel was named Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel was achieved as a wide popularity particularly among the reader from the north. -
Was a small war over whether Kansas was going to be a free slave state or a slave state. -
Dred Scott was a slave who went to the north where slavery was prohibited.During that time the Missouri Compromise that all of west Missouri and the latitude of 36 to 30 were unconstitutional. -
The debates were when Lincoin and Douglas agreed to go and encounter each other in seven locations in Illinois. -
Are states that departed from the Union in 1860.The confederacy was carrying all the affairs of a separate government until they got defeated by the Union. -
Was a war where the Union and the Confederate were fighting for over four years. -
Was at the time were the Union freed the slaves from the Confederate that were against the Union. -
The battle Gettysburg was when the confederate general Joseph Hooker decide to invaded it. -
It was the Abraham Lincoln gave his famous speech in Gettysburg. -
Is the final battles of the Civil War Robert E.Lee went to engaged to the Union general Ulysses S. Grant before the Confederate surrender to the Union at Appomattox Court House.
