US History Extra Credit Pump

By adam.pump17
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus arrives in America

    Columbus arrives
  • Jan 1, 1552

    Devastation of the Indies By Bartlome Las Casas is written

    writes of Columbus brutality to natives killing them and pillaging villages

  • Indentured servants first arrive

    Worked for years at a time to hhopefully make enough money to buy some land when they are done.

  • "City upon a hill" wrote by John Winthrop

    Wrote about how church in city is important too inspire puritans

  • Bacons Rebellion

    Nathaniel Bacon leads rebellion of lower class raiding upper class estates

  • "A Letter Concerning Toleration" wrote by Jogn Locke

    Talked about religous freedom, keeping government and religon seperate, infliuenced Constition

  • Salem witch trials

    Many people were tried and executed for witch craft in salem
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    French and Indian War

    This war put Brittan in great debt which they had to tax the colonys to make up for

  • Proclamation of 1763

    A line that the colonists could not cross

  • Sugar act

    Britan taxed colonists on sugar

  • Stamp act

    British taxed colonys on documents that were frequently used documents

  • The Quarting act

    British forced colonists to hoouse British soldiers during peace time
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    Stamp act congress

    First oganized meeting by colonies to start to rebel

  • Boston massacre

    5 people were killed by British in snowball fight

  • Tea act

    British taxed colonists on tea

  • Boston Tea Party

    Colonists raided british ship disguised as indians and threw tea into the ocean
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    Intolerable Acts are passed

    These acts sent colonists over theedge and are thought to have started the war

  • America declares independce from Britan

  • Treaty with the Delawares

    Treaty with Native tribe stopping fighting

  • Articales of Confederation adopted

    This was the first try aat the consititution and proved to fail

  • Constitution is signed

    Lays the ground work for the government we have today

  • Bill of rights ratified

    These basic human rights are the frist ten amenments to the Constitution which lays the ground work for Americas government

  • Address to President

    Cheif Sharitarsh asking for peace to President Monore

  • President Andrew Jacksons message on Indian removal

    President writes to COngress about how humanily and nicely he is removing indians from their homeland.

  • Enrollment act

    Enrollment act allows for rich to pay 300 dollars to geto out of serving

  • 14th amendment

    Amendment allows for all US cirizens to have equal rights and treated the same by the law

  • Dawes act

    Act passed to give natives reservations but in this act spoke of natives as individuals instead of tribes

  • Gospel of Wealth is written by Andrew Carnagie

    He writes responsibilty of self made upper class rich people

  • John Burnetts story on removal of Cherokees

    Talks about the trail of tears which occured in 1838-1839. Soeaks about how awful it was to the natives and how poorly they were treated

  • Peter Pan opened

    The show peter pan shows racial undertones
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    Prohibition

    time period where alcohol was illegal 18th amendment made it illegal 21st amendment made it legal again

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Trail

    Italian immigrants Nicolas Sacco and Bartolemo Vanzetti are guilty of murder according to the court. Evidence was flimsy. Many think they were executed because they were italian and had radical ideas

  • Theodore de Bry illistrations of Bartolome las Casas writing

    Ilistrations depicte Columbus cruelity in the Americas

  • The Corperation

    Documentry shedding light on the curuption of corporations

  • EEOC vs Abercrombie

    Court case over who can work at abcrombie due to religous reasons

  • McCutchen v. FEC court case

    Court case about campaign financing