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This is a timeline detailing the events of foreign encounters in the New World. This includes colonisation, slavery, the formation of democracies and more.
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In 1607, the British arrived in the new world and established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown. This was the beginning of the colonisation of America. -
In 1661, Virginia became the first British colony to establish slavery legally. This started one of the most infamous and oppressive practices in history. -
After the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris was signed between the British victors and the defeated French. The treaty was harsh to France as all of their territory in North America was lost to Britain. -
A mob of angry Bostonians charged the guard at the customs house, hurling projectiles at the British soldiers. In the chaos, the soldiers acted without orders and opened fire into the crowd, killing 5 men. -
The public announcement of the Declaration of Independence from England was America's birthday as it was officially recognized as its own country.
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The rebellion began in Massachusetts when farmers decided to take action against debtors' courts to settle their financial grievances. -
In September 1796, at the end of Washington's presidency, he gave a speech that embodied his and Alexander Hamilton's core beliefs as America's leading Nationalists. -
The election of 1800 between Jefferson and Adams was a hard-fought battle between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans that had diametrically opposing views about how the country should be run. -
The underground railroad system was used by abolitionists between 1800-1865 to help enslaved African Americans escape. -
In the War of 1812 between America and the British (along with their Indian allies), a second battle for US independence took place. -
A slave from birth, Denmark Vesey earned his freedom in a lottery and then in 1822, planned a revolt to kill every white person in the South. His plan was revealed however and he as well as 47 African-Americans were condemned to death for involvement. -
The 1828 election featured the 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, and his rival, Andrew Jackson. After an overwhelming defeat in 1824, Jackson returned and beat his opponent vastly, becoming the next president and kickstarting the Jacksonian era.
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President Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act the trade unsettled land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Indian lands within the US.
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After enraged Americans went to Texas to defeat Santa Anna's army in the Battle of the Alamo, the Mexican government grudgingly granted Texas its independence.
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James Marshall discovered gold in a river in California and when word got out, soon miners from all over the state came to seek fortune.
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In Seneca Falls, women's rights activists modeled the declaration of sentiments after the Declaration of Independence.
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President Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation so that slaves would be free from then, on. However, this act had little effect on the freedom of slaves as it applied to those in the southern, confederate states.
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the Ku Klux Klan was a white supremacist hate group that took action against black people through massacres, raping, lynching, and pillaging them throughout the South with little legal repercussions.
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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth who had decided to kill him when standing in the audience during Lincoln's speech about restoring peace and reconstructing the union.
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Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached when the House of Representatives brought 11 articles of impeachment against him.
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