Wolly and Anna's alabaster doll

Timeline Recall

Period: Dec 12, 1450 to Dec 12, 2011

Columbus sails the ocean blue

Aug 3, 1492

Columbus encounters the "New World"

Atlantic Slave Trade

Dec 13, 1500

Spain Rules

Dec 12, 1519

Cortes Conquers Mexico para Spain

Magellan completes circumnavigation

Dec 12, 1522

Elizabeth the First becomes Queen of England

Dec 12, 1558

Spanish finds New Mexico

Dec 12, 1609

Mayflower lands on Plymouth Rock

Nov 21, 1620

Virginia becomes first Royal Colony

Dec 12, 1624

Seven Year's War

Dec 13, 1756

AKA French and Indian

Seven Year's War Ends

Dec 13, 1763

Sugar Act

Dec 13, 1764

First law passed to raise tax revenue in colonies for england

Quartering Act

Dec 13, 1765

Law passed stating that colonists had to give shelter and food to british soldiers.

Signing of Declaration

Jul 4, 1776

T-Paine publishes "Common Sense"

Dec 13, 1776

Battle of Trenton

Dec 26, 1776

Articles of Confederaton adapted

Dec 13, 1777

Trans-Continental RR

Dec 16, 1862

Authorized

Grant defeats Seymour for Presidency

Dec 15, 1868

He was a celebrated war hero, "Wave the bloody shirt"

Rockefeller Standard Oil Company

Dec 16, 1870

Controlled entire oil market

Tweed Scandal

Dec 15, 1871

Boss Tweed milked NYC for 200 mil through bribery, graft and fraud. NY Times published the story, although Tweed offered 5mil not to do so.

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Dec 15, 1872

Union Pacific Railroad formed Credit Mobilier, hired themselves at inflated prices, and earned dividends as high as 348 percent.

Panic of 1873

Dec 15, 1873

Nations worldwide underwent economic collapse

civil rights act 1875

Dec 15, 1875

Guaranteed equal accomodations for african americans

Hayes-Tilden Standoff

Dec 15, 1876

election, son

Compromise of 1877

Dec 15, 1877

bipartisanship FTW

Chinese Exclusion Act

Dec 16, 1882

Prohibited any further immigration from China. Stayed shut til 1943

Homestead Steel Strike

Dec 16, 1892

Carnegie's mill

Plessy V Ferguson

Dec 16, 1896

"Separate but Equal" official