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Period: Dec 12, 1450 to
Timeline Recall
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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus sails the ocean blue
Columbus encounters the "New World" -
Dec 13, 1500
Atlantic Slave Trade
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Dec 12, 1519
Spain Rules
Cortes Conquers Mexico para Spain -
Dec 12, 1522
Magellan completes circumnavigation
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Dec 12, 1558
Elizabeth the First becomes Queen of England
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Spanish finds New Mexico
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Mayflower lands on Plymouth Rock
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Virginia becomes first Royal Colony
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Seven Year's War
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Seven Year's War Ends
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Sugar Act
First law passed to raise tax revenue in colonies for england -
Quartering Act
Law passed stating that colonists had to give shelter and food to british soldiers. -
Signing of Declaration
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T-Paine publishes "Common Sense"
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Battle of Trenton
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Articles of Confederaton adapted
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Trans-Continental RR
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Grant defeats Seymour for Presidency
He was a celebrated war hero, "Wave the bloody shirt" -
Rockefeller Standard Oil Company
Controlled entire oil market -
Tweed Scandal
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
Union Pacific Railroad formed Credit Mobilier, hired themselves at inflated prices, and earned dividends as high as 348 percent. -
Panic of 1873
Nations worldwide underwent economic collapse -
civil rights act 1875
Guaranteed equal accomodations for african americans -
Hayes-Tilden Standoff
election, son -
Compromise of 1877
bipartisanship FTW -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Prohibited any further immigration from China. Stayed shut til 1943 -
Homestead Steel Strike
Carnegie's mill -
Plessy V Ferguson
"Separate but Equal" official
