Don't Know Much about American History

Eric the Red - Scandinavia to Greenland

Leif Eriksson

Columbus landed in the islands of the Caribbean

Amerigo Vespucci - Mundus Novus "New World"

Portuguese began to settle Brazil

Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet travel the Mississippi River

The Dutch established New Amsterdam on Hudson River

Juan Ponce de Leon set in the United States, Florida.

Jacques Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River

Francisco de Coronado explores New Mexico and the American Southwest

Spaniards settled in St. Augustine, Florida

The English established a colony in Roanoke,Virginia ( present day North Carolina)

The first permanent English settlement in the New World is founded in Jamestown,Virginia

Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec,Canada

Henry Hudson sailing for the Dutch, explores what is now New York's Hudson River.

John Smith explores New England coast

The Pilgrims settle at Plymouth, Massachusetts

120 settlers vanished in Roanoke Island

About 120 settlers vanished on Roanoke Island

Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, a group of Englishmen sailed to Virginia they hoped they to find gold,silver,and copper

Setters of Virginia Company of London

The Virginia Company created the House of Burgesses

Black Africans were first brought to Jamestown

Equiano was freed he published his autobiography

President Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a yearly national

New Netherland the colony that included New Amsterdam grew as the Dutch settled on surrounding land

Lord Baltimore as a safe place for the Catholics

Roger Williams who was banished from Massachusetts for religious reasons

Thomas Hooker who led a group from Massachusetts

Swedish then Dutch the British were given the land in 1664

Settlers od the Virginia Company of London

Pilgrims and Puritans for their own religious freedom

English who had a land grant from Britain

Patrick Henry's speech in the First Continental Congress

The Pequot War was a taste of what was to come in King Phillip's War in Massachusetts nearly forty years later.

The mood had changed since the Pilgrims and Wampanoags signed their peace treaty

Eunice lived with her family in Deerfield, Massachusetts a settlement that was raided and burned many times before Eunice her family and about a hundred others were captured by Mohawk and Abenaki raiders

One of Boon'es most important jobs was opening the Wilderness Road through the narrow Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains

There were seven hundred thousand settlers west of Appalachians they outnumbered the Indians in the area by eight to one

The foundations of freedom of the press in America were laid

The first shots of the French and Indian War were fired

Washington became famous for his service during the French and Indian War

The Treaty of Paris signed

The war went in favor of the French until William Pitt took over the British army

George Washington was unanimously chosen to command the Continental army

George Washington was called to serve as the nation's first president

The result was of the Sugar Act

The even stronger Stamp Act passed

King George iii who had to come to the throne

Britain repealed the Stamp Act

Anger the Sugar Acts

Redcoats in front of Boston's Custom House were taunted by mob of angry colonists who began throwing snow, ice, and stones at the soldiers

And the rabble-rousing patriots Sam Adams was at it again.

Fifty - five delegates from every colony but Georgia convened in Philadelphia

John Adams lived to see his eldist son become our sixth president before passing away

The first shot was fired in Lexington, Massachusetts early on the morning

Shot's had been fired three weeks before declaring independence from Britain was still a radical idea when the Second Continental Congress convened

( Paul Revere's Ride )

Congress learned that King George had again refused their petition the king snub along with the publication of a little book called Common Sense

An English man who came to America

In Thomas Jefferson's private life had a weakness for finery that left him deeply in debt when he died

The revised declaration was adopted

Jefferson and the other colonist read the works of Enlightenment thinkers that prompted them to read about the democracies of Greece and Rome the colonist realized that they could manage their own affairs they'd been doing it since the House of Burgesses

Benedict Arnold a brave soldier Arnold might have been an American hero if he hadn't become a traitor in the early days of the war Arnold was a bold commander who contributed to the important American victory at Saratoga yet he felt overlooked by his continental superiors and began to take bribes to spy for the British

The first shots of the American Revolution are fired

In the only major sea battle of the war American Captain John Paul Jones captures the British warship serapis off the coast of England

Americans sign alliance treaty with France

Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense

British General William Howe takes control of Philadelphia

British capture Charleston South Carolina

British Major General Lord Cornwallis sends a drummer boy to surrender to American and French forces at Yorktown, Virginia

British and American representatives sign the Treaty of Paris

Abigail Adam's in a March 1776 letter to her husband John Adams who was attending the Second Continental Congress

A British band played the tune as Major General Cornwalli's army surrendered at Yorktown

Under the Articles of Confederation adopted

fifty-five delegates from every state but Rhode Island met in Philadelphia to improve the Articles of Confederation

If Americans wanted to know how things were going at the Constitutional Convention during the summer

One was that Congress had to wait twenty years

The Constitution wasn't perfect but by the standards of the say it was revolutionary the Constitution gave more Americans more rights than any country had ever given its people it's the oldest working constitution in the world partly because it provides for its own amendment or change some of the amendments we've made

The first ten amendments to the Constitution called the Bill of Rights guarantee basic liberties such as freedom of speech freedom of the press and the freedom of religion the Bill of Rights was ratified

No. Congress adopted the Constitution

Every elector voted for a George Washington

the winner of the popular vote has lost the electoral vote and thus the election

The Missouri Compromise approved

The slave trade had been banned

Canals such as the Erie Canal which connected the Hudson River in New York to the Great Lakes also made it easier to move people and goods long distances by water

Sam Slater's mill opened with nine workers all of them under the age of twelve nearly half the nation's textile workers were under ten years of age and were working twelve or more hours a day.

Congress passed the Indian Removal Act

On top of that gold was found on Cherokee land

Black Hawk returned to Illinois to farm when 1,000 of his warriors tried to surrender to the U.S. army

When the Seminoles raised the white flag of truce

The U.S. army seized their leader imprisoned Osceola died

Nat Turner was a Virginia slave who led a band of seventy other slaves in a violent rebellion

Sequoyah bor to a Cherokee mother and white father in Tennessee Sequoyah grew up lame,brilliant, and illiterate.

Americans forces were again overcome at a town called Goliad

Eastern cities were dirt, crowded, and disease ridden

The year out the first wagon trains traveled the Oregon Trail a hundred pioneer families loaded their covered wagons and set out for Oregon and California

The belief that America would one day stretch from sea to shining sea was partly due to the writing of the journalist named John O' Sullivan

They were the thousands upon thousands of gold seekers who rushed to California

The thousands upon gold seekers who rushed to California ( forty-niners)

A carpenter found gold near Sutter's Mill

The Great Compromiser Henry Clay now seventy three years old again helped keep the Union together in what became known as the Compromise

Frederick Douglass ( 1817 - 1895 ) in one of his first recorded antislavery speeches delivered in Plymouth County Massachusetts

The Seneca Falls Convention organized by Stanton Mott and others became the first public meeting in America devoted to women rights

An extreme abolitionist named John Brown (1800-1859) helped set off bloodshed in Kansas when he led an attack that killed five unarmed proslavery settlers

Stanton was introduced to another reformer ,Susan.B.Anthony ( 1820- 1906)

few people read an American literature Moby Dick

In Kansas that year Illinois Senator Stephen A Douglass introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Lincoln was running against Stephen.A. Douglas

In Antietam, Maryland in the bloodiest singer day of the war the dead wounded top 10,000 in each side

Ulysses Simpson Grant fought in the Mexican War and remained in the army.

One of the most famous youths of the the war was Johnny Clem who ran away to join Union army

When the surrender came the generals on both sides rose to the occasion.

Just five days after Robert.E.Lee surrender President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head while watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.

A group of Republicans known as Radicals passed a Civil Rights Act

The government pushed the Indians onto smaller and smaller reservations and the Homestead Act was signed

Spanish explored & claimed: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Mexico & South and Central America

French claim Canada

12 million African slaves were brought to the New World in a system called the " triangle trade

Thanksgiving was proclaimed by George Washington

Daniel Boone

More than six feet tall powerful and very strong George Washington

In his day, Benjamin Franklin was the most famous and admired American in the world

The son of a Massachusetts farmer, John Adams becam a succesful lawyer and was urged into patriot activity by his cousin Samuel Adams

In Common Sense author Thomas Paine articulated what was well common sense

Thomas Jefferson was born into a life of wealth and privilege in Virginia where his father taught him it was the duty of people in his social class to serve in the government

The American armies were also greatly helped by a nineteen-year-old French nobleman the Marquis de Lafayette

Andrew Jackson was born to a poor family in a log cabin in South Carolina his father died before he was born and his mother passed away when he was fourteen Andrew had very little schooling but he learned how to read something many adults on the frontier couldn't do in his day

By the time President Van Buren a Democrat like Andrew Jackson ran for the reelection in 1840

John Tyler the president before Polk admitted Texas as a state on his last day in office setting off the Mexican War

Harriet Tubman ( 1820 - 1913) a slave from Maryland who made her way to freedom in the North

From all the buffalo that Buffalo Bill killed to feed the workers who were building the transcontinental railroad as the railroad began to cut the Great Plains in half in the 1860's