History Final
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Updated: 19 Jan 2020
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Created byBrooklyn Heydel
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Pilgrims/MayflowerAmerican archaeologist Matthew Stirling visits Olmec sculpture in Tres Zapotes, MexicoZapotec settlement attacked, temple burnedGeorge Rogers Clark captures Fort VincennesConstitutional ConventionConstitution RatifiedAlien & Sedition Acts'Marbury v. Madison' establishes the doctrine of judicial reviewAlexander Hamilton killed by Aaron Burr in a duelLouisiana PurchaseChanka attack the IncaFrancisco Pizarro and less than 200 Spanish men defeat more than 5,000 Inca and capture Atawallpa.Hernan Cortes and Motecuhzoma meet at TenochtitlanAztec Triple Alliance formedTriple Alliance surrenders to Cortez and his forces.Jose de Acosta speculates that Asia and America "must join somewhere"C. Vance Haynes proposed that the first Americans crossed to the Americas via the the Beringia land bridgeSmallpox breaks out on the Spanish island colony of Hispaniola, later spreading throughout the Americas.Incan emperor Wayna Qhapaq dies, resulting in civil war as his sons fight for power.Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto arrives in FloridaSmallpox epidemic begins near BostonThe bombardment of Fort Sumter and start of the Civil War.Lee surrenders at Appomatox, end of the Civil War.Transcontinental Railroad completedMongomery Bus BoycottAlabama bomb explodes at baptist church, killing four girlsShay's RebellionBill of Rights ratifiedConstitutional ConventionBjarni Herjolfsson, Viking sailor sights the coastline of North America.Leif Eriksson establishes Viking settlement called Vineland.Gutenberg perfects his printing press with moveable type.Gutenberg prints the first printed Bible.Christopher Columbus sails to America.First African Slaves come to the Caribbean Islands.John Cabot landed in Newfoundland and gave England claim to North America.Vasco Nuñez de Balboa established the first permanent European settlement and first to see the Pacific Ocean from the American continent.Francisco Vasquez de Coronado sets off to find Cibola.John Cabot leads first English expedition to America.Santa Fe foundedCharlesfort establishedJacques Cartier leads the first European expedition up the St. Lawrence River.St. Augustine foundedQuebec foundedMarquette and Joliet travel down the Mississippi river.British navy defeats the Spanish Armada.Jamestown becomes the first permanent English settlement in North America.Virginia is the first colony in the world to elect its own representative government, the House of Burgesses.Mayflower voyageMayflower Compact establishes new standard for self-government in America.Pilgrims land in the New WorldFirst college in North America, Harvard, founded in order to secure "a literate ministry to the churches"Providence foundedSalem Witch TrialsDutch colonial rule ends in North AmericaCharles I is beheadedMaryland Toleration Act passedGlorious RevolutionJames Oglethorpe founds GeorgiaWilderness RoadJohn Peter Zenger is acquitted of libel establishing significant freedoms of the press in the British American coloniesPère Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet explore the Mississippi.Washington leads 150 Virginians to victory over a French exploratory party.Albany Congress approves Franklin's Plan of the Union--but not all colonies accept it.Washington surrenders Fort Necessity.Braddock and his English and colonial forces are defeated by French and Indians at Fort Duquesne.Johnson and Hendrick triumph at Lake George.6,000 Acadians are expelled from Nova Scotia after refusing to swear loyalty to Britain.The English declare war on the French in Europe, where the war is called the Seven Years' War.General Jeffrey Amherst captures Louisbourg.Johnson's English soldiers and Iroquois Indians capture Fort Niagara.The English win the battle of Quebec. Wolfe and Montecalm are killed.Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War.Treaty of Paris officially ends the French and Indian WarGeorge Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards play key roles in the Great Awakening.Moravians first immigrate to America.Michel Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur/ Hector St. John Crèvecoeur publishes Letters of an American Farmer in Europe.King John (John Lackland) signs Magna Carta.Boston Tea PartyStamp ActTownshend ActsQuartering Act"Boston Massacre"First Continental CongressAmerican Revolutionary War begins at Concord, Massachusetts.Declaration of Independence signedBattle for Fort TiconderogaThe battles of Lexington and ConcordSecond Continental Congress convenes in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga.George Washington is appointed head of the Continental army.The battles of Bunker and Breed's Hills.General Washington takes command of 17,000 men at Cambridge, Massachusetts.The Continental Congress establishes a post office department and appoints Franklin postmaster general.Tom Paine publishes an article in the "Pennsylvania Gazette" supporting women's rights.George III declares the American colonies in rebellion.Declaration of IndependenceBattle of Tippecanoe breaks Tecumseh's bid to unite the Indian tribes.Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" following the British attack on Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor.First Navy prescribed by WashingtonFlorida purchased by the U.S. from Spain for $5 million.Monroe Doctrine (developed by John Quincy Adams) proclaimed.Samuel Slater establishes the first successful cotton mill in the U.S.Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.Eli Whitney develops effective interchangeable parts.Robert Fulton initiates practical steamboat with voyage of the Clermont up the Hudson.Peter Cooper builds the Tom Thumb, a steam-powered locomotive designed to stay on curved railroad tracks.Sequoyah perfects a Cherokee alphabetCongress passes the Indian Removal ActVirginia Statute for Religious Freedom creates, for the first time in Western history, a complete legal break between a formal religious commitment and the right to hold public office.Missouri CompromiseMexico gains independence from SpainPresident Polk offers to purchase California (including Texas) from MexicoTreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signedCalifornia gains statehoodLevi Strauss arrives in California and begins making heavy pants from canvas for minersSamuel F.B. Morse granted a patent for the telegraph.Samuel F.B. Morse sends first telegraphic message.Stephen Watts Kearny captures New Mexico for the United States.Stephen Watts Kearny captures (modern day) California for the United States.Depression in U.S. motivates people to emigrate west.Large groups go west on the Oregon Trail.First wagon train makes it to California.3,000 emigrants go to Oregon and CaliforniaJoseph Smith founds LDS Church.55,000 people emigrate to the west, most to California.The concept of Manifest Destiny first expressed.Richard Henry Dana publishes "Two Years Before the Mast" inspiring interest in CaliforniaCalifornia Indian population down to 150,000First Transatlantic telegraph cable completed but lasts only three weeks.Nathaniel Bowditch transforms navigation with his New American Practical Navigator and a new, simplified system of measuring a ship's positionNakahama Manjirō is shipwreckedNakahama Manjirō is shipwrecked, comes to the United States and eventually returns to Japan.Nakahama Manjirō is able to help Commodore Perry Negotiate with the Japanese government.Commodore Matthew Perry negotiates a treaty with JapanJohn Deere invents the first steel plow for use in American prairies.Cyrus McCormick patents reaperCyrus McCormick makes reaper available for sale.Elias Howe patents his sewing machineCharles Goodyear discovers process for vulcanization of rubberCharles Goodyear is granted first patent for vulcanization of rubber.Noah Webster's Dictionary publishedMount Holyoke College foundedHorace Mann spearheads the establishment of the first state board of education in America.Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman to graduate from a medical school in the U.S.Lucy Stone not permitted to read her own college graduation essayLucy Stone becomes a speaker against slavery and for women's rights, and produces a furor when she refuses to take her husband's name at marriage.Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention that produces the Seneca Falls Declaration, the document that formally initiates the woman's suffrage movement.Dorothea Dix writes a Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts in behalf of insane persons.Julia Ward Howe founds the New England Woman Suffrage Association.Amelia Bloomer seeks to give women greater freedom of movement through revised clothing design.Susan B. Anthony causes a stir when she requests permission to address a teacher's conference (a woman had never done this before) Later, she leads the women's suffrage movement"Leaves of Grass" is published.Compromise of 1850Kansas-Nebraska ActLawrence, Kansas sacked by pro-slavery forcesCharles Sumner is almost bludgeoned to death by Congressman Preston Brooks.John Brown hacks five pro-slavery settlers to death at Pottawatomie CreekDred Scott DecisionPeriods
Tisquantum/SquantoAnasazi were cliff dwellersWinter at Valley ForgeNathanael GreeneGeorge Rogers ClarkHenry KnoxMary Katherine GoddardMarquis de LafayetteFriedrich von SteubenHaym SalomonHenry ClintonLord Charles CornwallisBattle of YorktownArticles of ConfederationNorthwest Ordinance of 1787Thomas JeffersonJames MadisonAlexander HamiltonRoger ShermanMeriwether LewisLewis and Clark ExpeditionFederalist and Anti-Federalist PapersSacajaweaGeorge Washington serves as the first president of the U.S.French RevolutionJohn Adams serves as the second president of the U.S.John MarshallJohn Marshall serves as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.Napoleon BonaparteAaron BurrFrancisco PizarroÁlvar Núñez Cabeza de VacaFray Marcos de NizaFrancisco Vasques de CoronadoHernando de SotoJohn CabotJuan de OñateBartolomé de Las CasasJacques CartierJean RibautLeSalle's adventures allow him to claim land for France.Elizabeth IElizabethan AgeSir Walter RaleighSir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colonies in North America.Sir Francis DrakeHomerVirgilMohammedGalileo GalileiAristotleNicholas CopernicusJohn SmithJames StuartPeregrine WhiteSamosetMassasoitJohn WinthropRoger WilliamsJohn CottonIncrease MatherCotton MatherKing Philip's WarOliver CromwellEnglish Civil WarsCromwell's "Protectorate"William PennBenjamin FranklinGeorge CalvertJames OglethorpeDaniel BooneJohn Peter ZengerWar of Jenkins' EarPère Jacques MarquetteLouis JolietWilliam Johnson/ WarraghiyageyFrench & Indian WarWilliam PittSir Jeffrey AmherstGeorge WhitefieldJonathan EdwardsMichel Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur/ Hector St. John Crèvecoeur.John LacklandKing John (John Lackland) is king of England.King George IIISamuel AdamsThomas PaineDemosthenesJohn HancockHenry David ThoreauCahokia's golden ageWilliam BradfordJohn AdamsRevolutionary WarFrancis DrakeWilliam ClarkThe Manchu (Qing) Dynasty ruled China.The Ming Dynasty ruled China.Rosa ParksMartin Luther King JuniorPatrick HenryDolley MadisonWar of 1812Andrew JacksonPrince Henry of PortugalEratosthenesPtolemyVasco Nuñez de BalboaIberian Ferdinand MagellanIberian Ferdinand Magellan leads first global circumnavigation.Hernando CortésMoctezumaDoña MarinaPonce de LeónPaul RevereEthan AllenBenedict ArnoldJohn LockeJean-Jacques RousseauEnlightenmentGeorge WashingtonWilliam Henry HarrisonJames Madison serves as the 4th president of the U.S.Francis Scott KeyJames MonroeJames Monroe serves as the 5th president of the U.S.John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams serves as the 6th president of the U.S.Andrew Jackson serves as the 7th president of the U.S.Samuel SlaterEli WhitneyRobert FultonPeter CooperSequoyahTrail of TearsOsceolaOsceola leads the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War.Nat TurnerWilliam Lloyed GarrisonWilliam Lloyed Garrison publishes "The Liberator"Martin Van BurenMartin Van Buren serves as the 8th president of the U.S.Abigail AdamsMolly PitcherSilvestre Veléstre de Escalante explores western portions of what will become the United States.Thomas Jefferson serves as the third president of the United States.SagoyewathaTekamthi (also known as Tecumseh)William Henry HarrisonWilliam Henry Harrison serves as the ninth president of the U.S.John TylerJohn Tyler serves as the 10th president of the U.S.James Knox PolkJames Knox Polk serves as the 11th president of the U.S.Zachary TaylorZachary Taylor serves as the 12th president of the U.S.Millard FillmoreMillard Fillmore serves as the 13th president of the U.S.Franklin PierceFranklin Pierce serves as the 14th president of the U.S.James BuchananJames Buchanan serves as the 15th president of the U.S.Henry ClayDaniel WebsterJohn C. CalhounJedediah SmithJim BridgerZebulon PikeStephen Watts KearnyIrish Potato Famine brings many Irish to AmericaErie Canal is builtJoseph SmithBrigham YoungBrigham Young leads Mormons to Utah.Richard Henry DanaStephen AustinStephen Austin leads Missouri emigrants to Mexican Texas.Antonio López de Santa AnnaDavy CrockettJim BowieSam HoustonMexican-American WarWalt WhitmanJames Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill, thus starting the California Gold rush.Levi StraussPony ExpressSamuel F.B. MorseCharles BabbageAndré AmpèreClipper Ships rule the oceanNathaniel BowditchNakahama ManjirōCommodore Matthew PerryJohn DeereCyrus McCormickElias HoweCharles GoodyearSecond Great AwakeningHorace MannWilliam H. McGuffeyWilliam H. McGuffey publishes his Readers which establish a literary core for American education until the early 1900s.Sarah GrimkéAngelina GrimkéSarah and Angelina Grimké speak against slavery and for women's rights.Elizabeth BlackwellLucy StoneElizabeth Cady StantonLucretia MottDorothea DixJulia Ward HoweSamuel Gridley HoweAmelia BloomerSusan B. AnthonySojourner TruthHarriet Beecher StoweRalph Waldo EmersonNathaniel HawthorneLouisa May AlcottHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHerman MelvilleJames Fenimore CooperWashington IrvingEdgar Allen PoeEmily DickensonJohn James AudubonGeorge CatlinJohn Singleton CopleyGilbert StuartCharles Willson PealeSengbe Peih/Joseph CinquéJohn C. CalhounCassius Marcellus ClayStephen A. DouglasCharles SumnerJohn BrownDred ScottRoger TaneyFrederick Douglass
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