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Oct 26, 1492
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food e Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World rops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christo ollowing the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. pher Columbus in 1492. -
Period: Oct 26, 1492 to
Coloniel era
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Dec 5, 1492
Columbus arrives at Hispanola- First voyage
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Oct 26, 1493
Begins second voyage
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Oct 26, 1498
Begins third voyage
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Oct 26, 1500
Bartolome De Las Casas
Human rights activist
Welathy adventurer
Underwent radical transformation-freed slaves, gave up his land, became a priest, spent life fighting for brutal colonization of the new world -
Fouding of Jamestown
Tobacco crop-HUGE EXPORT $$$
Indentured slaves
"high class" people sitting above tons of servants and peaasents -
Tobacco crop
Huge cash crop! -
Headwright system
Offer land in trade for people -
First shipment of African slaves
Indentured servants -
Mayflower compact
"just and equal laws"
Before leaving the ship that took them from England to America, male passengers sign the Mayflower Compact. Their promise to stay united and follow the laws of their new colony is considered the first unofficial government document in America. -
Massachuesettes Bay
Wanted religious freedom -
First town government in the colonies
Dorchester, Massachusetts -
Parliament establishes Westminster Assembly to reform the English church
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Salem witch trials
Brutally burned people if considered "witches" -
7 years war ended
The Seven Years War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763 -
Sugar act
The first attempt to finace the colonies by the British government. The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England. resulted in protest -
Stamp act
All printed material had to carry a stamp -
Quartering act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. -
Stamp act congress
Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent. -
Boston Masacre
5 colonists killed The presence of British troops in the city of Boston was increasingly unwelcome. The riot began when about 50 citizens attacked a British sentinel -
Proclamation of 1773
the proclamation of 1773 was when the king passed and act saying that the colonist could not move west of the Appalachian mountains. the colonist were very upset. the king did this because he did not want anymore problems with the native Americans. the colonist were upset because they were fighting for the right to move onto the Ohio river, so in the end they ended up not fighting for anything. -
Continental congress
group of delagates from 12/13 colonies met in Philidelphia to coordinate the resistance act -
Intolerable acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
Shot heard 'round the world!
At ELxington and Concord
fight between colonists and Britain -
Revolutionary war begins
The 13 colonies revolt against The British -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
Written and approved by The Continental Congress -
Articles of confederation
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It established a weak central government that mostly, but not entirely, prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy. -
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All states north of Maryland got rid of slaves
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Battle at Yorktown
British lost -
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Constitutional era
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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Bill of rights is approved b y congress
Congress passes 12 amendments to the Constitution. Based in part on the English Bill of Rights, the Bill of Rights protects basic freedoms guaranteed to all American citizens, including freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. Two of the 12 amendments are not ratified. -
Andrew Jackson- Indian Removal Act
Claims it would "enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."
"strengthen the fronteir" -
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Trail of Tears
the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects -
Congress passes the 14th amendment
The 14th Amendment passes through Congress. It still must be ratified by three-quarters of the states in order to be adopted and become part of the Constitution. -
Delaware rejects the 14th Amendment.
Delaware fails to ratify the 14th Amendment, becoming the first state outside of the former Confederate States of America to reject it. Delaware would eventually ratify the amendment in 1901. -
Amendment 15
Gives the right to vote to all citizens, regardless of color or race, but women are not mentioned -
Italian Allies
World War I (1914 - 1918) breaks out and immigration falls and Italy joins WWI on the side of the Allies -
The 18th Amendment bans the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the U.S.
The 18th Amendment bans the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the U.S. -
Amendment 19- Women's suffrage
Women givent he right to vote -
Saco - Vanzetti trial
on trial for murder
Believed they were being prosecuted for their immigrant backgound and radical politcal beliefs
Electrocuted in 1927 -
The 21st Amendment repeals the 18th Amendment.
The 18th Amendment becomes the first and only amendment to be repealed when the 21st Amendment ends Prohibition. The 18th Amendment was extremely difficult to enforce and led to the rise in organized crime, which made millions of dollars selling alcohol. -
Columbus day made a federal holiday
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Presnt day issues
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Texas School Board
Evangelicals control crucial votes -
5-4 amendment
Extended to corporations for the first time full rights to spend money as the wish in candidate elections-federal, state, and local. -
Elaug and Abercrombie
Woman denied rights to work at Abercrombie because of her clothing (religious reasons)