American timeline by Amelia Montana _ Student - SalemMS

Columbus “discovers” the New World

aemontana — 2024-02-01 01:47:20 UTC

Columbus sails from spain in hopes to find a western trade route. Columbus makes land fall in the bahamas and officially begins europeans exploration and the colonization of the americas in 1492

Conquest of Tenochtitlan

aemontana — 2024-02-01 01:54:22 UTC

the Aztec empire is conquered by the spanish. the spanish begin to colonize and take control of the land that would become the colony of new Spain. (1521)

Roanoke settlement

aemontana — 2024-02-01 01:58:42 UTC

an attempt by sir walter raleigh to establish the first permanent north american settlement. The goals of the colony were to discover a passageway to the pacific ocean. the colony also hoped to find valuable resources like gold and silver and spread christianity.(1585)

King Philip's war

aemontana — 2024-02-01 02:02:26 UTC

a war between the natives and the english settlers and their allies in the new england colonies. natives attempt to stop english settlement and authority. the war resulted in more room for english settlements in the future. (1675)

Bacon's Rebellion

aemontana — 2024-02-01 02:06:51 UTC

First big uprising in American colonies. armed rebellion by virginia settlers in (1676). it was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, because Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia.

French and Indian war

aemontana — 2024-02-12 01:23:32 UTC

war between the English and French over land near the Ohio river. British lose a lot of money from the war and want north america/colonies to pay back their war debt. (1754-1763)

Boston Tea Party

aemontana — 2024-02-12 01:26:22 UTC

Protest by the sons of liberty against the tea act the british had enforced on colonists. They dumped tea into Boston Harbor. (December 16, 1773)

First Continental Congress

aemontana — 2024-02-12 01:30:09 UTC

held from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, 12 delegates from the 13 colonies meet to discuss the future of america. Concern was high over the control the British were enforcing on colonist.During the meeting the idea of independence/separation for Britain was really in mind, the colonists hoped to find a solution that wouldn't harm them or their economy.

Declaration of Independence

aemontana — 2024-02-12 01:36:35 UTC

The colonist drafted up the DOI during the second conventional congress after realizing that the British were not willing to cooperate with their request against the multiple abuses that the british had inflicted upon consist through many acts. It was an official separation letter from the 13 colonies to the British. (July 4, 1776)

Shay’s Rebellion

aemontana — 2024-02-12 01:38:02 UTC

A popular uprising against the government of Massachusetts, led by Daniel Shay

– exposed the weakness of the Articles and led many skeptics to agree to replace the Articles of Confederation

(August 1786–February 1787)

Constitutional Convention

aemontana — 2024-02-12 01:41:48 UTC

May 1787, 55 delegates from 12 of the 13 states met in Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation. Created the draft of the constitution, That would create the outline for American government and values.

• Delegates were all men, educated, elites, and had political experience,

Washington’s Farewell Address

aemontana — 2024-02-12 01:45:02 UTC

During the end of Washington's second term of presidency he write "advice" for americans. he encouraged that Americans leave behind their violent tendencies, so that unlike the British and other europeans they aren't always at war. He also suggested that americans stay out of foreign affairs to preserve peace in the nation.

War of 1812

aemontana — 2024-02-26 18:58:02 UTC

(Jun 18, 1812 – Feb 18, 1815)

war between America and Britain. caused by upset over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy, as well as disagreements over trade, western expansion, and Native American policy

Seneca Falls Convention

aemontana — 2024-02-26 18:58:21 UTC

the first women's right convention. At the convention women discussed and brought attention to unfair treatment and the need for equal rights. the convention lasted two days and was held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York. (Jul 19, 1848 – Jul 20, 1848)

Market Revolution

aemontana — 2024-02-26 18:58:36 UTC

the MArket revolution was an era where factory labor was introduced which shifted the american economy from barter to wages, and connected the U.S. to global markets. goods were produced faster and new inventions were created with profit in mind. (1820s-1830s)

Louisiana Purchase

aemontana — 2024-02-26 18:58:48 UTC

jefferson was offered the louisiana territory for a great price so he decided to buy it( abusing his power). it was 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.

Missouri Compromise

aemontana — 2024-02-26 18:59:00 UTC

the Missouri compromise admitted missouri into the union as a slave state. the compromise prevented the expansion of slavery in the country, making most northern states free and southern not

White House Burned

aemontana — 2024-02-26 18:59:22 UTC

during the war of 1812 the British burned down the white house. they became involved in the war by americans unprovoked violence towards canadians when trying to conquer canada. it was a warning to show that american troops were inexperienced and could not defend their own presidents house.

Mexican-American War

aemontana — 2024-03-17 23:58:16 UTC

a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. Won by the Americans. it resulted in the U.S. gaining more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.

Dred Scott Decision

aemontana — 2024-03-18 00:00:27 UTC

an enslaved mans master is relocated to a free state, the soldier dies and when he tried to get his freedom from the wife she said no so he sued for his freedom and won. The wife moves back and appeals the decision the Missouri supreme court says that he is still a slave. His case goes to the supreme court and rules that he will remain a slave. Says the missouri compromise is unconstitutional
(1846-1857)

Emancipation Proclamation

aemontana — 2024-03-18 00:01:47 UTC

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, . The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.

Appomattox Court House

aemontana — 2024-03-18 00:04:16 UTC

General Robert E. Lee, commander of all Confederate forces, surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.

marked the end of the civil war
April 9, 1865

Lincoln Assassinated

aemontana — 2024-03-18 00:09:18 UTC

while watching the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary, Lincoln was assassinated by Booth.

-April 15, 1865

Reconstruction

aemontana — 2024-03-18 00:11:15 UTC

era of rebuilding the south from the destruction of the war

-Rebuilding the physical south that was burned down

-Rebuild southern society and politics

-Compromise of 1877 -rutherford hayes gets to be president in exchange for the union military to be removed from the south

Jim crow laws- literacy test,poll tax

1861 to 1900)

Haymarket Riot of 1886

aemontana — 2024-04-08 12:08:19 UTC

Radical unionists had called a mass meeting in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality in a strike action. A bomb was thrown into the crowd, killing seven policemen and injuring 60 others. Police and workers fired on each other

Homestead Strike of 1892

aemontana — 2024-04-08 12:10:58 UTC

the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania discharged workers from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union. A bloody confrontation ensued between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries

Pullman Strike of 1894

aemontana — 2024-04-08 12:12:41 UTC

One plan depended on railway switchmen refusing to hitch Pullman cars to trains or to unhitch ones that were already attached. This tactic had a huge impact, as 125,000 workers on 29 railroads ending up quitting work rather than handling Pullman cars. The Pullman Strike lasted from May to July 1894.

-Non Violent

Plessy v. Ferguson

aemontana — 2024-04-08 12:13:52 UTC

-Apr 13, 1896 – May 18, 1896

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality,

The Jungle written

aemontana — 2024-04-08 12:17:23 UTC

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions of the meat processing industry , she found that sanitation was really bad.

Sinking of the Luisitania

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:12:17 UTC

May 7, 1915

he German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans.

Spanish-American War

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:12:46 UTC

(April 21 – December 10, 1898)

a conflict between the United States and Spain that effectively ended Spain's role as a colonial power in the New World. The United States emerged from the war as a world power with significant territorial claims stretching from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia

USS Maine Destroyed

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:13:20 UTC

( February 15, 1898)

The USS Maine was sent to Havana in January 1898 to protect American interests during the long-standing revolt of the Cubans against the Spanish government. In the evening of 15 February 1898, Maine sank when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded

Boxer rebellion

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:14:33 UTC

Nov 2, 1899 – Sep 7, 1901

an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government. A Chinese secret society known as the Boxers embarked on a violent campaign to drive all foreigners from China.

WWI

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:15:09 UTC

For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I raged across Europe's western and eastern fronts after growing tensions and then the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ignited the war.A global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.

Roaring 20's

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:15:22 UTC

The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and deferred spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consumer goods such as automobiles and electricity in North America and Europe.

Great Depression

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:15:35 UTC

The "Great Depression " was a severe, world -wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929

New Deal

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:15:46 UTC

The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and efforts to re-inflate the economy after prices had fallen sharply. New Deal programs included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

WWII

aemontana — 2024-04-23 12:15:55 UTC

Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945.

Murder of Emmett Till 1955

aemontana — 2024-05-20 12:42:26 UTC

a young black body was falsely accused of whistling at a white woman. he was then kidnapped,beaten and killed. his murder sparked a larger interest in civil right

Greensboro Sit Ins 1960

aemontana — 2024-05-20 15:37:20 UTC

a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, four black men sat down at a lunch counter where they were not allowed to sit due to segregation.

March on Washington 1963

aemontana — 2024-05-20 15:39:00 UTC

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans

Assassination of JFK 1963

aemontana — 2024-05-20 15:46:25 UTC

In 1963 in Dallas, riding in a parade to drum up support for the upcoming presidential election in 1964, JFK was shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald and pronounced dead at Parkland hospital

Assassination of MLK Jr. 1968

aemontana — 2024-05-20 15:48:49 UTC

Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Civil Rights Act of 1968

aemontana — 2024-05-20 15:50:02 UTC

expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status.

US Withdraws from Vietnam 1973

aemontana — 2024-05-20 15:52:03 UTC

On March 29, 1973, the last U.S. military unit left Vietnam. By that time the communists and South Vietnamese were already engaged in what journalists labeled the “postwar war.

Watergate Scandal 1972 to 1974, ...

aemontana — 2024-05-20 15:54:56 UTC

The scandal included a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, and subsequent cover-up by people who worked for or with the White House, and by Nixon himself

Iran-Contra Affair Aug 20, 1985 – Mar 4, 1987

aemontana — 2024-06-03 23:26:46 UTC

a political scandal in the 1980s involving the covert sale of weapons to Iran by the U.S. government to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, leading to Congressional investigations and convictions.

Bush v Gore December 12, 2000

aemontana — 2024-06-03 23:27:53 UTC

The 2000 U.S. presidential election, marked by a controversial recount in Florida, legal battles culminating in the Supreme Court's decision to stop the recount, and Bush's ultimate victory despite losing the popular vote.

NAFTA 1992

aemontana — 2024-06-03 23:32:04 UTC

a trade agreement signed in 1994 between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, aiming to eliminate barriers to trade and investment and promote economic cooperation in North America.

War on Terror September 11, 2001

aemontana — 2024-06-03 23:33:09 UTC

a global military and political campaign initiated by the United States in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, aimed at combating terrorism and its sponsors around the world.

Clinton Impeachment Dec 19, 1998 – Feb 12, 1999

aemontana — 2024-06-03 23:35:02 UTC

centered on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice related to his extramarital affair

The Patriot Act October 26, 2001

aemontana — 2024-06-03 23:36:25 UTC

a U.S. law passed in response to the 9/11 attacks, granting expanded surveillance and law enforcement powers to the government in the name of national security and counterterrorism efforts.