https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg Module 1 en-us 2023-01-17 21:18:08 UTC 2023-01-18 21:02:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447536682 Three years later, on 25 March 1807, King George III signed into law the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, banning trading in enslaved people in the British Empire.]]> 2023-01-17 21:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447536682 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447537311 by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially: The Gutenberg press.]]> 2023-01-17 21:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447537311 rmontecillo1 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447537955 2023-01-17 21:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447537955 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447539535 On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew set sail from Spain in three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. On October 12, the ships made landfall—not in the East Indies, as Columbus assumed, but on one of the Bahamian islands, likely San Salvador..]]> 2023-01-17 21:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447539535 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447540094 On May 24, 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse dispatched the first telegraphic message over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.]]> 2023-01-17 21:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447540094 rmontecillo1 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447540413 On July 2, 1776, Congress voted to declare independence. Two days later, it ratified the text of the Declaration. ]]> 2023-01-17 21:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447540413 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447540731 On September 8, 1565, with much pomp and circumstance and 600 voyagers cheering, Menéndez set foot on the shores of Florida. In honor of the saint whose feast day fell on the day he first sighted land, Menéndez named the colonial settlement St. Augustine.

]]> 2023-01-17 21:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447540731 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447541623 Queen Elizabeth's decisive defeat of the Invincible Armada made England a world-class power and introduced effective long-range weapons into naval warfare for the first time, ending the era of boarding and close-quarter fighting.

]]> 2023-01-17 21:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447541623 rmontecillo1 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447542514 This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally ]]> 2023-01-17 21:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447542514 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447542699 In December 1606, the company dispatched three ships carrying 104 settlers, including Captain John Smith, to start this colony. Established on May 13, 1607, the colony was named Jamestown, in honor of the king.]]> 2023-01-17 21:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447542699 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447544628 The Glorious Revolution (1688–89) permanently established Parliament as the ruling power of England—and, later, the United Kingdom—representing a shift from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.

]]> 2023-01-17 21:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447544628 rmontecillo1 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447544630 Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government. ]]> 2023-01-17 21:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447544630 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447545440 The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.

]]> 2023-01-17 21:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447545440 rmontecillo1 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447545946 The French Revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1794. King Louis XVI needed more money, but had failed to raise more taxes when he had called a meeting of the Estates General.]]> 2023-01-17 21:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447545946 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447823131 Heralded as the first women's rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848.]]> 2023-01-18 04:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447823131 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447826407 At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered.]]> 2023-01-18 04:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447826407 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447828475 The serfs were emancipated in 1861, following a speech by Tsar Alexander II on March 30, 1856. In Georgia, the emancipation took place later, in 1864, and on much better terms for the nobles than in Russia. State-owned serfs (those living on and working on Imperial lands) were emancipated in 1866.]]> 2023-01-18 04:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447828475 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447831273 On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.]]> 2023-01-18 04:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447831273 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447832955 The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.]]> 2023-01-18 04:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2447832955 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448972547 In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward.]]> 2023-01-18 20:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448972547 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448974199 The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.

]]> 2023-01-18 20:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448974199 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448975971 In 1819, after years of negotiations, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams achieved a diplomatic coup with the signing of the Florida Purchase Treaty, which officially put Florida into U.S. hands at no cost beyond the U.S. assumption of some $5 million of claims by U.S. citizens against Spain.

]]> 2023-01-18 20:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448975971 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448978594 On August 24, 1821, Spanish Viceroy Juan de O'Donojú signed the Treaty of Córdoba, which approves a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy. In 1822, as no Bourbon monarch to rule Mexico had been found, Iturbide was proclaimed the emperor of Mexico.

]]> 2023-01-18 21:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448978594 amorales82 https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448979973 The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, began in 1845 when a mold known as Phytophthora infestans (or P. infestans) caused a destructive plant disease that spread rapidly throughout Ireland.]]> 2023-01-18 21:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/amorales82/pjzgo8qj3kvlbgdg/wish/2448979973