My sweet padlet by Sydnee Wen _ Student - GreenLevelHS

Columbus Discovers the “New World”

sfwen1 — 2024-01-26 19:06:50 UTC

Launched centuries of European exploration and colonization of the American continent.

Conquest of Tenochtitlan

sfwen1 — 2024-01-30 14:42:39 UTC

Destroyed the Aztec empire, and the Spanish began to consolidate control over what became the colony of New Spain

Roanoke Settlement

sfwen1 — 2024-01-30 14:43:41 UTC

`The first English attempt at a permanent and stable English settlement in North America. It failed.

King Phillip's war

sfwen1 — 2024-01-30 14:44:40 UTC

War that pitted Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian allies. Paved the way for additional English settlements

Bacons rebellion

sfwen1 — 2024-01-30 19:14:34 UTC

The first popular uprising in the American colonies. It was long viewed as an early revolt against English tyranny

French and Indian War

sfwen1 — 2024-02-07 19:15:14 UTC

Part of the Seven Years' War in Europe. Britain and France fought for control of the Ohio Valley and Canada. The colonies fought under British commanders. Britain eventually won, and gained control of all of the remaining French possessions in Canada.

Boston Tea Party

sfwen1 — 2024-02-07 19:15:46 UTC

A group of colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773

First Continental Congress

sfwen1 — 2024-02-07 19:16:17 UTC

A Philadelphia meeting that brought together representatives from each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts."

Declaration of Independence

sfwen1 — 2024-02-08 18:58:32 UTC

A resolution created by the Continental Congress, which broke all ties between colonists and the British, creating the idea in America that the colonies were now "states"

Shay's Rebellion

sfwen1 — 2024-02-08 18:59:21 UTC

An uprising of rural, indebted farmers in western Massachusetts, against Boston creditors. It began in 1786 and lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation.

Constitutional Convention

sfwen1 — 2024-02-08 19:00:01 UTC

A Philadelphia meeting that brought together representatives form each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Washington's Farewell Address

sfwen1 — 2024-02-08 19:00:39 UTC

Printed in newspapers, this was largely a warning against political parties and permanent foreign alliances

Louisiana purchase

sfwen1 — 2024-03-01 14:09:52 UTC

A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars

War of 1812

sfwen1 — 2024-03-01 14:12:24 UTC

A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier.

White house burned

sfwen1 — 2024-03-01 14:12:51 UTC

General Robert Ross, a British force occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings following the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg

Market revolution

sfwen1 — 2024-03-01 14:13:22 UTC

Americans moving away from self-sufficient agriculture to production of goods for sale

Missouri's compromise

sfwen1 — 2024-03-01 14:14:24 UTC

Congress admitted Maine as a free state in 1820 so that Missouri would become a slave state and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36 30, the southern boundary of Missouri

Seneca falls convention

sfwen1 — 2024-03-01 14:15:17 UTC

Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.

Mexican-american war

sfwen1 — 2024-03-19 14:00:50 UTC

Sparked by a dispute over the annexation of Texas by the United States and a long-standing dispute over the southern border

Dred scott decision

sfwen1 — 2024-03-19 14:01:39 UTC

Since slaves are property of their masters, a slave is not automatically granted his freedom when his master moves him to a free state or territory

Emancipation proclamation

sfwen1 — 2024-03-19 14:02:11 UTC

Issued by Lincoln to free all of the slaves in the Confederate states. The slaves in border states loyal to the Union, however, remained enslaved, it only applied to Confederate states in rebellion.

Reconstruction

sfwen1 — 2024-03-19 14:02:39 UTC

Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union

Appomattox court house

sfwen1 — 2024-03-19 14:03:12 UTC

Where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865

Lincoln assassination

sfwen1 — 2024-03-19 14:03:37 UTC

John Wilkes Booth shot this leader in the head at Ford Theater, just days after the Civil War ended

Haymarket riot of 1886

sfwen1 — 2024-04-08 14:43:48 UTC

A labor protest rally in Chicago turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing

Pullman strike of 1894

sfwen1 — 2024-04-08 14:44:31 UTC

A nonviolent strike that brought down the railway system in most of the West over wages. President Cleveland shut it down because it was interfering with mail delivery

the jungle written

sfwen1 — 2024-04-08 14:45:05 UTC

A novel by Upton Sinclair that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago

plessy v. ferguson

sfwen1 — 2024-04-08 16:12:41 UTC

U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites

Homestead strike of 1892

sfwen1 — 2024-04-08 16:13:43 UTC

A violent strike in Pittsburgh over a decision to cut wages by nearly 20%. This strike ended with the destruction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers, one of the largest unions at the time

Murder of Emmett Till

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:36:26 UTC

a 14-year-old African American, was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman, an event that played a significant role in the civil rights movement in the United States.

Greensboro Sit Ins

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:36:48 UTC

a series of nonviolent protests initiated by African American college students in 1960 at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, challenging racial segregation and inspiring similar actions across the Southern United States during the civil rights movement.

March on Washington

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:37:15 UTC

over 200,000 participants, including Martin Luther King Jr., gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., advocating for equal rights and economic opportunities for African Americans.

Assassination of JFK

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:37:37 UTC

assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, when he was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade, sparking a wave of investigations and conspiracy theories.

Assassination of MLK Jr.

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:38:00 UTC

assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, an event that had a profound impact on the civil rights movement in the United States.

Civil Rights Act of 1968

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:38:16 UTC

enacted to address housing discrimination by prohibiting the refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person based on race, color, religion, or national origin, aiming to ensure equal housing opportunities for all.

Watergate Scandal

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:38:34 UTC

involving the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex, leading to revelations of widespread abuses of power and subsequent resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

USA withdraws from Vietnam

sfwen1 — 2024-05-24 13:38:56 UTC

marked the end of direct American involvement in the Vietnam War, following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. South Vietnam would later lose the war and Vietnam is communist to the day.