Don't Know Much about American History
Updated 4 Jan 2019
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Eric the Red - Scandinavia to GreenlandLeif ErikssonColumbus landed in the islands of the CaribbeanAmerigo Vespucci - Mundus Novus "New World"Portuguese began to settle BrazilJacques Marquette & Louis Joliet travel the Mississippi RiverThe Dutch established New Amsterdam on Hudson RiverJuan Ponce de Leon set in the United States,
Florida.Jacques Cartier
sails up the St. Lawrence RiverFrancisco de Coronado explores New Mexico and the American SouthwestSpaniards settled in St. Augustine, FloridaThe English established a colony in Roanoke,Virginia ( present day North Carolina)The first permanent English settlement in the
New World is founded in Jamestown,VirginiaSamuel de Champlain founded
Quebec,CanadaHenry Hudson
sailing for the Dutch, explores what is now New York's Hudson River.John Smith explores
New England coastThe Pilgrims settle at Plymouth, Massachusetts120 settlers vanished in Roanoke IslandAbout 120 settlers
vanished on Roanoke IslandPilgrims arrived at Plymouth, a group of
Englishmen sailed to Virginia they hoped they
to find gold,silver,and copperSetters of Virginia Company of LondonThe Virginia Company created the House of BurgessesBlack Africans were first brought to JamestownEquiano was freed he published his
autobiographyPresident Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a yearly nationalNew Netherland the colony that included New Amsterdam grew as the Dutch settled on
surrounding landLord Baltimore as a safe place for the CatholicsRoger Williams who was banished from
Massachusetts for religious reasonsThomas Hooker who led a group from
MassachusettsSwedish then Dutch the British were given the land in 1664Settlers od the Virginia Company of LondonPilgrims and Puritans for their own religious
freedomEnglish who had a land grant from BritainPatrick Henry's speech in the First Continental
CongressThe Pequot War was a taste of what was to
come in King Phillip's War in Massachusetts
nearly forty years later.The mood had changed since the Pilgrims and
Wampanoags signed their peace treatyEunice lived with her family in Deerfield,
Massachusetts a settlement that was raided and
burned many times before Eunice her family
and about a hundred others were captured by
Mohawk and Abenaki raidersOne of Boon'es most important jobs was opening the Wilderness Road through the
narrow Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian MountainsThere were seven hundred thousand settlers west of Appalachians they outnumbered the
Indians in the area by eight to oneThe foundations of freedom of the press in America were laidThe first shots of the French and Indian War were firedWashington became famous for his service
during the French and Indian WarThe Treaty of Paris signedThe war went in favor of the French until William
Pitt took over the British armyGeorge Washington was unanimously chosen to
command the Continental armyGeorge Washington was called to serve as the
nation's first presidentThe result was of the Sugar ActThe even stronger Stamp Act passedKing George iii who had to come to the throneBritain repealed the Stamp ActAnger the Sugar ActsRedcoats in front of Boston's Custom House were taunted by mob of angry colonists who
began throwing snow, ice, and stones at the soldiersAnd the rabble-rousing patriots Sam Adams
was at it again.Fifty - five delegates from every colony but Georgia convened in PhiladelphiaJohn Adams lived to see his eldist son become
our sixth president before passing awayThe first shot was fired in Lexington, Massachusetts early on the morningShot's had been fired three weeks before
declaring independence from Britain was still a
radical idea when the Second Continental
Congress convened( Paul Revere's Ride )Congress learned that King George had again
refused their petition the king snub along with
the publication of a little book called Common
SenseAn English man who came to AmericaIn Thomas Jefferson's private life had a weakness for finery that left him deeply in debt when he diedThe revised declaration was adoptedJefferson and the other colonist read the works
of Enlightenment thinkers that prompted them
to read about the democracies of Greece and
Rome the colonist realized that they could
manage their own affairs they'd been doing it
since the House of BurgessesBenedict Arnold a brave soldier Arnold might
have been an American hero if he hadn't
become a traitor in the early days of the war
Arnold was a bold commander who contributed
to the important American victory at Saratoga
yet he felt overlooked by his continental
superiors and began to take bribes to spy for
the BritishThe first shots of the American Revolution are firedIn the only major sea battle of the war American Captain John Paul Jones captures the British warship serapis off the coast of EnglandAmericans sign alliance treaty with FranceThomas Paine publishes Common SenseBritish General William Howe takes control of PhiladelphiaBritish capture Charleston South CarolinaBritish Major General Lord Cornwallis sends a drummer boy to surrender to American and French forces at Yorktown, VirginiaBritish and American representatives sign the Treaty of ParisAbigail Adam's in a March 1776 letter to her
husband John Adams who was attending the
Second Continental CongressA British band played the tune as Major General
Cornwalli's army surrendered at YorktownUnder the Articles of Confederation adoptedfifty-five delegates from every state but Rhode Island met in Philadelphia to improve the Articles of ConfederationIf Americans wanted to know how things were going at the Constitutional Convention during the summerOne was that Congress had to wait twenty yearsThe Constitution wasn't perfect but by the
standards of the say it was revolutionary the
Constitution gave more Americans more rights
than any country had ever given its people it's
the oldest working constitution in the world
partly because it provides for its own
amendment or change some of the
amendments we've madeThe first ten amendments to the Constitution called the Bill of Rights guarantee basic liberties such as freedom of speech freedom of the press and the freedom of religion the Bill of Rights was ratifiedNo. Congress adopted the ConstitutionEvery elector voted for a George Washingtonthe winner of the popular vote has lost the electoral vote and thus the electionThe Missouri Compromise approvedThe slave trade had been bannedCanals such as the Erie Canal which connected the Hudson River in New York to the Great Lakes also made it easier to move people and goods long distances by waterSam Slater's mill opened with nine workers all of them under the age of twelve nearly half the nation's textile workers were under ten years of age and were working twelve or more hours a day.Congress passed the Indian Removal ActOn top of that gold was found on Cherokee landBlack Hawk returned to Illinois to farm when 1,000 of his warriors tried to surrender to the U.S. armyWhen the Seminoles raised the white flag of truceThe U.S. army seized their leader imprisoned Osceola diedNat Turner was a Virginia slave who led a band of seventy other slaves in a violent rebellionSequoyah bor to a Cherokee mother and white
father in Tennessee Sequoyah grew up
lame,brilliant, and illiterate.Americans forces were again overcome at a town called GoliadEastern cities were dirt, crowded, and disease riddenThe year out the first wagon trains traveled the Oregon Trail a hundred pioneer families loaded their covered wagons and set out for Oregon and CaliforniaThe belief that America would one day stretch from sea to shining sea was partly due to the writing of the journalist named John O' SullivanThey were the thousands upon thousands of gold seekers who rushed to CaliforniaThe thousands upon gold seekers who rushed to California ( forty-niners)A carpenter found gold near Sutter's MillThe Great Compromiser Henry Clay now
seventy three years old again helped keep the
Union together in what became known as the
CompromiseFrederick Douglass ( 1817 - 1895 ) in one of his first recorded antislavery speeches delivered in Plymouth County MassachusettsThe Seneca Falls Convention organized by
Stanton Mott and others became the first public
meeting in America devoted to women rightsAn extreme abolitionist named John Brown (1800-1859) helped set off bloodshed in Kansas when he led an attack that killed five unarmed proslavery settlersStanton was introduced to another reformer ,Susan.B.Anthony ( 1820- 1906)few people read an American literature Moby DickIn Kansas that year Illinois Senator Stephen A
Douglass introduced the Kansas-Nebraska ActLincoln was running against Stephen.A. DouglasIn Antietam, Maryland in the bloodiest singer day of the war the dead wounded top 10,000 in each sideUlysses Simpson Grant fought in the Mexican War and remained in the army.One of the most famous youths of the the war was Johnny Clem who ran away to join Union armyWhen the surrender came the generals on both sides rose to the occasion.Just five days after Robert.E.Lee surrender
President Lincoln was shot in the back of the
head while watching a play at Ford's Theatre in
Washington D.C.A group of Republicans known as Radicals
passed a Civil Rights ActThe government pushed the Indians onto smaller and smaller reservations and the Homestead Act was signedPeriods
Spanish explored & claimed: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Mexico & South and Central AmericaFrench claim Canada12 million African slaves were brought to the
New World in a system called the " triangle tradeThanksgiving was proclaimed by George WashingtonDaniel BooneMore than six feet tall powerful and very strong
George WashingtonIn his day, Benjamin Franklin was the most
famous and admired American in the worldThe son of a Massachusetts farmer, John
Adams becam a succesful lawyer and was
urged into patriot activity by his cousin Samuel
AdamsIn Common Sense author Thomas Paine articulated what was well common senseThomas Jefferson was born into a life of wealth
and privilege in Virginia where his father taught
him it was the duty of people in his social class
to serve in the governmentThe American armies were also greatly helped
by a nineteen-year-old French nobleman the
Marquis de LafayetteAndrew Jackson was born to a poor family in a log
cabin in South Carolina his father died before he was born and his mother passed away when he was fourteen Andrew had very little schooling but he learned how to read something many adults on the frontier couldn't do in his dayBy the time President Van Buren a Democrat like Andrew Jackson ran for the reelection in 1840John Tyler the president before Polk admitted
Texas as a state on his last day in office setting
off the Mexican WarHarriet Tubman ( 1820 - 1913) a slave from Maryland who made her way to freedom in the NorthFrom all the buffalo that Buffalo Bill killed to feed the workers who were building the transcontinental railroad as the railroad began to cut the Great Plains in half in the 1860's
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