Timeline of the Lecompton Constitution January 1857– The Territorial Legislature passed “An act to provide for electing a convention to frame a state constitution.” This was the first step of…
Embargo Act, Legislation by the U.S. Congress in December 1807 restricting British imports and closing U.S. ports to all exports. The act was President Thomas Jefferson’s response to British and…
A headright is a legal grant of land given to settlers during the period of European colonization. Headrights played an important role in the expansion of the Thirteen Colonies; the…
Tudor Architecture is a style of architecture that evolved in England within 1485 and 1558. It was a transitional fashion, mixing parts of Renaissance design with a Gothic form found…
The Articles of Confederation, the United States’ primary constitution, was composed during an era when the American people worried about powerful national governments. The new nation required some kind of organization…
Agricultural Revolution is thought to have started about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the starting of the current geological span, the…
Aztec Daily Life: The Aztecs, who possibly originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico, landed in Mesoamerica around the starting of the 13th century. From their lavish capital city,…
Timeline Of Australia: Australia was first invented/resided perhaps 40,000 years ago by aboriginal peoples. During the Age of Exploration, the land was discovered and mapped by many Europeans combining the…
Arizona History: The history of Arizona appearing with nomadic paleo-Indians who resided in the Americas in general, and the Salt River Valley in precise, about 9,000 years ago until about…
Ancient Spain: The forebears of today’s Spaniards consisted of Stone Age hunters from Africa, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, and other European peoples, Berber tribes from Morocco; and Phoenicians, Jews, and Arabs…