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Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Period
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Jan 1, 1492
Columdus gets money
The nina, the Pinta, and the santa Maria and his voyage was sponsored by spain -
Jan 1, 1493
Columbus lands
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Jan 1, 1500
maney indina live is America
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first contact with europeans
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Jamestown Virginia was settled
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Henry Hudson explores the delaware bay area
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Pilgrimes settle in Plymouth (Massachusetts)
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Peter minuit comes to new Netherlands.
Peter Minuit was born in Holland in 1580. In 1624 Dutch merchants established a settlement that became known as New Netherland.Minuit was one of those who decided to settle in America and in 1626 became director-general of New Netherland. Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from Native Americans for $24 worth of trinkets, beads and knives. -
New Sweden was founded
In 1637, Swedish, Dutch and German stockholders formed the New Sweden Company to trade for furs and tobacco in North America. Under the command of Peter Minuit -
Dutch take over New sweden
In 1655 the dutch tock over new sweden. the govner ov new sweden was peter minuint. Why the dutch tock over new sweden is because, the sweds tock over mariland and it made them made. -
England takes over the colony new york
In 1664, after years of dispute with the Dutch over shipping rights, England seized the Dutch-controlled area located between Connecticut and the Delaware River known as New Netherlands. The Dutch surrendered the area without a fight. New Netherlands was then renamed New York after the Duke of York. -
William penn is granted the charter for pennsylvania
will went to the king and said the Quaker are benig persucuted so the king let will and all his Quaker friends settel in know what is pennsylvania. -
Pennsylvania is founed
Pennsylvania was founed in 1682. It was founded by william penn.He founded pennsylvania because the quarkers have benn ttreaded badly so wills dad got some land from the king. Then wills dad dies and will got the land. so he whent over to the new land and founded pennsylvania. -
william Penn meats indian
William Penn meat the Delaware Indians in 1682. He whent there to by someland from the indians. -
William Penn dies
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Ben Franklin arrives in Philadelphia
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Walking purchase
William Penn's heirs, John Penn and Thomas Penn, claimed a deed from the 1680s promising to sell a tract beginning at the junction of the Delaware River and Lehigh River and extending as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half. -
the French and indian war
The French and indian war was not fought betwen the freanch and the the indians they fought to gether and they fought agents the british.The war was fought betwen the years of 1754-1763. -
The freanch and indian war ended
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Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion is a war that was stared by the idians that lost in the ferach and indian war. -
the stamp act
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Townsend acts
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Anthracite Coal is first use in homes
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Boston Tea Party
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The intolerable acts are passed
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1st continental congress is held
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
2nd Continental Congress is held
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun -
Declaration of independence
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The pennsylvania state Constitution is written
The current Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, most recently revised in 1968, forms the law for the United States Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Although considered a new document, it is heavily based on the previous Constitution of 1874, and is often considered a revision of the earlier version. -
Washington occupies Valley Forge
Washington went into valley forge .because he need to fide quarters for his troops in the beging of the winter. -
washington leavevs vallley forge
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The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the states
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The U.S. constitution is adopted
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John fitch invents the steamboat
John Fitch invents the steamboat in 1788. he crated is in the U.S. -
George Washington is elected president
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Cornplanter's Grant
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The lancaster pike is completed
The lancaster pick is now the turn pike. It was the only road that went from lancaster to pilley
