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Jan 4, 1000
B.C - 1500 A.D Woodland Period
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Jan 4, 1492
- 1493 colubus voyage
columbus his ship- the nia, the pinta, and the santa maria his voyage was sponsored by spain -
Jan 5, 1493
he landes in the caribbean
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Jan 4, 1500
many tribes live in PA
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Jan 5, 1538
peter minuit comes to new nethland
one of the first tradeing posts and made by the dutch -
first contact with europeans
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jamestown virginia was settles
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henry hudson explores the delaware bay area
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pilgrims settle in plymouth
the pilgrums settled on plimath rock to have religos freedom -
new sweden is founded
made a traty with the local indians for the land they strugaled for years but the lacal indians helped teach them to hunt -
the dutch take over new sweden
a new govaner came to power and jepradised relations between the swiss and the dutch most of the cillilians agreed to live under duch rule -
england takes over the colony (new york)
the dutch controlled the hudson river but the britich had made land clames there the came over in mass the leaders of the dutch wanted to fight but the cillians did not want bloodshed -
william penn is granted the charter for pennsylvania
william penn was the son of a great general but he was a quaker and did not beleve in fighting wars for his religin he was tossed in jail and when free he was given his carter to land in the new world -
pennsylvania is founded
after a groling sea voige penn landed in coman day PA he names thhis land Pennsylvania (penns woods) -
william penn meets with the delaware indians
penn was nervas about meeting the indian chief and came unarmed to prove he wanted peace they excanged gifts and were merry -
william penn dies
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ben franklin arrives in philadelphia
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walking purchase
this agreement was that the land they bought from the indians would be however far they could walk in three days but when william penns son got power they ran the three day hike to cheet them out of land -
- 1763 french and indian war
the french had enterd western PA with some indian soldiers george whashington asked them to leave they did not he came back with men and defeted a small force the war had begun -
pontiac's rebellion
after the war ended there were still some indians that wanted to fight the british pontiac was a cheif that had his tribe fight but ended up loseing the battel -
stamp act
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townsend acts
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anthracite coal is first used in homes
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the intolerable acts are passed
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1st continetal congress is held
angrey with the taxes the states delagets met to find out what they would do agenst englend -
2nd continetal congress is held
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declaration of indpendence
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the pennsylvania state constition is written
this was counstitution only valed in PA the wrought somr of the laws and insierd the real constituion later -
- 1778 washinton ocupies valley forge
to watch the british in philidelphia his aremy of 1200 stayed in a valley even though they were under feed and under dresst -
the articals of confederation sre adopted by the states
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the us constituion is adopted
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jhon fitch invents the steam boat
the first steam boat is used and shown -
george washington is elected president
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cornplanter's grant
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the lancaster pike is opend
philadelphians did not want to lose goods to rival citys the turn pike would make the trip faster and the governmet made money this was an innovation in travel
