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1600-1700
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British East India Company
Joint-Stock company from Britain to India for mainly spices. -
Jamestown founded
First Virginia settlement that would become permanent and matter a lot in history. -
First telescope
Telescope invented in the Netherlands during 1608 made by Spectacle makers Hans Lippershey & Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius. -
Thirty year war
King of Bohemia tried to impose Catholicism on his peoples in 1618 which triggered several separate wars that ravaged the continent for three decades. -
House of Burgesses
House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
Mayflower brings pilgrims to North America
The Church of England seeks for the promised land of the new world. With a 10 week travel they end up settling in a colony named Plymouth. -
Mayflower compact
Contract that the pilgrims made to self-govern the population among each other. -
First Navigation Act passed
Act that declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the North American colonies could only export its commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, to England. -
Bacon´s Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon rebelled at James town against the king due to not wanting to attack neighboring natives and ridiculing him. -
The glorious revolution
It involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. Which Inspired a lot of revolutions. -
Salem witch trials
Period were puritants thought that some women were possessed by the devil and were called witches. They then executed any women accused of witchcraft. -
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1700-1800
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The war of the Spanish succession
Philip V remained King of Spain but was removed from the French line of succession, thereby averting a union of France and Spain. -
First news letter
A small single sheet, printed on both sides, the News-Letter made history as the first continuously published newspaper in America. -
First colonies theater opened
Colonial America's first theater was built in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1716 after a number of English actors arrived in the more-accepting South and began performing plays. -
Lighting rod invented
Franklin began to think about protecting people, buildings, and other structures from lightning. So he made the rod. -
Seven Year's War
The Seven Years' War resulted from an attempt by the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the province of Silesia, which had been taken from them by Frederick the Great of Prussia. -
Better working steam engine
James Watt deduced that the waste resulted from the steam engine's single-cylinder design. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists' opposition to a series of acts passed by the British Parliament. -
Boston Tea Party
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation, dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Declaration of Independance
Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies' separation from Great Britain. -
Treaty of paris
It ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
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1800-1876
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Thomas Jefferson presidency
Third president of the colonies, principal author of the declaration of independence. -
Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest. -
James Madison
4th president, made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers -
Harvard law school founded
One of the most prestigious law schools founded. -
Mississippi becomes 20th state
Mississippi joined the Union as the 20th state in 1817 and got its name from the river. -
Texas independence
The refusal of many Texans, both Anglo and Mexican, to accept the governmental changes mandated by "Siete Leyes" made them want to declare independence. -
The Alamo
Last stand fight for Texas independence against Mexico. Mexican forces were victorious in recapturing the fort, and nearly all of the roughly 200 Texan defenders—including frontiersman Davy Crockett—died. -
The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, that was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west. -
America´s civil war
War between the United States and the Confederacy, which was formed by states that seceded -
Gatling gun
Richard Jordan Gatling invented a multi-barreled, rotating gun operated by a hand crank that could fire up to 200 rounds a minute
