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First permanent English settlement in America
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America. -
Second permanent colony at Plymouth led by Captain John Smith.
Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Puritan Separatists initially known as the Brownist Emigration, who came to be known as the Pilgrims. It was the second successful colony to be founded by the English in America after Jamestown in Virginia, and it was the first permanent English settlement in the New England region. -
Third settlement Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. -
New Amsterdam was renamed New York City
Following its capture, New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York, who organized the mission. -
Boston Tea Party
caused by the Tea Act and aimed to protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation, the Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. -
American Revolutionary War
ought primarily between the Kingdom of Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies in America; it resulted in the overthrow of British rule in the colonies and the establishment of the United States of America -
First US official flag
the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." -
America got its first president
Monday, December 15, 1788 to Saturday, January 10, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified in 1788. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams became the first vice president. -
Inauguration of George Washington
George Washington is sworn in as the first American president and delivers the first inaugural speech at Federal Hall in New York City -
Second inauguration of George Washington
Washington's second inauguration took place in the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,The presidential oath of office was administered by Supreme Court associate justice William Cushing. Washington's inaugural address was just 135 words, the shortest ever. -
Second president of America
John Adams born on October 30, 1735 and died July 4, 1826 was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States, from 1797 to 1801.
