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On December 20, 1606, London Company sails from England to establish colonies in Virginia.At first they land on Chesapeake Bay in April 1607, however, they sailed further up a river to establish what was known as Jamestown -
King Granted new charter in may of 1609 to help invest in the financial stability of the colony. Soon after that, progress towards the colony started to take shape. -
First Spanish settlement in New Mexico. Previously populated before, it was truly settled by the conquistador Don Pedro de Peralta. Now the capital of New mexico. -
Dutch ship brought 20 enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia. -
Killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans, smallpox was believed to have arrived in the Americas in 1520 on a Spanish ship sailing from Cuba, carried by an infected African slave. The virus later ravaged and killed most of the native population who was never exposed to it previously. -
first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. The Puritans were fleeing from religious persecution by King James I of England and this was a way of ensuring safety and no conflict. -
In early 1622, the Native Americans, led by Powhatan's brother Opechancanough, waited for an opportunity to strike the English and remove them from Virginia. 350 colonists were killed and Jamestown was only saved only a native Christian convert who warned them ahead of time -
New England Confederation, also called United Colonies of New England, in British American colonial history, a federation of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth established in May 1643 by delegates from those four Puritan colonies. -
As the colonists unrelenting desire for more and more land, It produced more freedom for New England settlers by broadening their access to territory. Many Natives perished as a result. -
Armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers, led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley. Bacon wanted to drive natives out of Virginia but Berkeley denied it, ultimately causing him to rebel. -
series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses in 1705 regulating the interactions between slaves and citizens of the crown colony of Virginia restricting slaves' behaviors in fear of rebellion. -
As English people grew and expanded to meet the needs of the colonies, tensions grew as well with natives who previously owned the land. In 1711, the Tuscaroras, who populated most of the land between the Neuse and Roanoke Rivers, declared war war with the colonists. English colonists one the war and captured Tuscarora were sold into slavery.
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In New York, Africans used their indigenous religious customs and beliefs to wage war on Christians. At the time, New York had a population of approx. 8000 people, 1000 of which were slaves. The revolt ultimately ended in brutal execution of slaves and tighter slave laws. -
The Three Years war, also known as Dummer's War, was a series of conflicts between the Abenaki who allied with France and the English involving their borders. -
Slaves grouped up, raided gun shops, and killed about 20 white men as they went south from South Carolina. At the Stono river, the slave owners caught up to the 100 slaves and a battle ensued. -
Overseas colonial tension between Great Britain and France for control of North America and India caused the war. First Global war. -
After George Washington massacred French forces at the Battle of Jumonville Glen, France and Britain were still at peace. The fort was very important to the British against the French. Many British people were captured and scalped by native American forces. -
The first battle in the American Revolution, caused when British troops fired into a Boston mob protesting against a committee. -
American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston to protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." -
Writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting in favor of American independence. He said it was crazy to rule a land or community overseas and that America should vouch for independence. -
US pays France $15 million for the entire territory of Louisiana. This ultimately doubles the United states in size. -
Britain is caught interfearing with maritime trade and as a result the US declares war in armor to its westward expansion. -
During the war of 1812, as the British attack on Fort McHenry at Baltimore, Francis Scott Key writes Star-Spangled Banner as he watches the still-standing flag from a boat -
The American victory on Lake Champlain sparks President James Madison to send the Treaty of Ghent to the Senate which later gets signed by great Britain.
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In Monroe's annual address to congress, he declares that American continents are off limits to further European power Colonization. It called an end to European intervention of the Americas and the western hemisphere.
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In Monroe's annual address to congress, he declares that American continents are off limits to further European power Colonization. It called an end to European intervention of the Americas and the western hemisphere.
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In Monroe's annual address to congress, he declares that American continents are off limits to further European power Colonization. It called an end to European intervention of the Americas and the western hemisphere. -
Because of the changes mexico made to abolish slavery and tighten foreign control, Texas wanted to Secede and gain independence. major events that lead to this was the battle of the Alamo and the battle at San Jacinto. -
More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians are forced to walk from Georgia to the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. About 4,000 die from disease and starvation. -
In attempt to gain more land like California and New Mexico, The US declares war on Mexico in order to gain the southwest territories.