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Colonists moved into a peninsula, but could not sustain living. -
The first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Galileo Galilei sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. Galileo also showed the Copernican system in which the planets circle the sun was correct. -
William Shakespeare died due to syphilis, and was even rumored to have been murdered. -
House of Burgesses is established in Virginia. -
First Slaves in North America brought from Dutch Shipping Companies -
Harvard was the first college to be founded in the American Colonies. -
An armed conflict between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their indigenous allies. -
Nathaniel Bacon and his militia burned Jamestown to the ground because the governor told them they could not take over the Native American land. -
The start of the trials was due to Betty Parris and Abigail Williams named Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba as witches. -
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This was a conflict primarily fought between Britain and France over a New World territory, ending with a British victory. -
A time of growth in technologies and inventions, transformed rural societies into industrialized, urban ones. -
Ended the French and Indian War between Britain and France, and their respective allies. -
A confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles. -
This war secured American Independence from Great Britain. -
The famous "shot heard around the world", marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
Document signed on July 4th securing our independence from Great Britain. -
An action of the American Revolutionary War fought at the edge of Long Island the present-day Brooklyn, New York. -
Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Shay's Rebellion threatened to collapse the young nation, tax laws favored trade at expense of agriculture, and showed the need for a stronger central government. -
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The acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic. -
A war fought between America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and their allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in France. -
The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
The refusal of many Texans, both Anglo and Mexican, to accept the governmental changes mandated by "Siete Leyes". -
Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing most of the Texians and Tejanos inside. -
A series of forced displacements of roughly 60,000 American Indians of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. -
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. -
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. -
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, while at Ford's Theatre watching Our American Cousin. -
This fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles of the city including 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.