1600-1876 Events

By HudsonB13

  • Jamestown

    "The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas." Jamestown

  • First African Slaves

    Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves into Jamestown, Virginia.

  • House of Burgesses

    The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1632: Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore. 1633: Inquisition forces Galileo (astronomer) to recant his belief in Copernican theory

  • English Civil War

    English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester. 1652: Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company

  • The Dutch Arrive

    The Dutch colonized the area of New Amsterdam, modern-day New York. They established this colony in New Netherlands in search of economic gain.

  • King Phillip's War

    King Philip's War was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley

  • The Glorious Revolution

    The Glorious Revolution (“The Bloodless Revolution") involved the overthrow of King James II, who was replaced by his daughter Mary

  • The Salem witch trials

    The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused.

  • Establishment of Georgia

    Georgia was founded to create a buffer between the southern colonies and the Spanish in Florida.

  • French and Indian War

    In 1754, the French and Indian War began. This war was fought between British colonies in North America and the French colonies as well as their allies.

  • Treaty of Paris

    1763 Treaty of Paris. The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of ... The Pioneers by David McCullough As part of the Treaty of Paris

  • The Stamp Act

    This angered them and they started protesting against the parliament. Stamp sellers and distributors on North America were threatened by the colonists.

  • American Revolution

    Beginning of the American Revolution ... The true fighting began when British soldiers began marching towards Lexington and Concord in April with the intent of killing.

  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. The American colonists were very frustrated

  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States

  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. It was adopted on July 4, 1776, by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia.

  • Articles of Confederation

    The Articles of Confederation. This was a document that established the earliest form of the U.S. government

  • Louisiana Purchase

    U.S. Purchases Louisiana Territory from France
    France sells the 827,000 square miles to the United States for $15 million, doubling the size of the nation.

  • Sacagawea Aids Lewis and Clark Expedition

    Sacagawea Aids Lewis and Clark Expedition
    Sacagawea, a 16-year-old Shoshone, her newborn son and husband, a French trader, join the Lewis and Clark Expedition as interpreters and guides. She leads the explorers from present-day North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean. On the return trip, Sacagawea guides the expedition through the mountains at the site of present-day Bozeman Pass, Montana. Her exploits on the expedition help ensure its success.

  • Slave Importation Banned

    Slave Importation Banned
    The United States bans the importation of slaves from foreign countries. The internal slave trade within the United States is unaffected by the law, and illegal slaves continue to be smuggled into the country.

  • Freed Slaves Returned to Africa

    Freed Slaves Returned to Africa
    The American Colonization Society is founded with the purpose of returning freed slaves to Africa. The idea of returning slaves to Africa never materializes to any significant extent, although more than 11,000 return to Africa before the Civil War and form the basis for the African state of Liberia.

  • First Seminole War

    First Seminole War
    Andrew Jackson leads troops in an attempt to drive the Seminole from their homeland in Florida.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Maine is admitted as a free state and Missouri is admitted as a slave state. Slavery is prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of 36°30′.

  • Slave Plot Uncovered

    Slave Plot Uncovered
    Denmark Vesey, a former slave who had purchased his own freedom and become a prominent citizen in the African American community of Charleston, S.C., is so incensed by slavery that he plans a secret insurrection to take over Charleston and kill as many slaveholders as possible. The plot is discovered; Vesey and about 130 followers are captured and tried. Some are banished; 35, including Vesey, are hanged.

  • Sojourner Truth Crusades against Slavery

    Sojourner Truth Crusades against Slavery
    Freed slave Isabella van Wagener takes the name Sojourner Truth and becomes a leading abolitionist, especially in New York and New England, preaching for many years against slavery.

  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    President Andrew Jackson signs into law the Indian Removal Act, which forces the relocation of Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River.

  • Lydia M. Child Publishes Anti-slavery Tract

    Lydia M. Child Publishes Anti-slavery Tract
    Lydia Maria Child publishes An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, an influential abolitionist tract.