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year 1000 the vikings
Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus, a band of European sailors left their homeland behind in search of a new world leader, Leif Eriksson -
15th century
Marco Polo is not known for any particular discoveries, he was one of the first Europeans to explore the Far East. He traveled farther than any explorers before him, journeying for over 24 years on the Silk Road, documenting the foreign culture, technology and civilizations. -
1492- Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he accidentally stumbled upon the Americas. -
lost colony
The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was established on Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement -
1607-1636 13 colony
Virginia1607
Massachusetts 1620 1630
New Hampshire 1623
Maryland 1634
Connecticut 1635
Rhode Island 1636
Delaware 1638
North Carolina 1653
South Carolina 1663
New Jersey 1664
New York 1664
Pennsylvania 1682
Georgia 1732 -
sugar act
the sugar act was on April 5 1764.
lowering the tax on molasses was to induce importers to buy molasses from British colonies instead of smuggling it from competing French and Spanish colonies.
The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with the Revenue Act of 1766, which reduced the tax to one penny per gallon on molasses imports, British or foreign. -
stamp act
year 1756
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
legal documents, licenses, newspapers
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. -
no taxation without representation
is a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution. -
the boston massacre
March 5, 1770.
the British army killed 5 men and hurt 6 other people
King George III -
Boston tea party
December 16, 1773.
The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea.
the Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, planned to show Parliament how they felt about the Tea Act. They boarded the British ship Dartmouth docked in Boston Harbor, dressed up as Indians, and dumped the entire load of tea into the water. -
sons of liberty
organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies.
Paul Revere, John Adams, and Samuel Adams.
The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
The Boston port act
The Boston Port Act was designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party. -
coercive acts
The Intolerable Act
1774
They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. -
edenton tea party
was a political protest
formed an alliance wholeheartedly supporting the American cause against “taxation without representation." -
first continental congress
Representatives from each colony, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia. The royal governor in Georgia succeeded in blocking delegates from being sent to the congress -
The Quartering act
Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies
