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Jan 1, 1450
Founding of the IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY
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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Early America
Natives to Colonies -
Oct 12, 1492
Columbus sails to the Americas
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Roanoke Colony Founded and Disappeared
1st colony...but unsuccessful -
Jamestown (Virginia)- Permanent Settlement
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Massachusettes Founded
Plymouth 1620
Massachusettes Bay Colony 1630 -
New Hampshire Founded
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New York Founded
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Maryland Founded
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Rhode Island Founded
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Connecticut Founded
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Delaware Founded
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Carolinas Founded
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New Jersey Founded
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Pennsylvania Founded
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Period: to
Colonies to Constitution
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Georgia Founded
James Ogelthorpe's colony for debtors (strict rules) -
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
England versus France for final claim of territories. Native side with France because they respect each other but Iroquois fight with England. George Washington leads British troops. -
Treaty of Paris
End of French and Indian War...England is the power in America. The war cost 2.5 million pounds. -
Sugar Act of 1764
To pay for the war, tax on molasses and sugar...colonists don't pay -
Quartering Act 1765
Housing and feeding British soldiers -
Stamp Act
Tax on daily goods that needed a stamp...angry colonists "no taxation without representation" -
Stamp Act GONE but now Declaratory Act
British "declares" the right to tax! -
SHOTS FIRED!!! Boston "Massacre"
Tension from a snowball fight and shots were fired. Crispus Attucks first death of revolution; 5 others dead. Used to encourage others to rebel. -
Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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Coercive Acts
King George's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Treating them like "naughty kids." -
First Continental Congress
56 Delegates from colonies except Georgia to make a militia (minutemen) and tell England their gripes. -
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
700 British troops march through Lexington and Concord fighting the Americans all the way. No one knows who fired first but it was "the shot heard round the world." -
Second Continental Congress
George Washington named military leader and offered the Olive Branch (one last chance for peaceful resolution) JULY 1775 -
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Written by Thomas Jefferson and listing grievances about the king. -
BRITAIN SURRENDERS AT YORKTOWN!
General Cornwallis hands over his sword. -
Benjamin Franklin's Dies
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Period: to
Growing Pains
