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John Endecoot
The first group of Puritan settelers was led by John Endecott. They began the settement salem massachusetts. -
John Winthrop
Lep a group of 1,000 Puritans on 15 ships. He becamee the governor of the puritan colony. He was a lawyer in England. -
Anne Hutchinson
is banished from Massachusetts for nonconformist religious views that advocate personal revelation over the role of the clergy. She then travels with her family to Rhode Island. -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island enacts the first law in the colonies declaring slavery illegal. -
King James 2
consolidating the colonies of New England into a single Dominion depriving colonists of their local political rights and independence. Legislatures are dissolved and the King's representatives assume all of the judicial and legislative power. -
Benjamin Franklin
is born in Boston. In November, South Carolina establishes the Anglican Church as its official church. -
King George II
King George II ascends the English throne. -
Baltimore
is founded in the Maryland colony. -
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger is brought to trial for seditious libel but is acquitted after his lawyer successfully convinces the jury that truth is a defense against libel. -
England
England declares war on Spain. As a result, in America, hostilities break out between Florida Spaniards and Georgia and South Carolina colonists. -
Iron Act
The Iron Act is passed by the English Parliament, limiting the growth of the iron industry in the American colonies to protect the English Iron industry. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act is passed by the English Parliament, banning the issuing of paper money by the New England colonies. -
Boston attacks
a mob in Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, as Hutchinson and his family narrowly escape. -
Stamp Act
the Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York City, with representatives from nine of the colonies. -
King George III
signs a bill repealing the Stamp Act after much debate in the English Parliament, which included an appearance by Ben Franklin arguing for repeal and warning of a possible revolution in the American colonies if the Stamp Act was enforced by the British military. -
violence
violence breaks out in New York between British soldiers and armed colonists, including Sons of Liberty members. -
territory
in the territory of California, San Diego is founded by Franciscan Friar Juniper Serra. -
American population
The population of the American colonies reaches 2,210,000 persons. -
Boston Tea Party
ccurs as colonial activists disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians then board the ships and dump all 342 containers of tea into the harbor. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris is signed by the United States and Great Britain. -
U. S. capital
The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. -
Jefferson
On February 17, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson is elected president and Aaron Burr becomes vice president. -
James Madison
James Madison is elected President – tensions continue to build with Britain. -
War
War of 1812 with Britain (15% sailors Black) -
Napoleon
Napoleon finally, finally defeated at Waterloo. -
Alabama
Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers. -
New York
New York gives free Blacks the right to vote -
Mexico
Mexico becomes a republic – outlaws slavery -
Georgia
Georgia prohibits the Education of Slaves -
Railroad
Underground Railroad” established -
Texas
texas declares independence from Mexico -
Depression
Depression begins with "Panic of 1837 -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore -
Santa Anna
Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico -
the War
War with Mexico -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce re-elected President -
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer invents process that allows mass production of steel; adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua; five slavery supporters are killed in a Kansas raid led by John Brown -
Oregon
Oregon admitted as State -
Lincoln
Lincoln elected President -
Morrill Act
Public lands set aside for State Colleges and
Slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia. -
Radical
Radical” Congressional Reconstruction -
15th Amendment
15th Amendment Ratified, giving Blacks but not women the right to vote. -
KKK members
KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi. Grant suspends habeas corpus and declared martial law in 9 So. Carolina counties. Many Blacks elected to political office. -
- 45th Congress
45th Congress has three Black members. -
HITLER
BORN- Tuskegee Institute Founded
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President Garfield assassinated.
President Garfield was shot on July 2; he died on September 19. Vice President Chester A. Arthur (Republican) succeeded Garfield as president. -
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional -
A black Episcopal bishop.
On June 25, African-American Samuel David Ferguson was ordained a bishop of the Episcopal church. -
Washington
admitted as state -
Lynchings.
One hundred and thirteen black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1891. -
Grover Cleveland elected president.
Grover Cleveland (Democrat) was elected president on November 8. -
The Pullman strike
The Pullman Company strike caused a national transportation crisis -
Douglass dies.
African-American leader and statesman Frederick Douglass died on February 20. -
SOUTHERN STATES
SOUTHERN STATES PASS LAWS TO DISENFRANCISE BLACKS -
WRIGHT BROTHERS
WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT -
Roosevelt
Rosevelt asserts U.S. right
to intervene in Latin America -
war
Russia and
Japan at war -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein proposes
Special Theory of Relativity -
mini-revolution
mini-revolution
in Russia -
World War One begins
World War One begins:
Germany invades Belgium -
D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith directs
Birth of a Nation -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein proposes
General Theory of Relativity -
Russian revolutions
Russian revolutions:
communist U.S.S.R. formed -
Versailles
Versailles
Peace Treaty
