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Jamestown
Americas first permanent English colony, in Virgina, 13 years before the pilgrams landed at Plymoth in Massachusetts. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tibes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of settlers and supplies. During the 1620s it expanded in to a New Town built to the East; it remained the capital of Virgina until 1699 -
French and Indian War
Also know as the Seven Year War, lasted from 1756 to 1763. It was important, because the British decided that after defending the colonists it was time for them to start paying for it. They put taxes on colonies without having American representatives in Britian. This started, a huge conflict between British and the colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
It is what led to our independence from KIng George 3rd. When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. It was written by Thomas Jefferson, the declaration was formally adopted by 12 colonies after minor revision. -
Shays Rebellion
It was a rebellion form 1786 to 1787, led by Daniel Shay, who was an ex-soldier to Massatusetts, An uprising of popular support from farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. They wanted to increase what were already some of the highest taxes in the colonies. -
War of 1812
United States took on Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. It was improtant, because it was the writting of the Star Spangled Banner. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. The United States received the disputed Texan territory, as well as New Mexico territory and California. The Mexican government was paid $15 million — the same sum issued to France for the Louisiana Territory; the United States Army won a grand victory. -
Seneca Falls
First womans right convention. It averitised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." It was held in Sencea Falls, New York, and it was soon followed by other womans rights. -
Civil War
Started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national goverment to prohibit slavery in territories that have not yet become states. It lasted for 3 years, determined what kind of nation it would be. -
Lee Surenders (End of Civil War)
Within the spring of 1865 all the principal Confederate armies surrendered. The confederate General Robert E. Lee, surrenders his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The long painful proccess of rebuilding a united nation free of slavery began. -
Reconstruction
The proccess of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period introduced a new set of significant challenges. The Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Fifteenth Amendment where eshablished. Although these measures were positive steps toward racial equality, their enforcement proved extremely difficult.
