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First Permanent colony established
Jamestown, was the first British settlement in America. -
World Culture
Shakespeare dies -
The enslaved arrive
Jamestown people arrive the enslaved Africans Americans. -
Colonial History
William Bradford was a longtime govenor and John Winthrop Jr. was a governor at Massachusetts, and role as a God's plan. -
Construction
Shah Jahan starts building the Taj Mahal a Indian Emperor -
School's
The first public school was founded in Boston -
Puritain Poetry
Some Puritans write simple sermons. The first book in North America was "Bay Psalm Book" -
Anne Bradstreet
The Tenth must Lately Sprung Up in America, first book by a North American Woman -
Findings
The Dutch found Cape town and the bottom of South Africa -
Establishes
William Penn finds the colony Pennsylvania -
Science
Isaac Newton Published Philosophiae naturalis principa mathematica most important work of Scientific Revolution -
Witches
Mass Hysteria shows in the witch trials -
Pamphlets and Propaganda
Most important outlet for political writing was pamphlets. Between 1763-1783 two thousand pamphlets were established. -
Ideas of Age
The United States had ten slave states and ten free -
Westward Expansion
The Indian Removal Act, Native Americans moved westward, the whites had invaded their lands -
Westward Expansion
The Louisana Purchase has gotten a bigger country size -
Westward Expansion
Republic of Texas was annexed in 1845, and it went off to the Mexican- American War. -
Early Romantics
They had first emerged in Europe in the 18th Century. Neoclassicism writers were looking for nature for inspiration, they celebrated emotions. -
Slavery
Missourians crossed kansas border to elect legislature. Kansas voted outlawed slavery set up own capital Topeka -
Rule-Breakers
Walt Whitman issued a book of poetry called "leaves of grass" It was a small book but had a great aspiration. -
President
Abraham Lincoln was elected for president, South Carolina secedes from the union and followed other states -
First enslaved Biography
Harriet Jacobs's was a enslaved woman, and had a biography written about her called "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." -
Ideas of the Age
Herbert Spencer was a English Philosopher, he had the idea of "Survival of the Fittest" -
Political
Hiram R. Revels the First African American senator, takes a seat -
An "American" Novel
Mark Twain had written a ground breaking novel called "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" first novel written all in American writing. He was known for his gift of humor, while writing this novel. -
National Monument
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. and put in the New York Harbor -
Fireside Poets
Henry Longfellow was the best member of the group. Other members of the Fireside poets are James Lowell, Oliver Holmes, John Whittier. Interested in abolition, women's rights. -
ASSASINATION
William McKinley was assasinatied; and Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president -
A World of War
"The Great War" The war had started in Europe and to another 32 nations, 20 million had died during this war and ended in 1918 -
A New Era for Woman
In the 20th century woman had the right to vote. Also something called the Flapper had emancipated woman into new fashions -
The Great Depression
The stock market crashed many businesses, banks, people lose their jobs 1933 by 25% the unemployment rate went down. -
The Crucible
Arthur Miller born in New York City 1915. In 1953 the play "The Crucible" during the Salem witch trials in 1692, he wrote a play about mass hysteria
