an emerging nation

  • jamestown

    The First established town was jamestown
  • john winthrop

    John winthrop wrote "we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. the eyes of all people are upon us."
  • Puritans

    Puritans were a group of English Protestants who sought to Purify the Church of England.
    Puritans tended to be flexible in their religious faith & intolerant of viewpoints other than their own.
  • Bible's Psalms

    The bible psalms were rewritten to fit the rhythms of familiar puritan hymns.
    poetry was the means of expression
  • Cape town

    The Dutch found Cape Town on the Southern Tip of South Africa
  • Puritan's win

    The Puritan's WIns the war. War ends Native American resistance in New England colonies.
  • Death

    many innocnent people were put to death During the time of the Salaem
  • English colonies

    English colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast
  • french and indian

    french and indian war started
  • French and indian

    French and indian war Ended
  • pamphlets

    two thousand pamphlets were published
  • Patrick Henry

    Patrick Henry thundered to the delegates at the second Virginia Convention
  • Enlightenment

    Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, & Thomas Paine shaped the American Enlightenment.
  • Military powers

    fought and defeated the greatest military powers on earth
  • A break

    Great Britian treid to tax the coloniest to recover some of the money spent on the war.They ended up losing more than what the war costed
  • pamphlets

    two thousand pamphlets were published
  • Independence

    Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson formed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the U.S. was formed and approved.United States of America was born.