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Jun 25, 1400
The Native American Experience
When the Europeans arrived there were more than 300 Native American cultures in North America. -
Sep 13, 1400
Native American Experience
The Native North American cultures did not have a written language. Instead, a groups history, legends, and myths were entrusted to memory and faithfuly past from generation to generation threw oral tradition. -
Jan 1, 1492
Exploration and the Early Settlers
Christopher Columbus kept a journal on his four voyages to the americas. -
Early Settlers
Thomkas Harriot an a writter faithfully capturee his areas resouces. He also got down the ways of life of the Native Americans. -
Puritan Beliefs
Many or the settlers in the 1600's were Puritans. They were a group of English Protestants who had sought to "purify" the Church of England and return to simpler ways of worshiping. -
From Colony to Country
The first permanent colony was established at Jamestown in 1607. Englished colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast. -
The Meeting of Two Worlds
In 1634 William Wood of Massachusetts Bay Colony nothed that the Native Americans '' took the first ship they saw for walking the island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds.'' -
Puritan Property
The first book issued in North america was the Bay Psalm Book. -
Cape Town
The Dutch found Cape Town on the southern tip of South Africa. -
The Enlightenment
In the 1700's there was a burst in intellectual energy taking place in Europe that came to be known as the "Enlightenment". -
Boston Newsletter
The Boston Newletter was the first American newspaper established. -
Music
Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was when France allied with a number of Native Americans to drive the British out of North America. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea Party marks a violent rejection of britians taxatrion Polocies. -
A Break With England
When Great Britain tried to tax the colonists to recover some of the money spent on the war.
