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Columbus arrives in America (the new world).
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Sir Walter and settlers create settlement on Roanoke Island only to completely vanish 3 years later.
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The first English settlement in America (Virginia) was established.
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African slaves were brought to Point Comfort by Dutch traders.
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The Mayflower Compact established that the colonists remained loyal to King James, but required self-governance.
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Anthony Johnson was a indentured slave who married a woman named Mary, earned his freedom, bought land, and owned slaves. He died in 1670.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681.
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In Salem village, Massachusetts, citizens were accused of witchcraft in which many were found guilty and some were hung.
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In the American Colonies, new meanings of religion reached everyone and preachers also starting becoming more popular.
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Benjamin Franklin created the Albany Plan which unified the Thirteen Colonies in Albany, New York.
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Great Britain and France fought in an imperial war over North America continents.
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First direct tax used on material papers issued by the Parliament of Great Britain.
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An American soldier who became the seventh president.
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A riot turned into a massacre by the shooting of American colonists by British soldiers.
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The Sons of Liberty protested against the Tea Act by throwing chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
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The First Continental Congress were delegates from the Thirteen Colonies (except for Georgia) who did not seek independence.
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First military battles of the American Revolution.
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After the American Revolution had begun, the congress declared their complete independence from Britain.
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The first Constitution created By the original 13 states of America.
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The British surrendered to the American Colonists on Yorktown during the Revolutionary War.
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Shays’ Rebellion is the fight in Massachusetts caused by the debt crisis by the government taxing.
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America decided how it was going to be governed, and revised the Articles of Confederation.
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The Constituion became the offcial way of the American government.
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In April 30th, George Washington announces he has become President of the United States of America.
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A letter George Washinton wrote for America before he retired to Virgina.
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The four laws passed by the U.S. Congress limiting places to go and freedom of speech.
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On Feburary 17, Thomas Jefferson was elected the third president of the United States.
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America buys Louisiana from France.
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Lewis and Clark explore the Western part of America by president Jefferson’s wishes.
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The United States and it’s allies fought Great Britian and it’s allies for America’s independence.
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An effort of balance between slave and free states.
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A foreign policy in America that porhibited further colonization from the British.
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Frederick was a fromer slaved who joined the movement to promote freedom for all slaves
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this act required slaves to be returned to their owners and was part of the Compromise.
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Five laws/bills were passed to fight slavery and territorial expansion.
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An anti-slavery American novel written by Hariet Beecher Stowe.
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The topic of slavery in Kansas caused a violent civil confrontations.
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The supreme court’s ruling saying that Dred Scott was not entitle an enslaved his freedom
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The 16th president of the United States elected on November 6th.
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American Northern states loyal to the Union and American Southern states not loyal to the Union fought in the American Civil War to form the Confederate States of America.
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A presidential proclaim and executive order by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
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These admendments passed more rights to African Americans and slaves.
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President Lincoln of the United States was shot to death on April 15th.
