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Aug 9, 1526
slavery begins in the English colonies
This is the when people were taken from their homes in Africa to work in America for the English. -
Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke Island settled and disappears
The settlers of Roanoke Island, who arrived in 1587, disappeared in 1590 with no trace. -
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Roanoke Island
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Jamestown established
104 boys and men started a settlement for their English families to grow and live in this New World, North America. -
Plymouth established with Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was filled with laws so the Plymouth settlement would have the ability to flourish. -
Life of Anthony Johnson in Virginia
Johnson was a black working as a slave or indentured servant, and ending up growing in wealth. -
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Anthony Johnson
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Pennsylvania Colony established
Penn's petition was granted and The King signed the Charter of Pennsylvania. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. -
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. -
First Great Awakening
It was the revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies. -
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First Great Awakening
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7 Years War “French-Indian War”
The French and Indian War, later became a global war when it spread to Europe in 1756, which ended in Seven Years War. -
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7 Years War
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Albany Plan by Ben Franklin begins to unite American Colonies
A plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament that taxed American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Andrew Jackson as President
Jackson was elected on this day as became known as the people’s president, -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred when American colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress does NOT seek independence
Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress, but wanted to appear as united colonies in their reply to Britain. The purpose of the First Continental Congress was not to seek independence from Britain. -
Second Continental Congress DOES seek independence
Since the Second Continental Congress was made, they were able to actually declare independence with the Declaration of Independence document. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. It was a confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. -
Articles of Confederation
It was a written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States. -
Britain surrenders Revolutionary War
At Yorktown, Cornwallis’s army surrender knowing they didn’t have the resources and couldn’t make a comeback anymore. -
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Shays’ Rebellion
Armed rebellion in the newly-formed United States of America led to the creation of a stronger central government. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention was made to decide how America was going to be governed. -
Constitution Ratified
The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
George Washington becomes First President
On this date, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. -
Washington’s Farewell Address
In his farewell Presidential address, George Washington advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties and issued a special warning to be wary of attachments and entanglements with other nations. -
Alien & Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent. -
Thomas Jefferson elected president
Thomas Jefferson is elected the third president of the United States. -
Louisiana Purchase
The purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion. -
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark's team mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains. They brought back journals filled with details about Native American tribes and scientific notes about plants and animals they'd never seen before. -
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War of 1812
In 1815, British won the war that America’s rage started. -
Missouri Compromise
the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Monroe Doctrine
The best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe. -
Frederick Douglass joins the Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, -
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 is a group of five laws passed in September of 1850. -
Fugitive Slave Act passed
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. Uncle Tom's Cabin did increase the differences between the North and the South -
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Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate about slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom. -
Abraham Lincoln election
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant. -
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Civil War
This was a war over slavery fought by the South and North, and North won. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. -
Lincoln Assassinated
In this Lincoln was shot in the theater by John Wilkes Booth -
13th-15th Amendments pass, become law
Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, before the Civil War had ended. -
Columbus Arrives
With his three ships and his crew, Christopher Columbus finally arrived in America (which he thought was Asia at the time). -
I was born
In Ethiopia, Africa, Zewditu Desta Christopher Brooks was born.
