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English Colony at Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English colony., establishing the beginning of America. When new settlers arrived Indians welcomed them with food and supplies. The settles abused this and eventually it led to problems. -
First Americans brought to North America
First slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia. They helped build economic foundations and aide productions, such as tobacco. -
Pilgrims land at Plymouth
The Mayflower from England landed in Cape Cod(Masschusetts) seeking religious freedom. Due to the weather many colonists had died from sicknesses. -
Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch TrialsBegan with a group of young girls who claimed they were possessed by the devil. The community displayed convulsive seizures and blasphemous screaming. The town began to fast and pray but hangings started since June. -
French and Indian War
French and Indian War ExAlso known as the Seven Years' War resulted from ongoing frontier tensions in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Boston Tea Party
School Rock
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states. -
Revolutionary War Ends (Treaty of Paris)_
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America, ended the American Revolutionary War. -
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Shay's Rebellion
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Constitution Ratified
By a vote of 57 to 47, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution--the minimum necessary for the document to take effect. • The Constitutional Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, had produced the charter on Sept. 17, 1787, after four months of debate behind closed doors and drawn curtains. Hodak, George. "U.S. Constitution Is Ratified." ABA Journal 93.6 (2007): 72. Academic Search Complete. Web. 9 Oct. 2015. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, also known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. -
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Lewis & Clark Expedition
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Trail Of Tears
President Andrew Jackson outlined his Indian removal policy in his Second Annual Message to Congress. -
Texan Independence
Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico. -
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Mexican American War (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
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Gold Rush in California
When gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. -
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Civil War
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Transcontinental Railroad completed
A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. -
Reconstruction Ends
With the compromise, the Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south. In 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction. -
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Progressivism
