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Mar 18, 1492
Cloumbus 's Adventures
Christopher Columbus said the ocean blue in 1492 -
A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
By Thomas Harriot -
French and Dutch sent explores
Such as Samuel de Champlain -
Jamestown
The first permanent colony was Jamestown -
Puritan Settlers
Believed to be chosen by God -
William Wood
Noted that the Native Akmericans "took the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sial white clouds.' -
Bay Psalm Book
The first book issued in the North American colonies -
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
the first work by a North American Woman to be publised -
Enlightenment
Enlightenment started -
English Colonies
The English colonies had spread along the Atlantic coast by 1733 -
French and Indian War Started
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French and Indian War Ended
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Period: to
Pamphlets
These little books became fuel of the revolution -
Second Virginia Convention
"But as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" -
Free and Independent
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Constitution Approved
U.S was born