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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Discovered Bahamas -
Jun 24, 1497
John Cabot
Discovered Newfoundland -
Apr 2, 1513
Juan Ponce de Leon
Discovers Florida -
Jul 9, 1513
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
First European to see the Pacific Ocean -
Aug 13, 1519
Hernan Cortez
Conquered the Aztecs -
Apr 17, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Finds the Bay of New York -
May 10, 1534
Jacques Cartier
Discovers Canada -
May 8, 1541
Hernando de Soto
Discovers the Mississippi River -
William Baffin
Explored the inlets of Baffin Bay -
French and Indian War
This lasted until 2/10/1763. It was acually a war betweeen the Americans andvthe Native Americans. -
4/5/1764 Sugar Acts
This was a tax on mossaleswitch he coloniests and loyalists used for there tea. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was an act that said any paper that did not have a offical paper stamp was elegal. The coloniests had to pay for those stamps. The paper with staps needed was every thing sold even newspapers need stamps. -
Townshend Acts
The townshend act was taxes on tea, paper, glass, lead, paint and cloth. -
Boston Massacre
The boston massacer started with some boys throughing snowballs at soldiers.Then grown men started troughing ice balls at them and hitting them with clubs.A soldier fell and fired and all the soldiers then thought they could too. Some colonistes were killed. -
11/1772 Committee of Correspondence
This commite worte the declarion of independance. Well they were the people who signed it and told tomas jefferson to write it. -
Boston Tea Party
The coloinests were angry about the british taxing tea so they went n tothree ships and duped all the tea of them dressd as Native Americans. Noneofthecrew was hurt they were put in the tween decks. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable acts were a bunch of horrible things the king made them do such as the stamp act. -
9/5 - 10/26/1774 First Continental Congress
This lasted to September of that same year. This was the first atempt to start a congerss for america but it failed. -
Lexington and Concord
This was one of the first battle of the rev war. -
Second Continental Congress
This was another atempt at the american congress and it stuck. -
5/10/1775 Ft. Ticonderoga
This was a battle over a fort. -
6/17/1775 Bunker Hill
The americans were cornered onto a hill and they lost iin this battle. -
7/5/1775 Olive Branch Petition sent
The olive branch petion was sent to th kng. It said that the coloniests wanted to be better with england if it ageed to th terms stated. -
11/1775 Olive Branch reject by King George III
Because he got the word of the battle of bunker hill tat same day the king did not even look at the pettiton. -
12/30/1775 Battle of Quebec
This was another magire battle. -
1/15/1776 Common Sense is published
This was a pamplet telling people that it was wrong to suprot the king -
7/2/1776 Declaration of Independence
The declarationsaid that we wanted to be seprate from england. The people who singed it were in big trouble. -
New York
THis was another majoir battle. -
12/26/1776 Trenton
THis was anthonter majoir battle. -
Brandywine
A magior battle -
surrender at Saratoga
The surrender of the british here showed the french here that they should side with the americans. -
12/19/1777- 6/19/1778 Valley Forge
baron von stuben thaugt the american army here. The only words here could say in english were cuse words.He was such a good teacher thatwithout him we would have lost the war. and have really cool british acsents. -
France becomes America’s ally
France helping us really helped because they had an big amry and a navy. -
6/21/1779 Spain joins the fight
Then spain joined the fight with britian -
3/29/1780 surrender at Charleston
The british surrendered charlston to the americans -
8/16/1780 Camden
This was another big american win. -
3/15/1781 Guilford Court House
THis was a big talk about the peresnt prblems -
surrender at Yorktown
The britsh surrender here won the revaltionary war for us -
Treaty of Paris
This was a talk with france to be allys for a long time -
9/17/1787 US Constitution signed
The US Constitotion was the most important thing of all. It said that the USA was its own contry the whole poit of this huge big war.