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Christopher Columbus
Christopher columbus had Made four trips. across the Atlantic from Spain. He was ready to find a water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. He came across the Americas and despite not finding the "New world" his discoveries led to the colonization of south and Nork America, During the 15th-16th centuries, Europeans Leaders sent expedition to Search for new lands. the earliest known participants are the Portuguese. -
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Christopher Columbus again
Christopher Columbus is believed to have been born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. He signed aboard as a Merchant ship employee Before pirates ambushed his Ship in 1476 when it was sailing north along the Portuguese coast, he stayed at Sea. Even though the boat capsized, the youthful Columbus Managed to float to land on a piece of wad and traveled to Lisbon, where he later learned astronomy Mathematics
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Roanoke Founded
John white the Settlements Mayor, departed for England during the challenging year of its founding in order to request supplies and labor. When he returned after three years, the community was deserted. His wife, child, and grandchild the "first English child born in the Americas” had all disappeared The Only signs of an explanation were the initials CRO and the word CROATOAN, which were craved into trees inside the colony's boundaries.
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The returning crew was forced to head back towards England as a Storm threatened the abandoned village leaving them unable to hunt for the missing colonists despite the clues. The creative hypotheses and cryptic clues left at the Abandoned community Along with the lack of Hard proof, have left the lost colony of Roanoke as the of the Most infamous Mysteries in American history.
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Jamestown
They came up with an idea of paying for the women to travel to Jamestown. To wed its bachelor’s as a remedy.
99 women arrived in 1620 as part of the Jamestown brides’ program. and an additional 56 came in late 1621 and early 1622. without these women, who became Known as "tobacco wives" the Virginia company feared the colony.
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Aboard the English privateer ship white
Lion, 20-30 enslaved Africans touched Down at point comfort which is now fort Monroe in Hampton Virginia at the end of August 1619. These Africans were exchanged for provisions in Virginia. Days Later, More Africans in slavery landed in Virginia on a second ship, the treasury. English Privateers had taken Both groups from the Spanish Slave ship San Juan Bautista. They are the first African immigrant to continental America Known to exist in English records. -
settlers first thanksgiving
Governor William Bradford threw a feast in November 1621. He invited the Wampanoag chief Massasoit as well as other native American supporters of the nascent colony. “It was essentially to celebrate the end of a successful harvest” “there was undoubtedly some diplomacy between the three days of feasting, games, and military exercises”. Its was hosted in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This event is currently recognized as the “first thanksgiving” in America. Source: history.com -
Indian massacre
347 colonists lost their lives in the Indian massacre of 1622. Which was an attack on the Virginia colony by the Powhatan confederacy tribe led by opchanacanough and his brother opitchapam. The Indians silence despite verbal abuse and regular insults to their employment, which the English mistook for surrender. The colonist intentions to increase their land holdings in Virginia was evident to the Indians by 1622, the Indians way of life was under danger due to this physical expansion. -
Salem witch trials
In American history, the June 1692–May 1693 Salem witch trials were a series of investigations and persecutions that resulted in the hanging of 19 convicted "witches" and the imprisonment of several other suspects in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts). -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a statesman, writer, publisher, physicist, inventor, and diplomat who lived from 1706 to 1790. Franklin was born into a modestly off Boston family and received minimal formal education. He went on to establish a prosperous printing company in Philadelphia. In his adoptive city, Franklin was very involved in public affairs. Among other things, he helped establish a hospital, college, and lending library and received praise for his electrical experiments. -
Benjamin Franklin again
He participated in the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolution and contributed to the 1776 draft of the Declaration of Independence. The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which put an end to the Revolutionary War (1775–83), was also negotiated by him. During his last notable official duty in 1787, he served as a delegate to the conference that resulted in the u.s. constitution. Source: history.com -
the great awakening
A religious movement known as "The Great Awakening" affected the American colonies of England in the 1730s and 1740s. The movement emerged at a time when the emphasis was on secular rationalism and religious fervor had become stale. Christian clergy frequently made town-to-town sermon tours, focusing on the gospel, sin-repair, and igniting a fervor for Christianity. -
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A fresh commitment to religion was the outcome. Numerous historians think that the Great Awakening left a lasting influence on American culture and different Christian groups. Source: history.com -
french indian war
Taking place in North America, the French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a conflict between France and Britain over colonial territory. Británica.com -
American revolution
Thirteen of Great Britain's North American colonies achieved political independence during the American Revolution (1775–1783), which ultimately resulted in the formation of the United States of America. The British monarchy and numerous colonies in North America had been getting increasingly estranged for more than ten years when the conflict broke out. Británica.com -
Boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party was a political demonstration that took place at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. 342 chests of tea that the British East India Company had brought in were dumped into the harbor by American colonists who were enraged and disgusted with Britain for enforcing "taxation without representation." -
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This was the first significant act of colonists' resistance against British control. It inspired American patriots throughout the 13 colonies to fight for independence by demonstrating to Great Britain that Americans would not take taxation and despotism lying down. source: history.com -
intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were an attempt to reestablish tight British rule over the American colonies, but it was too late to be decisive after ten years of hesitation. The onerous measures served as a pretext for calling the First Continental Congress later in 1774, rather than isolating Massachusetts and severing it from the other colonies. -
declaration of independence
The Declaration of Independence, which announced the separation of 13 British colonies in North America from Great Britain, was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The United Colonies "are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States," the Congress decided on July 2. source: britnnianca.con -
the constitution
The US Constitution created the country's fundamental laws and national government while also granting its citizens some essential rights. Delegates to the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention signed it on September 17, 1787. The Articles of Confederation, the country's original constitution, established a weak central government and allowed the states to function as separate nations. -
the constitution
Delegates to the 1787 conference drafted a blueprint for a more powerful federal government that included three branches: the legislative, executive, and judiciary, as well as a system of checks and balances to prevent any one branch from gaining excessive power. britannica.com