history timeline

By traxxas

  • roanoke

    roanoke the lost colony

  • jamestown

    jamestown founded

  • house of burgesses

    first representative government on u.s soil

  • mayflower compact

    agreement of self government

  • rhode island founded

    rhode island founded

  • navigation act

    navigation act

  • bacon's rebellion

    nathanial bacon led rebellious plantation slaves and burned jamestown

  • pennsylvania

    william penn made the payment for pennsylvania

  • witchcraft dillusion

    witch craft dillusion is salem

  • great awakening

    a religiouss awakening led to protests in philidalphia

  • first poor richard's almanac

    last of the thirteen colonies chartered

  • john peter zenger

    zenger trial freedom of speech

  • french and indian war

    war between france and native americans

  • sugar act

    tax on sugar imposed

  • stamp act

    a taxation act on paper

  • townshend acts

    made to punish the american colonists

  • boston massacre

    british troops fired into a bosron mob killing five incldeing crispus attucks the leader of the mob

  • the boston tea party

    tea was thrown overboard as a protest on the tea act

  • the intolorable acts

    use of the boston harbor was prohibited until tea was paid for

  • lexington and concord

    first two battles of the revolutionary war and included the midnight ride

  • common sense

    thomas paine published the common sense quickly sold some 100000 coppies

  • bank of america

    bank of america incorperated

  • paris peace treaty

    britian sighned the paris peace treaty recogniseing american indipendance

  • constitutional convention

    constitution accepted by delegates

  • cotton gin

    cleaned fifty times more cotton than a regular cotton machiene

  • washington's farewell adress

    a speech against foreign alliances with foreign powers big public debt and devices of small artful enterpriseing minority

  • marbury v.s madison

    supreme court for the first time overturned a u.s law

  • lewis and clark expidition

    lewis and clark set out to explore the new louisiana territory

  • first practical steamboat trip

    robert fulton took the firs practical steamboat trip

  • the war of 1812

    had three main causes britian seized u.s ships seised 4,000 neutralized u.s sailors britian armed native americans who raided western border

  • oliver hazard perry

    battle of lake erie won

  • burned white house

    the british launched an assault on the american acapitol and burned the white house

  • the missouri compromise

    bill passed in congress slavery allowed in missouri but not west of the mississippi river

  • the monroe doctrine

    stated that the british could no longer interfere with u.s shipping

  • trail of tears

    natives where forced off of thier land and into a native american reserve

  • samuel.f.b.morse

    created the morse code machiene

  • seneca falls

    women's rights convention

  • uncle tom's cabin

    a book published on the cruelty of slavery

  • dread scott

    slave who went to court to sewed and was turned down because he was not a u.s citizen

  • abraham lincoln elected president

    abraham lincoln selected president

  • civil war began

    a war over slavery within the u.s

  • battle of antinam

    the bloodiest battle if the civil war

  • gettysburg adress

    a speech delivered at the battlefeild of getty'sburg

  • robert e lee surrendered

    Lee surrendered troops at the appottox court house

  • 14th ammendment

    provideing citizenship to people born and neutralized in the u.s

  • 15th ammendment

    all races where now allowed to vote

  • american red cross

    clara barton orginized the american red cross