history timeline

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  • roanoke Island

    The lost colonie founded off the coast of North Carolina. Setterlers were said to have vanished in 1590

  • James Town

    First successful colonie in the U.S. and founded off the coast off virgina

  • House of Buegesses

    the first representative assembly

  • Mayflower Compact

    First document that shows self government in the U.S.

  • Rhode Island

    Roger Williams founded and was democratically ruled

  • Navigation Act

    Passed by British Parlament so that colonial commercesuited British needs

  • Bacon Rebellion

    Bacon led a rebellion against British government

  • Pennsylvania

    William Penn founded Pennsylvainia

  • Salem

    Witchcraft delusions at Salem. 20 accused witches burned and executed

  • Great Awakening

    A religious revival

  • Poor Richard's Almanack

    Benjamin Franklin Written and published the Poor Richard's Almanack anually until 1757

  • Zenger

    The zenger trial accomplished freedom of speech

  • French and Indian War

    French lost Canada

  • Sugar Act

    Placed a tax on lumber, food, and molasses.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Punishment for the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliment held the Boston Harbor until all the Tea was paid for.

  • First Continental Congress

    Held because of civil disobediance againt British.

  • Patrick Henry

    Henry stated his famous quote "give me liberty or give me death"

  • Paul Rever

    Paul Rever rode in on his horse to worn the partiots that the British were coming.

  • Lexington and Concord

    First battles of the Revolutionary war.

  • Common Sense

    A pro-independance pamphlit written by Thomas Paine and sold 100,000

  • Declaration on Independance

    Declaring indepenance from the British.

  • Articles of Confederation

    Adopted by continental congress. taking affect March 1st.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Americans cut off the British escape route winning the battle, and gaining the French as Alleys.

  • John Paul Jones

    Jones statedd his famous quote "I have not yet begun to fight." int the fight at the British Sea Waters,

  • Yorktown

    Final Battle with America winning

  • Paris Peace Treaty

    Britished signed the Paris Peace treaty reconizing the U.S. as an independant country.

  • Constitutional Convention

    Held to present the constitution

  • Nortwest Ordinance

    Made rules for statehood, guaranteed freedom of religion, and no slavory

  • George Washington

    Washington was the first chosen president of the U.S.

  • Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Stanton

    Led women's rights convention

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, about how slavory was immorral.

  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott Vs. Manchester, supreme court ruled that even though he was in a free state he could not sue for his freedom because he was not a citizen

  • Abraham LIncoln

    LIncoln won presedency in a 4-way race

  • Ft. Sumter

    The first battle of the civil war.

  • Ft. Sumter

    First battle of the civil war.

  • Battle of Antietam

    Bloodiest Battle in war over 2,000 people died on each side.

  • Gettysburg

    Union took the victory at Gettysburg, taking the Mississippi River, splitting the souh in two.

  • Gettysburg Adress

    Presiden Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Adress.

  • Confederate Surrender

    Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

  • Lincoln's Assasination

    President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at fords thearter.

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished Slavory

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln Declaired this "freeing all slaves in rebellion"