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Jamestown Founded
Some of 100 english colonists arrived along the wests banks of the James River in Virginia were they had founded Jamestown, which was the first permanent english settlement in North Amwerica. -
Plymoth Colony
Plymoth colony was an english colonial venture from 1620 to 1691. Although in North America plymoth colony was founded by a group of separtists. -
French and Indian War
The English and French battled for colonial domination in Morth America, the carrabien and in India. The English ultimently come to dominate the colonial outposts. Although the resulting dept nearly destroyed the Englsh goverment. -
Boston Masicure
It was a group of british soilders. 5 civilians died as a result of the incident, 3 died on the scene and 2 died later. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty had boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. -
First Continental Congress
The Virginia house of Burgesses proposed a continental congress. Than a convention was held on Augest 1st to elect delegates to the meeting which took place in Phillidelfia that very next month. -
Continental Congress
The first continental congress adjorned but agreed to recovene in May 1775. Than the 2cnd continental congress was held on May 10th of 1775. -
American Revolotion
The American revalotion was a political upheavel that took place between 1765-1783 during which the thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed an independent nation. -
Decloration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the name of a statement owned by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which had announced that the thirteen American colonies, were at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 new independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Articles of Confedoration
Where the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled on the fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America, agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South C -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britian, ended the revolotionary war and reconized american independence. -
Shay's Rebelion
It was precipitated by several factors.It was brought out by financial problems and a post war econimic depression, caused by a lack of hard currency. -
U.S Constitution
The Federal Convention convened in the Independence Hall in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. -
Constitutional Convention
It all took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
George Washington
Washington was elected president as the unanimous choice of the electors in the elections of both 1788–1789 and 1792. He oversaw the creation of a strong, well-financed national government that maintained neutrality. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is a name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-Federalists who had opposed Constitutional ratification, these amendments guaranteed a number of personal freedoms, limited to the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin is a machine designed to remove all the cotton from its seeds. The process uses a small screen and pulling hooks to force the cotton through the screen. -
John Adams
Was the first first vice president of the United States. Also his son John Quincy was the 6th president of the United States. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was the first United States Secretary of state serving under Washington. -
Lousisiana Purchase
When the nation of France sold 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River to the young United States of America. -
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark's expedition officially began on May 21, 1804 when they and 33 other men making up the Corps of Discovery departed from their camp near St. Louis, Missouri. The first portion of the expedition followed the route of the Missouri River during which, they passed through places such as present-day Kansas City, Missouri and Omaha, Nebraska. -
James Madison
He is named as the father of constitution for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. -
War of 1812
It went on for 2 and a half years. It was a military conflict between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain. -
James Monroe
He was the 5th president of the United States and was also the founding father of the United States.
