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Nov 10, 1492
Columbus Lands in the New World
Columbus was the first European to reach The New World. He started a new revolution of exchanging ideas. -
Oct 12, 1497
Jamestown: The First English Colony
Jamestown had deadly mosquitos and was surrounded by a powerful Native American Group. Pochahatnas saved John Smith from being clubbed. She bought peace with the Native Americans and Europeans. -
Nov 10, 1513
The Spanish Empire
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sponsered a voyage for Columbus to go across the Atalntic Ocean to the Indies, The king and queen payed for the ship and gave him a crew. -
Nov 10, 1534
New France
Jaques Cartier found Canada, Which was New France. And in New France they had missionary schools which tried to convert people into their religion. -
The lost colony of Roanoake
Roanoke was an island on the coast of present day North-Carolina. Walter had sent Colonists to Roanoke. When John White sailed back to England after a 3 day delay, the colonists were gone. The words CROATOAN was carved on the doorpost. -
Smith's savior was Pocahontas
When Smith was invited over for a big feast, the indians were about to kill John but Pocahontas had stopped them and saved him. Afterwards Pocahontas had helped Jamestown by bringing food and peace with her people. -
New Netherland
Hudson Hudson, an English sailor explored the the coastline of the Netherlands. His voyage was sponsered by the dutch. He later found a river full of fish which was later named Huson River, in his honour. -
The Starving Time
Because there was no Pocahontas or Smith, the Indians refused to trade with the English. The English went to deperate measures and that led them to eating dogs rats and even human corpses to survive. This was called the starving time. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited coclonists from moving to the west of the Appalachian Mountains. King George hoped this would prevent conflict between the colonists and Native Americans. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a way to pay off the large debt left over from the French and Indian War. By doing this they put a stamp on all paper materials, and by that the colonists had to pay taxes. -
Quartering Act
This law ordered colonists to give the soldiers housing, bedding, firing, salt, vinegar, beer or cider, candles and cooking utensils.
Colonists did not agree to this beccasue it costed them extra money and space. -
The Townshend Acts
The Townshend Act was made by Charles Townshend. He agreed to the parliment to make the colonists pay more taxes for popular items.Items such as glass, paint, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre
When the Parliment repealed the townshend acts, 5 bostonians died and ten were injured by the troops. They called this the Boston Massacre. -
The Tea Act
Tax on tea had risen and colonists were getting furious. The sons of Liberty had thrown the teas overboard in the Hudson Bay as to showing there anger. Many people cheered while watching them do this act. -
The Intolerable Acts
The first law was about the tea that was trown into Boston Harbor,all shipping stopped until the ruined tea was paid for. The second law placed the government strictly under British control.The third law said that British soldiers who were accused of murder would be tried in England, not in the colonies. Finally, more troops were sent to Boston to enforce the new laws. -
The war Begins
The battle of Bunker hill killed 1000 troops and nearly half that many americas. The amricasn had a smart genral who waited until the brotish came close enough so they could attack. This shows the strength of the army. -
Towards Independence
Thomas Paine convinced the colonists they needed freedom. They sent an olive Branch to the king but he had already said form before that they should brign the traitors to justice. -
Thomas Jefferson Drafts a Declaration
Jefferson made a clear satement that the king was unfit to rule. He declared that all the colonists should be free form the kings rule. -
Final Break
The colonists sighned the Declaraton of Independance were they would no longer be under the kings rule. But also sighning up to a fierce battle which if lost, the colonists would be hanging. -
Battle of new york
The British had a force of 25,000 men in New York. More than 400 British ships in New York Harbor. This was the biggest army and the largest fleet the British had ever sent overseas. -
The Siege of Boston
Cannons were pointing in Bostons direction. The british panicked and abandoned Boston. The ships carried 9000 british soldiers and 1100 loyalists who didnt want to live among the rebels. -
Trenton
Victory in Trenton hapned in Late December 25, 1776, Washington’s army crossed the Delaware River in small boats. On the New Jersey shore, Washington gave his men the password for the long night march ahead: “Victory or Death.” -
Saratoga
Now the Americans had shown they could stand up to a British army and win because of Burgoyne’s surrender marked a turning point in the war. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first written constitution of the United States of America whcih specified how the national government was to operate. -
Yorktown
Cornwallis moved his army to Yorktown, a sleepy tobacco port on Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, for a good rest. -
Treaty Of Paris
The first agreement in the Treaty was that Great Britain agreed to recognize the United States as an independent nation. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed battle in central and western Massachusetts, from 1786 to 1787. The rebellion is named after Daniel Shays. -
The Constituition Convention
The United States Constitutional took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America. -
Ratification of the U.S. Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is for the betterment of the, citizens, and all people within the United States. -
The Loisiana Purchase
The United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. -
Spain gives Florida to the U.S
he US forced Spain to sell Florida for $20 million and the money was actually paid to US citizens for claims they had against the Spainish government. -
The Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was the Indians moving to the west because the americans were annoyed and said they were taking too much space. -
The "trail of tears"
The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. -
Texas is annexed
hey could not raise enough forces of their own to keep their borders secure and they saw advantage in their military. -
Oregon Treaty
It is a Treaty between Great Britian and the US that shows the border between Canada and the US in what was then called the Oregon Territory. -
War of Mexico
Mexico lost nearly half of its territory, the present American Southwest from Texas to California, and the United States became a continental power. -
The Dred Scott Case
northerners probably believed he was a free slave becaus ehe arrived at a free-state territory. -
The Dred Scott Case
The southerners probably believed he was still a slave because he was still property of his owners. -
Fugitve Slave Law
Northerners we dissatisfied witht he was the Fugitive Law was enforced because they did not want the blck people to follow this law. -
Fugitve Slave Law
Southerners were also dissaatisfied with the way the Fugitive Law was enforced because they also didnt catch the slaves. -
Civil War
Civil occured mainly because the southerners and northerners could not agree on keeping or abolishing slavery, and to do with the union and the confederacy. It all started when 11 states seceeded. Other events such as what happened at Fort Sumters also led up to Civil War.
