MONTGOMERY_Timeline

By hannah.montgomery
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus

    Columbus
    Columbus led his three ships the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492.

  • French/Indian War

    French/Indian War
    When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756

  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    Industrial Revolution improved systems of transportation, communication and banking.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the Tea Act.

  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War
    The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The news of the bloodshed rockets along the eastern seaboard, and thousands of volunteers converge on Cambridge, Mass.

  • Writing of the Constitution

    Writing of the Constitution
    The constitution separates the powers of government into three branches- the legislative branch, which makes the laws; the executive branch, which executes the laws; and the judicial branch, which interprets the laws it also sets up a system of checks and balances that ensures no one branch has too much power

  • 13 Original Colonies

    13 Original Colonies
    This year is when the very last state was emitted to the colonies as the 13th state. Finishing the clolonies

  • Lewis and Clark

    Lewis and Clark
    The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 including a select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri for admission as a state in which slavery would be allowed.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements.