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Founding of Jamestown
The Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island to establish the Virginia English colony on the banks of the James River, 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. -
founding plymouth
The mayflower got blown off course and ended up in massachusetts. The place they landed they called plymouth. -
Social Welfare Development
This was the begging to the government aid. Throught the 1700's many changes were made. -
Tuscarora Indian War
Hostilities broke out between Native Americans and settlers in North Carolina after the massacre. This Tuscarora war lasted two years. -
Poor Richard's Almanac
Benjamin Franklin published Poor Richard's Almanac, containing weather predictions, humor, proverbs and epigrams, selling nearly 10,000 copies per year. -
French & Indian War
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Sons of liberties
Sons of liberty was created to protect colonists rights. -
house of burgesses
The house of burgesses was a house in jamestown where the colonists met for assemblys. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading patriots, such as Paul Revere and Sam Adams to fuel animosity toward the British authorities. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Common sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain. -
second continental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Stamp Act Congress
The stamo act congress was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. -
Declaration of Independence
The Decleration of Independence declared independendance from Great Britian. -
Articles of Confederation
The first constitution created by the thirteen colonies -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention addressed the problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. This gave the colonists new rules to follow -
Delaware Ratifies Constitution
Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution. -
Federalist Papers
The Federalist (later known as The Federalist Papers) is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. -
New Hampshire Ratifies Constitution
New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify the constitution. New Hampshire wanted to help the working class instead up the upper class. -
Rhode Island Ratifies the Constitution
Rhode Island was the last colonie to ratify the constitution. It took a lot of perswaying to finally ratify the constitution. -
Bill of Rights Ratified
When they ratified the bill of rights they added 12 ammendments. 10 of the 12 passed 2 did not. -
Whiskey Rebellion
In 1791, the new United States government imposed on excise tax on whiskey, at the behest of Alexander Hamilton. The bulk of the burden of the tax fell upon grain farmers in Pennsylvania, whose livelihood depended upon the distilling of the beverage.
