Social Studies

By Brenden M.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1543 to

    Social Studies

  • Jan 4, 1543

    Settlers explored Amercia.

  • Roanoke Island

    Sir Walter Raleigh founded Roanoke Island.

  • Virginia was founded by John Smith

    Virginia was founded by John Smith for farming opputunaries

  • Smith got burnt in a gunpowder accdent

    Smith got burnt in a gunpowder accdent and had to return to England and get treament.

  • New york was founded by Dutch Conists

    New york was founded by Dutch Conists For the trading post

  • New Hampshire was founded

    New Hampshire was founded by settlers from massachusetts for farming opportunities.

  • Massachusetts Bay is founded

    Massachusetts Bay is founded by John Winthrop for religius freedom.

  • Plymouth was founded by Willam Bradford

    Plymouth was founded by Willam Bradford for religious freedom for the Separatists

  • Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore

    Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore for farming opputunaries

  • Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams

    Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams for Religious and political freedom

  • Georgia was Founded

    Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe.

  • Delaware was founded by Swedish colonists

    Delaware was founded by Swedish colonists for farming opputunaries

  • Carolinas was founded by The lord Proprietors

    Carolinas was founded by The lord Proprietors for farming opputunaries

  • New Jersey was founded by Lord John Berkeley Sir George Carteret

    New Jersey was founded by Lord John Berkeley Sir George Carteret For religious freedom and farming opputunaries

  • Pennsylvania was founded by Willam Penn

    Pennsylvania was founded by Willam Penn for the quakers to practice their religious beliefs and to get the unpopular quakers out of New England.

  • Connecticut was founded

    Thomas Hooker founded Connecticut for religiuos and political freedom.

  • French and Indian War

    The reason of the war is because some of our settlers were tresspassing on the French's land

  • French and Indian War

    French and the Indians vs The British the raeson they were fight was they were fighting over land. The British won so we took over the French's land and the colonists started calling them Americans.

  • What the French and Indian war led up to taxes

    The French and Indian war was very expensive which led up to the colonists getting taxed by the British because the colonists borrowed money.

  • French and Indian War

    When we won the war we had to station soldiers in forts to protect our new land.

  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act was tax where any signed documunts newspapers and advertisments had to have a seal on them or they could not be mailed or anything done with them in mail.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    It pushed the Indians west of the applachian mountains

  • Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act was a tax on mollases merchants because they had to pay a tax for a importion of a gallon of molelasses.

  • Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory Act is repealed the the Stamp Act and the lessing and changing of the Sugar Act.

  • Townshend Act

    The Townshend Act is the colonists had to feed and bed British soldiers if they walked in to thier house.

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was caused by kids throwing snowballs and sticks at a British soldier and then a crowd started and the British fired into the crowd and the first person killed was Crispus Attucks which was a escaped slave.

  • Tea Act

    The tea act was a tax on tea so the East India Company could get back on there feet but the colonists refused to buy the tea so some guys in the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mowhawk Indians in December of 1773 and got on the British's ships and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor which is call the Boston Tea Party and after the colonists dumped tea into the Harbor the British closed the port of Boston they no longer let Massachusetts govner them selfs anymore.

  • Coercive Acts

    The Coercive Acts was a seris of laws and four of the laws in direct response to the Boston Tea Party.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    The Olive Branch Petition was a letter to thre king of England to try to avoid war for peace.

  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is for the amercian colonies to have independence from Great Britian.

  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Pairs is to end war between the Colonists and British to end the Revulounary War between them.