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Jamestown is founded by Britain and is named after King James l. -
The dutch sailed 20 slaves to Virginia. -
The House of Burgesses is created in Virginia with 20 representatives that are all white men and landowners.
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It is an agreement that joined the people onboard the Mayflower – the ship that carried the colonists who first settled Plymouth, Massachusetts – in a single self-governing community. It was the first document to establish self-government in the New World. -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, a religious group in England. They founded their colony to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas. -
The navigation act was aimed at the Dutch and intended to cripple there freight trade.
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There were certain enumerate articles produced in the Empire that could only be shipped to England.
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Known as the First Indian War,the war took place in southern New England.It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.The war is named after the Wampanoag chief Metacom,later known as King Philip,who led the fourteen-month bloody rebellion.The war resulted in thousands of natives dying from starvation.King Philip was later beheaded and displayed on the pole of Plymouth for the next 20 years.
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It is the first armed uprising by colonists against English government officials in the British colonies in North America and Jamestown was burned down. This rebellion also led to the increase in slavery. -
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Several ideas dominated Enlightenment thought, including rationalism, empiricism, progressivism, and cosmopolitanism.
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In Salem, Massachusetts authorities interrogated Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and an Indian slave, Tituba, to determine if they indeed practiced witchcraft. This began the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692 . -
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Yale University had its beginnings with the founding of the New Haven Colony in 1638 by a band of 500 Puritans who fled from persecution in Anglican England. It was the dream of the Reverend John Davenport, the religious leader of the colony, to establish a theocracy and a college to educate its leaders. It is later founded in nearby Saybrook, CT as the Collegiate School to educate students for “Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” -
It was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The war involved three contenders for the vacant throne of Spain, and involved much of Europe for over a decade.The treaty recognized Queen Anne as the legitimate sovereign of England and officially ended French support for the claims of the Jacobite party to the British throne. Territoriality, it resulted in major concessions by France in N America.
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San Antonio was given its name on June 13, 1691, because that was the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua -- and the day that a Spanish expedition came to the river they called Rio San Antonio. But San Antonio was not founded until 1718, when its first mission and first presidio were established at San Pedro Springs. -
It was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America.The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale. Christian leaders often traveled from town to town, preaching about the gospel, emphasizing salvation from sins and promoting enthusiasm for Christianity. The result was a renewed dedication toward religion.
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A large slave uprising near the Stono River, 20 miles southwest of Charleston, South Carolina. Slaves gathered, raided a firearms shop, and headed south, killing more than 20 white people as they went. It was the largest and most significant slave rebellion in the British North American colonies. -
It began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire.
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It ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
It was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. The Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
James Watt improved the Newcomen steam engine by adding a condenser that turned the steam back into liquid water. This condenser was separate from the cylinder that moved the piston, which meant that the engine was much more efficient. The steam engine became one of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution. -
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It was an epic political and military struggle waged when 13 of Britain's North American colonies rejected its imperial rule. The protest began in opposition to taxes levied without colonial representation by the British monarchy and Parliament.
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It was written to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain. It was written and signed by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman. -
Although initially conceived of by James Oglethorpe as a refuge for London's indebted prisoners, Georgia was ultimately established in 1732 to protect South Carolina and other southern colonies from Spanish invasion through Florida. -
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution. Originally comprising seven articles, it delineates the national frame of government.It states the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it. ( 27 Amendments) -
The French Revolution was a watershed event in world history that began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790's with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. During this period, French citizens radically altered their political landscape, uprooting centuries-old institutions such as the monarchy and the feudal system
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President George Washington signed the bill into law in creating the The Bank of the United States, now commonly referred to as the first Bank of the United States. It was then opened for business in Philadelphia on December 12, 1791, with a twenty-year charter. -
It comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. It sets rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the people or the States. -
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Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States.
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It was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest. -
Lewis and Clark's team mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains. They brought back journals filled with details about Native American tribes and scientific notes about plants and animals they'd never seen before. The expedition altered the imperial struggle for the control of North America, particularity in the Pacific Northwest. It strengthened the U.S. claim to the areas now known as the states of Oregon and Washington.
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The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton. -
President Thomas Jefferson, who had promoted the legislation, promptly signed the act, making it law. The 1808 Act imposed heavy penalties on international traders, but did not end slavery itself nor the domestic sale of slaves. -
This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory. -
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family's country home. -
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
In 1843, Samuel Morse built a telegraph system from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore with the financial support of Congress. On May 24, 1844, the first message, “What hath God wrought?” was sent. -
In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War. -
It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the United States and the Confederacy, which was formed by states that seceded.The reasons for the Civil War were disagreements over slavery, states vs. federal rights, the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the economy. After the inauguration of Lincoln in 1861, the South seceded and the Civil War officially started with the Battle at Fort Sumter.The North won the Civil War.
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The main message of the Gettysburg Address is that ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals. The ideals of equality and freedom are the bedrock of the United States as a nation. -
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
It declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." -
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois.