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Jamestown founded
Jamestown (in Virginia) was the first permanent establishment in the New World. -
introduction of slavery
this is the time in which slaves began to become a prominent idea in the new world and a viable option for those in need of free labor. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America. -
English civil wars
Colonists began to question the choices being made for them, and began to become sick of the way things were being ruled. -
Maryland Toleration Act
This act allowed people to come from all around, and practice their religion. Religion was tolerated. -
first naviagation acts passed
The Navigation Acts were basically a set of rules that were given to the new world by Great Britain in order to control trade and the flow of money and goods. -
Bill of rights
was given to the people and limited the power of the monarchy. -
Legalization of slaves
Slaves were legal for rich white men to own -
Bacons rebellion
Bacon believed that he deserved more land in order to make more money like the plantation owners, so he asked that land be taken away from the natives (who the colonists were friends with at the time). He was told no, so bacon got a coalition together and they burned the town down. -
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials began in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. many innocent people were accused of practicing witchcraft killed for it. -
French and indian war
war that great Britain engaged in. then great britain taxed the new world in order to pay for it. This began the talk of "no taxation without representation" -
Boston Massacre
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
Gaspee affair
The Gaspee affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy customs schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772.It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 near Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline. -
Boston tea Party
Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. -
Tea act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Declaration of Independence
gave rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -
Common Sense pamplet
pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, encouraging the people to rise up, and calling attention to the flaws of the government. -
Invention of the cotton gin
invented the cotton gin. increased slave need. boomed cotton market and production. -
Gabriel's Rebellion
rebellion of the slaves that resulted in harsher treatment and punishments (fear factor). -
Thomas Jeffereson Becomes president
Thomas becomes president. he believes african Americans are incapable of thinking like white people. -
Louisianna purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
Lewis and clarke expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. -
War of 1812
United states wants to be nuetral but still participates n trade. They dont like Great Britain -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. -
Great awakening
began in the 1830s, was a religions revival. Colonist were spending time listening to sermons -
invention of first steel plow
invention of first steel plow -
Abraham Lincoln Elected president
abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863. -
Civil war begins
American Civil War, also called War Between the States, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Gettysburg address
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered remarks, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address, at the official dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War.