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Jamestown
Jamestown is a historic site in east Virginia. Historic Jamestowne is home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America. It includes the remains of 18th-century Ambler Mansion. Artifacts from the region’s settlers are on display in the Archaearium archaeology museum. Nearby, the Jamestown Settlement is a living-history museum with recreations of a 1610s fort and a Powhatan Indian village. -
Jamestown
The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown. -
Plymouth Rock
The religious colonists, known as Pilgrims, landed at Plymouth Rock, off the coast of Cape Cod in 1620. They arrived here to escape religious persecution. -
Early Colonial
The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England.
Before disembarking from their ship, the Mayflower, 41 male passengers sign the Mayflower Compact, an agreement that forms the basis of the colony's government. -
Early Colonial
The colonial population is estimated at 50,400. -
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Manifest Destiny Idea
The expanding colonist population spread farther into the interior regions of North America. This caused intense friction with their Indian neighbors as English settlements grew and the demand for more wood and land increased. This time period also kicked off the colonists’ vision of the Manifest Destiny: a God-mandated push to conquer the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. -
Early Colonial
English seize New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York. -
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King Philip's War
This marked the last major effort by the Native Americans of southern New England to drive out the English Settlers. With tensions spilling over following the collapse of trade partnerships and aggressive expansion of colonist territories. King Philip led a bloody uprising of Wampanoag, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck and Narragansett tribes. -
Seed Drill
Jethro Tull invents the seed drill. A seed drill is a device that sows the seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil, and covering them to a certain average depth. -
Bartolomeo Cristofori
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1709, in which the strings are struck by hammers. -
Georgia Colony
The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. In the original grant, a narrow strip of the province extended to the Pacific Ocean. -
Ben Franklin
Franklin did notice that loose threads of the kite string were repelling each other and deduced that the Leyden jar was being charged. He moved his hand near the key and observed an electric spark, proving the electric nature of lightning. -
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French and Indian war
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. The war didn't actually begin until 1756. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War in alliance with France and others. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Boston Massacre
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. -
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The Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. -
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First President
George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who also served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. -
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Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
The White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. and has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams in 1800. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory of New France by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs. -
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theater of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right. -
Hunphry Davy
The Davy lamp is a safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. -
Samuel Fahnestock
The first soda fountain patent was granted to Samuel Fahnestock in 1819. In 1858, G.D. Dows invented and operated the first marble soda fountain, which he patented in 1863. In 1883, James Tufts patented a soda fountain, which he called the Arctic. -
Missouri Compromise
This compromise proposed by Henry Clay in 1820 was to maintain sectional balance and allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while Maine entered free. The 36 30 line was thus created to keep free soil in the wast. This bill set the tome for congressional actions prior to the Civil War.It also split the Democratic-Republican party ending their 20 year control of national politics. -
American System
It was created by Henry Clay in 1824 to help stabilize the country. The plan called for a protective tariff to be put in place for manufacturing, a new federal band, and improvements in transportation. This was a symbol of nationalism felt throughout America following the War of 1812. This was a way for America to improve itself. -
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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
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Trail of Tears
Between 1835 and 1838 thousands of Cherokees and other Indians were forcefully marched to Oklahoma territory under the supervision of the U.S. army. Thousands died from sickness and starvation along the way. This act against the Indians contradicted the views that Jacksonites had of themselves in that they complied with the protection of individual rights. It also represented the poor relationship between the Indians and the Americans. -
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Mexican American War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the Second Federal Republic of Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
