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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus finds America
Columbus sets sail to sail west tell he reaches Asia. Land was discovered which was the new world. -
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13 Colonies
In 1607 the first colony Virgina was founded by the London company.
In 1732 Georgia the last orginal 13th colony was founded -
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French-Indian War
Also known as the seven years war. This formed a Chapthered in the imperial struggle between Britain and France -
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Industrial Revolution
Advances in agricultural techniques and practices resulted in an increased supply of food and raw materials, changes in industrial organization and new technology resulted in increased production, efficiency and profits, and the increase in commerce, foreign and domestic, were all conditions which promoted the advent of the Industrial Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
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Revolutionary War
The colonists fight the british for independence. The French joined the colonists helping them win the battle. -
Wrinting of the Consistution
The U.S. Constitution established America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, presided over by George Washington. Under America’s first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, the national government was weak and states operated like independent countries. -
Lewis and Clark
Thomas Jefferson sent out Meriweather Lewis and William Clark to find a water way to the Pacific Ocean. They where also sent out to explore the west -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.