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1492
Columbus Lands in the americas
Columbus leaves Spain and sails west to find India and China, but he land in the Americas. opens up exploration for finding the americas -
Jamestown Founded
Jamestown was the first English settlement ever founded in the new Americas. It was dangerous and scarce food and water. Long and cold winters. -
Pilgrims land in Plymouth
The English religious groups seek free religion. This settlement was the founding of thanksgiving. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indians teamed up fighting against the British. The British Won but went into major debt taking massive amounts of land. -
Treaty of Paris
This Treaty made it official that the colonists could go into French territory as it is now. it was almost tripling the land that the British owned in the Americas. -
Albany Plan of Union
This is when Benjamin Franklin Wanted to Unite all of the colonies to win the war and have more land and power. But the colonists declined. -
proclamation of 1763
This was when the French and British agreed the British colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian mountains. -
Stamp Act
This Act was were to buy ant paper they had to get a stamp wich cost money that was sent to the British government. -
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American Revolution
This series of battles led to the Americans teaming up with the French and. eventually winning the war and gaining independence from Britain. -
Quartering Act
This was an act to put troops in the colonies to make sure they were paying there duties. -
Townsend Act
This is when the colonists were taxed on all imports. This made the colonists furious at the British motherland having to pay more taxes. -
Boston Massacre
This is when British troops were guarding the Boston Customs House when kids were teasing him to fight so more people came and shots were fired and people died and a fight broke out. -
Tea Act
This is when they put a tax on tea. this benefited the British because the colonists bought the British tea. -
Boston Tea Party
This is when the Bostonians dressed up as native Americans and threw all the English tea in the waster as a sign of we are against you. -
Intolerable Acts
The Boston Port Act the Massachusetts government act the Administration of justice act and the Quartering Act were meant to punish the British of the Boston tea party. -
Battle at Concord
When the British troops fought the people protecting the ammunition base but the ammunition was moved to a secret location. -
First Continental Congress
This was a meeting of all the colonies had a representative and the first meeting they hoped to avoid war and have peace with the British. but to place sanctions on British good s -
Second Continental Congress
In this meeting the group decided war was inevitable
so the colonys created a defense army the commander was George Washington. -
Battle at Lexington
When British troops were ambushed on their way to the ammunition base in Concord. -
Olive Branch Petition
This was when the First Congress group wrote a document that was very nicely begging for peace between the British and the colonists. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
This is when it was decided that war was inevitable and it had to be done. This document had more of a demanding tone saying they wanted to fight and they made a defense army. -
Declaration of Independence
This was a formal Document saying that the 13 colonies are forming their government and becoming independent from their country. -
Treaty of Paris
This was when the Netherlands's 13 colonies Spain French and Britain this was were each country gained land in the west and America gained its independence and control of the Mississippi. -
Shays Rebellion
It it was a group of people in Massachusetts causing violence due to the economic downfall of the colonys.