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roanoke island dissapeared
Roanoke island off North Carolina coast settles found to have vanished -
Jemestown founded
The first permanent English settlement in new world Jamestown -
house of burgesses
the first representative assembaly in the new world -
Mayflower compact
The Mayflower Compact signed november 11, 1620 to form a self-goverment. -
providence
Rodger Williams founded Providence in the June of 1636 -
Navigation acts
British parliment passed the first navigation acts on December 1,1660 -
William Penn
Indians made payments for PENNSYLVANIA lands -
Witchcraft delusion at Salem
people get exicuted for suspicion of witchcraft -
First poor richards almanack
Benjamin Franklin published the First Poor Richards -
John Peter Zenger
Editor John Peter Zenger was acquitted of lible Aug. 5 -
French Indian War
A conflict in North America that was apart of a worldwide struggle between france and Britain. Britain defeated france and gained French Canada -
Sugar Act
A tax was put on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. Also called for harsh punishment of smugglers -
Stamp act
Required legal and comercial documents to have an official stampshowing tax had been payed Quartering act: A law passed in 1765 that required colonies to house and supply british soldiers -
Townshed acts
A series of laws passed by Parliment in 1767 that suspended NY assembaly and estaablished taxes on goods braught in to British Colonies. -
Boston Massacre
British troops opened fire on a mob and killed 5 people -
Boston Tea Party
The dumping of 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protect the tea act -
the intollerable acts
-Intollerable acts: a series of laws inacted by Parliment in 1774 to punish Mass. colonists for the Boston Tea Party First Continental Congress: A meeting of delegates in 1774 from all of the colonies exept fot Goregia to uphold colonial rights -
Paul River and William Dawes
-Lexington and Concord: First battles of the revolution -
Common Sense
written in 1776 by Thomas Paine. Helped convince many americans that a complete breack with britain was nessesary DECLORATION OF INDEPENDANCE -
Articles of Confedoration
Adopted by the continental congress in 1777 and finally approved my the states in 1781 it outlined the for of goverment in the NEW U.S SARATOGA: The last MAJOR turning point in the revolution -
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones in sea battle -
Yorktown
Cornwallis retreated to yorktown -
Paris Peace Treaty
Britain Peace treaty -
North West Ordinance
Described how the northwest terratory would be governed, and set settlers rights Constitutional convention: a meeting to concider changes to the articles of confederation. It resulted in the drafting ot the Constitution -
Washington was chosen for president
A ganeral in the Continental army -
The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights was the forst 10 amendments to the U.S constitution, added in 1791, listing citizen rights and freedoms -
Cotton Gen
Eli whitney invented the cotton gen to revive slavery in the south in 1793 -
Wasghingtons Farewell Adress
Warned against permanent alliances with foreign powers -
Lousiana Purchace
The Lusiana purchace doubled the size of the U.S -
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark ordered to explore the Northwest of the U.S -
First Steamboat
Robert Fulton and the invention of the Steamboat -
War of 1812
the war of 1812 had 3 maine causes:
-Britain seized U.s ships
-Britain seized 4,000 u.s sailors
-Britain armed the Indians that raided the Western border -
The Star Spangled Banner
The Star Spangledbanner became the National Anthem in 1931
but it was written by Francais Scott Key in 1814 -
Missour Compromise
Allowed slavery in missouri but not westy of the Mississippi river -
Monroe Doctrine
America was closed to further colonization and the U.S was to stay out of European affairs per President Monroe -
Trail of Tears
The Charokee Indiand were forced out of their land and had walk form Goregia to Oklahome and many died on the journey -
Manifest destiny
The belief that the U.S would streach across to the ocean -
Womens rights convention
Lucretia Mott, and and Elizabeth Cady Stantonled the womens rights convention -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Becher Stowe published Uncle Cabin -
Lincons Eection
Aberham lincon was elected prestdent -
Confedorate states of America
Confedorate states of america are set up with Jefferson Davis as the president -
The Battle of Antietam
a civil war battle in1862 in wich 25,000 men were killed or wounded -
Emancipation Proclamation
-President Lincon issues Emancipation proclomation
-Lincon gives his Gettysburgh adress -
the surrender
-General E Lee surrendered
-President Lincol was shot (April 14)
-13rd Amendment -
The 14th amendment
Providing citizendhip to people born or nationalized in the U.S -
The 15th Amendment
Making Race no bar to voting rights, ratified feb. 8 -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross on May 21
