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"Great Charter" for the citizens of England, which was a document that garunteed basic political rights of the citizens of the parliment
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Pioneers find the first colony, Roanoke located on the North Caroline coast, but somehow mysteriously disappears.
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John Smith discovers the first permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown.
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The first representative assembly in the New World, House of Burgesses is elected to be in Jamestown.
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The passengers of the Mayflower sign the agreement to uphold laws for the good of men of Plymouth.
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Roger Williams, a puritan, finds Rhode Islands for religous reasons.
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a regulation for the conial commerce
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William Penn signed a treaty with Delaware Indians, and paid for the land of Pennsylvania.
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In Salem, MA alleged witches are executed by special court.
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A great religous revival spreads through the colonies.
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Benjamin Franklin publishes the first Poor Richard Almanack.
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John Peter Zenger, New York writer, is put into trial for critiscizing the British govener's conduit in office.
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A war with the French, Natives, and England. The French lost Canada.
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Act placed on surgar to pay debt off from French and Indian War.
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all products must have stamps and documents, and colonists must house British Troops.
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Blood is spilt of the citizens in Boston, during a massacre from the British soldiers.
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The Sons of Liberty have an attack on British ships, and dumped the tea on the ships into the harbor.
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An act of taxes that would pay for the loss of tea from the Boston Tea Party.
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Patrick Henry says "Give me liberty or give me death!"
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Paul Revere and William Dawes worn America of the British invading.
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Battles are held at Lexington and Concord.
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levied taxes on glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea.
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The Declaration of Independence is written and approved to show the U.S. is officially independent.
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famous pro-independence pamphlet
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The first set of government of which that our government is set off today was formed.
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Burgoyne's 5,000 British soldiers surrender.
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John Paul Jones defeats Serapis in North Sea of Britain.
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Cornwallis surrenders at the last battle of the revolutionary war.
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Recognizes the American's Independence, and stops the revolutionary war.
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The convention to see if the constitution will be fully ratified, and be the form of government for the U.S.
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Rules of statehood in the Northwest territory is made.
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George Washington is elected to be first president.
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The first ten amendments are added to the constitution.
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An invention created by Eli Whitney to make life easier for slaves, but ironicly enough, they get more handed to them.
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This was the last speech from Washington as president, to warn of perminant alliances with foreign powers.
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Land is bought from the French for just $11,250,000.
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Lewis and Clark start their heroic journey on the Mississippi River to explore the land recently bought.
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The first steamboat is set into water for faster transportation.
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Britain has captured U.S. vessels and sailor, and aided the Natives against the Americans.
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A song that was written by Francis Scott Key after a British Fleet was defeated, which is now are national anthem.
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Missouri was allowed to be a slave state but Maine had to be a free state.
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Monroe declared America the protector of Latin countries, and America a supreme power.
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The Native Americans were moved to the West on Indian Territory.
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Samuel F.B. Morse creates the telegraph, which is a machine that sends messages with beeps, and boops.
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America is determined to be stretched from sea to sea.
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lead a Women's Rights convention in Seneca Fall, NY, which changed some states mind about Women's Rights.
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This admitted California as a free state, and made Utah and New Mexico into territories.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe writes a story of a slave who is highly mistreated by his master, and this raises tension with the North and the South.
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A slave on free land is sent back to slavery, and this rules out the Missouri Comproimse.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected President in a 4-way race.
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The South secedes from the union to create a new country, where Jefferson Davis is President. This leads to the first battle of the Civil War, Ft. Sumter.
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The bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War.
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All slaves are free.
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After the Gettysburg battle, Abraham Lincoln says, the war must end, it is getting way too out of hand.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant at the Appmattox Court House.
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Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater.
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Citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.
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Voting allowed to all races.
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Clara Barton finds the American Red Cross.
