Eighth Grade Social Studies timeline

By aniacovington

  • Year 1000- Vikings

    Year 1000- Vikings
    Leif Ericson led the Viking Sailors

  • 15th Century Explorers

    Marco Polo; comes back from and he gives a description about all the goods he saw.. such as spices, tea, silk and cotton. Christopher Columbus; Made the Atlantic crossing with the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. He traveled from Spain, hoping to reach the East Indies by sailing across the Atlantic. Instead, he reached the West Indies, islands in the Caribbean.

  • Christopher Columbus- 1492

    Wishing to get to Asia by routing West. Traveling with 90 men

  • The Lost Colony (Roanoke)- 1584-1590

    1584- Sir Walter Raleigh sends the first crew to Roanoke Island.

  • 13 colonies- 1607- 1636

    13 colonies- 1607- 1636
    1636- Connecticut. Mixed farming
    1636- Rhode Island. Mixed Farming
    1630- Massachusetts. Mixed farming, fishing, and ship building
    1630- New Hampshire. Mixed Farming
    1638- Delaware. Trade and agricultural
    1681- Pennsylvania. Trade/ profits
    1664- New Jersey. Trade/ profits
    1624- New York. Trade/ profits
    1634- Maryland. Religious freedom for Catholics
    1607- Virginia. Trade/ profits
    1653- North Carolina. Trade/ profits
    1670- South Carolina. Trade/ profits
    1733- Georgia. Debtor Colony

  • Sugar Act

    1.1764
    2. The purpose of tax is because of foreign molasses, and they had to pay six pence per gallon.
    3. Yes it was repealed in 1765

  • Stamp Act

    1. 1756
    2. They had to have tax on the documented paper that was being printed.
    3. Printed documents,licenses, and newspaper

  • No Taxation without Representation

    If there was to be taxation on items people was to be taxed by the Parliament. If there's no taxation in the Parliament then people aren't able to represent in the Parliament.

  • Sons of Liberty

    1. Sam Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Dr. Joseph Warren. They was the creators of the Revolution.
    2. Samuel Adams
    3. To protect the rights of the colonies and the government to stop taxation.

  • The Boston Massacre

    1. March 5, 1770 2.

  • Coercive Acts

    1. The Intolerable Acts
    2. March, 1774
    3. The act took the self-government away from Massachusetts. Some of these acts were implied into the Boston Tea Party. One of the acts was apart of the Quebec Act, it was to expand the boundaries.

  • Quartering Act

  • Edenton Tea Party

    Women held this tea party, and tried to convince them they were wrong about throwing the tea overboard.

  • First Continental Congress

    The colonies held the first Continental congress.

  • Boston Tea Party

    1. December 16, 1773
    2.The cause of the Boston tea party was the colonist didn't want to pay taxes on British tea. Samuel and the other members of Sons of Liberty gathered 342 mounts of tea and threw it overboard.
    1. Sons of Liberty (Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Edes, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Lamb, William Mackay, Alexander McDougall, James Otis, Benjamin Rush, Isaac Sears, Haym Solomon, James Swan, Charles Thomson, Thomas Young, etc.)

  • Boston Port Act

    The Boston Port Act was designed to punish the inhabitation of Boston. Massachusetts for incident that become known as The Boston Tea Party. This act was designated to force Bostonian to pay for the British Tea.