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Jamestown is established
The Virginia company reaches the land will be later known as Virginia and founds Jamestown under captain John Smith. Jamestown is to the first permanent English colony in America. -
House Of Burgesses
The house of Burgesses became the first elected representative group of individuals to govern Jamestown. -
Plymouth Colony is established
Plymouth was founded by English seperatists, or pilgrims, trying to escape religious oppression. They managed to become allies with a group of Native Americans in the area, often through aiding in their conflicts with other Native American tribes. -
Massauchessets Bay is established
John Winthrop establishes the Massachusetts Bay colony as a refuge for a branch of Christians known as Purtinans. -
Pequot War
The Pequout war was a conflict between the Plymouth pilgrims along with their Native American aliies, the Narragansset and Mohegans, and the Pequot indians. In the end, the Pequot indians were almost completely eleminated. -
King Phillip's War
King Phillip, or Metacom, was a Native American who rallied several tribes of Native Americans in New England to go to war with the Colonists as a result of constant general oppression and their ceaseless attempted conversion and indoctrination of Native Americans in the area to the Christian church. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon was a poor farmer who disliked the current governor of Jamestown, William Berkely. He wanted to take drastic action against Native Americans, unlike the governor. Eventually, he did, and was banished from the settlement. Eventually, he came back with a lot of support from poor and black people, and overthrew the governor. This was important because it encouraged the English governenment to try and further seperate the poor and slaves to avoid future reblleion -
Salem Witch Trials
Several men and women, but mainly women, including children, were executed after being accused of witchcraft. The accusations were never justified. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a war over territory and the fur trade which at the time was dominated by the French and the Native Americans who allied with them. The British allied with the Colonists and went to wore for the territory and dominance of the trade, which ended in favor of the British and Colonists with the treaty of 1763. England was heavily in debt after the war, and as a result taxed the colonists more heavily. -
The Quartering Act
Acts passed by Paliament in 1765 requiiring colonists to provide housing and provision to British soliders in the Americas. -
Boston Massacre
American colonists in Boston threw, snowballs, rocks, and other miscellaneous object at passing British troops. As there was already tension between the troups and Americans, shots were fired, and several unnarmed civilians were killed. This massacre led to become one of the causes of the Revolutionary war. -
Tea Act
Act passed by Parliament greatly increasing the tax on tea, mcuh to the dismay of American colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of arguably radical conlonists who called themselves the Sons of Liberty boarded a British ship and through several hundred crates of tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the high tax. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party meant mainly to punish colonists. -
Lexington and Concord
The first shots and first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Independance for Texas
Texas officially earned its independance and was no longer considered a part of Mexico. -
Mexican American War
This war was fought over western territory in the Americas. Americans believed that they essentially owned land west of the Mississipi, however Mexican territory extended into the areas Americans felt they as a nation owned. This lead to the Mexican-American war, which eventually ended with the Americans gaining several thousand square miles of land through the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American war and also granted America 55% of Mexican land in return for 15 million. -
Spanish American War
A conflict between America and Spain that ended with the United States's purchase of the Phillipenes, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Many of these nations weren't granted the independance we promised them after the war ended. -
Stamp Act
This act requires the use of stamps for official documents.
