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Jan 1, 1000
Year1000-Vikings
The Viking's reliance on the sea as their avenue of attack and escape motivated them to develop seaworthy ships and reliable navigational techniques with which they could travel vast distances over open water. These advantages enabled them to travel the cold, treacherous ocean to the west and reach the shore of America almost five hundred years before Columbus. -
Jan 1, 1492
Year1492- Christopher Columbas
After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia. -
Mar 1, 1500
exploring
March 1500, the king sends Pedro Cabral on the same journey. He takes such a curving westerly route through the Atlantic that he chances upon the coast of Brazil.This time a warehouse is established in Calicut, but the Portuguese left there to run it are murdered. To avenge this act, da Gama is sent east again in 1502. He bombards Calicut from mortars aboard his ship. With this clear evidence of Portuguese power a treaty becomes available. -
Year 1584-1590: The Lost Colony (Roanoke)
Sir Walter Raleigh with the mission of scouting the broad sounds and estuaries in search of an ideal location for settlement. Barlowe wrote glowing reports of Roanoke Island, and when the explorers returned to England a year later with two Natives, Manteo and Wanchese, all of London was abuzz with talk of the New World’s wonders.Queen Elizabeth, impressed with the results of the reconnaissance voyage, knighted Raleigh as a reward. -
Year 1607-1936 - 13 Colonies
1607-1st colony,Jamestown,Virginia.Purpose trade.
1626-New York .Trade/Profits
1630-Massachusetts,religious freedom
1634-Maryland,Religious Freedom
1636-Rhode Island,Religious Freedom
1638-New Hampshire,a route for Religious and Economic Freedom
1638-Delaware,Trade/Profits
1653-North Carolina,Trade/Profits
1670-South Carolina-Trade/Profits
1682-Pennsylvania,Religious freedom for Quakers
1733-Georgia, For the Debtor Colony
1936-Rhode island, Religious Freedom -
Year 1936-1960-13 Colonies Continue
1936-Connecticut,Religious and Economic Freedom
1960-New Jersey, Trade/Profits -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act happened on April 15th 1764.
To regulate the trade by effectively closing the legal trade to non-British suppliers. The Act was designed to stop trade between New England and the Middle colonies with French, Dutch, and Spanish in the West Indies.That was the purpose of the taxing.
The Sugar Act was repeated in 1766. -
Stamp Act
It was designed to raise revenue from the American Colonies by a duty (tax) in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents.
The colonists could get taxed for Newspapers, Legal, and Commercial Documents.
They voted for the repealed of the Stamp Act in 1766. -
Quartering Act
On the day in 1765, the Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
The Sons Of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
Samuel Adams was the leader of The Sons Of Liberty.
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. -
“No Taxation without Representation”
It was a phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre occurred on March 5th 1770. Protestors gathered together to protest the British occupation of the town. They damanded that the soldiers who were there occupying the town leave. Eventually it escalated to the point that shots were fired. In the end, five colonists were killed including an African American, Crispus Attucks, and it became a rallying cry for the Patriot cause. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party started December 16th 1773.
This happened with three ships in the Boston Harbor.This took place because the Colonists did not want to pay taxes on the British tea.They designed a bill that people had to follow in order to buy the tea. Samuel Adams led the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts (Boston Port Act)
The Boston Port Act was designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party. The Act was designed to force Bostonians to pay for the tea or the port would remain closed. It was one of a series of British Laws referred to as the Intolerable Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. -
Coercive Act
The other name for the Coercive Act is The Intolerable Act.
The Coercive Act was October 7th 1774.
Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on this day in 1774. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. -
Eden-ton Tea Party
The Eden-ton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history. On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women in Eden-ton, North Carolina. -
First Continental Congress
The purpose was that in 1774, the colonies held the First Continental Congress. Representatives from each colony, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia. The royal governor in Georgia succeeded in blocking people from being sent to the congress. The representatives gathered to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts." -
April 18 1775 The shot heard around the world
The British were trying to stall the colonists from trying to stop them and accidentally fired and that was the shot heard around the world.It started the war. -
April 19 1775 Battle of Quebec and Lexington
The first battle fought in the American Revolution.Who Won? The Americans. -
July 4th 1777 Articles of Confederation.
The articles told us how to run our government. The biggest issue with the articles was that there was only on branch governing the entire body.No balance of Powers. -
September 19th 1777 Battle of Saratoga
This battle was important because it showed the french that the Americans could actually win the Revolution against the British. This resulted in the support of the french for the Americans in this war. -
Battle of yorktown
Lat battle fought in the American Revolution. The Americans won which resulted in winning the revolution.
