Colonial PA

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  • Period: Jan 4, 1000 to Jan 4, 1500

    woodland period

    they begin to farm and become less nomadic.
  • Period: Jan 4, 1492 to Jan 4, 1493

    comlumbus

    his ships the nina,pinta,and santa maria on there voyage sponsored by spain
  • Period: Jan 5, 1500 to

    Native contact with europeans

    In 1492, a Spanish expedition headed by Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas and introduced the New World. There they had there first contact with Native Americans

  • Jamestown virginia was settled

    The Jamestown Colony was settled in 1607, thirteen years before the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock and is the site of the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

  • Henry Hudson explores Delaware bay

  • Pilgrims settle in Plymouth

    ship is mayflower

  • new sweeden founded

  • dutch take over new york

  • england takes over colony

  • william penn granted charter

  • william penn dies

  • Ben Franklin arrives in phillidelphia

  • walking purchase

  • Period: to

    french and indian war

  • pontiacs rebillion

    To prevent the invasion of whites, Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa Indians encouraged Ohio Country natives to rise up in 1763. The Ottawas attacked Fort Detroit in May 1763.

  • Stamp act

    A stamp act is a law made by government that has a tax to be paid on sending letters ect. The stamp act was considered unfair by many people. Those that pay the tax receive an official stamp on their letters

  • townsend acts

  • anthracite coal is used in homes

  • boston tea party

  • second continental congress

  • penn constitution

  • Period: to

    washington takes valley forge

  • gorge washington takes valley forge

  • articles of confederation adopted by US

    The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States that said how the government is going to be run.

  • steamboat invention

    Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is credited with making the first successful steamboat.

  • Gorge washington is elected

  • Cornplanters grant

  • lancaster pike completion