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Period: Jan 5, 1000 to Jan 5, 1500
Woodland Period
Is when the Native Americans begin farming and become less nomadic. It's also the time when people begin to expand into and use complex enviormental and ecological zones as the population increased. -
Period: Jan 5, 1492 to Jan 5, 1493
Columbus
Columbus: His ships-The Nina, The Pintam and the Santa Maria his voyage was sponsored by Spain. Also he landed in the Caribbean. -
Period: Jan 5, 1500 to
Tribes living in PA
The tribes living in PA had their first contacts with Europeans. -
Jamestown Virginia was settled
They were settled thirteen years before the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock. Suprisingly, it is the first permanent English settelment in the New World. The settlers have had their success in making profit and trade. -
Henery Hudson explores the Deleware Bay area.
He sailed through the Deleware bay area. Which proved out to be too shallow to explore fullly. It did not lead to the Pacific Ocean. -
Pilgrims settled into Plymouth
The pilgrims did settle into Plymmouth (Massachusetts). Their ship was called the Mayflower. Several business partners bought the Mayflower. Their was a huge storm, that was so strong that the crew barely survived. The Mayflower is celebrated, now as a national holiday, for their discovery. -
Peter Mimuit comes to New Netherland
Peter Minuit went to New Netherland becasue he was searching for tradable goods and not animal pelts. Also, New Sweden is found, because a group of Swedish and Finnish settlers established a new settlement, on the Deleware River. -
The Dutch take over New Sweden
The Dutch did settle the first Eurpoean settlementm but it got wiped out by indians. So, the Dutch taked over New Sweden, to be abandon by the English in 1664. -
England takes over the Colony (New York)
The english take over New Amster dam and changed the name of New York after a guy named New York. -
William Penn is granted the Charter for Pennsylvania
William Penn (Leader of the Charter) has propretary and is Governor of the Province of Penslivania and territories belonging. The goverment structure was for proved unworkable and in a year was supplanted. William, was founder of Pennsylvania and it lasted to 1718. -
William Penn meets with the Delaware Indians
William wrote a friendly letter to the Indians, asking for peaceful relations. He befriended the local Indians of the Leni Lenape and ensured that they were paid fairly for their lands. He gave everything back to the indians, and made the "Great Treaty". William sails on to welcome Pennsylvania, while getting small pox on the way there. -
William Penn dies
William Penn died at Ruscombe, age 73. He had a few sevior strokes in the six years he was alive. They kept getting worse as time went on. He never recovered. It has been said that he was unable to speak or think clearly. -
Ben Franklin arrives in Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin was a 17-year-old runaway when he went to Philadelphia. He found a job at a local print shop. Then became America's most distinguished Founding Fathers. Such as he helped draft the Declaration of Independence. -
Walking Purchase
Three colonists and three Indians set off on the most peculiar "walk" in Pennsylvainia's history. The group's purpose was to measure out a land purchase that Thomas Penn, and the son and hier of William Penn made from Delaware fifty years earlier. Also the walk became a marathon. -
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French and Indian War
England and the American colonies, against the French and some of the Indians in North America. The war was all about control of the valley, All these aspects had a profound effect on the future of the colonies. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
It was designed to shut down white settlement of the west until organizational reforms could be effected. The American reaction to the pontiac's Rebellion was immediate and heated. Pontiac enlisted support from practically every indian from Lake Superior to the lower Mississippi for a joint campaign to expel British from the French lands. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. This new tax was apparently imposed to all American colonists. They were required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Such as newspaper, cards ex. The actual cost of the Stamp Act was small. The resaon colonists got so angry about, was how the law standard seemed to set. -
Townsend Acts
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea were applied with the design of raising a certain amout of money, a year for administration of colonies. They mostly wanted a Townsend Acts for,a more effectually preventing the clandestine of goods in the colonies and plantations. -
Anthracite Coal is first used homes
Anthracite Coal was discovered in Pennsylvania, after the settlement of Wyoming Valley. It's first use was by Obediah Grose in his blacksmith's shop. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The tea was a staple of colonial life. Suprisngly, it was assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax then deny themselves the pleasure of tea. The crowd descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters. -
Intolerable acts, and First Continental Congress
"Intolerable Acts" are know as the Coercive Acts, were passed expressly to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. "First Continental Congress" met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. The colonies that were presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Greath Britain. There arms weren't uniformed at all. -
2nd Continental Congress
Members of the Second Continental Congress met at the State House in Philadelphia. There were several new member delegates. The Second Continental Congress established the lilita as the Continental Army to represent the thirteen states. -
The Pennsylvania state Constitution is written
The declaration opens with the preamble describing the documents necessity in explaining why the colonies have overthrown their ruler and chosen to take their place as a seperate nation, in the world. The Pennsylvania Constitution contained five of the six points of the United Kingdom's People's Charter. -
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Washington occupies Valley Forge
Continental Army George Washington, lead his troops into winter quarters, at Valley Forge. Some people lived, but others died from the cold or frost bite. Washington led his troops, their bodies and supplies replenished and their confidence restored, to face the British again. -
The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the states
The Articles of Confederation are adopted by Congress and submittied to the states for ratification. -
The U.S. Constitution.., John Fitch invents..
The U.S. Constitution was adopted on September 17,1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Constitutuion Convention has a need for a storng centralized goverment. John Filtch made the first successful trial of a forty-five-foot steamboat on the Delaware River in Augest. Fitch later bulit a larger vessel that carried passengers. -
George Washington is elected President
It was around April, George Washington standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, George took his oath as the first president of the Untied States. He learned the morals, manners and body of knowledge for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. -
Cornplanter's Grant
Cornplanter's Grant was a grant of land made in 1791 to Cornplanter, a chief of the Seneca nation. Most people knew him as Kaintwakon, meaning "by what one plants." -
The Lancaster Pike is completed