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Jamestown, Virginia, established a permanent English colony on the American mainland. -
Protestants revolted against Catholic oppression; Denmark, Sweden, and France invaded Germany in later phases of the war. Johannes Kepler proposes the last of three laws of planetary motion.
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Slavery in America started when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves into Jamestown, Virginia.
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Pilgrims from England arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony is one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts.
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End of the Thirty Years' War. German population was about half of what it was in 1618 because of war and pestilence.
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The Navigation Act was passed by the British Parliament to control the amount of commerce coming into the American Colonies. -
It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts -
It is a European great power conflict.
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The Seven Years' War was a global conflict that involved most of the European great powers and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War, the Carnatic Wars, and the Anglo-Spanish War.
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Rapid industrialization first began in Britain, starting with mechanized textile spinning.
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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder.
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British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
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The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall), approved the Declaration of Independence, severing the colonies' ties to the British Crown.
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It began in 1789 and lasted until 1794. King Louis XVI needed more money but had failed to raise more taxes when he had called a meeting of the Estates General. This instead turned into a protest about conditions in France.
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This paper was ratified. -
The cotton gin is the machine used to pull cotton fibers from the seed which was invented by Eli Whitney
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In what is sometimes called the "Revolution of 1800", the Democratic-Republican Party candidate, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, defeated the Federalist Party candidate, incumbent President John Adams. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership. -
This was a Deal that Doubles the size of the U.S.
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Senate approved a House-passed resolution declaring war with Great Britain, with three amendments, by a vote of 19-13. President James Madison signed it into law the following day.
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Minister Onís and Secretary Adams reached an agreement whereby Spain ceded East Florida to the United States and renounced all claim to West Florida. -
The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States.
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A conflict that began with a dispute over the annexation of Texas by the U.S.
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Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 in a four-way contest. Although Lincoln received less than 40% of the popular vote, he easily won the Electoral College vote over Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell.
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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, formed by states that had seceded from the Union. -
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery
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America's first transcontinental railroad was a 1,911-mile continuous railroad line constructed that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.