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First permanent settlement in the North America. Founded in Virginia. -
30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, aboard the English privateer ship called the White Lion. -
In 1620, the Mayflower landed in present day Plymouth County with many English men and women aboard who were fleeing England. -
Powhatan Indians came unarmed to Jamestown with items to sell to the colonists. After lulling them into a false sense of security they grabbed any weapon they could find a murdered 347 colonists. -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
It was a conflict between the Native American Pequot tribe and the English immigrants who had established settlements in New England -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes the first colony to legalize slavery. -
Maryland passes the Maryland Toleration Act, allowing freedom of religion in the province. -
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia. -
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom were executed by hanging. -
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n his first published sermon, preached in 1731 to the Boston clergy and significantly entitled God Glorified in the Work of Redemption, by the Greatness of Man's Dependence upon Him, in the Whole of It, Edwards blamed New England's moral ills on its assumption of religious and moral self-sufficiency. -
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
It cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
It passed in 1764 along with the Sugar Act, prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures. -
It required colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages. -
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. -
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. -
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Thomas Jefferson is elected to be the third president -
It encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. -
Spain ceded East Florida to the United States and renounced all claim to West Florida. Spain received no compensation, but the United States agreed to assume liability for $5 million in damage done by American citizens who rebelled against Spain. -
The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th president. -
Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War. -
As the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. -
The 1876 Centennial Exposition, held in Philadelphia to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was the first “World's Fair” to be held in the United States.