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Christopher Columbus left Spain on a voyage to find an easier route to the East, but ended up finfding the Americas and introducing it to Europe.
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Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in America. Settlers came from Europe and had to come by ship. It was noot an easy commute, many got sick and died.
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First representative government in the colonies.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvia.
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Model for the Bill of Rights created in America.
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James Oglethorpe founded Georgia, a place for debtors, it was also the last of the 13 colonies.
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England and France were enemies and France was losing the battle between them and gave them all the land in North America that they had.
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British troops open fire on American protestors.
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Sons of Liberty dump tea into the Boston Harbor as an act of boycott.
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Way after America wa settled by the English settlers, England wanted New England to be owned by them but the settlers disagreed and began fighting with the British. The newly called Americans wrote a Declaration making them independent.
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Victory that convinced the French to help America, it was a turning point.
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The final major battle of the Revolution.
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British finally recognize America's independence.
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Men go on a riot because of the taxing, improvements had to be made to the constitution.
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Reviewing different plans and population slave count.
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Constitution is ratified by delegates.
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George Washington becomes the first president.
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South Carolina threatens to secede if a law isn't changed.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe writes a book about slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln has the election for presidency.
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The first shot off of the revolution.
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From that day on all slaves were free.
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Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
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Southern states want Missouri to be a slave state.
