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Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It is also where the british empire began. This was the first colony the British empire made. -
Boston massacre
A groups of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wound. The British officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for manslaughter, along with eight of his men. -
Boston tea party
Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty boarded 3 ships and threw over 342 barrels of tea into the water which led to the coercive act. The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773 -
Declaration of independence
The Continental Congress selected Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence. These five men made a big change in the eyes of the British. -
Louisiana purchase
On April 30, 1803, representatives of the United States and Napoleonic France conclude negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase.A massive land sale that doubles the size of the young American republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory comprised most of modern-day United States between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, with the exceptions of Texas, parts of New Mexico, and other pockets of land already controlled by the United States. -
Invention of the steamboat
In 1807, inventor and engineer Robert Fulton launched the first commercial successful steamboat. Originally mad for commercial purposes, the steamboat had become popular for recreation by the late 1800's. -
Mexican-American war
On May 13, 1846, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly votes in favor of President James K. Polk’s request to declare war on Mexico in a dispute over Texas. After nearly two years of fighting, peace was established by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848. -
Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates. -
Civil War
There were decades of tension between the northern and southern states over issues including states rights the election of Abraham Lincoln. This caused the southern states to succeed from the union creating the confederate states of America , there were four years of conflict and war until the confederate general surrendered in 1865. There were 10,500 battles thought the duration of the war. -
Lincoln's Assassination
On April 4,1865 John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
