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Beginning Of Slavery
Twenty Africans are brought by A Dutch ship to Jamestown to be sale to servants, this is thebeginning of slavery -
Harvard College Founded
In June, Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island. Williams had been banished from Massachusetts for "new and dangerous opinions" calling for religious and political freedoms, including separation of church and state, not granted under the Puritan rules. Providence then becomes a haven for many other colonists fleeing religious intolerance -
English Civil War
The English Civil War was caused by Charles 1,son of King James. He believed that he was chosen by God, so therefore Parliament had to do what he said even if it wasn't right. He tried arresting MPs and this cause conflict which ended with him getting kick out of government. -
King Phillp's War
King Philip's War erupts in New England between colonists and Native Americans as a result of tensions over colonist's expansionist activities. The bloody war rages up and down the Connecticut River valley in Massachusetts and in the Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, eventually resulting in 600 English colonials being killed and 3,000 Native Americans, including women and children on both sides. -
King Williams War
The beginning of King William's War as hostilities in Europe between the French and English spill over to the colonies. In February, Schenectady, New York is burned by the French with the aid of their Native American allies. THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN AMERICA -
The Mollases Act
Passed by the English Parliament, imposes heavy duties on molasses, rum and sugar imported from non-British islands in the Caribbean to protect the English planters there from French and Dutch competition. -
John Peter Zenger Arrest
In November, New York newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger is arrested and accused of seditious libel by the Governor. In December, the Great Awakening religious revival movement begins in Massachusetts. The movement will last ten years and spread to all of the American colonies. -
50 Slaves Hung
Fifty black slaves are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, after plans for another revolt are revealed. Also in 1740, in Europe, the War of the Austrian Succession begins after the death of Emperor Charles VI and eventually results in France and Spain allied against England. The conflict is known in the American colonies as King George's War and lasts until 1748.. -
French and Indian War
In the 1750s, France and Britain were fighting in Europe. The war was now spreading to North America. British Colonists wanted to take over French land in North America. The British wanted to take over the fur trade in the French held territory. -
The Sugar Act
Is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act increases the duties on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo (dye). It doubles the duties on foreign goods reshipped from England to the colonies and also forbids the import of foreign rum and French wines. -
The Currency Act
Prohibits the colonists from issuing any legal tender paper money. This act threatens to destabilize the entire colonial economy of both the industrial North and agricultural South, thus uniting the colonists against it. -
New York Violence
In August, violence breaks out in New York between British soldiers and armed colonists, including Sons of Liberty members. The violence erupts as a result of the continuing refusal of New York colonists to comply with the Quartering Act. In December, the New York legislature is suspended by the English Crown after once again voting to refuse to comply with the Act. -
The English Parliament
In June, The English Parliament passes the Townshend Revenue Acts, imposing a new series of taxes on the colonists to offset the costs of administering and protecting the American colonies. Items taxed include imports such as paper, tea, glass, lead and paints. The Act also establishes a colonial board of customs commissioners in Boston. In October, Bostonians decide to reinstate a boycott of English luxury items. -
Boston Masscure
British troops fire into a mob, killing five men and leading to intense public protests (March 5). -
Boston Tea Party
Group of colonial patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians board three ships in Boston harbor and dump more than 300 crates of tea overboard as a protest against the British tea tax -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia, with John Hancock elected as its president. On May 15, the Congress places the colonies in a state of defense. On June 15, the Congress unanimously votes to appoint George Washington general and commander-in-chief of the new Continental Army. -
The Provinical Congress
The Provincial Congress in Massachusetts orders 13,600 American soldiers to be mobilized. Colonial volunteers from all over New England assemble and head for Boston, then establish camps around the city and begin a year long siege of British-held Boston. -
Anonymous Letter
An anonymous letter circulates among Washington's senior officers camped at Newburgh, New York. The letter calls for an unauthorized meeting and urges the officers to defy the authority of the new U.S. national government (Congress) for its failure to honor past promises to the Continental Army. The next day, Gen. Washington forbids the unauthorized meeting and instead suggests a regular meeting to be held on March 15. A second anonymous letter then appears and is circulated. This letter falsely -
Articles of Confederation
Rather than revise the Articles of Confederation, delegates at the constitutional convention vote to create an entirely new form of national government separated into three branches - the legislative, executive and judicial - thus dispersing power with checks and balances, and competing factions, as a measure of protection against tyranny by a controlling majority. -
Census Act
A census, finished on Aug. 1, indicates a total population of nearly 4 million persons in the U.S. and western territories. African Americans make up 19 percent of the population, with 90 percent living in the South. Native Americans were not counted, although there were likely over 80 tribes with 150,000 persons. For white Americans, the average age is under 16. Most white families are large, with an average of eight children born. The -
Ohio Outlaws Slavery
James Callender makes the accusation that Thomas Jefferson has "for many years past kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves," Sally Hemings. It is published in the Richmond Recorder that month, and the story is soon picked up by Federalist presses around the country. Callender, a Republican, has previously been an avid investigator of Federalist scandals. In 1798, Jefferson had helped pay for the publication of Callender's pamphlet -
Louisana Purchase
Jefferson asks Congress for funds for an expedition to explore the Mississippi River and beyond in search of a route to the Pacific. Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's private secretary, begins planning the expedition, which forms late in 1803. -
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey. -
Bristish Attack
British burn Capitol building in Washington -
Napoleon
Napoleon finally, finally defeated at Waterloo. -
Alabama Slave State
Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers. -
Missourl Compromise
1820 - Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine immediately gives right to vote and education to all male citizens. The compromise also prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana -
New York Blacks
New York gives free Blacks the right to vote -
George Jefferson Death
Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He is eighty-three years old. Several hours later John Adams, aged 90, dies in Massachusetts, and the nation is struck by this remarkable coincidence. The last letter Jefferson wrote to Adams was on March 23 requesting that Adams see his grandson, which Adams did. Just before he died, Jefferson wrote the following to be read at the July 4 celebration in Virginia. -
Panic Of 1837
7 Panic of 1837 leads to collapse of many early labor unions. Angelina and Sarah Grimké begin abolitionist talks to women’s groups. Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic organization is formed (Native American Assn.). Michigan enters Union as 26th state. -
Trial Of Tears
Cherokees are forcibly removed from Georgia to IndianTerritory in present-day Oklahoma. Routes later known as Underground Railroad begin to be established. -
Slaves
Slaves aboard slave ship L’Amistad rebel. Slaves are freed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841 and returned to Africa -
40 Sixth Census
U.S. population totals 17 million, including 3 million African Americans, of whom 2.5 million are enslaved.Population west of the Appalachian Mountains is 5 million, more than one third of the U.S. population. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of an American Slave. -
Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 - Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto Oregon organized as territory -
Compromise Of 1850
COMPROMISE OF 1850 allows residents of New Mexico and Utah territories to permit or ban slavery, admits California as a free state (31st), ends the slave trade (but not slavery) in the District of Columbia, and enacts a stricter fugitive slave law requiring citizens in free states to turn in runaway slaves. -
Free Soliders
Free Soilders establish government banning slavery and blacks from Kansas. -
Henry Bassemer, William Walkerm, Slaves
1856 - Henry Bessemer invents process that allows mass production of steel; adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua; five slavery supporters are killed in a Kansas raid led by John Brown. -
Sixth Census
U.S. population totals 31 million, about half of whom live west of the Appalachian Mts. Population includes 4.5 million African Americans, of whom 4 million are enslaved. -
Presidental Election
Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin are elected president -
Year 1868
1868 - President Johnson impeached, acquitted.- Grant elected President
- Southern states readmitted to Union
- New England Woman’s Club founded
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15th Amendment
15th Amendment Ratified, giving Blacks but not women the right to vote. -
KKK Members
KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi. -
Year 1875
"Jim Crow” laws enacted in Tennessee- Federal troops sent to Vicksburg to protect Blacks
- Civil Rights Act passed
- 44th Congress has eight Black members
