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Beggining of the English Colonies. Everyone from this colony disaspeared and never to be seen again. Considered a failure and a loss but it was still continued.
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The Mayflower lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts with 101 colonist.
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Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn,a quaker.
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English parliament started the wool act to protect their wool and keep it to themselves. They quit exporting it to American colonies.
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The Anglo population in the colonies in America reaches 275,000 people. Boston is the largest city at the time, followed by New York.
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Last conflict in the ongoing struggle between the British and French for control of eastern North America.
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British troops fire into a mob of people killing 5 and creating a series of protests.
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Group of patriots dressed up as indians and boarded three ships.Dump more than 300 crates of tea overboard as a protest of the British tea tax.
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Political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, also member of the Continental Congress
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First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia, with 56 delegates representing every colony except Georgia. Delegates
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Beggining of the American Revolution. War of independence between Great Britain and the 13 colonies.
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On July 4, congress adopts the Delcaration of Independence.
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Continental Congress approved of the first flag for the United States
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Farmers from New Hampshire to South Carolina take up arms to protest high state taxes and stiff penalties for failure to pay.
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made up of delegates from 12 of the original 13 colonies, meets in Philadelphia to make the Bill of Rights.
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Unanimously elected president of the United States.
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The Army was established by congress. Totaling of 1000 men.
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THe supreme court meets for the first time in Merchants Exchange building in New York
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The first 10 amendmants were created on thisn date. Also know as the Bill of Rights.
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Inaugurated as the second president in Philadelphia
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Inaugurated as the third president in Washington, DC
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Left out from St. Louis, Mo., on expedition to explore the West and find a route to the Pacific Ocean.
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Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific
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James Madison is inaugurated as the fourth president
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U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion
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James Monroe is inaugurated as the fifth president
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In an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states
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John Quincy Adams is inaugurated as the sixth president.
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Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as seventh president
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President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which authorizes the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country
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William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing the Liberator, a weekly paper that advocates the complete abolition of slavery.
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Texas declares its independence from Mexico
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U.S. declares war on Mexico in effort to gain California and other territory in Southwest
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Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California
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Women's rights convention is held at Seneca Falls, N.Y.
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Gadsden Purchase treaty is signed; U.S. acquires border territory from Mexico for $10 million
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Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
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Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president
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Conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) over the expansion of slavery into western states. Confederates attack Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the war
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Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC
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Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote.
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The first telephone line is built from Boston to Somerville, Mass.
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President Garfieild was shot but did not die till later due to his wounds
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United States adopts Standard Time
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THe Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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American Federation of Labor is organized
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Oklahoma is opened to settlers.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded.
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Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S.
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USS Maine is blown up in Havana harbor
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United States declares war on Spain.
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Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War. Spain gives up control of Cuba
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Galveston hurricane leaves an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 dead
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U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone (treaty signed Nov 17
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Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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San Francisco earthquake leaves 500 dead or missing and destroys about 4 sq mi of the city (April 18).
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Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is established (July 26).
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislatures.
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First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated.
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United States declared war on Germany
