American History

  • Discovory of new world
    Aug 3, 1492

    Discovory of new world

    Culumbus didn't find America.He found the west indies
  • Virginia colony founded

    Virginia colony founded

    John Smith was leader
  • New York colony founded

    New York colony founded

    founded by Peter Minuit
  • New Hampshire colony founded

    New Hampshire colony founded

    leader John Mason
  • Colony of Maryland founded

    Colony of Maryland founded

    George Calvert founded it
  • Connecticut colony was founded

    Connecticut colony was founded

    founded by Governor John Haynes
  • Roade Island colony founded

    Roade Island colony founded

    founded by Roger Williams
  • Delaware colony founded

    Delaware colony founded

    Founder is Peter Minuit
  • North Carolina colony founded

    North Carolina colony founded

    founded by Group of proprietors
  • New Jersey Colony Founded

    New Jersey Colony Founded

    Founded by Sir George Carteret
  • South Carolina colony founded

    South Carolina colony founded

    leaders Group of proprietors
  • Pennsylvania colony founded

    Pennsylvania colony founded

    treated Indians better than most colonys even helping them on juires.
  • French and indeian war begins

    French and indeian war begins

    The french and the idians were allies in this war
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    invisable line in witch coloist could not cross.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Colonist had to let people in there house
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    Tax on paper
  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution

    War between England and America
  • The Townshend Acts

    The Townshend Acts

    named after Charles Townshend
  • the Boston Massacre

    the Boston Massacre

    7 colonist were killed
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    over a millon dollars of tea thown over board.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    only punished Massachusetts
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    First apelle to the king
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    A fort Captured by patriot forces
  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Battle for Boston

    Battle for Boston

    City took by patriot forces.
  • The Olive Branch Petition is sent to King George the III

    The Olive Branch Petition is sent to King George the III

    The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain.
  • Common Sense is published

    Common Sense is published

    Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776
  • Congress officially adopts The Declaration of Independence

    Congress officially adopts The Declaration of Independence

    colonist declared indpendence from England