American History

  • Aug 3, 1492

    Discovory of new world

    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