American History

  • 1492

    Discovery of the New World

    Discovery of the New World
    Christopher Columbus discovered the new world (Ignitia.com Editors). Columbus died in 1506 (Flint).
  • 1517

    The refermation

    The refermation
    To understand what brought the Pilgrims to America, you have to go back to Wittenburg, Germany. Martin Luther leads to the reformation. (Ignitia.com Editors)
  • Pilgrims settles plymouth

    Pilgrims settles plymouth
    Roger Williams from Massachusetts founded Rhode Island to find religious freedom. The ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth was the Mayflower (Ignitia.com Editors).
  • The mayflower compact

    The mayflower compact
    The mayflower compact was their first attempt at self-government.
    The people wanted a fresh start and to create their own laws and form their own government (Ignitia.com Editors).
  • The puritans settles in Massachetts

    A group of rich Puritans changed into letting the settler within the territory belonging to the Council of latest new England. Below the name of the Massachusetts Bay agency, the authentic English settlements in present-day Massachusetts were settled in 1630 through a collection of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov.(Ignitia.com Editors) and (Britannica, Editors of Encyclopaedia)
  • First Proprietary Colony.

    Proprietary colony, in British American colonial records, a kind of agreement dominating the duration 1660–ninety, wherein favorites of the British crown had been offered big tracts of land within the New world to oversee and expand.
  • Toleration Act

    The Catholics were outnumbered by Protestant settlers in Maryland and the assembly passed this measure to guarantee freedom of worship to the Catholic minority (Ignitia.com Editors). "It granted religious freedom to all those who professed belief in Jesus Christ" (Ignitia.com Editors).
  • Duke of York

    Duke of York
    The monopoly of the inland fur trade and the splendid harbor of New Amsterdam became English. The new ruler, the Duke of York, (Ignitia.com Editors)
  • The Oglethorpe and a group

    The  Oglethorpe and a group
    when Oglethorpe and a group of reformers secured the title to the land between South Carolina and Spanish Florida, they decided to ban slavery in their colony, prohibit the importation of rum and brandy, and limit individual landholdings to fifty acres. (Ignitia.com Editors) fix
  • population growth

    Immigration was also brought to the entire population. The early immigrated from England Later, they immigrated to European nations and from Africa(Ignitia.com Editors).