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In the 1490's Columbus starts a conquest through the Caribbean. -
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire. -
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. -
The first Africans in Virginia were a group of twenty and odd captives originally from modern-day Angola who landed at Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia in late August 1619. -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony, more formally The Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of America around the Massachusetts Bay. -
The Navigation Acts, or more broadly the Acts of Trade and Navigation, was a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce. -
This charter was the governing document of William Penn's Pennsylvania until the American Revolution. -
John Peter Zenger was a German printer and journalist in New York City. -
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French. -
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. -
The Sugar Act was passed by Parliament on April 5, 1764, and it arrived in the colonies during an economic depression. -
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
In response to the Stamp and Tea Acts, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress it was passed on October 14, 1765. -
The Townshend Acts refers to a series of British acts of Parliament. -
Nonimportant Agreements were attempts to force British recognition of political rights through application of economic pressure. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers killed three people of a crowd of three or four hundred who abused them verbally. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers killed three people of a crowd of three or four hundred who abused them verbally. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. -
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
The siege of Yorktown began on September 28, 1781 and ended on October 19, 1781. -
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government. -
The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America. -
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America. -
Benjamin Shreve, a young American captain, not only engaged in the bulk trade in tea and silk, but spent much of his time shopping in Canton for tortoise shell combs and much more. -
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry. -
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. -
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. -
American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States.