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Founding of Jamestown
The reasoning to finding Jamestown, was to receive more religious freedom, gold and glory. Captain John Smith, was one of the first founders of Jamestown. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World, and it also represented the start of a social order more open than in Europe. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America.[1] The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants. -
Founding of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower Compact
Founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region. Mayflower Compact: The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, -
Founding of Massachussets Bay
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was an armed conflict spanning the years 1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by their Native American allies. Hundreds were killed; hundreds more were captured and sold into slavery to the West Indies. -
King Philip’s War
A conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies. The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, known to the English as "King Philip" n the space of little more than a year, twelve of the region's towns were destroyed and many more damaged, the colony's economy was all but ruined, and much of its population was killed, including one-tenth of all men available for military service. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland would take place later that year. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France. In 1756, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was an indirect tax for the colonist. The colonist would have to give quarters, food, and transportation to the British soldiers. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was sponsored by George Grenville. It was the first direct tax imposed by Britain on its American colonies. The Act was created to help cover the cost of maintaining troops in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre started when a British soldier struck a young boy with his gun. When the boy was attacked, the protesters who opposed to the British rules, became angry and a fight occurred. British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The act was not meant to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company, which was floundering financially. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts cause for the closing of the Boston port, cancellation of town meetings, and the Massachusetts assembly on May 10, 1773. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
The first shots, starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord. -
Declaration of Independence
Announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Texas Independence
It’s the celebration of the adoption of Texas. With this document, settlers in Mexican Texas officially broke from Mexico, creating the Republic of Texas. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:
It’s the peace treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War. The treaty called for the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico, and pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution. -
Mexican-American War
The war was instrumental in shaping the geographical boundaries of the United States. At the end of this conflict, the U.S. had added one million square miles of territory, including what today are the states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, as well as portions of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada.
