An Emerging Nation

By sydney0327

  • 1607

    1607
    Jamestown was established

  • 1759

    1759
    French Indian War started.

  • 1763

    French Indian War ended.

  • 1776

    1776
    Colonies declared themselves independent.

  • 1788

    1788
    United States of american was born.

  • 1700s

    There was a burst of intellectual energy taking place in Europe that was called the Enlightenment.

  • 1775

    1775
    Patrick Henry thundered to the delegates at the second Virginia Convention. "give me liberty, or give me death."

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus began his jounrney to the new world.

  • 1588

    "True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" by Thomas Harriot was published.

  • 1650

    1650
    Anne Bradstreet's book of poetry "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" was published

  • 1640

    1640
    Pslams were written to fit the rythyms of familiar Puritan hyms

  • 1741

    Jonathon Edwards delivers his sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God"

  • 1774

    1774
    Abigail Adams writes her first entry in "Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife, Abigail"

  • 1704

    1704
    The Boston Newsletter, first american newspaper.

  • 1776

    1776
    George Washington invites Phillis Wheatley to visit.