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Settlers (Video #3)
The first settlers arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. 60 of the 214 settlers survived the first 8 months after the trip over on the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery. -
Attack on Jamestown (Video #3)
The Opechancanough planned an attack on the people of Jamestown. The day before the attack, they gifted the settlers with meats and fruits to disguise their true intentions and the following day they attacked the settlers by surprise with their own tools, -
The Pequot War (Video #3)
When the Puritans expanded into the wilderness in 1633 they were actually taking Pequot lands. The Pequot tribe split into two (the Pequots and the Mohegans/Uncas). The Pequots started the Pequot War while the Mohegans supported the settlers. The Pequots lost and were either hunted down and killed or enslaved. -
Metacom's/King Philips's War (Video #3)
Metacom/King Philip was the leader of the Wamponoag tribe and his war started in June after repeated assult from the settlers on the indians. The war consited mainly of geruilla warfare from both sides. Metacom/King Philip was joined by the Nipmuck and the Narragansaett but was defeated when he failed to convinve the Mohawk to come to their aid. -
The Stamp Act (Video #6)
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliment and made all of the New World colonists pay a tax on paper. The tax was realatively small but made the colonists mad because it told them that the British could tax anything. This mainly effected lawyers, shop keepers, and politicians. -
The Boston Masacre (Video #6)
The Boston Massacre started with patriots throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones at British Sodiers. This led to the soldiers being moved out of Boston and helped spark the American Revolution. -
The Intolerable Act (Video #6)
When the British Parliament set up the Coercive Acts, which were various laws and bannings on the Massachusets coloney, 12 of the colonies, not Georgia, came together to say that the British had gone to far and made the Intolerable Acts. This is also considered the first meeting of the Conteniental Congress. -
Shot Heard Round The World (Video #6)
The British were marching to Concord, Massachusets to take the weapons stockpiled there by the Patriots. On the way, they ran into 70 minutemen in Lexington where a single shot was fired before the first battle of the American Revolution began. -
Free Slaves (Video #7)
John Murray, Lord of Dunmore, issued a proclimation saying all slaves that sided with the british would be free. The hundreds of slaves that joind him were called "The Ethiopian Regiment". -
The Declaration of Independence (Video #7)
The Declaration of Independence was signed by the Continental Congress and made the colonies officially free from British rule. -
America Frees Slaves (Video #7)
All states north of Maryland begin to get rid of slaves. -
The Battle of Yorktown (Video #7)
General Cornwallis surrenders 7,087 british soldiers to the Franco-American troops in the Battle of Yorktown. This ends the Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of War (Video #11)
President Madison signs The Declaaration of War against Britain. The war of 1812 started when the British stole american soldiers and restricted trade. -
Burnning of Washington (Video #11)
British troops light the White House on fire in retaliation to the American attack on York, Ontario in Canada. -
The Treaty of Ghent (Video #11)
The Treaty of Ghent was signed by the British and Americans, ending the War of 1812. The treaty said nothing about the two reasons the war started (imprissonment of American Saliors and trade rights) but it did settle a few boundary lines. -
The Battle of New Orleans (Video #11)
Two weeks after the War of 1812 ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, General Andrew Jackson won the most important battle of the war. British General Pakenham marched on New Orleans with 7,500 British solodiers only to be met with 4,000 American soldiers waiting for them, most of them being expert marksmen from Kentucky and Tennessee. General Pakenham and 2,000 of his men died while only 8 Americans were killed.
