Chronology Of Events

By rayvin11

  • Roanoke

    Roanoke was the first attenpted colony in America. It was known as the "Lost Conlony"

  • Jamestown

    First permanet settlement in the New World

  • House of Burgesses

    Was the first reprentative assembly in the New World

  • Mayflower Compact

    Was an agreement to form a self-goverment signed Nov. 11

  • Rhode Island

    Roger Williams was the founder providence of RI, In June

  • Navigation Act

    British Parliament passed the Navigation Act

  • Pennsylvania

    William Penn founed Pennsylvania

  • Witchcraft

    Witchcraft delusion at Salem

  • Great Awakening

    Religious revival began

  • Zenger

    John Peter Zenger was acqutted of libel Aug. 5 in New York

  • French and Indian War

    Between Great Britain, France, and in North America. Native American allied with them

  • Sugar Act

    April 5 American Revenue Act

  • Sstamp Act

    Required revenue stamps

  • Quartering Act

    Acts of Parliament on Great Britain

  • Townshed Acts

    Added tax to glass, painters lead, paper and tea

  • Boston Massacre

    Redcoats and modern people got into a fight and it became a riot then one of the men shot a man then it became a massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

    Protest the tea tax December 6

  • Intolreable Acts

    Passed by the British Parliament in Britain colonies

  • First Continental Congress

    Was a convention of delegates

  • Partick Henry

    Addressed Virginia conventions " Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!"

  • Lexington Concord

    American Revolutionary War They fought on April 19 on Massachetts Bay. The battle was an outbreak and conflict

  • Decloraration of Independence

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  • Saratoga

    5,000 men surrendered

  • Articles of Confederation

    By Continental Congress Nov, 15

  • John Paul Jones

    Naval soldier on the Bonhomme

  • Yorktown

    Cornwallis surrenderd

  • Peace Treaty

    British signed the Peace Treaty in Sept 3 to reconized independence

  • Northwest Ordinance

    Northwest territory

  • Constitution convention

    opened in Philadelphia May 25

  • George Washington

    President

  • Bill Of Rights

    to States

  • Eli Whitney

    Invented the cotton gin

  • Washington Farwell

    Warned against alliances with foregin powers

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Doubled in the Us area

  • Lewis and Clark

    Explored the Northwest territory

  • Robert Fulton

    Invented the steamboat

  • War of 1812

    Congress declared war

  • "The star spangle banner"

    France Scott Key wrote the words

  • Missouri Compromise

    Henery Clay passed this bill by the Congress

  • Monroe Doctrine

    opposing Eurpeans inventions

  • "Trails of Tears"

    Indians were forced to walk towards west

  • Samuel F.B Morse

    Invented the telegraph line

  • Compromise of 1850

    Henery Clays Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Laws

    Slave Trade very harsh

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Written the book "Tom's Cabin"

  • Dred Scott

    Supreme Court Salves did not become a free slave state

  • Abraham Lincoln

    President

  • Confederate States

    Seven southerns set that up

  • Jefferson Davis

    President in the South

  • Ft Sumter

    In Charleston

  • Battle of Antietam

    MARYLAND Sept 12 one of the most bloodiest war

  • Emanclpation Prolamation

    ALL SLAVES IN THE AREA STILL IN REBLLION

  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg address

  • Robert E. Lee`

    Appomattox Court house

  • Death of Abraham

    Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth April 14

  • 14th Amendment

    Prooving citizebship

  • 15th Amendement

    Making race no bar to voting

  • Clara Barton

    Founded the Red Cross