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jamestown
On May 14, 1607, Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony 60 miles from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Discoovering of the exact location of the first fort indicates its site was in a secure place, where Spanish ships could not fire point blank into the fort. Within days of landing, the colonists were attacked by Powhatan Indians. -
mmayflower
The Mayflower was the ship that transported English Separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, Plymouth in England to the New World There were 102 passengers, and the crew is estimated to have been about thirty, but the exact number is unknown. voyagers has become an iconic story in some of the earliest annals of American history, with its story of death and of survival in the harsh New England winter environment. The culmination of the voyage in the signing of the Mayflower Comp -
louisiana purchase
President Thomas Jefferson wrote this prediction in a April 1802 letter to Pierre Samuel du Pont amid reports that Spain would retrocede to France vast territory of Louisiana.the United States had expanded westward, navigation of the Mississippi River and access to the port of New Orleans had become critical to American commerce, so this transfer of authority was cause for concern. -
maurbury vs madison
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california gold rush
the california gold rush was when the californiain figured out they hasd gold the word got around so the rest of the people in the united states came to california and they all started to search for gold and thats how the foot ball team for california is named the 49ers becaus eof the california gold rush -
cival war
he American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War just like sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America.
