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Colonial-era Timeline

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    Colonial-era Timeline

  • Jamestown

    The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America
  • John Rolfe

    saved Jamestown by smuggling tobacco
  • The virginia house of burgesses

    it was the first legislative and democratic government in America
  • Mayflower compact

    it was the first document to establish self-government in the New World
  • King Philip's war

    The war is seen as a final attempt to drive out the colonists and is considered the deadliest war American has ever seen
  • Bacon rebellion

    the most serious challenge to royal authority before the American Revolution (also the most delicious rebellion)
  • French Texas Colonization

    extending the frontier and encouraging cultural development
  • Spain started colonizing and establishing missions

    convert natives to Christianity
  • French and Indian war

    provided Great Britain a lot of land in North America
  • King George the third

    the first truly British monarch of the Hanoverian kings
  • The Treaty of Paris of 1763

    ended the f&i war
  • stamp act

    pushed America to declaring war
  • Sons of Liberty

    The Sons of Liberty were influential in orchestrating effective resistance movements against British rule in colonial America
  • Boston Massacre

    had a major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists
  • Boston Tea party

    was America protesting against British pushing towards a war
  • 1st continental congress

    informed the colonies a shared there views
  • Revolutionary war

    was the fight for independence
  • Patric Henry

    give me liberty or give me death
  • Paul Rauveer

    the British were coming
  • Francis Marrion

    Francis Marrion was best known for his cunning and resourcefulness
  • 2nd continental congress

    voted to approve independence
  • Lexington and Concord

    marked the start of the American War of Independence
  • Declaration of independence

    declared independence
  • Common Sense

    promoting the idea of American exceptionalism and the need to form a new nation to realize its promise
  • Articles of Confederation

    first actual form of government
  • John Paul Jones

    Father of the American Navy
  • Battle of Yorktown

    led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and gave America its independence.
  • Treaty of Paris 1783

    ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation
  • The Treaty of Paris of 1783

    ended the American revolution
  • Shays Rebellion

    Shays's Rebellion exposed the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation
  • great compromise

    the great compromise said that there would be a representation based on population and one equal
  • Federalist papers

    they offer insight into the intentions of key individuals who debated the elements of the Constitution
  • Three fifths compromise

    It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population
  • Constitution is ratified

    informing the public of the provisions of the proposed new government
  • Federalist, anti-federalist and, democratic republicans

    1788/1787/ 1792
    political parties
  • George Washington

    1st United States president
  • Whiskey tax

    adversely impacted farmers on the western frontier.
  • Bill of rights

    It spells out Americans' rights
  • impressment

    caused a growth in tension between the British and the Americans
  • Farewell Address

    It sets a precedent that no one person should overstay as president and warned America of political parties and alliances
  • XYZ Affair

    resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War
  • Alien Act

    tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government
  • Quasi War

    the first seaborne conflict for the newly established U.S. Navy
  • John Adams

    Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States
  • Lousianna purchase

    the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward
  • Anglo and American started to settle in Texas

    Anglo-Americans were drawn by inexpensive land and believed annexation of Texas to the United States was likely and would improve the market for the land
  • Marbury v. Madison

    created the doctrine of judicial review and set up the Supreme Court of the United States as chief interpreter of the Constitution
  • the Voyage of Discovery

    westward expansion
  • Napoleon

    reinstate slavery in French colonies and sell the Louisiana territory to the United States
  • Embargo Act

    outlawed trade between America and any foreign port, effectively closing in the American economy
  • James Madison

    the fourth president of the United States
  • Thomas Jefferson

    was an American Founding Father
  • Impressment ends

    one of the leading causes of the War of 1812 but was discontinued in 1814.
  • Battle New Orleans

    marked the state's political incorporation into the Union.
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

    one of the most important Supreme Court cases regarding federal power
  • Gibbons V. Ogden

    it freed all navigation of monopoly control