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Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered the Americas
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Another Colony was set up from Europe in order to make profits
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The Pilgrims come over from Europe and start a colony.
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The religious movement within the Colonies that reignited the importance of religion in everyday life
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War between Britain and France. Heavily taxed the British for defending the 13 colonies
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Where British troops fired upon a crowd of bystanders killing several including one Crispus Attucks. Story vary from source from source
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Acts passed by King George to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party
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The shot heard 'round the world. The first battle in the revolutionary war.
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The 13 colonies stage a rebellion against the tyrannical king and win.
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The US wrote the Declaration of Independence and separated from Great Britain
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George Washington takes the continental army and trains them to be stronger with the help of the French
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A rebellion staged by farmers because the taxes were too high they couldn't pay off their debts
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A new form of government for the newly made United States
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin speeding up production of cotton increasing the need for slave labor in the South
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The court case that gave federal courts the ability of Judicial Review. That allowed them to cancel something by declaring unconstitutional.
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This purchase by Thomas Jefferson defined the limits of the Constitution and doubled the size of US for a cool $15 million dollars
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A war between Britain and the US because of British impressment of sailors.f
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A statement to European nations that said that they are not allowed to colonize anything more in the new world for they are being protected by the US
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The Erie Canal is made in New York making the state an economic hotspot
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President Jackson forced Cherokee and other Native Americans off of their land on anew killed 4000 natives.
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A war between the US and Mexico that led to the US annexing more or less half of Mexico
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The US enters the Industrial Revolution and becomes more industrial and urbanized.
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Dred Scott went to court and lost. The court ruled that slaves were more property than people and had no right to go to court
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A small little war that happened in the US.
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A proclamation the freed all slaves in the US within the Confederacy
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Where Robert E. Lee Surrendered the Confederacy to Ulysses S. Grant of the Union
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President Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theater