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This is the when people were taken from their homes in Africa to work in America for the English.
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The settlers of Roanoke Island, who arrived in 1587, disappeared in 1590 with no trace.
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104 boys and men started a settlement for their English families to grow and live in this New World, North America.
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The Mayflower Compact was filled with laws so the Plymouth settlement would have the ability to flourish.
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Johnson was a black working as a slave or indentured servant, and ending up growing in wealth.
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Penn's petition was granted and The King signed the Charter of Pennsylvania.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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It was the revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies.
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The French and Indian War, later became a global war when it spread to Europe in 1756, which ended in Seven Years War.
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A plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin.
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An act of the British Parliament that taxed American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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Jackson was elected on this day as became known as the people’s president,
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The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred when American colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
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Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress, but wanted to appear as united colonies in their reply to Britain. The purpose of the First Continental Congress was not to seek independence from Britain.
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Since the Second Continental Congress was made, they were able to actually declare independence with the Declaration of Independence document.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. It was a confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire.
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It was a written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States.
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At Yorktown, Cornwallis’s army surrender knowing they didn’t have the resources and couldn’t make a comeback anymore.
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Armed rebellion in the newly-formed United States of America led to the creation of a stronger central government.
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The Constitutional Convention was made to decide how America was going to be governed.
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The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it.
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On this date, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
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In his farewell Presidential address, George Washington advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties and issued a special warning to be wary of attachments and entanglements with other nations.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 amid widespread fear that war with France was imminent.
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Thomas Jefferson is elected the third president of the United States.
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The purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion.
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Lewis and Clark's team mapped uncharted land, rivers, and mountains. They brought back journals filled with details about Native American tribes and scientific notes about plants and animals they'd never seen before.
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In 1815, British won the war that America’s rage started.
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the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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The best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe.
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Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery,
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The Compromise of 1850 is a group of five laws passed in September of 1850.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. Uncle Tom's Cabin did increase the differences between the North and the South
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A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate about slavery.
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The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.
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The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant.
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This was a war over slavery fought by the South and North, and North won.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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In this Lincoln was shot in the theater by John Wilkes Booth
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Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, before the Civil War had ended.
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With his three ships and his crew, Christopher Columbus finally arrived in America (which he thought was Asia at the time).
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In Ethiopia, Africa, Zewditu Desta Christopher Brooks was born.
