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Jamestown Founded\ Jamestown is an English colony founded in 1607. Jamestown is located in Virginia.
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Origins of Slavery Slavery was first introduced to the New World when the Dutch brought the first African slaves to America.
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth Pilgrims originally landed in Provincetown Massachusets. A month later, pilgrims crossed Cape Cod Bay to make their permaneant settlement at Plymouth.
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Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of colonists accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusets. The trials resulted in 20 people being executed with most of them being women.
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White Cloud the Albino Buffalo Part of the Seven Years' War, the French and Indian war is a extension to the havoc happening in Europe. The French and Indian war took over the span of nine years.
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Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre was a street fight between the American colonists and the British officers. Amercian colonists were gunned down in the streets by British officers.
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Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party happened on December 16, 1773. The Sons of Liberty poured tea into the sea in protest of the Tea Act.
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The Delcaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence was created on July 4, 1776. The original draft was written by Thomas Jefferson.
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Treaty of ParisThe Treaty of Paris ended the American Civil War. The Treaty of Paris was signed by King George III.
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Shay's Rebellion was a series of protests throughout 1786 and 1787. The protests were by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections.
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New Hampshire become the ninth state to ratify the Constitution on Jun 21, 1788. The government agreed that the U.S Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789.
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest during the presidency of George Washington. The Whiskey Rebellion was also known as the Whiskey Insurrection.
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Lewis & Clark Expedition The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson after the Lousiana Purchace in 1803. U.S Army volunteers travelled with Lewis and Clark.
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War of 1812The War of 1812 lasted over the period of two and a half years. The War of 1812 had thge United States of America fight against the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies.
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The Missouri Compromise was created in attempts to qualm the tensions between the anti-slavery Northern states and the slave-owning Southern states.
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Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy forced the Cherokee nation from the Mississippi River to present-day Oklahoma. This is dubbed the "Trail of Tears" because of its devastating effects.
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The Alamo American soldiers fought for Texas' Independence at the Alamo from Mexico. American forces were able to win desspite being heavily outnumbered.
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The United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico fought over territory near Mexico and Texas. The war ended in a decisive American victory.
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The California Gold Rush start on January 24, 1848 by James W. Marshall. Americans across the country came to California to mine for gold nuggets and riches.
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A series of bills passed the the United States Congress in 1850 to defuse political tension. California would join as a free state and slave trade was banned in Washington, D.C.
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The Kansas Nebraksa Act would allow states to vote to have slavery or not, also known as popular sovereignty.
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Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln, a presidential candidate against slavery, was voted into office on November 6, 1860. This caused the Southern states get closer to the point of seceding from the Union.
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Civil War in One WordIn the Civil War, the slave-owning Confederacy fought the anti-slavery Union for its independence from the Union. The Confederacy surrendered on April 9, 1865.
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American RailroadA golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah to signal the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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in 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south. And with the Republican governments collapsing, reconstruction ends by the end of May 1877.
