-
The 3 ship that set sail for Jamestown.
-
The Mayflower set sail from England to the New World.
-
William Sayle founded South Carolina.
-
William Penn founded Pennsylvania
-
The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg, Virginia.
-
Benjamin Franklin is born in boston. Without Ben we would not have electrisity and our lives would be so different. It would be like living in the stone age.
-
War broke out between the Native Americans and the North Caroline Settlers
-
The first American public libary was founded by Benjamin Franklin
-
The Sons of Liberty apposed the Stampact. The Stampact was where the British wanted to put taxes on for the Offical stamps. These stamps were put onto any documents or paper products.
-
A mob in Boston attacks Thomas Hutchison. He was still on Englands side and people were not happy with that so they sent a mod to his house. Luckly Thomas heard news of the mob coming and he was able to take his family to satey before they got there.
-
News of the repeal of the stampact results in celibration and the Americans boycotting England
-
The Townshend Act constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans, including lead, paper, paint, glass and tea. In 1770 it was repealed
-
The Boston Tea Party "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston".
The Americans dumped all the Tea the the ships brought over into the harbor. -
General Gage ordered 700 British soldiers to Concord to destroy the colinists wapon depot. This started the revolutionary war
-
England offically declared an end to hostillites in America.
-
The US army is established.
-
John Adams was elected the seconded president.
-
Mar 4, 1797 - Mar 3, 1801 John Adams is President
-
THe Population grew from 2.2 million to 2.8 million people. More people decided to live closer to the Atlantic Ocean enabling them to ship goods and fish for food.
-
Thomas Jefferson won the election by promising to get rid of all federal taxes in the 1801 election. The Supreme Court ruled that Jefferson had won after he tied with Aaron Burr, who became the Vice President.
-
Jefferson purchaces 800,000 square miles of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon for $15 million dollars.
-
-
William Henry Harrison introduced these acts, where white people pushing for new land kicked out the native americans out for new land.
-
Lewis and Clark on their expedition route.
-
James Madison becomes President
-
The population in the United States was 7,239,881 people in 1810. Out of all those people 1,191,362 were slaves.
-
Congress decided to fund the War of 1812 by raising taxes on imported goods and issued $5,000,000 in bonds. This was an important economic event because over-taxed goods affected how much people bought. America could risk losing thousands of dollars.
-
During the first year of Madison's Presidency, 1809, trade with France and England was not allowed. Trade resumed with the two nations in May 1810. Under pressure from a group in Congress on June 1, 1812 President James Madison asked Congress to declare war. England US ships were prevented from passing through to france by England causing ajamor issue. This put the trading system between Enland and The United States in jeopardy and the only possible solution was war.
-
-
British burn Capitol building in Washington
-
James Monroe becomes President.
-
Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers.
-
Spain traded part of Florida to pay their debt of $5 million dollars.
-
Meant for Michigan this treaty is called the Treaty of Chicago, The Treaty officially gave the United States the state of Michigan. Lewis Cass the Michigan Territoral Govenor at the time along with various Native American tribes signed the treaty.
-
John Quincy Adams become the sixth president of the United States
-
Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh President of the United States
-
President Jackson passed this act.
Cherokee and other tribes were dragged from their homes in Georgia and herded West by Federal troops. If the native Americans refused to move they met with military Force -
This war only lasted from May to August. It was lead by the Native American Black Hawk with different Native American tribes against citizens of the United States. THe Native Americans wanted their land back, but the government made a treaty for the government to take the land official.
-
the original Native American people living in Arkansa were called the Bluff Dwellers. They lived along the mississippi and Arkens Rivers.
-
Nartin Van Buren becomes the eigth President of the United States
-
The first depression of the United States. The cause was Jackson's law that banks would not be allowed to accept paper notes as a form of payment. Depression hit when the banks lost money. President Van Buren was opposed to direct government action.
-
William Henry Harrison becomes the ninth President of the united States.
-
John Tyler becomes the tenth President of the United States
-
1000 pioneers headed to Oregon in 1843 for a new start. The reports of fertile soil, towering forest, sunny weather, and farms free to those who wanted them attacted many to head to Oregon.
-
trade opens up between the United States and the far east with the signing of a treaty with China
-
President John Tyler signed the resolution adding Texas as a state to the United States.
-
James Knox Polk becomes the eleventh President of the United States
-
The United states were fighting for New Mexico, California, and part of Northern Mexico. The U.S. army captured Mexico City, which forced Mexico to sell the northern part of Mexico for 15 million dollars.
-
The treaty declared claim to California and New Mexico as land belonging to the United States. This treaty was the major accomplishment of President James Knox Polk.
-
Many people came west to California to find gold and many did not find any.
-
Zachary Taylor becomes the twelveth President of the United States.
-
The treaty was negotiated by John M. Clayton (United States) and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer (United Kingdom). The treaty was an attempt to build the Nicaragua Canal that would connect to the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
-
Henry Clay debates slavery and warns Americans about the South's seccession.
-
The Kansas-Nebraska At divided the land west of Missouri into Two Territories, The line seperated free and slave states.
-
This was a Landmark decision by the supreme court which the court stated that African Americans, slave or free were not citizens. This meant they could not sue in public court. The decision angered many Americans.
-
John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He is unsuccessful to obtain arms fo a slave insurrection. Brown is hang for treason on Dec 2.
-
South Carolina secedes from the Union causing the CIvil War.
-
Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, becomes the nineteenth president of the United States. The south was outraged because they knew Licoln would try to abolish slavery. This brought the country closer to Civil War.
-
Seven States secede from the union forming the Confederate States of America.
-
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was attacked and surrendered. This was the start of the Civil War.
-
Battle of Shiloh, Second Battle of Bull Run, and a major truning point in the civil war the Battle of Antietam which was the first battle the South did not win.
-
Congress abolishes slavery in the District of Columbia - a road for freedom for African - Americans.
-
Licoln's Emanipation Proclamation took efect January 1, legally freeing slaves in areas of the South in rebellion.
-
General Sherman burns everything in his path.
-
Lincoln is killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theator. Vice-president Johnson becomes president.
-
Confederat General Lee surrenders at Appomatics Court House.
-
The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slaver and was ratified.
-
Congress approved the fourteenth amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection under the law to all citizens. The amendment would also grant citizenship to Afro - Americans
-
President Johnson is impeached and acquitted
-
This amendment graned citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the United States.
-
Civil war general Ulysses S. Grant is elected as president.
-
Congress sent the fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution to the states for approval. Afro - Americans were guarantee the right to vote.
-
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
-
Rutherford B Hayes becomes president of the United States
-
James A. Garfield was elected president.
