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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus arrived to the Americas
Columbus founded the Americas after coming across it on his sea voage. -
First slaves brought to America
The first slaves were introduced into the English-American colonies by a Dutch trader 1619, he sold twenty of them to the settlers at Jamestown, Va. -
Mayflower compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists. Almost half of the colonists were part of a separatist group seeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their own determination and not the will of the Church. -
Pilgrims establish British colony
Plymouth Colony, America's first permanent Puritan settlement, was established by English Puritans in December 1620. The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom, or simply to find a better life. -
French and Indian war
war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict called the Seven Years War. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp act was a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying a revenue stamp. -
First Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies, The Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military battles of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" States Amsericas intent to be free. -
Battle of Saratoga
This was the turning point in the war. It conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American Revolutionary War. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first written constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784. -
Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. Alexander Hamilton wrote 52, James Madison wrote 28, and John Jay contributed the remaining 5. -
Louisianna purchase
By a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803, the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The Louisianna purchase doubled the size of the U.S. -
Compromise of 1850
A package of 5 bills, which stopped a 4 year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories during the Mexican-American War. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands that would help settlement in them, repealed the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. -
Civil War
The American Civil War, was in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America to fight for independence. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation announced that Lincoln would issue an emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. None did return and the actual order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control. The Proclamation made abolition a central goal of the war, -
13th Amendment
Total abolition of slavery was finalized by the Thirteenth Amendment which took effect in December 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the United States, which begun with the Emancipation Proclamation by Lincoln in 1863. -
Battle of York Town
Battle of York Town was a decisive victory by an assault of American forces led by George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis. it proved to be the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War in North America.