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  • When Christopher landed foot on North America
    Oct 2, 1492

    When Christopher landed foot on North America

    Christopher discovered the North Americas but was not the first person to step foot in America.
  • Juan Ponce de Leon
    Oct 26, 1513

    Juan Ponce de Leon

    Arrived in Florida and was the first non native person to set foot on the United states besides the vikings.
  • Foudning of the Puritans
    Oct 27, 1558

    Foudning of the Puritans

    It was found by some people who were returning clergy exile under Mary. This was a movement of the church of England.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    the first real settlement.
  • Massachusetts Bay

    Massachusetts Bay

    Founded by the Puritans who believed that the church needed to be purified.
  • Indentured servants

    Indentured servants

    People who wanted to come to the new world but then payed for their voyage by working as servants till they payed it all off.
  • Slaves

    Slaves

    Slave came over to Jamestown to work in the tabacco field and other areas to help the town.
  • Act of Uniformity

    public prayer and ceremonies.
  • Tobacco farms

    Tobacco farms

    When they didn't find gold they started to produce tocacco to make money.
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    Some religious people throught that others believed in the devil and not God. To stop the possessions of the people they started killing them
  • Knowing who Columbus was

    Knowing who Columbus was

    Christopher Columbus wasn't known in the 1700s
  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine

    Lived till June 8, 1809. Was one of the founding fathers of our country. He inspired the rebels to declare freedom from Great Britain.
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    He lives from 1743-1826.
  • French & Indian War

    French & Indian War

    The Ohio river valley brought up arguements so then led to a war.
  • British colonies win

    British colonies win

    They won their first great win at Louisbourg
  • Losing

    Losing

    The French lost one last battle in montreal and lost their last foothold.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    7 years war ended with the treaty of Paris which was
  • Peace Conference

    Peace Conference

    Britian got Canada from France and Florida from Spain
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    England taxing the Colonies.
  • Andrew Jackson-Life

    Andrew Jackson-Life

    Lived from 1767-1845. Him and his family believed in what the Revolutionary war stood for.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colinists went on board a tea boat and threw all the tea over board. Two years later the Revolutionary war broke out.
  • Revolutionary War-Dates

    Revolutionary War-Dates

    to september 2 1783. This war the war where the new world finally became an independent country.
  • The French Coming into the Revolionary War

    The French came in on the Colinists side of the war which help the colinists to win the battle of Yorktown.
  • Wining

    Wining

    When the United States officialy won their intependence from Great Britian.
  • 1st Amendment

    1st Amendment

    First Amendment was passed.
  • Doubts of Our Fathers

    Doubts of Our Fathers

    Jeffersons was more radical and snipped out everything supernatural like the virgin birth and resurrection
  • The boom of tobacco

    The boom of tobacco

    The 1800s is when tobacco really became popular
  • Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

    Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

    He's the "best spokesman" we have for the American ideals of liberty, equality, faith in education, and in the wisdom of the common man. When in reality he took out lots of information of the religion.
  • Seminole War

    Seminole War

    The first seminole war was from 1817-1818.
  • Italian Immigrantes

    Italian Immigrantes

    When the first italians came to the new world to start a new life.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    From the Cherokee indians finding gold resulted in the gold rush.
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    Was president from 1829-1837
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    The Trail of Tears was when american soldiers made the natives move west because they wanted their land.
  • Georgia Law

    Georgia Law

    Prohibited whites from living on Indian territory.
  • Virginia Historical Society

    Virginia Historical Society

    They were founded in 1831
  • 2nd Seminole War

    2nd Seminole War

    The 2nd war was from 1835-1842.
  • Greeks

    15,000 Greeks went west.
  • The Cherokee

    The Cherokee

    These perople were moved to the werst of the Mississippi river. They were also dived into 13 groups and discovered gold in Georgia.
  • 31,000,000 Buffalo

    31,000,000 Buffalo

    Between 1868 and 1881 the Americans killed 31,000,000 buffalo.
  • Buffalo

    Buffalo

    There was a mass killing of the buffalo by the americans.
  • Tobacco farms-mules

    Tobacco farms-mules

    Tobacco was farmed by hand labor and mules
  • What is left

    What is left

    By 1885 there were only 500 buffalo left.
  • Lynching

    Lynching

    more than 20 Italians were lynched
  • Bloodiest Lynching

    Bloodiest Lynching

    The bloodiest Lynching was in New Orleans.
  • Columbus

    Columbus

    1st commemoration of Columbus' journey.
  • Tobacco farms-hours

    Tobacco farms-hours

    It took 900 man labor hours to work one acre of tobacco
  • Columbus Day

    Columbus Day

    Declared it would be celebrated on October 2.
  • New York takes sexual education from the puritan church

    The puritains did not belive in sex ed just to stay abstanent.
  • The corperation

    The corperation

    Major bussinesses short cut the nessasary protocall to get more money. If they get caught they don't care because they can afford the concequences.
  • McCutcheon vs. FEC

    McCutcheon vs. FEC

    This limits the amount of money one person can give to a national party or federal committies.