Extra credit timeline

By David.17
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus "discovers" america

  • Jan 1, 1500

    The columbian exchange

  • u.s war debt and taxes

  • Indentured servants arrive for the first time

  • James Town started

  • African slaves are brought to james town

  • James town starts selling tobacco for profit

  • Puritans arrive in the new world

  • Massachusettes bay colony starts

  • Bacon's declaration

  • James town is exporting over a million and a half pounds of tobacco a year

  • Salem witch trials

  • French and indian war

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • The stamp act

  • The quartering act

  • Sons of liberty founded

  • Boston tea party

  • Revolutionary war

  • Thomas paine, common sense

  • America declares independance from brittain

  • Articles of confederation

  • The constitution is written

  • The constitution is written

  • Andrew jackson elected president

  • Indian removal act

  • Trail of tears

  • The civil war

  • John brown, the gospel army

  • Buffalo massacre

  • italians immigrate to the u.s

  • Prohibition repealed

  • Sacco and vanzetti

  • The great depression

  • Columbus day becomes a holiday