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Jamestown Founded
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House of Burgesses
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Plymouth Colony Founded
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Colony of Maryland founded by James Calvert
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Connecticut founded by Thomas Hooker
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City of New Netherlands renamed New York
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King Philip's War
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Bacon's Rebellion
Settlers led by Nathanial Bacon rebel against Virginia Governor William Berkeley. -
William Penn granted charter for Pennsylvania
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Salem Witch Trials
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Georgia Founded
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French and Indian war
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, the American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war fought between France and Great Britain. (The European phase was the Seven Years’ War.) As a result of the war, France ceded all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi River to Britain. The costs of the war contributed to the British government’s decision to impose new taxes on its American colonies. -
Treaty of Paris - 1763
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, Britain forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This made the colonists mad, because they had already begun to settle the land in that area after the war.
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Stamp Act passed by Parliament
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected was to be used to help pay the costs of protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains.
What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. If this new tax were allowed to pass the door would be open for more taxation in the future. -
Quartering Act 1765
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The Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
Bostonian colonists protest the Tea Act with the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
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The Revolutionary War
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Declaration of Independence Signed
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Articles of Confederation
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Treaty of Paris 1783
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Constitution Adopted
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President George Washington
In 1789, the first presidential election, George Washington was unanimously elected president of the United States. With 69 electoral votes, Washington won the support of each participating elector. No other president since has come into office with a universal mandate to lead. -
Whiskey Rebllion
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Presidency of John Adams 1797-1801
John Adams Jr. was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. -
Louisiana Purchase
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Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe articulated United States’ policy on the new political order developing in the rest of the Americas and the role of Europe in the Western Hemisphere. The Western Hemisphere was no longer open for European colonization The political system of the Americas was different from Europe. The US would regard any interference in Western hemispheric affairs as a threat to its security. The US would keep out of European wars and would not disturb existing colonies. -
Gadsden Purchase
America was ceded the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico for ten million dollars. This new land gave the south a claim for the railroad, due to more land that was less mountainous and had already been settled. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, John Bell, Stephen Douglas, and John Breckinridge, all run in the election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln wins the election but is a minority because 60% of people did not vote for him. In 10 southern states he wasn't even on the ballet. He was not voted for by very few if any in the south. -
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Civil War
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Black Codes
Laws passed throughout the South to restrict the rights of emancipated blacks, particularly with respect to negotiating labor contracts. Increased Northerners' criticisms of President Andrew Johnson's lenient Reconstruction policies -
Muckrakers
Sensationalist journalists in the 20th century who used their public influence to reveal corporate corruption -
Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
