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Oct 12, 1492
Finding Americas
Columbus found the Americas when trying to find the indies looking for god, glory, and gold. -
Jamestown, Virginia
First permanet British colony after Columbus found Americas in 1492. -
Pilgrams settled in Americas
Pilgrams found this place so they could get away from British Parliment. -
French Indian War
French and Indian war wasn't really between French and Indians. It was between British and the French and the French and Indians formed an alliance to try to take the British down. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George 111 put this up after the French Indian war to relieve the indians -
British Parliment
King George had power to tell the colonist what he wanted thats why the pilgrams went to the americas so they dont get killed -
Virginia House of Burgesses
Was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. -
Townshed Acts
Was a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It grew tension that had been growing since the British troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Tea Act
It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was struggling financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
The first war of the American War. Americans won -
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American Revolutionary War
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Olive branch petitition
final attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. -
Battle at Bunker Hill
Britiish were planning to send troops to surround the city and ended up being a fight after the Americans sent 1200 troops in to defeat the British -
Thomas Payne (Common Sense)
Inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776 -
Declaration of Independence
A declaration to declare independence for Britian -
Battle at Trenton
The Battle of Trenton took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. It was a war after the war ended but nobody knew about it so they just kept fighting -
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Valley Forge
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Articles of Confederation were ratified
was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
Shays rebellion
It was cause by several factors: financial difficulties brought about by a post-war economic depression, a credit squeeze caused by a lack of hard currency, and fiscally harsh government policies instituted in 1785 to solve the state's debt problems -
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Philadelphia Convention
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Northwest Ordinance
was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. -
Bill of Rights ratified
Alson called the Admendments, Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-Federalists who had opposed Constitutional ratification, these amendments guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. -
Cotton Gin
Made by Eli Whitney to make the workers do more work in a shorter amount of time -
Whiskey Rebelilon
was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchange were forced to pay a new tax. -
XYZ affair
The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
Alien Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798 in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a two and a half-year military conflict between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Indian allies. -
Kansas Nebraska act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861