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The first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of James river. -
John Smith led the exploration along rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, which led him to become the first English explorer to map Chesapeake Bay area. -
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
A British Army officer known for training reformers. His victory over the French at Quebec in 1759 which resulted in the unification of Canada and American colonies under British crown. -
The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain. -
A founding father and the principle of the Declaration of Independence. -
The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest. -
The Mexican-American War, waged between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent. -
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865 -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Written to affirm that the Government of the United States exist to serve its citizen -- " We the People " -
Wrote the Constitution, he drafted the first ten amendments also known as the Bill of Rights -
Famous units fighting in Cuba known as the " Rough Riders " was the name given to the first U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Roosevelt. -
America Declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbour. -
The Progressive movement was a turn-of-the-century political movement interested in furthering social and political reform, curbing political corruption caused by political machines, and limiting the political influence of large corporations. -
Was the leader of the Progressive Movement