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Aug 3, 1492
Discovery of the Americas
Christopher Columbus set out on his first voyage with three ships (the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria) across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain with a crew of 90 men and women to find a westward route to the east. -
Slavery in the New World
It is believed that the first batch of enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas in the early 1600s. European settlers in North America turned to enslaved Africans as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor white Europeans. -
First Settlement in New Americas
A group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in what's now the United States which was established at Jamestown, Virginia. -
First Thanksgiving
First Thanksgiving took place in Virginia. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a period of great revivalism that spread throughout the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It deemphasized the importance of church doctrine and instead put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience. -
Seven Year War
Seven year war was a global conflict between Great Britain and France. The war escalated from a regional conflict between the two super powers into North America, which is known as the French and Indian War -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying a tax on revenue stamp. Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies, and it had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money. -
Boston Tea Party
"Boston Tea Party" was a political protest that occurred because America colonist were frustrated and angry with Great Britain for imposing "taxation without representation" Colonist disguised as Indians threw roughly 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor. -
Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War was initiated by delegates from thirteen American Colonies because they were frustrated with the new taxation laws and law of representation on Great Britain's end. The war officially begins with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. -
Declaration of Indepenance
Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, which provided formal justifications for this resolution. After the approving, each colony started calling themselves states. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, wrote most of the Declaration. -
End of Revolutionary War
Treaty of Paris 1783 signed by Britain and the United States, officially ending the Revolutionary War as the United States is recognized as a sovereign nation. -
Articles of Confederation
Continental Congress adopts a resolution calling for a convention of state delegates to draw up a change to the Articles of Confederation. -
The Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The first three Articles of the Constitution establish the rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government: a legislature, the bicameral Congress; an executive branch led by the President; and a federal judiciary headed by the Supreme Court. -
Bill of rights
The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the constitution. They guarantee civil rights and liberty's to individuals-freedom of speech, press and religion. It set rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the people or to the state. -
The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney's cotton gin revolutionized the cotton economy of the South by making the processing of short staple-cotton simple and economical. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The first three Articles of the Constitution establish the rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government: a legislature, the bicameral Congress; an executive branch led by the President; and a federal judiciary headed by the Supreme Court. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its dependent colonies in North America -
Manifest Destiny
Coined in 1845, it was the idea that the United States was destined (by God) to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. -
The Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the united States from 1861 to 1865. After decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states rights and westward expansion. It was fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the confederate state. One of the more deadlier wars fought on American soil with estimated casualty's to be around 620,000 men on both sides. -
13th Amendment
The thirteenth Amendment - passed by the senate and house and ratified by congress, abolished slavery within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
