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Virginia Company of London received a charter from King James I to create a settlement in the New World. Upon landing in by the Chesepeake Bay, Native Americans attacked the settlers but a few survived to name a location on the James River, Jamestown.
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Jamestown was on verge of collpase until John Smith took the reins of the colony. He enorced hard work and whipped the other colonists into shape. Nevertheless, few survived under Smith's leadership, but without him, all would be dead.
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The husband of Pocahontas, John Rolfe, became the econominc savior of Jamestown after he learned to cultivate tobacco. Europeans had a insane craving for tobacco and John Rolfe discovered that Jamestown had apt soil for the crop. Colonists who came to the New World hunting for gold to make them rich turned to tobacco to be their cash cow. Tobacco put Jamestown on the map and gave it prosperity.
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The Puritans accepted a charter anf formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and fleed the England they so much resented. The Puritans started a colony in Massachusetts and about twenty-thousand followed them in years to come.
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The new cash crop, sugar, brought millions of slaves to the Colonies to tend to the sugar cane fields and its production.
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The Britsh parliment passed taxes, such as the Sugar and Stamp Act, that hike up the prices of goods to insane levels, along with creating laws, such as The Navigation Laws and the Quartering Act.
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Around 1,000 Virgina-men revolted against their Govenor, William Berkeley, for being too peaceful towards Native Americans. The rebels, led by Bacon, attacked Natives, threw Berkeley out of Virgina, and torched the capitol.
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In very rapturous sermons, Jonathan Edwards preached that full faith in God was the only way to reach eternal salvation.
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After three Anglo-French wars have been fought in Europe, The French and Indian War was the first Anglo-French War fought in the Colonies. The war was fought almost everywhere (including Africa) and the French ended up losing te war along with their holdings in America
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Govenor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, leads a band of Colonists dressed as Natives and dumped over taxed British tea into the harbor as a sign of protest.
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A Britsh commander in Boston sent his troops to seize gunpowder from Colonial rebles at Lexington. The rebel "Minute Men" did not leave their holdings in Lexington rapidly enough for the British, and shots were eventually fired. This started the Revoultionary War as opposed to just a rebellion.
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Delegates from the thirteen Colonies gathered in Philedelphia, similar to the First Continental Congress in 1774. There they decided that Gerorge Washington would lead the American military force.
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Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence and brought it to the Congress in Philedelphia and was signed by each of the men in the Congress. The Declaration explained and proclaimed American freedom from Great Britain.
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The American win at the Battle of Saratoga was the catalyst for the French alliance and foregian aid. This aid greatly helped the Americans and the war, probably, would not have been won by the Americans without it.
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Congress called upon a comittee to draft a Constitution for the new nation in 1776. The papaer was soon called the Articles of Confederation and was accepted into Congress in 1777. It was finall ratified by all 13 states in 1781.
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Three American diplomats, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay, went to Paris to negotiate peace. After the Treaty was signed, Great Britain officially recognized America as independent.
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George Washington was elected the first leader of the new nation when delegates from each state gathered in Philedelphia at the Constitutional Convention.
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James Madison drafts the Bill of Rights and Congress passed it. The Bill of Rigths are the first ten Amendments in the Constitution that safeguard American principles and rights.
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Just as slave trade was beginning to die down, Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin, and the demand for slaves picks up again.
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George Washington leaves office and warns Americans that political parties (such as the Federalist and Democratic-Republicans) will be maiginant to the country and isolationism should be upheld.
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During this time, the protestant chirch began to revive itself and many riding the new evangelical wave became politically active in reform movements.
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Napolean Bonaparte of France sold Lousiana in Western North America to Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe for $15 million. Louis and Clark explored this territory.
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America declared another war on Britain, still being the world's largest army. It resulted out of each country attempting to block eachother's trade efforts and ended with an American victory.
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Andrew Jackson was elected as president and created "Jacksonian Democracy". This new philosphy was built on expansionism, universal white male sufferage, a strict constitution, lasiez-faire economics, and less power for the national bank.
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The new invention of the railroad brought way to a new revolution years to come in America- the Industrial Revolution.
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While Texas was a war zone on the issue of whether it shold belong to America or Mexico, Mexican General Santa Anna killed all Texan rebels. This instilled a great sense of vengence in the rebels and was a driving force for them to defeat Santa Anna's army from then on.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott led the Convention and discussed women's social, civil, and religous rights. This was the first act of female sufferage and organization.
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During this time, Americans were split by their ideas on slavery. Being that Kansas was a popular soverienity state, thousands of intense Americans went over to Kansas to vote on what they thought the state should be- free or slave. Kansas ended up being a Free State.
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These were the seven debates between the two presidential hopefuls. The argued mainly on the topic of slavery.
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The Radical Republican Lincoln beats his three other opponents for the presidnecy.
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South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee all secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America.
