Jayda Vasquez Social Studies Timeline

  • James Town

    James Town

    The first permanent english settlement in North America.
  • The Mayflower Compact

    The Mayflower Compact

    This established the first form of self government in America
  • bill of rights

    bill of rights

    this was made to protect individual rights, and to limit the king's power
  • Boston Massacar

    Boston Massacar

    This was a form of a big crowd around an angry colonist arguing with a British Soldier
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    This imposed tax on almost all printed materials.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    This made british only able to sell tea to the colonies.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonist bordered the British ships and dumped 342 crates of British tea into the Boston Harbor.
  • Battle of lexington and concord

    Battle of lexington and concord

    British soldiers marched into lexington and concord and took colonial weapons and arrested members of the sons of liberty(first battle of the American Revolution)
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    this was made to inform people about how Britain was treating the colonist and urging the colonist to fight back
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    This was written so that Great Britain could get their independence to list grievances against King George.
  • battle of saratoga

    battle of saratoga

    this was considered the turning point because France pledged their help to the U.S
  • Winter at valley forge

    Winter at valley forge

    George washington accomplished by training his men to make more professional Army, ready for spring
  • Battle of yorktown

    Battle of yorktown

    This was the last major battle of the Revolution (french supported the americans)
  • the treaty of paris

    the treaty of paris

    the americans gain independence, and land all the way to the mississippi river
  • the northwest ordinance

    the northwest ordinance

    They passed this law to see how the territories will be governed
  • constitutional convention

    constitutional convention

    This was used to amend the articles of confederation and to see how the states will receive power
  • prison reform

    prison reform

    this made separate children, women and men
  • war of 1812

    war of 1812

    this was a war between great britain and america ,this war was caused from british interfering with american ship trade
  • temperance movement

    temperance movement

    this was made to abolish all alcoholic beverages
  • indian removal act

    indian removal act

    this act gave the president the power to make removal treaties to move americans east of the mississippi
  • abolition movement

    abolition movement

    this was made to abolish and end slavery
  • trail of tears

    trail of tears

    the cherokees were forced to to give up land east of the mississippi river and to migrate to an area in present-day oklahoma.
  • seneca falls convention

    seneca falls convention

    this was created to get a resolution signed by as many people as they could,and get a declaration passed
  • compromise of 1850

    compromise of 1850

    Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished
  • rain on harpers ferry

    rain on harpers ferry

    this was led by john brown and the purpose was to attack the u.s arsenal because he wanted weapons to teach slaves to fight for their freedom.
  • homestead act

    homestead act

    the homestead act was given to settlers 160 acres of public land in the west for FREE
  • battle of antietam

    battle of antietam

    this was the bloodiest one day battle in history, many bodies were scattered
  • emancipation proclamation

    emancipation proclamation

    this was made to free all slaves in the rebelling confederate states.
  • freedmans bureau

    freedmans bureau

    this helped newly freed african americans adjust to life after slavery
  • civil rights act

    civil rights act

    this granted citizenship to those born in the u.s but (doesn't include Native Americans)