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**Founding of Jamestown.**
Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America. I find this to be one of the biggest things in history because its the start of a country, and a new beginning. -
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Significant events in United States History
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Mayflower Compact.
The Mayflower Compact was drawn up with fair and equal laws, for the general good of the settlement and with the will of the majority. -
**French and Indian War,**
Smouldering rivalry for dominance of the Ohio valley burst into flames in May 1754, when an expedition under Washington ambushed an alleged French ‘embassy’ that was stalking him. This is a big part in U.S history because it started the war. -
**Sugar Act.**
When the british put a tax on the sugar and the people protested it. It was the first act against the goverment. -
Stamp Act.
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
**Boston Massacre.**
British redcoats killed five civilian men. This started most of all the fights with the comman people and the goverment. All because Five innocent men were killed. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America -
Second Continental Congress.
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties. -
Battle of Saratoga.
conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American Revolutionary War. Generally regarded as a turning point in the war -
Battle of Yorktown.
Decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Paris
Formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule -
**Bill of Rights**
These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property including freedoms of religion, speech, a free press, free assembly, and free association, as well as the right to keep and bear arms. This gave us rights.Told us what we COULD and COULDN'T DO. -
Nullification Crisis
This compromise tariff received the support of most northerners and half of the southerners in Congress. -
**Alamo.**
This was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under. This is the falling out with mexico and american. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands that would help settlement in them, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries and to settle there. -
Lincoln's election's
In the face of a divided and dispirited opposition, the Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the White House with very little support from the South. -
**Civil War**
Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America to fight for independence. This started the biggest war in the time, and in the end it would determine if slaves would contuine or be free. -
Emancipation Proclamation.
It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. -
**Thirtheenth Amendment**
Which outlawed slavery in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion in 1863. This was the main ending of the reason for the civil war, what they fought for the won. -
**The End of the Civil War**
This is the ending of the war. Where the Union won the war. This stoped all the fighting and finished everything that was going on. -
**Lincoln's Assassination**
Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, He's killing was the first mark on american history to end this way.
