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Period: Jan 22, 1552 to
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh was born in England in the middle of the 16th century. He was the youngest of six. Raleigh was a soldier when he grew up. He served with the French Huguenots, French Protestants, in the French Wars of Religion. -
The Mayflower
An English ship that transported a group of English families known today as the Pilgrims from England to the New World in 1620. -
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The Salem Witch Trial
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom were executed by hanging. One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five people died in jail. -
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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. -
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The French and Indian War/The 7 Year War
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
United States Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence, officially The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania State House, which was later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -
The Battle of Trenton
on the morning of December 26, in Trenton, New Jersey. After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton the previous night, Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian auxiliaries garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, almost two-thirds of the Hessian force were captured, with negligible losses to the Americans. The battle significantly boosted the Continental Army's waning morale, and inspired re-enlistments -
The Battle of Saratoga
British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of 7,200–8,000 men southward from Canada in the Champlain Valley, hoping to meet a similar British force marching northward from New York City and another British force marching eastward from Lake Ontario; the goal was to take Albany, New York. The southern and western forces never arrived, and Burgoyne was surrounded by American forces in upstate New York 15 miles short of his goal. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. -
The U.S Constution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789. Originally comprising seven articles, it delineates the national frame and constraints of government. -
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John Adams Presidency
John Adams was inaugurated as the second president of the United States on March 4, 1797 and ended on March 4, 1801. He was the only member of the Federalist Party to ever serve as president, and his presidency ended after a single term following his defeat in the 1800 presidential election. He was succeeded by Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party. -
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Thomas Jefferson Presidency
Thomas Jefferson served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809, defeating John Adams in the 1800 presidential election. This election was a political realignment in which the Democratic-Republican Party swept the Federalist Party out of power, ushering in a generation of Jeffersonian Republican dominance in American politics. Jefferson was succeeded by James Madison, also of the Democratic-Republican Party.