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Christopher Columbus, a sailor from Genor, Italy, was convinced he could reach Asia by sailing West across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Spanish government legalized the sale of slaves in its colonies.
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King Henry VIII founded the Church of England, or the Anglican Church.
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The colonist founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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John Rolfe married Pocahontas, daughter of the Powhatan leader.
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George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, asked King Charles I for a charter establishing a new colony in America for Catholics.
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A legal contract that male Pilgrims signed, in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good.
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John Harvard and the General Court founded Harvard College.
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This declared the supremacy of Parliament.
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A religious movement that swept through the colonies.
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Parliament passed the Sugar Act, which set duties on molasses and sugar imported by colonist.
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English man Richard Ark Wright invented a large spinning machine called a water frame.
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Crowds in Boston got angry and british shot 5 people which died.
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Boston Harbor is closed, and British troops are quartered.
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Boston Harbor is closed and the British troops are quartered, the colonist resentment toward British build.
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A 47- page pamphlet that was distributed in Philadelphia.
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The Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence.
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Slavery was legal in all the New England colonies.
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Washington settled his 12,000 men at Valley Forge, north of Philadelphia.
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Mary Ludwig Hays also known as Molly Pitcher, took her hhusbands place loading cannons after he was wounded in battle.
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Spain declares war against Britain.
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Massachusetts has the oldest state Constitution still in effect.
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Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States.
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Farmers in three western countries began a revolt.
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The final draft of the Constitution was completed.
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Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution.
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New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution.
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George Washington becomes the first president of the United States.
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Rhode Island became the last state to ratify the Constitution.
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Americans took part in Christian renewal movement called the Second Great Awakening.
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States has ratified the Bill of Rights, 10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizen's rights.
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Northerner Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that removes seeds from short-staple cotton.
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Robert Fulton tested his first steamboat in France.
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Republican James Madison was elected president.
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John Astor founded a fur-trading post called Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had divided the Louisiana Purchase into either free or slave regions.
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The first college-level educational institution available to women was the Troy Female Seminary, opened by Emma Willard.
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Stephen F. Austin, one young agent, started a Texas colony on the lower Colorado River.
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This act authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
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Nat Turner, a slave, led a group of slaves in a plan to kill all of the slave holders and their family in the country.
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Texans declared their independence from Mexico.
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Horace Mann became Massachusetts's first secretary of education.
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A slave discovered a way to improve the drying process by using heat from burning charcoal, this increased the tabacco production.
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Joseph R. Anderson beacme the owner of the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia which was one of the most productive iron works in the nation.
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John Brown's raid began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.
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President Lincoln was inaugurated.
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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
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Lincoln wrote the Procamation, the order to free the confederate slaves.
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Lincoln attended a play, while he was watching it, John Wilkes Booth, sneacked into the president's theather box and shot him.
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This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.
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Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached, but not found guilty.
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Thurgood Marshall became the first African American justice.
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Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female court justice after he appointment by president Ronald Reagan.
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Bill Clinton was impeached, however the Senate found him not guilty.
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By this year every state except Maryland had ratifies the Articles.
