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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
In 1492, he founded the New World/America which began the foundations to building up America to the place we know today. -
Sep 8, 1565
Spanish Settled in Florida
In 1565, Saint Augustine settled by the Spanish, becomes the first permanent European colony in North America. -
Jamestown Settlement
In 1607, Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia -
Mayflower Ship and Compact
In 1534, when England changed churches, some Separatists who wanted to break away were able to make an agreement to work for the Virginia Company. Those people left on the Mayflower ship. The plan was to land in Virginia but they ended up landing in the first sight of land, which was Cape Cod. They signed the Mayflower Compact to ensure their loyalty to England while they got their desired religious freedom and freedom of the kingPlymouth was founded in December of 1620. -
French and Indian War
English colonists ran out of land, they moved west. Native Americans and French were upset that the English Colonists moved onto their land. Britain gains control of the Ohio River Valley and other land France claimed. The land in the west is full of unhappy Native Americans who lost the war and some land. Create new taxes to pay off war debt. British soldiers move into French forts. After war, Britain passes Proclamation making illegal for people to move west. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and it became public on July 4th, 1776. It was very risky to show it to everyone but it was for their freedom. He declared that all men are created equal: that was only meant for white business men that are also property owners. One of the main list of grievances in the declaration of independence was a lot of little details but the main one was “taxation without representation” meaning they had to pay taxes but didn’t get a say. -
John Quincy Adams
An American statesman who served as a United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and was the sixth President of the United States from March 4th, 1825 to March 4, 1829. He was born on July 11, 1767 and died February 23, 1848. -
Civil War
The Civil War was a conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) over the expansion of slavery into western states. 1861-1865 -
Woman Suffrage Association
National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. It was created on May 15, 1869 in New York City. The association was created because of a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution -
World War 1
World War 1 lasted from 1914 to 1918. War 1 was also known as the Great War, a conflict between mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, against the Allies of France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It was the largest war the world had yet seen.