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In 1607, English men arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
20-30 slaves arrived to Point Comfort, aboard the english ship, White Lion. -
The H.O.B was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1619 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America. -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, a religious group in England. They founded their colony to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas. -
declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England and that the North American colonies could only export their commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, to England -
this was a final attempt to drive out the colonists and is considered the deadliest war American has ever seen. The colonist army burned villages as they went, killing women and children. The war decimated the Narragansett, Wampanoag, and many smaller tribes, paving the way for additional English settlements. -
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia. -
in Britain in 1688, when Roman Catholic James II was removed as king and replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband William III (William of Orange). -
King William's War, also known as the First French and Indian War, was an armed conflict between England and France in North America. The war was a battle over control of North America. -
a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony -
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James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists climbed 40 feet up the bluff from the Savannah River on this day in 1733 and founded the colony of Georgia. -
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
The Industrial Revolution was a period of major mechanization and innovation that began in Great Britain and later spread throughout much of the world. -
a political and military struggle waged between 1765 and 1783 when 13 of Britain's North American colonies rejected its imperial rule. The protest began in opposition to taxes levied without colonial representation by the British monarchy and Parliament. -
British soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
To protest the British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. -
Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
The Declaration of Independence's goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and announce the creation of a new country. -
it was the American defeat of the superior British army that lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. -
created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. -
Though Jefferson had only narrowly defeated Adams in 1800, he was widely popular due to the Louisiana Purchase and a strong economy. -
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President Madison signed the Congressional war measures into law on June 18, 1812, marking the official commencement of the hostilities. -
Following the defeat of an American force at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, 1814, a British army led by Major-General Robert Ross marched on Washington City. That night, his forces set fire to multiple government and military buildings, including the Presidential Mansion and the United States Capitol. -
Spain ceded East Florida to the United States and renounced all claim to West Florida. -
warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute. -
On November 6, 1860, voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President, in an act that led to the Civil War. -
Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered -
defined the meaning of the Civil War -
The United States began building a transcontinental railroad in 1863 to connect the East Coast with the West Coast.