TImeline

By jjbugs98
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus Finds America

    Columbus and a bunch of random other people sailed on a ship. They got lucky and ran into america.They though it was a diffrent place entirely.

  • 13 Original Colonies

    Some wanted to be in charge and change things that they did not like in England. The first colony was Virginia. It was started in 1607 at Jamestown. The last colony of the thirteen to be started was Georgia in 1732.

  • French/Indian War

    The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. At the start of the war, the French North American colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 compared to 2 million in the English North American colonies.[3] The outnumbered French pa

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.

  • Revolutionary War

    The American Revolutionary War was the revolt against Great Britain by the thirteen American colonies which later founded the United States of America.

  • Writing of the Constitution

    The United States Constitution was written in 1787 during the Philadelphia Convention. The old Congress set the rules the new government followed in terms of writing and ratifying the new constitution.

  • Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, and the development of machine tools. It also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal.

  • Lewis and Clark

    The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804, from near St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.

  • Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861.