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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers the Americas
Columbus thought that the Atlantic Ocean was the only thing between Eeurope and the East Indies. He set sail from Palos, Spain with three small ships (the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria) on August 3, 1492. He reached shore in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. During his lifetime he led 4 expeditions to the new world. -
Walter Raleigh gets the pattent to explore and settle in America
Walter Raliegh - was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularizing tobacco in England. He was born to a protestant family in the city of Devon. In 1585 he was appointed a patent to explore and settle in the U.S. -
The Bill of Rights was passed
The bill of rights was passed in 1688. The bill was also drawn from Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, drafted by George Mason in 1776. Includes the 12 amendments to the United States Constitution. These were designed to protect the rights of citizens of the United States. Guaranteeing the freedom of speech, the right of the press, to have assembly, and the right to practice religion. It also protected the rights to bear arms, and the powers that the government were for the people of the U.S. (Vo -
The Stamp Act
The stamp act of 1765, was the first internal tax levy directed to all American colonists by the British Government. The reasoning for the act was because of the British being in almost total debt from the seven years’ war. It was looking towards the North American colonies for a resource for the government. -
Boston Tea Party
on December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 barrels of tea overboard. this resulted in the passage of the punitive coercive acts in 1774 and pushed the USA and the UK even closer to war. -
american revolution started
The American Revolution is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their freedom -
George Washington appointed general
On this day in 1775, George Washington, who would one day become the first American president, accepts an assignment to lead the Continental Army. Washington had been managing his family’s plantation and serving in the Virginia House of Burgesses when the second Continental Congress unanimously voted to have him lead the revolutionary army. He had earlier distinguished himself, in the eyes of his contemporaries, as a commander for the British army in the French and Indian War of 1754. -
bill of rights ratified
Following ratification by the state of Virginia, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, become the law of the land. In September 1789, the first Congress of the United States approved 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. The amendments were designed to protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens, guaranteeing the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and exercise of religion; the right to fair legal -
civil war starts
The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort. On April 13, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort. Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern “ -
abraham lincoln
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
