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Jamestown Founded
Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas -
Virginia House of Burgesses
House of Burgesses of Virginia was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, sometimes referred to as the "Saints", fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England. They traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620 along with adventurers, tradesmen, and servants, most of whom were referred to, by the Separatists as "Strangers". -
Fundamental Orders of Conn
It has the features of a written constitution, and is considered by some as the first written Constitution in the Western tradition,[3] and thus earned Connecticut its nickname of The Constitution State. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act is the name of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. ... -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The war was fought primarily 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, who declared war on each other in 1756. In the same year, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massaccre was when British Soldiers killed 5 American citizens at Boston. Paul Rever captured this moment. -
Stamp Act
Taxed anything printed on paper by forcing colonists to buy a stamp or seal for paper products. -
Quartering Act
It forced Americans to let British Soldiers to live with them and to take care of them. -
Townshed Act
It was a series of acts on tea,glass,and paper. It was repealed but the tax on tea wasn't. -
Boston Tea Party
A protest with the sons of liberty. They dumped the tea wich was sent by India in the water. -
Tea Act
It was a tax on tea. It got reduced but still had to pay. Merchants refused to unload tea. -
1st Continental Congress
A convention with 12 delegates from the colonies.It was called to talk about the Intoraeble Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
A act to make colonists pay for tea. Stopped all trades between Boston and Britian. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The 1st battles of the American Revolution. -
2nd Continental Congress
It was a convention in Philedalphia.It was that meeting that they would declare independence and start The American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Battle of Saratoga
It was considered the turning point of the American Revolution. -
Articles of Confederation Written
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid-1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777 -
Articles of Confederation Written
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. -
Articles of Confederation were in force
The formal ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, German Battle or Surrender at Yorktown, the latter taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris eneded the American Revolutionary War, It was signed in Paris. The treaty stated that America was free from Britian. -
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Ended the American Revolutionary War. Signed by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay (representing the United States), and David Hartley (a member of the British Parliament representing the British monarch, King George III). The treaty have territory to America. -
3/5 Compromise
It was a compromise that a slave would be reperesented as 3/5 of a preson to taxes and apportinonment. -
Constitutional Convention
Took place in Philedelphia. The convention was tooken place to revise the Articles of Confederation. -
Great Compromise
It was an agreement between the large states and small states that each state would have 2 house represantatives. -
Constitution Written
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution originally consisted of seven Articles. It was adopted in the Constitunional Convention in Philedelphia. -
Washington Takes Office
George Washington was the 1st president of the United States. The people wanted him to be a king first, but it was thought out he was to be a president. -
Bill of Rights
First 10 amendments of the United Staes Constitution.Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-Federalists who had opposed Constitutional ratification, these amendments guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. -
Genet Affair
It was an affair to be neutral. -
Whiskey Rebellion
It was a tax protest for the farmers who made whiskey. Happened during George Washington's presedincey. -
Pinckney’s Treaty
Established a friendship between Spain and United States. Garenteed the Mississippi River to the United States. -
Jay’s Treaty
Was a treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Great Britain that is credited with averting war, resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution.The British pay for damaged to seize ships. -
Adams Takes Office
Adams was the 2nd president of the United Staes. He put on the Alien Acts and Sedition Acts. -
XYZ Affair
France stopped traiting with the U.S. Agents go over to France and France wants bribe but we say no. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Were bills that was passed by the Federalists. Acts for immigration on other white poeple. -
Quasi War Begins
U.S. had been neutral in French vs Britian war until French began seizing merchnats and forcing them to fight on the war. -
Jefferson Takes Office
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president of the Unites Staes. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He also cut the national budget. Also bought Lousiana. -
Louisiana Purchase
Took place of Jefferson presidency.It belonged to France before the U.S. bought it.U.S. paid 50 million for it. -
Marbury v. Madison
When Marbury did not get his commision letters he sued madison. Jefferson had told Madison to say they were lost cause he did not want Marbury in th e court. -
Lewis & Clark Expedition
1st American Expedition from St.Louis on the Missipppi River making their way western to the Pacific Coast. -
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against the United Kingdom and France during the Napoleonic Wars. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
In 1816, Congress chartered The Second Bank of the United States. In 1818, the state of Maryland passed legislation to impose taxes on the bank. James W. McCulloch, the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the bank, refused to pay the tax. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
In this case Thomas Gibbons -- a steamboat owner who did business between New York and New Jersey under a federal coastal license -- challenged the monopoly license granted by New York to Aaron Ogden. New York courts consistently upheld the state monopoly. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains
