Battle of new orleans oil painting e 1910

U.S. History Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus Lands in the Americas

    Columbus Lands in the Americas
    It was important that Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas because He discovered the United States of America and if it wasn't for him then we would not have had that many resources and the world would have been much different.
  • Jamestown founded 1607

    Jamestown founded 1607
    This was important because this was where most of the tobacco was to be traded to England so they could use it to trade for other goods in the triangular trade.
  • Pilgrims land in Plymouth

    Pilgrims land in Plymouth
    when the pilgrims and Puritans landed in Boston and settled there and it was one of the starting colonies for New England.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    This was important because the British fought the French for their and won it and used their resources to trade.
  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union
    The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to bring all of the thirteen colonies together to fight France but if they didn't they would die.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    it was a boundary in the Appalachian mountains for the eastern continental divide..
  • Treaty of Paris 1763

    Treaty of Paris 1763
    was a formal treaty that ended the French - Indian War.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act was when the British Made a law that you had to pay tax for every piece of paper you use
  • The Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act
    The British government could not provide food and shelter for all of there soldiers so the soldiers had to live with people in Britain and the people they lived with had to pay. for them. The people of Britain did not like this.
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    American Revolution (Bunker Hill to Yorktown)

    document that established the independence of the United States of America.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    You had to pay tax for stuff like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
  • Tea Act of 1773

    Tea Act of 1773
    The tea act was tea sales so people would stop stealing tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was soldiers sent to Boston and got teased and then they fought people in Boston
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    A British Mercantile Protest where the colonists just stole the tea and threw it overboard just to make the king mad.
  • Intolerable (coercive) Acts

    Intolerable (coercive) Acts
    4 laws from the British to punish the Massachusetts bay colony for the Boston Tea party.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    5 delegates from 12 cones met to discuss a plan to avoid war.
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    It was a variety of fights that led up to the Revolutionary War.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    Another meeting with the 12 delegates from each colony to discuss how to play defense in the war.
  • Olive Branch petition

    Olive Branch petition
    The Petition talked about the loyalty of the British crown and talked about their rights as British citizens.
  • Common sense by Thomas Paine

    Common sense by Thomas Paine
    is a letter about how the 13 colonies should have the same rights as the British.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    This is the signing of the 13 states.
  • Treaty of Paris (1783)

    Treaty of Paris (1783)
    This treaty ended the war of the Revolution.
  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion
    Shay's Rebellion was a disaster in debt after the Revolutionary War when everyone was on their own and didn't have that much money. So then they protested.
  • Congress ratifies the U.S. constitution

    Congress ratifies the U.S. constitution
    The world longest written paper of the United States rules.
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion
    This was a violent protest about tax because people were angry because of the amount of tax they were paying for whiskey.
  • XYZ Afair

    XYZ Afair
    An incident with the French and the United States resulted in a war.
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812
    It was a war that the United States fought against Great Britain to get more land.