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"Lost Colony" sponsored by: Walter Ralegh was fpunded on Roanoke Island, off North Carolina coast; settelers found to have vanished, 1590.
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Captain John Smith and 105 cavaliers in 3 ships landed on Virgina coast, started first permanent English settlement in New World at Jamestown.
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The House of Buergesses was the first representative assembely in New World, elected july 30 at Jamestow, VA
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The Mayflower Compact was signed November 12, it was an agreement to form a self-goverment.
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Roger Williams founded providence, RI, in June. as a democratically ruled colony with separation of church and state charter. (Religious reasons)
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The first Navigation Act, passed by the English Parliment, regulating colonial commerce to suit English needs.
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The first German colonist in America settled near Philadelphia. William Penn signed treaty with Delaware Indians April 23 and made payment for Pennsylvania lands.
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Witchcraft delusion at Saem, MA. 20 alleged witches were executed by order of Special Court.
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The Great Awakening is when poor people in Philadelphia rioted. And religios revival began.
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Benjamin Franklin published the first poor Richard's Almannack.
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August 5, editor John Peter Zenger was acquitted of a libel in New York after criticizing the British's governor's conduct in office.
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Conflict in North America from 1754-1763, that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britian; Britian defeated France and gained French Canada.
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April 5, The sugar act was made. It placed dutties of lumber, foodstuffs, molasses, and run in colonies, to pay French and Indian war debts.
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The British further angered American colonists with the Quartering Act, which required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops.
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First direct British tax on American colonists. Instituted in November, 1765. Every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp, or British seal on it.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies
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Series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress brought together representatives from each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts."
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Rhode Island abolished slavery.
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Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 and is well remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech.Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is remembered as one of the most influential exponents of Republicanism, promoters of the American Revolution and Independence,
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Paul Revere and William Dawes, Went on a midnight Ride were they went to go alert Patriot that British were on their way to concord to destroy arms.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Common Sense[1] is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution
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United States 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 were now independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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Battle of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American Revolutionary War (known outside the US as the American War of Independence) and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. The battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground
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The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate.
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On September 23, 1779, John Paul Jones, commander of the Continental Navy’s Bon Homme Richard, defeated the royal warship Serapis. The Richard was badly crippled in the initial close-range exchange of cannon fire, but when the British commander asked if Jones was ready to surrender, Jones cried: “I have not yet begun to fight!”
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Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.
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February of 1783 George III issued his Proclamation of Cessation of Hostilities, culminating in the Peace Treaty of 1783. Signed in Paris on September 3, 1783, the agreement — also known as the Paris Peace Treaty — formally ended the United States War for Independence.
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The United States Constitutional Convention (also known as the Philadelphia Convention,The Federal Convention or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Although the Convention was purportedly intended only to revise the Articles of Confederation,
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Considered to be one of the most significant achievements of the Congress of the Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 put the world on notice not only that the land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi would be settled but that it would eventually become part of the United States.
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George Washington was voted president by all the electors voting. (73 elegible, 69 voting, 4 absent).
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Although 12 amendments were originally proposed, the 10 that were ratified became the Bill of Rights in 1791. They defined citizens' rights in relation to the newly established government under the Constitution.
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Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, causeing the revival of southern slavery.
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In his farewell Presidential address, George Washington advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties and issued a special warning to be wary of attachments and entanglements with other nations.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the largest land acquisition in U.S. history. For $15 million, the U.S. got 828000 square miles of territory. (Doubled the size of the U.S)
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They were sent to explore The Lousiana purchase territories. They both became really good friends.
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Robert Fulton made the first practical steam boat trip.
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The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain from June 1812 to the spring of 1815, although the peace treaty ending the war was signed in Europe in December 1814.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry" a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement 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. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. Prior to the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise and a conference committee was appointed.
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The Monroe Doctrine, opposing European interverntion in the Americas, enunciated by press. James Monroe.
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Cherokee Indians forced to walk the "trail of tears" from Georgia to Oklahoma starting in October.
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First message over first telegraph line sent May 24 by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse.
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Manifest Destiny was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Matt led the Womens Right Convention in Senaca Falls, NY, July 19-20.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance.
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Harriet Baecher Stowe published Uncle's Tom's Cabin.
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Dred Scott (1795-1858) was a slave who sued for his freedom in court, since he had been taken to a "free" state (Wisconsin). He lost his case in St. Louis, Missouri, but won it on appeal. His case was again appealed and Scott lost. The results of his court case led to major political upheavals in the USA and, eventually, the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history--the CIVIL WAR. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president.
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Confederate States of America was made up by 7 southerner states when Jefferson Davis was president.
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Fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC, the civil War began.
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The Batttle of Antientam wa sthe bloodiest 1-day battle in the War. (each side lost over 2000 men).
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President Lincon issued The "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing all states still in Rebellion.
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Lincon gave his Gettysburg Adress November 19.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered 27,800 Confederate Troops to General Grant.
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John Wilkes Both shot President Lincon in Ford's Theatre April 14.
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The 13 Amendment abolished slavery.
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The 14 Amendment provived for critizenship of all persons born or naturalized in U.S
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The 15 Amendment made race no bar to voting rights.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
