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It was sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh, founded on Roanoke Island off the North Carolina Coast.
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Captain John Smith and 105 cavaliers in 3 ships landed on the virginia coast, starting the first permanent English settlement.
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First representative assembly.
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Puritan separatists left Plymouth on the Mayflower, reached Cape Cod with 103 passengers. Signed the Mayflower Compact which helped establish the idea of slef government and majority rule.
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Rounded by Roger Williams as a democratically ruled colony with separation of church and state.
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British parliament passed law regulating colonial commerce to suit English needs.
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Nathaniel Bacon led planters against the British governor Sir Wlliam Berkeley, they burned down Jamestown, rebellion died out when Bacon was killed.
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William Penn signed treaty with Delaware Indians and payed for Pennsylvania lands.
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The witchraft delusion at Salem, MA, 20 "witches" were executed by court.
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Formed the last of the 13 colonies, Georgia.
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Editor John Peter Zenger brought to court in New York after crticizing British Governor's conduct in office, led to the birth of the first amendment.
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Famous sermon delivered at Enfield, MA by Jonathan Edwards a major figure in the revivalist of The Great Awakening.
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Began when france occupied Pittsburgh, the french lost canada and the midwest.
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Tax placed on lumber, food, molasses, and rum in colonies, to pay off debts of French and Indian war.
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Stamp act required revenue stamps on products to help troops. Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers.
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Placed a tax on glass, painter's lead, paper and tea.
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Incident in which british soldiers killed 5 men.
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Angry at the tea tax, calonists dressed up as native americans and borded ships with taxed tea and threw it overboard.
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Series of laws passed by British parliament relating to the colonies, some were direct responses to the boston tea party. These acts angered colonists.
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Congress was held in Philadelphia, called for civil disobedience against the British.
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On April 18th Paul Revere And William Daves rode to alert patriots that the British were on their way, Lexington & Concord. Beginning to the revolutionary war. On June 5th at the continetal congress George Washinton was named commander in chief.
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Statement adopted by Continental Congress on July 4th that declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain.
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An agreement adopted by the Continetal Congress that legally established the colonies as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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Naval fighter, well known for defeating the Serapis in british north sea waters.
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Last battle of the Revolutionary War, Cornwallis surrendered.
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Treaty that ended Revolutionary war between the colonies and britain.
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Convention to address the problems of the government of the united states, although it was intended to revise the Articles of confederation other had intented to create a new better government than rather to fix the old one.
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Described how Northwest Territory was to be governed, set rules for settlement.
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Washington elected the first president of the united states,at the first congress in the new york federal hall , declared the constitution in effect.
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Supreme court created by the Federal Judiciary Act, John Jay confirmed by congress as first chief supreme court justice.
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Bill of Rights submitted to states.
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Eli Whitney invented cotton gin increasing the slavery population.
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Pennsylvania farmers protested against the tax placed on liquor.
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Delivered warning against permanent alliances with foreign powers, public debt and etc.
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Kept others from migrating intp the americas.
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Received same amount of votes as Burr, but on out over Burr in house.
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Us bought all of Louisiana to the canadian border, doubling U.S area.
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Ordered by president Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Paurchase which is now the northwest U.S.
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Banned all trade with foreign countries.
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- Britain seized U.S ships. 2.Seized U.S. soldiers. 3.U.S stopped trade with Europe
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Oliver H. Perry defeated British.
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U.S Won naval battle, signed peace treaty with Britain.
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Spain ceceded Florida to the U.S.
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Stopped immigration into the americas.
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Debate on states' rights to nullify the law.
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Andrew Jackson signed to move indians west.
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A black slave in Virginia Nat Turner led a local slave rebellion.
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Cherokee indians forced to walk from georgia to oklahoma due to the indian removal act.
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First message sent over the telegraph by inventor Samuel B. Morse.
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Mexico and U.S declared war, over border dispputes, treaty signed in 1848 ended war, and Mexico ceded Texas, California, and other territory to the U.S.
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led Women's Rights Convention.
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- Admitted California as the 31st state, with slavery forbidden.
- Made Utah and Nex Mexico territories.
- Made Fugitive slave act harsher.
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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Formed Republican party, opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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Ruled uncosntitutional, said that slaves did not became free in a free state, congress could not ban slavery in a territory, and blacks could not be citizens.
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Abolitionist John Brown seized U.S. Armory at Harper's Ferry.
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Abraham Lincoln in the Republican Party, voted president in a 4 way race.
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Southern states seceded from the Union forming the Confederate States of America, Led by Jefferson Davis. Civil War began as Confederates attacked Ft. Sumter.
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Bloodiest one day battle of the war, each side lost over 2,000 men.
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President Lincoln freed all slaves in areas still in Rebellion.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. President Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theather. 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
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Provided for citizenship of all people born or naturalized in america.
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Made race no bar for voting rights.
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Founded by Clara Barton.
