United States History

  • Period: Apr 18, 1215 to

    United States

  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • Roanoke Island

    Roanoke Island

    Was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. Also know as "Lost colony" because they vanished.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Jamestown was the first permanent english settlement. Located on Virginia coast.
  • House of Bur.

    House of Bur.

    House of Bur. first representative assembly was in Jamestown July 30.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    Was the first form of self-gov in the new world.
  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island

    Was founded by Roger Williams for religious reasons.
  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    To control colonial commerce in English needs , passed by British Parliament.
  • Bacon

    Bacon

    Nathaniel Bacon Rebellion agaisnt British Gov. Sir William Berkeley. Collasped when Bacon died.
  • Penn

    Penn

    Willaim Penn founded Pennsylvania
  • Witchcrafft

    Witchcrafft

    Were if you were acused of witchier you were burned.
  • Great Awakening

    Great Awakening

    Was a religious revival.
  • Poor Richard's Almanack

    Poor Richard's Almanack

    Published by Benjamin Franklin.
  • Zengor Trail

    An editor, John Peter Zenger, criticized British governor's of conduct of office in New York Times.
  • French and Indiana War

    French and Indiana War

    When the French occupied Ft.Duquesne began the war.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Fornid colonist to move west of App. Mountains
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Tax on lumber, foodstuff, molasses, and rum to pay war debates.
  • Acts

    Acts

    Stamp Actrequired stamps to fund royal troops.
    Quartering Act to house th British army in the colonies.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    Levied taxes except tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A mob was fired at by British troops.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    A mob dumped all tea into ocean and burned cargo ships in protest to the tea tax.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Parliament ruled for Mass. to be self-ruled.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Held in Philadelphia called for civil disobedience.
  • 1775

    1775

    Patrick Henry"Give me libery or give me death"
    Paul Revere "Midnight Ride" rode twn to twon to worn the British were coming.
    Lexington and Concord first battle of Revolutionary War.
  • 1776

    1776

    Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense"
    Declaration of Independence was aproved.
  • 1777

    1777

    Articles of Confederation was adopted by Continental Congress.
    5,000 Men surrendered at the Battle Of Saratoga.
  • John Paul Jones

    John Paul Jones

    Know for his battle with the Serapis.
  • 1781

    1781

    Yorktown is were FRancois Joseph stopped Bitish Fleet
    Cornwallis surrendered.
  • Paris Treaty of 1783

    Paris Treaty of 1783

    British signed it, recognizing American independence.
  • 1787

    1787

    Northwest Ordinance was the way Northwest Terrtories were to be governed.
  • George Washington

    George Washington

    He was chosen by all electors to be president
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    Were submiitted to states.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
  • Washington

    Washington

    Washington's farewell address as president.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    Doubled the size of the U.S.
  • Lewis and Clark

    Lewis and Clark

    Explored Louisiana Purchase
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat

    Robert Fulton made it.
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

    The war began.
  • "Star-Spangled Banner"

    "Star-Spangled Banner"

    Written by Francis Key Scott.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    Allowed slavery in Missouri but not west of the Miss. River.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    Opposing European intervention
  • "Trail of Tears"

    "Trail of Tears"

    Cherokee were forced to walk to Oklahoma.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    Was made by Samuel B. Morse.
  • Woman's Rights Convention

    Woman's Rights Convention

    Lucretia Mott and Elizabath Stanton led the Seneca Falls NY.
  • Compromis of 1850

    Compromis of 1850

    Henry Clay wrote the compromis that admitted California as the 31st state.
  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Uncle Toms Cabin

    Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe's.
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    Order against because slaves cant sue.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Was elceted as president.
  • Confederate States of America

    Confederate States of America

    Civil War began with the Conf fired at Ft.Sumter.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    The bloodest one-day battle.
  • Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address

    Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address

    Freed all slaves. Lincoln gave a speech.
  • 1865

    1865

    Lee surrendered. Lincoln was shot at movies. 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Providing citizenship of all people born in U.S.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Giving voting rights to all men.
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    Founded by Clara Barton.
  • Jordan Blair Odlozil

    I was born. yeahh