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Guranteed rights to noblemen from Great Britain.
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Sir Walter Ralelgh finds Roanoke Island
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The colony of Jamestown is founded by Jhon Smith. Jamestown becomes the first perminent settlement.
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The House of Burgesses is the first representative assembly in the New World.
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The Pilgrams create the Mayflower Compact as an agreement to form a self government.
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Roger Williams finds Providence Rhode Island.
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British parliment passed the Navigation Acts regulating colonial commerence.
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Nathaniel Bacon led planters against the British Government.
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William Penn makes a treaty with Deleware Indians for modern day Pennsylvania.
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A ruling for executions on witches.
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A religous revial begins in Philadelphia.
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Benjiamin Franklin's first published book.
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John Peter Zenger was acquited of libel after criticizing the British Governor.
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a plan to bring the colonists together.
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Battle erupts between France, and Britain.
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Forbade colonists from moving west of the Applation Mountains
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Britain's tax on lumber, foodstuffs, molasses, and rum.
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Britain's tax that required revenue stamps to help fund royal troops.
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Requring colonists to house British troops.
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Britain's levied taxes on glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea. I suck. tyler says hi
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British troops fired onto a a Boston mob, killing 5 people .
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The East India Co. dumps imported tea into Boston Harbor.
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Parliment passes these laws to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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Paul Revere makes his Midnight Ride to alert that the British are coming to Concord.
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Thomas Paine writes a novel to convince the colonists to break free from Great Britain.
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The founding fathers call to declare independence from Great Britain.
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The Battle of Saratoga becomes the turning point of the Ammerican Revolution.
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The Articles of Confederation are adopted.
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John Paul Jones leads ships into victory on the sea.
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Washington Defeats Cornwallis at Yorktown ending the American Revolution.
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The treaty that ends the American Revolution.
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The Northwest Oridance made rules for statehood.
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A Convention is called for ratifying the Constitution.
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George Washington chosen as the first President, and John Adams becomes hi vice president.
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The fisrt 10 ammendments to the Connstitution.
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Eli Whitney builds the first Cotton Gin reviving Sourthern Slavery
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Geroge Washington's farewell address warns against alliances with foriegn powers
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Thomas Jefferson buys land from Louisiana to the Canadian border, which doubles the size of the U.S.
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Lewis, and Clark explore the newly purchased Louisiana territory.
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Robert Fluton inventons the first Steam Boat.
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Britain's intererence with U.S. shipping causes war with the U.S., and Britain again.
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Francis Scott Key writes the wrods of the national anthem during the War of 1812
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President James Monroe opposes European intervation
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Cherokee Indians are forced to walk from Georgia to the Indian Reservation(Oklahoma)
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Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first message on the telegraph from Washington to Baltimore.
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Santon host the convention for women's rights.
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The compromise admited California the 31st state as a free state
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
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Dread scott sues for his freedom but is rejected because he was not a U.S. citizen.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president as the 16th president
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Jefferson Davis becomes president of The Confederate States of America.
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The first battle of the Civil War begins.
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The bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War.
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The document that freed all slaves in slave states.
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Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address
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Robert E. Lee surrenders ending the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Both in Ford's Theater, and died the following morning.
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The amendment that abolished slavery.
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The Amendment that provided citzenship of all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
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The amendment that made no bar to voting rights
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Clara Barton founde the American Red Cross
