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The "lost colony" was sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and was founded on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina.
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The first English settlement in the New World was at Jamestown in 1607. It was established by Captain John Smith and 105 cavaliers in 3 ships which landed on the coast of Virginia.
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The first representative assembly in the New World was the House of Burgesses. It was elected on the 30th of July 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia.
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A document signed by the pilgrims at Plymouth. It was an agreement to form self-government.
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Puritan separatists, from Plymouth, England, landed at Plymouth in the New World on December 26 1620.
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The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, Harvard College was founded.
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Rhode Island, was founded in June by Roger Williams. It was founded as a demonstratically administered colony with separation of church and state.
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The first navigation Act was passed on the 1st of December 1660. It was regulating colonial commerse to suit Engish needs.
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He led planters against autocratic British government. Jamestown was burnt down by Sir William Berkeley. There was a rebellion after Bacon died and 23 of his followers died.
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A treaty was signed with the Delaware Indians by William Penn on the 23rd of April 1683 which payed for the Pennsylvania lands. The first colonists to settle in America near Philadelphia was the Germans.
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In the witchcraft delsuion at Salem, Massachusetts, 20 alleged witches were executed by special court.
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Georgia chartered and it was the end of the 13 colonies.
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Zenger critized the British governor. He was free of that accusement under freedom of speech.
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A major figure in the Great Awakening was Jonathan Edwards. He delivered the famous sermon "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God," at Enfield, Massachusetts.
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There was war between France and British. The colonies suffered major debts during this time. Peace was restored on the 10th of February, 1763. France lost Canada and Midwest.
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Taxes were placed on foodstuffsm rum in clonies, molasses, and lumber to pay for the French and Indian war debts.
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Required Revenue Stamps to provide for royal troops.The Stamp Act was repealed on the 17th of May, 1766.
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This act required colonists to house Brtish troops.
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Taxes were levied on painter's lead, paper, glass, and tea. Everything was dropped in 1770 except tea.
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5 were killed including Crispus Attucks a leader of a Boston mob, by British Soldiers.
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The first act that protested the tax on tea. Cargo ships were destroyed. Lot of tea was wasted.
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Laws enforced until the money lost from the Boston party was paid for.
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The First Continental Congress called for civil disobedience against British.
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The first battles of the American Revolution.
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Wrote "Common Sense", which sold over 100,00 copies and was a very famous pro-independense pamplet.
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The Articles of Confederation was adopted on the 15th of November and put into effect on the 1st of March 1781.
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He defeated the Serapis in the British North Sea Waters on the 23rd of September,1779.
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Washington and Jean Baptist de Rochambeau sieged around Lord Cornwallis, who surrendered on the 19th of October.
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Britain and U.S signed the treaty which recognized American independence. Ratified by Congress on the 24th of January 1784.
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It guranteed freedom of religion, made rules for statehood, support for education and there was no slavery.
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George Washington is elected as the first president of the U.S.
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On Sept. 25, 1789, the Bill of Rights was submitted to the states. It was put in to effect on the 15th of December.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which majorly increased cotton production in the South and increased slave labor in the South.
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The United States was declared neutral in the war between Britain and France by George Washington.
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The tax on liqour was protested by Pennsylvanian farmers and was suppressed by federal militia in September.
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Washington warned against permanent alliances with other nations. He served two terms in office.
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An act passed to silence political opposition, passed by Federalists.
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Thomas Jefferson becomes president after winning House votes, Aaron Burr became Vice-President.
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Napolean sold the Louisianna Purchase to the US which almost doubled its size.
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On the 23rd of Septemeber, Meriwether Lewis and his partner Clark was ordered to explore the newly purchased Louisianna Purchase.
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The first practical steamboat was invented by Robert Fulton.
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All trade with foreign nations were banned under the Embargo Act.
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War against Britain mainly because they interfering with US shipping and providing Native Americans with weapons.
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A British Fleet was defeated by Oliver H. Perry who also won a battle at Ontario.
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The Star Spangled Banner was wriiten by Francis Scott Key who was inspired by a British Fleet failure.
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Florida was annexed to the United States after signing a treaty with Spain after it seceded Florida.
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It was enunciated by President James Monroe on the 2nd of December 1823. It opposed European intervention in the Americas.
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It was a famous debate between Senator Webster and Robert Hayne. It debated on the state right to nullify a federal law.
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It forced indians to relocate West. It gave land and some pay to the Indians who moved West. Signed by President Andrew Jackson.
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He led a slave rebellion on the 21st of August 1831. He was later caiught and hanged.
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The Cherokee Indians were forced to walk from georgia to Oklohoma.
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The first telegraph was sent by Samuel F.B. Morse from Washington to Baltimore.
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Mexico and the US clashed over the Texas border. War was declared by the US on the 13th of May 1846 after the annexation of Texas.
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80000 prospectors were emigrated after gold was found in California.
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California became the 31st state in the US with slavery forbidden. Fugitive slave act was made more harsh. Ended the slave trade in DC.
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Published "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Was a conductor in the Undergrounf Railroad.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act beacame a law on the 30th of May. republican Party was formed and was against the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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It stated that slaves could not be free in a free state and slaves could not be citizens.
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John Brown was an abolitionist who seized US armory and was hanged for treason.
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Jefferson Davis was the president. Ft. Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War.
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Free farms were granted to settlers. It was approved on the 20th of May, 1862.
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All slaves were free under the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued by President Abe Lincoln.
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Confederate troops who were led by Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
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It abolished slavery.
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It gave citizenship to all people who were born in the US
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It gave all men the right to vote
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She founded the American Red Cross.
