US History

  • Columbus's voyages to the Americas
    Sep 6, 1492

    Columbus's voyages to the Americas

    He went on a total of 4 voyages to the Americas.
    He was the biggest reason for European awareness of the Americas.
  • "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia", by Thomas Harriet was published

    This briefe showed Thomas Harriet's accounts of the Native Americans and the natural aspects of North America.
  • Jamestown Established

    First permanent settlement in colony in North America
  • Bay Psalm Book

    Bay Psalm Book

    1st book issued in the North American colonies
  • "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" by Anne Bradstreet

    1st work by a North American woman to be published
  • Salem witch trials

    200 accused
    20 executed
  • French and Indian War begins

  • End of French and Indian war

  • Revolutionary war begins

  • second Virginia Convention

  • End of Revolutionary War

  • U.S. Constitution is approved