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Granted rights to both Nobles and Freemen.
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Roanoak was the first attempted colony in America. It is known as the "Lost colony"
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Jamestown was the first pemanent settlemant in the "New World"
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House of Burgesses, first Representative Assembly in Colonies.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement to form a self-government in the Colonies.
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Roger Williams founded Providence, RI for religeous freedom.
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Were passed by England to regulate colonial commerce to suit English needs.
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Bacon led planters against the autocratic British Government.
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William Penn signed a treaty with Delaware Indians and made payment for Pennsylvania lands.
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20 alleged witches executed by special court.
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Great Awakening religeous revival began.
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Benjamin Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanack.
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Editor John Peter Zenger was acquitted of libel in New York after criticizing the British governor's conduct in office.
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Benjamin Franklin wrote the Albany Plan of Union in 1754 in order to organize the colonies.
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Began when French occupied Ft. Duquesne.
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Sugar Act placed duties on lumber, foodstuffs, molasses, and rum in colonies, to pay French and Indian War debts.
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Enacted by Parliament, it required revenue stamps to help fund royal troops.
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Requires colonists to house British troops.
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These Acts were passes in the colonies in order to raise revenues for England. These were basically the other repealed acts combined.
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British soldiers fired into a group of colonists, killing four and Crispus Attucks. This was used as Anti-British propaganda.
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Colonists dressed as Native Americans threw 342 chests of tea in the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act.
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Britain passed the Intolerable Acts to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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Held in Philadelphia; called for civil disobedience against British.
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Patrick Henry addressed Virginia convention and said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
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Paul Revere, William Dawes, and William Prescott ride to warn the colonists that the British are coming.
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At Lexington, Minutemen lost 8. On return from Concord, British took 273 casualties.
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A famous pro-independence pamphlet by Thomas Paine; quickly sold some 100,000 copies.
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Approved July 4 and declared independence from Britain.
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Americans cut off British escape route and Burgoyne surrendered 5,000 men at Saratoga.
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Adopted by Continental Congress, Nov. 15, took effect Mar. 1, 1781
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John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard defeated Serapis in British North Sea waters.
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Making race no bar for voting rights.
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Siege of cornwallis began, Oct. 6; Cornwallis surrendered Oct. 19.
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Britain, U.S. signed the Paris peace treaty, recognizing American independence, Congress ratified it Jan. 14, 1784.
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Constitutional convention opened in Philadelphia with Washington presiding. Delaware became the first state to ratify it.
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Adopted July 13 by Continental Congress for Northwest Territory, north of Ohio River, west of New York; made rules for statehood. Guaranteed freedom of religeon, support for schools, no slavery.
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George Washington chosen president by all electors voting: John Adams, vice president, got 34 votes.
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The Bill of Righhts, went into effect Dec. 15.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, reviving Southern slavery.
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Warned against pemanent alliances with foreign powers, big public debt, large military establishment, and devices of "small, artful, enterprising minority."
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Louisiana Purchase doubled U.S. area.
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Lewis and Clark explored the Northwest U.S.
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Robert Fulton made the first practical steamboat.
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Had 3 main causes: Britain seized U.S. ships trading with France; Britain seized 4,000 naturalized U.S. sailors; Britain armed Indians, who raided the western border.
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Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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Slavery was allowed in Missouri, but not west of the Mississippi River, Repealed 1854
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Opposed European intervention in the Americas, enunciated by President James Monroe.
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Jackson's Indian Removal Act forced the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears.
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Samuel F.B. Morse invented the Telegraph.
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led Seneca Falls, NY, Women's Rights Convention.
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Senator Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 admitted California as the 31st state, with slavery forbidden.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin published.
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Decided that slaves did not become free in a free state because they were not citizens.
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Abraham Lincoln elected President.
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Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America.
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Battle that signified the beginning of the Civil War.
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This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
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Lincoln issues this speech freeing all slaves in areas still in rebellion.
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Lincoln's famous speech after the Battle Of Gettysburg.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
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The 13th Amendment officially abolished slavery.
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Provided citizenship for all persons born or naturalized in the US.
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Clara Barton founded the Red Cross.
