U.S History TAKS timeline

By josheypoo

  • Roanoke

    Roanoke Islandwas the "lost colony" founded off the coast of North Carolina.

  • Jamestown

    First permenant English settlement.

  • House of Burgesses

    Was the first represenative assembly.

  • Mayflower Compact

    First agreement to form a self-government.

  • Roger WIlliams

    He founded Providence.

  • Navigation Act

    Passed by the British Parliament.

  • William Penn

    Founded Pennsylvania

  • Witchcraft Delusion Salem

    20 alleged witches executed by special court

  • Great Awakening

    Religous Revival

  • Benjamin Franklin

    One of founding fathers of US and published poor richard's almanack

  • John Peter Zenger

    German american publisher, writer, and editor in New York

  • French and Indian War

    War between great britian and france in north america

  • Sugar Act

    A revenue raising act passed by parliament

  • Stamp Act

    Law enacted by government that requires tax to be paid on transfered documents

  • Quatering Act

    Quartering Acts were used by british forces in american colonies

  • Townshed Acts

    Levied taxes on glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    Bristish shot into mob of colinists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    The colonists got mad because the british raised the prices on tea so they dumped all of it into the harbor.

  • Intolerable Acts

    After the colonists dumped the tea, the british made them pay for it.

  • First Continetal Congress

    Called for civil disobedence against the bristish

  • Patrick Henry

    Adressed Virginia covention

  • Lexington & Concord

    First military engagements of the American Revolutionary war

  • Common Sense

    First proindependence papmplet by thomas paine

  • Declertion of Independence

    Decleared american independence from Britian

  • Sarotoga

    First battle of revolutionary war

  • Articles of Confederation

    First constitution of the US

  • John Paul Jones

    US well known naval fighter in revolutionary war

  • Yortown

    Last battle of revolutionary war

  • Paris Peace Treaty

    Treaty ending revolutionary war

  • Northwest Ordinance

    When Ccongress passed all the laws obtaining to the new territory

  • Constitutional Convention

    Meeting in Philidelphia during Washington's Presidency

  • George Washington

    First President

  • Bill of Rights

    Written laws established to indicate states powers.

  • Eli Whitney

    Inventor of cotton gin.

  • Washington's Fairwell Adress

    Document warning against permanent allainces with foriegn powers.

  • Louisiana Purchase

    When the US bought the territory from the french for 15 million doubling the size of the US

  • Lewis and Clark

    Explored Louisiana territory

  • Robert Fulton

    Invented Steamboat

  • War of 1812

    The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America

  • The Star Spangled Banner

    Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner

  • Missouri Compromise

    Decided which states were free and which were slave states

  • Monroe Doctrine

    Policy that stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention

  • Trail of Tears

    Movement of native americans westward.

  • Samuel F.B Morse

    Inventor of the telegraph

  • Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Candy Staton

    Led the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Admitted California as 31st state with forbidden slavery.

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Dred Scott

    Decided that slaves could not become free in a slave state because they were not citizens

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Was elected President

  • Confederate States of America

    Seven southern states set up the Confederate States of America

  • Jefferson Davis

    President of Confederate States of America

  • Ft. Sumter

    First Civil War battle

  • Battle of Antietam

    Bloodiest one day battle of the war

  • Emacipation Proclamation

    Freeing all slaves still in rebellion

  • Gettysburg Adress

    Lincoln's speech after battle of Gettysburg Adress

  • 13th Amendemant

    Abloished slavery

  • Appomattox Court House

    Roberth E. Lee surrendered confederate troops to Gen. Grant at
    Appomattox Court House

  • Lincoln got shot

    John Wilkes Booth shot him

  • 14th Amendment

    Providing Citizenship to of all persons born or natrualized in the US

  • 15th Amendment

    Making race no bar to voting rights

  • Clara Barton

    Founded the Red Cross