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Jun 14, 1215
Magma Carta
a document granting basic political rights of England -
Roanoke Island
was founded by Sir Walter Ralelgh off North Carolina coast and vanished in 1590 -
Jamestown
first permanent English settlement -
House of Burgesses
first representative assembly in New World -
Mayfloer Compact
agreement to form a self-government -
Roger Williams
founded Providence, ruled colony with seperation of church and state -
Navigation Act
regulating colonial commerce to suit English needs -
William Penn
made payment for Pennsylvania lands. First german colonists in Amerrica settled near Philadelphia -
Witchcratf delusion
alleged witches executed by special court -
Great Awakening
religious revival began -
Bejamin Franklin
published first Poor Richard's Atmanack -
French and Indian War
began when French occupied Ft. Duquesne -
Sugar Act
placed dutties on lumber, foodstuffs, molasses, and rum in colonies to pay French and Indian War debts -
Quartering Act
requiring colonist to house British troops -
Townshed Acts
levied taxes on glass, painters lead, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
Boston mob, killed 5 including Crispus Attucks, a black man. reportedly leader of group; later called the Boston Massacre -
Boston Tea Party
cargo thrown over board to protest the tea tax -
Intolerable Acts
Parliment curtailed Massachusetts self-ruled -
First Continental Congress
held in Philadelphia called for civil disobedience against british -
Patrick Henry
"Give me liberty or give me death!" -
Paul Revere and William Dawes
rode to alert Patriots that British were on their way to Concord to destroy arms -
Lexington and Concord
Minutemen lost 8 -
Common Sense
famous proindepedence pamphlet by Thomas Paine -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson -
Artcales of Confederatin
adopted by Continental congress -
Saratoga
turning point of the American Revolution -
John Paul Jones
on the Bonhomme Richard defeated Serapis in British North Sea waters -
Yorktown
Cornwallis surendered -
Paris Peace Treaty
recognizing American independence -
Constitutional Convention
Constitution accepted by delegates -
Northwest Ordinance
Northwest territory, north of Ohio river, west of New York -
George Washington
chosen president by all electors voting -
Bill of Rights
submitted to states, went into effect Dec. 15 -
Eli Whitney
invented to cotton gin -
Whasingtons farewell address
warned agasinst permanent alliances with foregin powers -
Louisiana Purchase
doubled the U.S. -
Lewis and Clark
explored what is now the northwest u.s. -
Robert Fulton
Invented the steam boat -
War of 1812
Britian seized U.S. ships trading with France; Britian had seized 4000 natualized U.S. sailors -
The Star Spangled Banner
U.S. national anthem -
Missouri Compromise
bill passed by Congress, slavery was allowed in Missouri -
Monroe Doctrine
opposing European intervention -
Trail of Tears
Indian forced to walk from Georgia to Oaklahoma starting in October -
First telegraph line
invented by Samuel F.B. Morse -
Manifest Destiney
Expansion of the U.S., Sea to shing sea -
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Womens rights convention -
Compromise of 1850
admitted California as 1st state, with slavery forrbidden -
Harriet Beecher Stowes
Uncle Toms Cabin -
Dred Scott
decision held by Supreme Court that slaves did not become free in a free state -
Abraham Lincoln
elected president -
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis is the president -
Ft. Sumter
Confederates fired on april 12 -
Emancipation Proclamation
freeing all slaves in areas still in rebellion -
Gettysburg Address
Lincolns Speech -
Robert E. Lee
surrendered 27,800 Confederate troops -
Lincoln was shot
John Wilkes Booth shot him in Frods Theater -
13th Amendment
Abolishing slavery -
14th Amendment
providing citizenship of all persons born or naturalized U.S. citizens -
15th Amendment
making race no bar to voting rights ratified -
Clara Barton
Founded the American Red Cross
