US History - The Beginning of a Nation

  • The anti slavery

    The first antislavery protest came from the Quakers, whose English founder, George Fox, visited North America in 1617: slavery prohibited int the Quakers German town petition against practice.
  • Death of George Washington

    Death of George Washington
    Bridges Creek, Colony of Virginia, British America (present-day Virginia, U.S.) George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
  • Royal proclamation

    initially, under the 1763 Royal proclamation, lands north and west of the Appalachian Mountains were declared an Indian reserve and closed to colonial settlement.
  • The colonies

    In an attempt to raise revenues through the colonies so they would effectively pay for their own protection,but successor, Lord Grenville, introduced two regulatory acts in 1764.
  • American and French

    On February 6, 1778,American and French representatives singed a treaty amity and commerce and treaty Alliance.
  • Thomas Clarksons

    Thomas Clarkson influential Essay on the slavery and commerce of the humans
  • Rhode island

    1780, Pennsylvania passed gradual emancipation law :Rhode island and Connecticut adopted Similar laws in 1784, New York in 1799, Newton slave labor, while hugely beneficial for growing economy promoted Rapid expansion slavery .
  • Congress

    Congress ratified the treaty on Jan 14 1784
  • The invention of stem power

    The invention of stem power
    The invention of stem power also spawned new innovations in transportation, which in turn expedited the progress of the industrial Revolution in 1789.
  • The Constitution of the United States.

    The Constitution of the United States.
    hirty-three amendments to the United States Constitution have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of these, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution. The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights.
  • First coin

    First coin
    The first Americans coin, a half dime, was struck in July 1792
  • Anti Slavery

    In 1794, a number of anti Slavery Societies united to form the American Convention for promoting the Abolition of slavery
  • Industrial growth

    Industrial growth
    Early industrial growth was driven by Alexander Hamilton, the new nation's first secretary of the treasury (1789-95) , who recognized the need for a secure commercial potential of the output of the new technologies.
  • Louisiana purchase

    Louisiana purchase
    The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs
  • Abolition of Slave trade

    Abolition of Slave trade
    Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, 1807. ... On 25 March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books. Nevertheless, although the Act made it illegal to engage in the slave trade throughout the British colonies, trafficking between the Caribbean islands continued, regardless, until 1811.
  • Burning of Washington

    Burning of Washington
    The Burning of Washington was a British attack against Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812
  • End of the war 1812

    End of the war 1812
    The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies
  • Joseph Henry

    Joseph Henry
    In 1830, Joseph Henry invented the first electric telegraph.
  • Beaver Hats

    An immediate outcome of the expedition was establishment of the fur trade in the rocky mountains, which lusted until the late 1830,s when the fashion for beaver hats finally died out after many centuries.
  • California enters the United States(31st states)

    California enters the United States(31st states)
    The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence, but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The western portion of Alta California then was organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850.
  • CREATION OF THE REPUBICAN PARTY

    CREATION OF THE REPUBICAN PARTY
    By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.
  • The First transatlantic was laid

    The First transatlantic was laid
    In 1854, Cyrus West Field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well-insulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Obtaining the aid of British and American naval ships, he made four unsuccessful attempts, beginning in 1857. In July 1858, four British and American vessels–the Agamemnon, the Valorous, the Niagara, and the Gorgon–met in mid-ocean for the fifth attempt.
  • Battle of the Alamo.

    Battle of the Alamo.
    The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian defenders.
  • Battle of Gettyberg

    Battle of Gettyberg
    The Battle of Gettysburg, fought in July 1863, was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3-day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.
  • The Sand Creek masscare

    The Sand Creek masscare
    The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S
  • Abraham Lincoln assassinated

    Abraham Lincoln assassinated
    John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor and assassin, who murdered President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. ... He shot Lincoln once in the back of the head, and the President died the next morning.
  • Last battle of the civil war

    Last battle of the civil war
    By May 11, 1865, nearly everyone in the United States and in the moribund Confederacy considered the Civil War over. Both of the South’s principal armies had capitulated. Lieutenant General Richard Taylor had surrendered most of the remaining Confederate forces east of the Mississippi. President Jefferson Davis had just been captured, and his cabinet had scattered to escape Yankee vengeance
  • Automobile

    in 1901 another industrial and financier Andrew mellon.