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Granted rights to both Nobles and Freemen.
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Roanoke was the first attempted colony in America. It is know as the "Lost Colony".
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Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in the "New World".
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The House of Burgesses was the 1st Representative Assembly in the colonies.
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The mayflower compact was the first agreement to form a self-government in the colonies.
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RI was founded by Roge Williams for religious freedom.
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Were passed by England to regulate colonial commerce to suit English needs.
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Bacon and his followers rebelled against the Massachsetts government when the war against the Native American was deelined.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania for religious tolerance.
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People were accused of being witches and put on trail them ultimately to their death.
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The great awakening was a religious renewal movement through the colonies. people wanted Americans to go back to the religious roots that brought them to America.
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Benjamin Frankin published the first poor Richard's Almanac.
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The zenger trial is the reason that we now have the 1st amendment to our constitution. He was aquitled from charges that he spoke negatively about the government.
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Benjamin Frankin wrote the Albany Plan of Union in 1754 in order to organize the colonies.
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The French and Indian war began.
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Forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Britain passed the sugar act on the colonies in order to pay debts from the french and indian war.
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The stamp and quaetering act was passed by britain in the colonies that taxed certain goods and required colonists to house british soldiers.
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these acts were passed in the colonies in order to raise revelues for England. these were basically the other repealed acts combined.
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British sodiers 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 act to punished the colonies for the Boston tea party.
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12 of the 13 colonies met to discuss civil disobedience against britain in response to the Inotolerable act.
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this was said by Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention.
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paul Revere, William dawes, and William Prescott ride to the colonists that the british are coming.
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thomas pain wrote Common sense to promote independence as the right path to take.
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The Document, written by Thomas Jefferson, was approved on july 4,1776.
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Was thw turning point of the Revolution. This battle, along with Benjamin Franklin, helped covince the french to help us in the Revolution.
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The ARticles of Confederatoin were adoped by the continental congress as the first government.
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"I have not yet begun to fight!"
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Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown. Making it the las major battle of the Revolution.
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This Treaty ended the Revolution.
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This ordinance set the orderly pattern of growth for the United States and accelerated westward expansion.
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George Washington elected 1st president of the U.S.
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The Bill of Rights was the reason all the states ratified the constitution.
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This was a rebellion by farnmers over the tax on whiskey. It was deemed a just tax because the U.S. government passed it, not Britain.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton Gin.
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Washinton gave a farewell address after deciding not to run for 3rd term. This set a president for all other presiodents to follow and he warned against political parties and entangling foreign alliances.
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Established Judicial Review. The Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the constitution.
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Doubled the size of the U.S. Bought by Thomas Jefferson from France for $15 million.
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Lewis and Clark, Along with Sacagewea, explored the LA Territory for Jefferson. The expedition Ended September 23, 1806.
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Robert Fulton invented the Steamboat.
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The war of 1812 began. Three main causes were british interference with american shipping, allying with the native americans, and impressment of U.S. sailors.
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Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner.
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Said there was to be no more european colonization of the americas and the U.S. was a protector of latin america. This distunguished the U.S. as a world power.
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Jackson's Indian Removal Act forced the cherokees on to the Trail of Tears.
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Samuel F.B. Morse invented the Telegraph.
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Women's rights convention led by Lucretia Mott and elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book.
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decided that the slaves did not come free in the 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 Cofederate 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 Freeding all slaves in the areas still in rebellion.
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Lincolns famous speech after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Robert E. Lee surendered aa appomattox courthouse.
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The 13 th Amendment oficially abolished slavery.
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Provided citizenship for all the persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
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Making race no bar for voting rights.
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Clara Barton Founded the Red Cross.
