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Give rights to noblemen and freemen
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First settlement of the colonies but failed
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First permanent English settlement in the colonies
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First Representative Assembly in the colonies
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Pilgrims signed this agreement to form a self - goverment to enter the colonies.
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Roger Williams founded Rhode Island as a Province with separation of churchand state
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A series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England.
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Nathaniel Bacon rebelled against Massachsets goverment
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William Penn is the founder of the Province Pennsylvania.
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Women were accused by people of being witches.
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The Great Awakening was a religious movement through the colonies. The people wanted Americans to go back to the religious roots that brought them to America
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Benjamin Franklin publised the first Poor Richard's Almanac.
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The Zenger Trial is the reason that we know have the fist Amendment to our GConstitution. He spoke negatively about the goverment.
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Benjamin Franklin wrote the Albany Plan of Unionin1754in order to organized 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 coloniesin order to pay debts from the French and Indian War.
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The Stamp and Quartering Acts were passed by Britain in the colonies that taxed certain goods and required colonists to house British soldiers.
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These Acts were passes in the colonies in order to raise revelues 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 These were basically the other repealed Acts combined.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 Tea Act.
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Britain passed the Intolerable Acts to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
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12 of 13 colonies met to discuss civil disobedience against Britain in response to the Intolerable Acts.
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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 warn the colonists that the British are coming.
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Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense to promote independence as the right path to take.
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This document written by Thomas Jefferson, was approved on July ,4 1776.
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Was the turning point of the Revolution. This battle along with Benjamin Franklin, helped convince the French to help us in the Revolution.
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The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress as the first goverment.
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"I have not yet begun to fight."
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Cornwallis surrenderd at Yorktown. Making in the last major battle of the Revolution.
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This Treaty endend The Revolution.
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The Ordinance set the oderly pattern of growth for the United States and accelerated westward expansion.
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Geoge Washigton elected 1st Preseident of the U.S.
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The Bill of Rights was the reason all states ratified the Constitution.
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This was a rebellion by farmers over tax on whiskey. It was deemed a just tax because the U.S goverment passed it not Britain.
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Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin.
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Washington gave the farewell address after deciding not to run for a 3rd term. This set a precedent for all the other presidents to follow and he warned against political parties and entangling foreing 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 Frace for 15 million.
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Lewis and Clark, along with Sacgewea, explored the Louisiana Territory for Jefferson. The expedition ended Septrmber 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 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 Americans and the U.S was a protector of Latin America. This distiguished 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 slaves did not become free in a free state because they were not citizens.
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Abraham Lincon elected President.
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Jeffereson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America.
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Battle that signified the beggining of the Civil War.
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This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
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Lincon issues this speech freeing all slaves in areas still in rebellion.
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Lincon's famous speech after the Battle of Getysburg.
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Robert E. Lee surrenderd at Appomattox Courthouse.
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The 13th ammedment officially abolished slavery.
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Provided citizenship for all 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.
