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English colony at Jamestown Virginia
The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world. The government, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States’ heritage today. The conoly was founded by Great Britian. -
First Africans brought to North America
Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. -
Pilgrims land at Plymouth
The ship The Mayflower arrived and the pilgram first set foot on Plymouth rock. It lasted foe 30 years and was credited with the first Thanksgiving. -
Salem Witch Trials
These were a seriers of trials in which people were accused of witch craft and led to the excution of 20 people. -
French and Indian War start
This was a series of seven wars which were fought between the Americans and the French. The Native Americans were allies for both sides. -
French and Indian War End
This was a series of seven wars which were fought between the Americans and the French. The Native Americans were allies for both sides. -
Boston Massacre
This was a stree fight between the british solider and the colonists. This led to 5 colonist dead after the street fight. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a political protest by the sons of liberty to boycott british tea. John Admas was the leader of the sons of liberty. -
The Declaration of Independence
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American has offically declared its indepance form Great Britian. Thsi was a document that adopted the 13 colonies. -
Revolutionary War Ends (Treaty of Paris)
The American coloinst have finally won the war and made the Treaty of Paris which ended the revolutionary war with Great Britian. -
Shay's Rebellion start
Shays’ Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. Although farmers took up arms in states from New Hampshire to South Carolina, the rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts, where bad harvests, economic depression, and high taxes threatened farmers with the loss of their farms. The rebellion took its name from its symbolic leader, Daniel Shays of Massachusetts, a former -
Shay's Rebellion end
Shays’ Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. Although farmers took up arms in states from New Hampshire to South Carolina, the rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts, where bad harvests, economic depression, and high taxes threatened farmers with the loss of their farms. -
Constitution Ratified
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American has finally adopted a new form of government which took years of planing and debeating between the 13 states. -
Whiskey Rebellion
This was a tax protest in the United States while George Washington was in office. -
Lewis & Clark Expedition Start
The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, consisting of a select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark. -
Lewis & Clark End
The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, consisting of a select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark. -
War of 1812
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This was a military conflict between the United states and Great Britian. This eventually led to the burning of the White House. -
Missouri Compromise
This was a compromise that the government came up with so that the free and slave states would still be balanced. Missouri would come in as a slave state while Main would come in as a free state. -
Trail of Tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Texan Independence
This was the day that texas became a state -
Mexican American War (Treaty of Guadalupa Hildelgo) Start
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. -
Mexican American War (Treaty of Guadalupa Hildelgo) End
When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. -
Gold Rush in California
When gold was discovered in California everyone wanted to strike it rich so many families migrated to california in search of gold. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Kansas Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
Lincoln became the 16th president of the united states who was against slavery. -
Civil War start
The American Civil War was fought between the Anmerican North and South. The north wanted to abolish slavery while the south need it keep it for their economy. -
Civil War end
The North won the Civil War and after that slavery was abolished with the 13th amendment to the Consitution. -
Transcontinental Railroad completed
The U.S had just finish building a railroad that connected the west and the east of the united states. -
Reconstruction Ends
This is the end of slavery and the end of the rebuilding of the American south economy. African American men can finally vote.
