US history timeline

By James F
  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Is a document that established the principle that everyone is to obey the law even the king
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    The French and Indian war led up to the proclamation line of 1763 which prohibited American colonists from settling west of the Appalachia
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act

    Passed by the British parliament on March 22, 1765, which made all American colonists pay a tax on every piece of paper they owned
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Colonists felt that the intolerable acts violated their rights as Englishmen and their natural rights as human beings
  • American revolution

    American revolution

    British colonists in America rebelled against the rule of a Great Britain
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    The British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord
  • Common sense

    Common sense

    Offers an open and concerted argument against British rule and advocates for a new nation free to govern itself
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    It contains the ideals or goals of our nation and it contains the complaints of the colonists against the British king
  • Saratoga

    Saratoga

    It was a crucial turning point in the American Revolutionary War. America finally started to receive international recognition, which led to aid in the war against the British government. The battle of Saratoga was actually 2 battles
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown

    It triggered the point of the final surrender for British forces
  • US Constitution

    US Constitution

    It addresses the need for the integration of the various states, initially the 13 colonies, within unified legal paradigms
  • Bill Of Rights

    Bill Of Rights

    It protects the basic rights of humans. It was put into place to protect the rights of the people so that the government and government agencies can not impose laws that restrict the freedoms and liberties if people
  • Civil war

    Civil war

    Resolved issues of slavery and state rights. The United States would become a free nation, slavery would be outlawed
  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    Battle of Fort Sumter

    No strategic value to the north– it was unfinished and it’s guns faces the sea rather than the confederate shire batteries– it held enormous value as a symbol of the union
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    It became impossible for them to go against the union that wanted slavery outlawed. Freeing all the slaves