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Gave rights to nobles and freemen
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Roanoke was a mishappen colony that failed
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Jamestown was the first sucessful colony in the 13 original colonies
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The House of Burgesses was the first representative assembly for the US
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The Mayflower Compact was written to form a self-government kind of government
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Roger Willams founded Rhode Island for religious reasons
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The Navigation Acts were enacted to regulate colonial commerce to suit English Needs
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Nathaniel Bacon led planters against british government
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William Penn founded pennsylvania
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People can say that somene is a witch and then they will kill them
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The Great Awakening was a religious revival
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Map of 13 origional colonies
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John Peter Zenger Critisized a british governor
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The French and Indian war began when the french occupied ft Dusquesne
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The Sugar Act placed tax on sugar
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Stamps that shows that tax had been paid
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The Quartering Act requires people to let british soldiers to stay in peoples homes
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The Townshend Acts levied taxes on many imports to the us
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British officers fired at the people in boston
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The Boston Tea Party was the dumping of 42 barrels of tea in protest to the tax
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The Intolerable Acts said that tax was paid
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The First Continental Congress was held in philedelphia
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Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death"
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Paul Revere went on the Midnight Ride to inform militia men that the britis are coming
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Lexington and Concord were the first battles in the american revolution
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Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
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The Declaration of independence was approved july 4, independence day
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The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the American Revolution
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The Articles of Confederation was adopted November 15
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John Paul Jones defeated the british ship "serapis"
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The Battle of Yorktown was the last battle in the American Revolution The British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered
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The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the Revolution
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The Constitutional Convention was opened in Philidelphia
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The Northwest Ordinance set an orderly pattern of growth for the us
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The constitution was made
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George Washington waas elected president
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Bill of rights was made
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Eli Whitney invented the Cotton gin to inncrease slavery
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Washington gave his farewell adress
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Napolean sold the louisiana territory to the us for 11,250,000
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Lewis and Clark Expedition started
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Robert Fulton made the first practical steamboat that carried goods on the mississippi river
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The war of 1812 started, it was over the british seizing of 4,000 US ships
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Francis Scott Key Wrote the Star Spangled Banner at the bombardment of Ft. Henry
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Slavery was outlawed above the 36 30 parallel
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Opposed European intervention
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Cherokee indians were forced to walk from georgia to oklahoma
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The Telegraph was invented by Samuel F.B. Morse
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Elizibeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott led Seneca Falls for Womens Rights
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The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state
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Uncle Toms Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe for anti-slavery reasons
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The Dred Scott case ended in the supreme court because the ruling was that Dred Scott wasn't a citizen
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president
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Jefferson Davis became the president of the confederate states of america
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The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest battle of the civil war
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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued bt president Lincoln that stated that all slaves be free
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Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address because confederate states surrendered
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Lincoln got shot by Jonh Wilkes Booth in fords theater
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
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The 13 th amendment abolished slavery
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14 th amendment was made for citizenship to all who is born in the us
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15th amendment was made for voting rights
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Clara barton founded the Red Cross
