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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
American History
This timespan includes the colonization, the revolution, slavery, and much more. This timespan will cover almost all of the events of early America. -
Jamestown is settled.
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. The settlement was located within the country of Tsenacommacah, which was administered by the Powhatan Confederacy, and specifically in that of the Paspahegh tribe.
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Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first set of rules in the new world. It was written by the colonists on the Mayflower.
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English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights is an Act that the Parliament of England passed. The Bill creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and bolsters freedom of speech.
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Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston.
Benjamin Franklin was a great inventor, he did a lot of reserch on electricity, and fire prevention. he was the auther of Poor Richard's Almanack, and The Pennsylvania Gazette.
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The Boston Massacre.
The Boston MassacreThe Boston Massacre, was an incident in which British Army soldiers killed five civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773.
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Shot Heard Round the World
Shot Heard Round the World at Lexington. this is the shot that started teh American Revolution, but it was never determaned who fired the shot.
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Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress started managing the war effort, and drafted Declaration of Independence. they were a sort of governmental group for the time being.
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The Signing of The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statmet saying that the colonies were no longer part of British Empire. The Declaration was signed by all the founding fathers and appruved by Congress.
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Shay's Rebellion
Farmers, disapproving of taxes, lead attacks to prevent government from foreclosing their land. As a result local sheriffs seized many farms and some farmers who couldn't pay their debts were put in prison.
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The start of exploration of Lewis and Clark
Over the duration of the trip, from May 14, 1804, to September 23, 1806, from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean and back, the Corps of Discovery, traveled nearly 8,000 miles. The entourage, numbering about four dozen men, covered 10 to 20 miles a day—poling, pushing, and pulling their 10-ton keelboat and two pirogues up the Missouri River.
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The start of the war of 1812
War of 1812The United States declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by the British war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of Indian tribes against American expansion, outrage over insults to national honour after humiliations on the high seas and possible American interest in annexing British North American territory, which had been denied to them in the settlement ending the war of 1812. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property. It demanded that the United States deliver on the promise of freedom and equality, galvanized the abolition movement and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown rented the Kennedy Farmhouse, with a small cabin nearby, 4 miles north of Harpers Ferry in Washington County, Maryland, and took up residence under the name Isaac Smith. Brown came with a small group of men minimally trained for military action. His group included 21 men.
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The start of the civil war
The Civil War, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865, after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. The states that remained in the Union were known as the "Union" or the "North".
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War of the Triple Alliance
The bloodiest conflict in Latin American history. Fought between Paraguay and the allied countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
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German Unification
The formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors in France. Princes of the German states gathered there to proclaim Wilhelm of Prussia as Emperor Wilhelm of the German Empire after the French capitulation in the Franco-Prussian War.
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The signing of The Treaty of Versailles.
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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9/11
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
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The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act 1765 imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America, and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
