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a document guaranting basic political rights of England.
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was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh off North Carolina coast and vanished.
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first permanent English settlement.
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first representive assembly in New world.
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was agreement to form a self-government
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founded Providence, RI as a democratically ruled colony with seperation of church and state.
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regulating colonial commerce to suit English need.
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made payment for Pennsylvania lands. first german colonists in America settled near Philadelphia.
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20 alleged witches executed by special court.
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religious revial began.
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published the first Poor Richards Almanack.
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began when the French occupied Ft. Duquesnc.
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placed duties on lumber, foodstuffs, molasses, and rum in colonies, to pay French and indian war.
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required revenue stamps to help fund royal troops.
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requiring colonist to house British troops.
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levied taxes on glass, painter`s lead, paper, and tea.
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Boston mob killed 5 including Crispus Attucks, a black man leader of the group.
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cargo thrown overboard to protest the tea tax.
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of Parliament curtailed Massachusetts self rule;barred use of Boston Harbor till tea was paid for.
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called for civil disobedience agaisnt british.
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addressed Virginia convention "Give me liberty or give me death".
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rode to alert Partriots that British were on their way to Concord to destroy arms "Midnight ride".
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first battles of the revolution.
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famous proindependence pamphlet by Thomas Paine.
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written by Thomas Jefferson.
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cut of British escape route Burgoyne surrended 5,000 men.
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the national government had few powers because many americans were afraid that a strong government would lead to tyrannny or oppersive rules.
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on Bonhomme Richard defeated Serapis in British North sea waters.
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the last major battle of the revolutionary war.
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the 1783 treaty tht ended the French and Indian war; British gained all of North America east of the Mississippi River.
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opened in Philodelphia, with Washington presiding , Constitution accepted by delegates.
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Continental Congressfor Northwest territory, north of the ohio river , west of new york.
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chosen president by all electors voting.
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the first ten amedments to the U.S Constitution added in 1791, and consisting of a formalist of citizens rightsand freedom.
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invented the cotton gin.
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warned against permamet alliances with foreign powers, big public dept.
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it doubled the size of the United States area.
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explored what is now northwest of the United States with the help of Sacagora.
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made the first steamboat trip.
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had 3 main causes Britian seized U.S ships trading with France, Britain had seized 4,000 naturalized U.S. sailors, Britain armed Indians, who raited Westeran borders.
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British fleet failed, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words.
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bill passed by Congress, slavery was allowed in Missouri, but not west of the MIssissippi River.
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opposing European intervantion in the Americas.
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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.
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first message over first telegraph.
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was destined to expand across the North American continent from the Atlantic seabored to the Pacific ocean.
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led Seneca Falls for womens rights.
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admitted California as a 31st state with slavery forbidden.
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Uncle Tom`s Cabin was published.
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decision by Supreme cCourt held that slaves did not become free in a free state, Congress could not bar slavery from territory, and blacks could not be citizens.
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was elected Republican presindent on a 4 way race.
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seven southern states made up this.
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president of the Confederate States of America.
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Civil War began as Conferdrates fired at Ft. Sumter in Charleston.
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was the bloodest one-day battle of the war; each side lost over 2,000 men.
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freeing "all slaves in areas still in rebellion".
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Linxoln gave the his speech right afetr the civil war ended.
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Robert E. Lee surrended to Grant.
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John Wilkes Booth shot the President in Fords Theater.
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this amedment was abolished salvery.
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providing for citizenship of all persons born naturalized in U.S.
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making race no bar to vothing rights
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founded American Red Cross.
