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The settlers had been sent to Jamestown with a group of investors. These investors had formed the Virginia Company back in 1606.
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That winter was the lowest point. Only 60 people of 500 colonists were alive. But still, people continued to be sent there.
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By forcing strict rules to make sure that work was done.
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Most of the tobacco servers were indentured workers.
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A ship with 20 captured black Africans had arrived.
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The House of Burgesses was elect representatives from the various settlements in Virginia and served as advisors.
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The Mayflowers arrived in Cape Cod, which is now Massachusetts
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A group of puritans went to America to find religious freedom. They disagreed with some of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
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The Plymouth settlers agreed to set up a government to make “just and equal laws” for everyone.
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The government tried to arrest Williams but he ran away with a group of followers and founded Rhode Islan
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New York (previously had been named New Amsterdam in 1626) was captured by the English from the Dutch.
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Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, who belonged to another religious group, the Society of Friends.
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By this year, the English owned 13 separate colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America.
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It forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians until proper treaties had been made with the Amerindians.
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Regulated paper money issued by the colonies.
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Taxes on sugar
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As colonists, they had no representation in the British Parliament, they started to wonder why they would have to pay taxes. “No taxation without Parliament.”
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Were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
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The presence of British troops in Boston brought about disorder and death: 3 members of a mob died and several were wounded. The British government was forced to withdraw the Stamp Act.
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The colonists had to pay a tax on the tea imported from England. Colonists disguised as Indians swarmed aboard three tea-laden ships and dumped their cargo into the harbor.
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5 acts were passed to punish the people of the Boston Tea Party. Colonists saw these acts as a violation of their constitutional rights.
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55 delegates from all colonies (except Georgia) met to oppose British oppression divided opinions on how to solve the problem drafted a set of resolutions: their right to liberty and property and the right of provincial legislatures to set taxes and internal policy. They claimed to be loyal to the British king but called Americans to refuse to buy British goods.
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500 British soldiers marched silently out of Boston. To seize weapons owned by the colonists. But the colonists were warned and acted immediately.
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Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. It began to act as an American national government.
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The British captured NY. Americans were close to losing the war, they were indisciplined soldiers.
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The Declaration of Independence was issued by Thomas Jefferson. It officially named the American colonies as the “United States of America”. This was the beginning of a new form of government.
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American forces captured the British army and sent them back to England. Benjamin Franklin convinced France to join the war.
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Implemented a weak central government without the power to collect taxes. All States agreed to collaborate with each other.
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The Americans with the help of France defeated the British in Yorktown.
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Congress asked for a Constitutional Convention to be held. The Constitution of the United States is issued. Which proposed a new form of government: the federal government.
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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace”
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It protected Ameridians’ rights to land and liberty.
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Ten amendments were added to the Constitution because the original one said nothing about the rights and freedoms of individual citizens.
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Eli Whitney and the Cotton gin, she had a talent for making machines. He solved the planters’ problem by inventing the cotton engine.
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“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever”
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“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
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Britain and the US signed a peace treaty. (Yet, Britain attacked the Americans a few months later.)
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“The only way for the Amerindians to survive is by being moved to other lands, further west”
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Southern and northern politicians were arguing fiercely about whether slavery should be permitted in the new territories that were then being settled III the West.
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All Amerindians east of Mississippi River would be moved to “Indian territory”
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“The liberator” by Garrison, it was a newspaper dedicated to the abolition of slavery.
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Oregon was annexed to the US.
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Mexican territories were annexed. California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado.
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Harriet Tubman, who grew up as a slave, she escaped to Philadelphia and joined to Underground Railroad, she led more than 300 men, women, and children to freedom.
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Senator named Stephen Douglas persuaded Congress to end the Missouri Compromise
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Congress voted to let its people decide for themselves whether to permit slavery there.
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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Confederate guns opened fire Oil Fort Sumter a fortress in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, that was occupied by United States troops. These shots marked the beginning of the American Civil War.
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David Farragut sailed Union ships into the mouth of the river and captured New Orleans.
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This law offered free farms in the West to families of settlers.
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All the slaves living in the Confederacy were to make free.
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The biggest that has ever been fought in the United States.
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As the vice-president, he assumed the presidency after Lincoln was assasinated. “Slavery exists. It’s black in the South and white in the North”
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This dismissed the white governments of the southern states and placed them under military rule.
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The large areas within the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains belonged to the Sioux.
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All the southern states had new " Reconstruction" governments. Most were made up of blacks and a few whites.
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The first national park.
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The use of violence and fear helped white racists to win black control of state government all over the South.
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Reconstruction was over, white Democrats won the control.
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The strength of anti-Chinese feelings caused Congress to ban most Chinese immigration.
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(By the way, these photos were taken by Jorgelina on her trip to Yosemite last February)
