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Founding of Jamestown
Jamestown was founded in soon to be the state of Virgina.It was the First English Settlement in the New World. -
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Founding of Harverd College
Harverd was founded in Mass. to have a higher learning institution in the Colonial america Region. -
Navigation Acts
Were taxes on imports that came from outside British Empire.Also made sure the colonists didn't trade with France or Spain. -
Salem Witch Trials
Was a sereies of trials that tried many women who were accused of being witches and cause some of the accused to be hanged. -
Seven Years War
A war that raged between Great Britian and France for the control of North America -
Stamp Act
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Boston Massacre
was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men 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. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Battle of Ticondaroga
when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. Cannons and other armaments from the fort were transported to Boston and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and break the standoff at the Siege of Boston. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill." -
Declaration of Independence
When the S.C.C declared America Idependent from Great Britian. -
Battles of Saratoga
Two battles that took place in Saratoga that turned the War on American favor.It was the turning point of the revolution. -
Shay's Rebellion
A Rebellion lead by Shay because of the unfair land and economic laws.Caused the Constitutional Convention. -
Inaugration of George Washington
When George Washington was swore in as the First President of the US. -
Whiskey Rebellion
a tax on Whiskey that upset the citizens. -
XYZ Affair
was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving the United States and Republican France. Its name derives from the substitution of the letters X, Y and Z for the names of French diplomats in documents released by the Adams administration. -
Marbury vs. Madison
A Supreme court case where Marbury filed a case against James Madison because he didnt give Marbury's appointmen Order as a juge on order from President Jefferson.Madison won but the Supreme Court got the power of Judicial Reveiw. -
Louisianna Purchase
was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($234 million in 2012 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre). -
Lewis & Clark Expidition
an expedition Jefferson send to find an all water way from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. -
War of 1812
A war between America and Great Britian resulted by the Embargo Act and British claim that they didn't ever declare America free. -
Missouri Comprimise
A compremise that determine which states can be Free and which states can be Slave States. -
Indian Removal Act
an act that was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Native Americans in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Trail of Tears
Americans driving Native Americans to Oklahoma Territory because citizens needed lands to use. -
Andrew Jackson Asassaination Atempt
When an Assassain tried to asassinate President Andrew Jackson.He missed and Jackson beat him up with his walking cane.