my timeline

By helamanp

  • Jamestown was America’s first permanent English settlement.

  • This year marked the first legislative assembly, the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, and the arrival of the first families in Jamestown

  • The Pilgrims settled at Plymouth, creating a colony based on religious beliefs.

  • Puritans came to Massachusetts in the first large wave of immigrants, bringing strong religious values and new ideas about community.

  • Anne Hutchinson was banished for her religious beliefs and later helped found Rhode Island, which supported religious freedom.

  • This war began long-lasting conflicts between Native Americans, colonists, the British, and the French.

  • The trials show how fear and mass hysteria can cause people to make dangerous and unfair decisions.

  • The French and Indian War,

  • Stamp Act

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • United States Constitution signed

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    President Thomas Jefferson authorizes purchase of the Louisiana territory from France and almost doubles the size of the United States.

  • The War of 1812

  • “Underground Railroad”

  • Samuel Morse sends his first telegraph message

  • Abraham Lincoln elected President

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • President Lincoln is assassinated