Timeline
In ______ Columbus discovered America
1492
I know not what course others may take;but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
First Inhabitants of this Continent?
Native Americans
First lasting colony
Jamestown
Two of the five causes of the revolutionary war?
Trade and navigation laws
Stamps Act
Townshend Act
Boston Massacre
The Five Intolerable Acts
French & Indian War
1754-1763.
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes
General William Prescott
King of Portugal who suggested it was possible to sail around Africa?
Henry the Navigator
Head of the colony in Jamestown
Captain John Smith
Commander in chief of the Continental Army?
George Washington
Boston Massacre
1770
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
Financed Columbus's first Voyage?
King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain
Englishmen who desired a plainer & purer religion?
Puritans
Father of the declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Boston Tea Party
1773.
I have not yet begun to fight
John Paul Jones
Explorer after whom our continent is named?
Amerigo Vespucci
Puritans who left the Anglican Church altogether?
Separatists
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War.
Second Treaty of Paris
Declaration of Independence
July 4th 1776
That man has an ax to grind
Benjamin Franklin
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Protector of England who established the Navigation Act?
Oliver Cromwell
British General that forced to surrender at Yorktown
Cornwallis