1600's
8.02: In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at this future city in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth?
8.13: In 1763, this document was signed, ending the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
8.62: In 1861, this conflict between the North and the South began.
What is the Civil War?
The day that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
The original number of colonies.
What is 13.
8.01: In 1607, this became the first permanent, English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
8.15: In 1773, the Sons of Liberty tossed 300 crates of Tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
8.30: In 1803, the US doubled in size due to this event.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
8.49: The name for the idea that the United States was chosen by God to control all of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
8.21: The First written constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
8.01: This was the first example of a representative governing body in the European colonies in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
8.15: In 1770, a group of men were shot by British soldiers after causing a riot.
What is the Boston Massacre?
8.40: In 1825, this structure was built through the state of New York and entered the Great Lakes. It enhanced the economy by opening trade routes to the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
8.28: The year that Tennessee became a state.
What is 1796?
8.24: In 1791, these first 10 changes were added to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
8.01: In 1610, this native group gave assistance to the colonists at Jamestown through trade and by showing them crop-growing techniques.
Who are the Powhatan
8.13: In 1754, this war began on US soil.
What is French and Indian War?
8.47: In 1830, President Jackson signed this act, which forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
8.17: The battle that began the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
8.17: In 1775, this group named George Washington commander-in-chief of their armed forces and developed policies which gave the country a stronger central government.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
8.02: Before leaving the ship, 41 men signed this document used to establish order and government.
What is Mayflower Compact?
8.17: In 1774, this group got together to decide how to respond to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
8.64: In 1863, President Lincoln decreed that all slaves in Rebel territory were free.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
8.43: What was the name given to advocates of getting rid of slavery?
Who were abolitionists?
8.31: The US declared THIS war on Great Britain for interference with American shipping.
What is the War of 1812?