Timeline by Stella Gombar _ Student - GreenHopeES

The Navigation Act

sgombar — 2024-01-11 17:56:46 UTC

This act banded how people can only bring a certain amount of items To different colonies.

It also wouldn't allow people to transport different merchants to different colonies

The Sugar Act

sgombar — 2024-01-11 18:02:09 UTC

Under that law, a tax was placed on a importation of sugar from the French West indies, forcing the american rum distillers to buy more costly sugar from the British West Indies.

The French and Indian war

sgombar — 2024-01-11 18:05:32 UTC

The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.

The Proclamation Of 1763

sgombar — 2024-01-11 18:08:26 UTC

The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. If anyone crossed over it they would get punished

The Stamp Act

sgombar — 2024-01-11 18:11:39 UTC

On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years’ War.

The Quartering Act

sgombar — 2024-01-11 18:14:43 UTC

The Quartering Act of 1765 went way beyond what Thomas Gage had requested. Of course, the colonists disputed the legality of this Act because it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689, which forbid taxation without representation and the raising or keeping a standing army without the consent of Parliament.

The Townshend Act

sgombar — 2024-01-16 14:08:03 UTC

The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.

The Boston Massacre

sgombar — 2024-01-16 16:50:17 UTC

The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.

The Tea Act

sgombar — 2024-01-16 16:51:59 UTC

The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy.

The Boston Tea Party

sgombar — 2024-01-16 18:40:53 UTC

It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.

The Coercive Act Or The Intolerable Act

sgombar — 2024-01-16 18:45:05 UTC

The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.

The Battle Of Lexington And Concord

sgombar — 2024-01-18 14:12:01 UTC

American victory. The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War.

The Declaration Of Independence

sgombar — 2024-01-18 18:44:55 UTC

It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain. At the time the American Revolution began with Great Britain in April 1775 most colonists were not seeking independence.

Winter At Valley Forge

sgombar — 2024-01-19 18:14:04 UTC

Valley Forge is the location of the 1777-1778 winter encampment of the Continental Army led by General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. All the patriots that are fighting are Suffering

The battle At Yorktown

sgombar — 2024-01-22 18:19:12 UTC

The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation—the United States of America.

The Constitution

sgombar — 2024-01-23 18:36:46 UTC

He Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, popularly known as the Constitution Annotated, encompasses the U.S. Constitution and analysis and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution with in-text annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Louisiana Purchase

sgombar — 2024-03-19 17:33:59 UTC

During the french and indian war, france had given much of its land in North America to spain to prevent the british from getting control. Thomas jefferson offered to sell the entire territory to the united states for $15 million dollars! On April 30, 1803, The United states agreed to purchase the huge territory, preaching from the mississippi west to the Rocky mountains. This was called the louisiana purchase!

Lewis and Clark's Journey

sgombar — 2024-03-19 17:40:14 UTC

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. Also on the Journey, Lewis and Clark met a girl that was a native american that spoke 2 Native american languages that helped LEwis and clark lean more about the land!

The Oregon Trail

sgombar — 2024-04-01 17:20:02 UTC

The oregon trail adventure started in missouri and ended in oregon city. The trail was a terrible time and was one of the most dangerous times in history. The time was when they had a wagon only 10 feet long and 4 feet wide. The whole family had to bring only about 10 things in total! One of the most common things that people died from is Cholera. That disease was caused by dirty water pollution.

The Trail of Tears

sgombar — 2024-04-03 17:14:31 UTC

The Trail of Tears. In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.

The Indian Removal Act

sgombar — 2024-04-03 17:16:45 UTC

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory.

The Missouri Compromise

sgombar — 2024-06-03 17:05:52 UTC

On March 6, 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise was made up of three parts: it admitted Maine, part of northern Massachusetts, as a free state. It split up the south and the north of the East of the USA.

The Act On Fort Sumter

sgombar — 2024-06-03 17:07:07 UTC

On April 12, 1861, forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Less than two days later, the fort surrendered. No one was killed. The battle, however, started the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history

The Emancipation Proclamation

sgombar — 2024-06-03 17:10:09 UTC

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Gettysburg Address

sgombar — 2024-06-04 17:58:19 UTC

In his powerful address, Lincoln embraced the Declaration of Independence, recalling how the nation was “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” By resurrecting these promises, Lincoln committed post-Civil War America to “a new birth of freedom.” Following the Civil War

Sherman's March to the Sea

sgombar — 2024-06-04 18:01:00 UTC

Sherman's March to the Sea was an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864, in which Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops through the Confederate state of Georgia, pillaging the countryside and destroying both military outposts and civilian properties.He Burned Savannah, Atlanta to the bones.

Surrender at Appomattox Court House

sgombar — 2024-06-04 18:02:46 UTC

Appomattox County, Apr 9, 1865. Trapped by the Federals near Appomattox Court House, Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces and leading to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history.

Lincoln's Assassination

sgombar — 2024-06-04 18:07:30 UTC

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.