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1 A Brief History of the U.S.

2 1492 Columbus discovers the Americas and claims the new land for Spain. Island in the West Indies Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

3 1607 Jamestown first permanent English settlement in North America
founded by the Virginia Company charter from King James I House of Burgesses; representative assembly (legislature) in the English colonies

4 1620 Plymouth (present day Massachusetts) settled by Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact direct democracy town meetings voting limited to land owning men

5 1733 13 Colonies New England Middle Southern
governor elected by colonists or appointed by English king legislatures with elected representatives religious freedom & economic opportunity

6 1756-63 Seven Years War French and Indian War
Britain declares war on France Native Americans allied with France global conflict victory goes to Britain

7 1765 Stamp Act Quartering Act Britain needed to pay war debt
tax stamps needed for newspapers and legal documents supply British troops with food, munitions and barracks

8 1770 Boston Massacre colonists protesting Townshend Acts
British troops fire into a crowd of colonists, killing 5

9 1773 Tea Act Boston Tea Party Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts
reduced taxes to the British East India Company gave advantage over colonial merchants angry colonists dressed as Native Americans dumped 343 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor restricted the colonists’ civil rights

10 No More kings

11 1774 First Continental Congress
12 colonies (minus Georgia) sent representatives to Philadelphia; lasted 7 weeks establish a political body to represent American interests and challenge British control sent a document to King George III demanding rights be given back continue boycott of British goods

12 1775 American Revolution Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts
colonists began to question their loyalty to Britain

13 SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD

14 1776 Declaration of Independence
final step in the colonies’ resistance to the English government individual / natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness list of complaints against King George III formal declaration that the colonies now make up their own country and are their own people

15 FIREWORKS

16 1777 / 1781 The Articles of Confederation
confederation: group of individual state governments that band together for a common purpose one-house legislature; one vote for each state control of army authority to deal with foreign countries no power to enforce laws no power to tax, could ask for money but not demand could not require states to do anything no single leader or group directed policy no national court system could not pass laws without approval of at least states could not be changed without agreement from all 13 states

17 1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War
Congress couldn’t collect taxes so it borrowed money to finance the war state governments taxed citizens heavily farmers driven out of business taxes on imported goods citizen insecurity led to resentment and riots

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