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A 5-minute slideshow needing no narration covering a brief timeline of US history from 1607 to 1900 in 20 slides
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In Twenty Slides by T. Keith Barbo
American History to 1900
May 14, 1607 – Jamestown!
British colonists found Jamestown, Virginia – the first permanent English settlement in the
New WorldNamed for English
king, James I
Settled by the Virginia CompanyFor proprietary reasons…
Ka-ching!
African slaves were sold From the west African coast
For goods from Europe
Slaves were carried to the colonies with Sugar+Molas
sesfor RUM!
1619 1808Triangular Trade Route
1620 – A new English settlementIn the New World
Pilgrims establish thePlymouth Colony
Plymouth is settled
For religious freedom
- Not money
Pilgrim colonists
Make a treaty with Patuxet tribe, who show them
how to fish and
fertilize crops
1700-1770Economic Growth for Colonial America
Created much wealth in the
colonies. And, as the colonists
prospered…
A land rich in resources such as fertile farm lands
and timber…
… so did England
The Stamp Act of 1765The Townshend Acts 1767
The Declatory Act 1766
Britain’s greed for more Wealth was angering
The Colonists
THE BOSTON MASSACRE
MARCH 5, 1770
Boston Tea PartyDecember 16,
1773
And the Colonists rebelled!
Britain Tried to regain control
of the Colonists with more force
The Coercive or Intolerable Acts
1774
But the Colonists could no longer tolerate the injustice!
1st Continental Congress 1774
REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGINS
1775
1776 Declaration of
Independence Signed
George Washington becomes the first president
of the newly formed United States of America
1789
1797 - Trouble in Paradise
The Franco American War Violation of the Bill of Rights in
The Alien & Sedition Acts
1800 - Thomas Jefferson presidentEnd of Alien and Sedition Acts
The US doubles in size With the
Louisiana Purchase in 1803
1808 - 1815
The Slave Trade Ends in 1808
ANDREW JACKSON
BECOMES A HERO
IN THE BATTLE OF
NEW ORLEANS
The Missouri Compromise Divides the Free US from the
Slave US in 1808Andrew Jackson
Elected president 1828 and Was the hero of the poor man
While an enemy to the red man
1831-1848
AUGUST 1831
SLAVE REBELLIO
N
Texas becomes
a republic in 1835
Mexican American
War1846-48 US gains
more territory
Gold Rush 1849
Civil war
averted1850 Republ ican
Party formed
1854Southerner
Brooks attacks
Northerner Sumner
1856
1860-1863
Lincoln Elected 16th President of US and
Lower South Secedes in response
1860
CONFEDERATE STATES
OF AMERICA FORMED
1862
Civil War begins atFort Sumter April 12, 1861
EmancipationProclamation
January 1st
1863
GEN. LEE SURRENDERSTO GEN. GRANTAPRIL 9, 1865
186513th AmendmentAbolishes Slavery
Lincoln Shot at Ford TheaterApril 14, 1865
Ku Klux Klan founded by Confederate War Veterans
1868-1900
15th Amendment No Denial of voting Rights due to race
1890First Influx of
Mass Immigrants To US
Roosevelt becomes hero inSpanish American War
US wins and gains Philippines, Samoa, Guam, & Puerto Rico