Your task is to research these events and create a visual timeline that contains 10 of these important events, with at least one event from each movement’s time period.
On your timeline, provide the date, a description of the event, and an explanation of the event's impact on citizens, the country, or life in general. Include at least three images on your timeline.
Jamestown Settlement (1807 - 1899)
This settlement is where a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. It is through here that tobacco became a cash crop and the basis for a thriving economy here in Virginia.
Arrival of English settlers on Jamestown
Stamp Act (1764 - 1765)
On March 22nd, of 1764, the Stamp Act was passed by the British parliament enacted primarily to raise funds for Great Britain. Taxes were on items such as newspapers, cards, legal documents, etc. This enforcement of the act soon lead to wide colonist protests and soon after, The Stamp Act Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation. This mean that without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists thereby repealing the Stamp Act.
Stamp Act Riot in 1765
Emancipation Act (April 16, 1862)
On this day, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law ending slavery in all of the District of Columbia. It led to immediate emancipation, compensation to former owners who were loyal to the Union of up to $300 for each freed slave, voluntary colonization of former slaves to locations outside the United States, etc. Though slavery itself wasn't completely outlawed till 4 years later, this law marked the early signaling of the death of slavery.
Actual Picture of the Bill
Underground Railroad (1810-1863)
The underground railroad started in the early 1800s allowed for slaves to escape their owners and a life of servitude. Especially in places like the deep South, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 made capturing escaped slaves a lucrative business, and there were fewer hiding places for them so slaves had more motive to escape. The impact of this was the fact it gave freedom to thousands of enslaved women and men, and was the first operation ever enacted to stop the institution slavery.
Trail of Tears (1831 - 1877)
The Trail of Tears was a compilation of the forced relocations of around 70,000 Native Americans from their ancestral lands to places west of the Mississippi River. Many of the migrants migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokee tribe itself had perished over this journey. This was primarily due to the Indian Removal Act that was signed in congress.
Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865)
The American Civil War was fought between the Union and the Confederacy. This war began mainly due to disagreement over slavery, the Confederacy being pro-slavery and the Union being Anti-Slavery. Finally the Union defeated the Confederacy and Lincoln abolished the institution in all present states of the nation at that time.
The Confederacy and the Union in battle.
The Great Depression (1929-40)
The Great Depression began when the stock market crashed in October 1929, sending all of Wall Street into a frenzy and wiping millions of Americans out of Jobs. It was the harshest adversity Americans faced, since the Civil War. Not only that, but industrial production declined by 47 percent all-around and effected almost every major country across the globe. Almost nothing worked to fix this until World War II and the New Deal happened.
One of the many protests in the Great Depression era.
World War II (1939-1945)
World War 2 was a war including the vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. So many different events, such as the Holocaust, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki, happened during the helm of this war and were so horrific that the United Nations ended up being formed in 1948 as a result of the horrific sights the world had seen as a result of this brutal war.