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Picture Timeline Entries: *Remember, Timeline entries will be started in class, but are to be considered as standing homework assignments. A notebook check will be conducted after every third timeline entry.

Timeline Entry:

1. 1492 - Columbus Discovers The Americas: For week of Aug 27th

2. 1607 - England starts Jamestown: For week of Sept 4th

3. 1620 - Pilgrims start Plymouth: For week of Sept 10th

4. 1607 - 1733 England Creates 13 Colonies in America

5. 1763 Britain (England) wins the French and Indian War

6. 1770 The Boston Massacre

7. 1775 The American Revolution: “The Shot Heard Round The World”

8. July 4th 1776 - The Declaration of Independence is written

9. 1783 The Americans Win Independence: The Treaty of Paris 1783.

10. 1787 - Americans write a new Constitution

11. 1789 - George Washington becomes our 1st President

12. 1803 - The Louisiana Purchase

13. 1812 - The War of 1812

14. 1807 - Robert Fulton Invents 1st Successful Steamboat.

15. 1830 - The Indian Removal Act leads to the “Trail of Tears.”

16. 1848 - Gold Is Discovered In California

17. 1848 - Seneca Falls Convention (1st Women’s Rights Convention)

18. 1861 - The Civil War Begins

Project Example Below:

*Note: You were given a few additional questions to answer for the “Explorers” project that were not included with this example page. If you have lost your original set of instructions, be sure you get those questions from another classmate.