What I thought I would attempt to do in this and the next few videos is just to give a scaffold of American history, I'm clearly going to glaze over a lot of the details, but hopefully it will give you a sense of how at least everything fits in together and at least the major events in American history, now when I talk about American history I mean United States history, and so the first real successful settlement in what's now the United States was at Jamestown, and that's Jamestown