TIMELINE UNIT 1-5

1492 (first)

Columbus’s first voyage

1492 (second)

Columbian exchange begins

1494

Treaty of Tordesillas

1512

Encomienda System begins

1550

Valladiod Debate begins

1607

Jamestown

1620

Mayflower compact signed

1649

Act of Toleration

1675

King Phillip’s War/Metacom’s War

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1735

Zenger Trial

1741

Sinners in the Hands of an angry God sermon

1763

Proclamation Line

1765

Stamp Act

1767

Townshend Acts

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Tea Act, Boston Tea Party

1774

Coercive Acts

1775

Lexington & Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

Battle of Saratoga

1783

Treaty of Paris

1786

Shay’s Rebellion

1787

Constitutional Convention

1798

XYZ Affair

1798

Alien and Sedition Act

1800

Jefferson’s Election

1803 (first)

Louisiana Purchase

1803 (second)

Marbury v. Madison

1807

Chesapeake Leopard Affair

1812-1815

War of 1812

1816-1824

Era of Good Feeling

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Jackson’s Election

1830

Indian Removal Act

1831 (first)

The Liberator

1831 (second)

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1838

Trial of Tears

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1846-1848

Mexican American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Fugitive Slave Act

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1854

Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Case

1860

Lincoln’s Election

1861-1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1877

Compromise of 1877