HISTORY

1491 Pre-European contact

1490-1500

Columbus’ first voyage

1490-1500

Growth of Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas

1500-1510

Enlightenment

1600-1800

British settlement of Jamestown

1600-1609

House of Burgesses AND arrival of first enslaved Africans in Virginia

1610-1619

Mayflower Compact

1620-1629

Massachusetts Bay Colony

1630-1639

first Navigation Acts

1650-1651

Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War)

1670-1679

Bacon’s Rebellion

1670-1679

Pueblo Revolt

1680-1689

First Great Awakening

Second half of 1700

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

1754-1763

period of Salutary Neglect ends

1760-1769

Proclamation Line

1760-1769

Sugar Act

1760-1769

Stamp Act

1760-1769

Townshend Acts

1760-1769

Boston Massacre

1770-1779

Tea Act

1770-1779

Boston Tea Party

1770-1779

Intolerable Acts

1770-1779

First Continental Congress

1770-1779

Congress

Lexington and Concord

1770-1779

Second Continental Congress; Olive Branch Petition

1770-1779

American Revolution

1770-1789

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

1770-1779

Declaration of Independence

1770-1779

(ratification) Articles of Confederation

1780-1789

Land Ordinance 1785

1780-1789

Shay’s Rebellion

1780-1789

Northwest Ordinance

1780-1789

Constitutional Convention

1780-1789

Constitution ratified

1780-1789

Constitution ratified (put into operation in 1789)

1780-1789

French Revolution

1780-1789

Washington became president

1780-1789

Naturalization Act of 1790

1790-1799

First Bank of the US

1791-1811

Whiskey Rebellion

1790-1799

Invention of cotton gin

1790-1799

Jefferson won presidential election

1800-1809

Second Great Awakening

1800-1830

Expansion of universal white manhood suffrage

1800-1850

Temperance Movement

1800-1919

Napoleonic Wars in Europe

1800-1820

Louisiana Purchase

1800-1809

Embargo Act

1800-1809

Prohibition of international slave trade

1800-1809

Congress enacted American System programs

1816-1828

Second Bank of the US

1816-1836

Missouri Compromise

1820-1829

Monroe Doctrine

1820-1829

Opening of first mill in Lowell

1820-1829

Founding of Democratic Party

1820-1829

Erie Canal completed

1820-1829

Market Revolution

1820s and 1830s

Andrew Jackson elected as president

1820-1829

Indian Removal Act

1830-1839

Founding of Whig Party

1830-1839

Texas Revolution

1830-1839

James K. Polk won presidential election

1840-1849

Brigham Young becomes leader of Latter-day Saints

1840-1849

Mexican-American War

1840-1849

Utopian Communities

1840s-1900

Seneca Falls Convention

1840-1849

Compromise of 1850

1850-1859

Know Nothing Party popular

1850-1859

Free Soil Party

1848-1854

Republican Party founded

1850-1859

Kansas Nebraska Act

1850-1859

Dred Scott Decision

1850-1859

Lincoln won presidential election

1860-1869

South Carolina first state to secede

1860-1869

Confederate States of America formed

1860-1869

Civil War

1860-1869

Emancipation Proclamation

1860-1869

Reconstruction

1865-1877

Completion of first Transcontinental Railroad

1860-1869

Gilded Age

1870s-1900

Social Gospel movement

1870s-1920s

Founding Rockefeller Oil

1870-1879

the New South

1870-1879

Conviction of Boss Tweed

1870-1879

Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened

1870-1879

first references to Social Darwinism

1880-1889

Jane Addams founded Hull House

1880-1889

Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth”

1880-1889

Progressive Era

1890s-1920s

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890-1899

Changes in immigration patterns

1890-1899

Census Bureau declared the frontier closed

1890-1899

Founding People’s Party (Populist Party)

1890-1899

Founding Carnegie Steel

1890-1899

Imperial Japan

1890-1899

Plessy v. Ferguson

1890-1899

Spanish American War

1890-1899

Philippine-American War

1899-1902

McKinley assassinated; TR became president

1900-1909