Spanish Domination
1492-1588
Pueblo Revolt
1680
Jamestown
1607
Quebec Founded
1608
Great Migration (Puritans)
1630s- 1640s
Metacom's War
1675-1676
Bacon's Rebellion
1676
1st Great Awakening
1730s - 1740s
French and Indian War
1754-63
Proclamation, Pontiac's Rebellion, Paxton Revolt
1763
Stamp Act
1765
Boston Massacre
1770
Tea Party / Intolerable Acts
1773
Declaration of Independence
1776
American Revolution
1776-1783
Articles of Confederation
1781-1789
Northwest Ordinance, Constitutional Convention, Federalist papers written, Shays' Rebellion
1787
Creation of the First BUS (and Political parties formed)
1791
Cotton Gin invented (slavery changes from "necessary evil" to a "positive good")
1793
Whiskey Rebellion
1794
Alien & Sedition Acts - VA an Kentucky Revolutions
1798
Louisiana Purchase & Marbury vs Madison
1803
International Slave trade ends
1807
War of 1812
1812-1815
Hartford Convention
1814
Lowell Mill & Lowell Mill established
1816
2nd Great Awakening, reform movements
1820s-1850
Era of Good Feelings
1816-1824
First Industrial Revolution (TRIC)
1800-1850
Missouri Compromise
1820
Monroe Doctrine
1823
Nat Turner's Rebellion & Nullification Crisis
1832
Whig Party Forms
1834
Old Immigration
1840s - 1850s
Mexican American War
1846-1848
Seneca Falls Convention
1848
Gold Rush
1849
California's admission / Compromise
1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
Bleeding Kansas
1854-1856
Dred Scott
1857
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
1859
Civil War
1861-1865
Homestead Act
1862
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
13th Amendment
1865
Reconstruction
1865-1877
14th Amendment
1866
15th Amendment
1869
End of Military Reconstruction / Compromise
1877
Plessy vs. Ferguson (separate but equal)
1896
Second Industrial Revolution (ROSE)
1870-1914
Dawes Act
1887
Wounded Knee & Frontier Closed
1890
New Immigration
1890s- 1920s
Spanish American War / Beginning of Philippine-American War (Anti-imperial backlash)
1898
Great Migration (African Americans)
1910s-1950s
US Entry into WWI
1917
World War I
1914-1918
19th Amendment
1920
First Red Scare
1920s
Dawes Plan
1924
Kellogg Briand Pact
1928
Stock Market Crash
1929
New Deal
1933-1941
World War II begins in Europe with the invasion of Poland
1939
Pearl Harbor/WWII for America
1941
Executive Order 9066 (Japanese internment)
1942
GI Bill
1944
Yalta & Potsdam Conferences
1945
Cold War (Truman Doctrine-Fall of USSR)
1947-1991
Korean War
1950-53
McCarthyism/ 2nd Red Scare
1950s
Brown vs. Board of Education
1954
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955
Sputnik & Little Rock 9
1957
Great Society, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, US ground troops in Vietnam, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act
1964
Voting Rights Act
1965
Tet Offensive, Bobby Kennedy Assassinated / riots outside the Democratic Convention / Assassination of MLK
1968
Recession, Oil Shocks, massive unemployment
1970s
Iranian Hostage Crisis
1979
Berlin Wall Comes down
1989
Desert Storm/ Gulf War / Fall of USSR
1991
NAFTA
1994
Contract with America / Conservative backlash
1994
War on Terror
2001-present
Open Door Policy by Sec of State John Hay
1899
Wright Brothers fly 1st airplane
1903
Constitution Ratified
1789