2nd Semester Dates of Doom - Events

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