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1492

Columbus sailed to the Americas; end of Native American isolation + Columbian Exchange

1607

Jamestown was the first British colony in N. America

1921

Emergency quota act

1913

17th amendment

1948

Berlin blockade and Berlin airlift

1754

French and Indian War begins

1783

American Revolution ends with the Treaty of Paris

1787

Northwest Ordinance adopted after settlers move westward; US Consitution

1790s

Federalist (Hamilton) and Democratic-Republican (Jefferson) parties form: federal power, economic policy, and foreign policy (through the early 1800s)

1800

Thomas Jefferson elected (Revolution of 1800)

1828

Andrew Jackson elected

1820s - 1830s

New political parties Democrats (Jackson) and Whigs (Clay) form: debated federal power, national bank, tariffs, internal improvements

1844

James Polk elected; symbolic of Manifest Destiny

1848

Mexican-American War ends with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Seneca falls convention

1850

Compromise of 1850 attempts to resolve the issue of slavery, fugitive slave laws

1860

Abraham Lincoln (Republican) elected without any southern electoral votes

1865

13th amendment, Civil War ends, Reconstruction begins, gilded age begins

1877

Reconstruction ends, Freedmen's bureau, KKK, black codes/Jim crow laws

1896

Plessy v Ferguson; election of 1896 (William McKinely/Imperialism)

1898

Spanish American War ends with Treaty of Paris

1905

Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle” published

1901

Platt amendment

1917

1st Red Scare; US enters WWI

1929

Stock market crashes (Black Friday) and Great Depression begins

1933

FDR's New Deal begins (Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act passed)

1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor → US enters WWII

1945

WWII ends with atom bomb; Cold War begins (Potsdam Conference)

1954

Brown v Board of Education; beginning of the Civil Rights movement

1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin incident and resolution

1973

US exits Vietnam; OPEC Embargo; Roe v Wade

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall

2001

9/11 terrorist attacks and patriot acts

1650s

Salutary Neglect and mercantilism

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1730s

First Great awakening, led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

1763 - 1776

End of salutary neglect, start of committees of correspondence, continental congress, sons and daughters of liberty

1781

Weak articles of confederation: no power to levy taxes, no executive branch

1789

Constitution went into effect

1796

Washington's farewell

1797 - 1801

Adam’s presidency, XYZ affair, alien and sedition acts

1803

Louisiana purchase

1815

Henry Clay and the American System

1820

Missouri compromise

1823

Monroe doctrine

1829 - 1837

Jackson presidency: spoils system, trail of tears, Indian removal

1845

Manifest destiny terms spreads, solidifying it

1869

Transcontintental railroad finished

1831

Nat turner's rebellion ans trail of tears

1861 - 1865

Civil war

1863

Emancipation proclamation

1890

Sherman anti trust act, Titans of industry (Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Carnegie), Gilded Age ends, Progressive era begins

1919

end of WW1, woodrow wilson’s 14 points, 18th amendment

1920

Roaring 20s, Harlem Renaissance, great migration, 19th amendment (women's suffrage), prohibition

1942 - 1946

Executive order 9066 and enforcement of Japanese internment camps

1950 - 1953

Korean war

1960s

Montgomery bus boycotts, Freedom rides, Malcolm X

1969 - 1974

Nixon presidency: detente, Watergate

1977 - 1981

Carter presidency: camp David accords, Iran hostage crisis

1980s

Reaganomics, supply side economics

1820s - 1850s

Market revolution

1868

14th amendment

1870

15th amendment

1846

Wilmot proviso

1739

Stono Rebellion

1985

Iran Contra Affair

1963

March on washington

1944

GI bill

1956

Interstate highway system

1651

navigation acts

1830

Indian Removal act

1795 - 1835

Second great awakening

1962

Cuban missile crisis, port Huron statement

1969

Start of vietnamization, also start of Woodstock festival (counterculture)

1906

Meat inspection act

1943

Tehran conference (open 2nd front in western Europe)

1970

Establishment of the Environmental protection agency (EPA)

1983

Strategic defense initiative (Star wars)

1770

Boston massacre

1773

Boston tea party

1801

Marbury v madison

1955 - 1975

Vietnam War

1960

Students for Democratic society (SDS, New left) and Young Americans for freedom (YAF, New right) form

1786

Shays’ rebellion