american history: dates to remember & presidents (ch. 1-17)

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1440

movable-type printing press

1492

columbus discovered the new world

1517

beginning of the protestant reformation

1588

defeat of the spanish armada

1608

first permanent french settlement established at quebec

october 12, 1492

full date of when columbus discovered the new world

1513

first spanish landing in america (st. augustine)

1718

new orleans founded

1497

john cabot claimed newfoundland for england

1607

jamestown founded

1619

beginning of slave trade in british north america; house of burgesses est.

1620

plymouth colony founded

1630

massachusetts bay colony founded

1733

georgia founded

1215

magna carta signed

november 11, 1620

full date of arrival at cape cod

1636

founding of harvard college

1646

ole deluder satan act

1701

yale

1767

princeton

1730s-1740s

the great awakening

1754-1763

french and indian war

1765

stamp act congress

1773

boston tea party

1774

first continental congress

april 19, 1775

lexington and concord

1775

second continental congress

july 4, 1776

declaration of independence adopted

1777

battle of saratoga (turning point of the war)

1781

battle of Yorktown

1783

treaty of paris

october 19, 1781

full date of cornwallis’s surrender (battle of yorktown)

1781-1789

the critical period

1785

land ordinance; constitutional convention

1788

US constitution ratified

1791

bill of rights

1787

constitutional convention held in philadelphia

1789

judiciary act (federal court system)

1792

mint act

1801

judiciary act (midnight appointments)

george washington

1789-1797

john adams

1797-1801

1789

storming of the bastille; start of french revolution

1803

louisiana purchase

1812-1815

war of 1812

1814

treaty of ghent

1815

battle of new orleans

thomas Jefferson

1801-1809

james madison

1809-1817

1805

bombing of tripoli

june 18, 1812

full date for the start of the war of 1812

1816

second bank of the US

1819

adams-onis treaty

1823

monroe doctrine

1824

“favorite sons” election

james monroe

1817-1825

john quincy adams

1825-1829

1828-1841

jacksonian era

1828

tariff of abominations

1837

panic of 1837

1842

webster-ashburton treaty established US-canadian border

andrew jackson

1829-1837

martin van buren

1837-1841

william harrison

1841

john tyler

1841-1845

1820

bingham and thurston led the first group of american missionaries to hawaii

1850s

peak of the second great awakening

1854

japan signed a treaty to trade with america

1821

first public high school

1825

completion of the erie canal

1836

texas war for independence

1845

annexation of texas

1846-1848

mexican war

1848

treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo

1849

california gold rush

1853

gadsden purchase

james polk

1845-1849

1850

compromise of 1850

1854

kansas/nebraska act

1854

republican party

1860

election of abraham lincoln; first presidential republican victory

zachary taylor

1849-1850

millard fillmore

1850-1853

franklin pierce

1853-1857

james buchanan

1857-1861

abraham lincoln

1861-1865

april 12, 1861

full date of the battle of fort sumter; start of the civil war

january 1863

emancipation proclamation (month, year)

april 9, 1865

appomattox court house (full date)

1861-1865

the civil war

andrew johnson

1865-1869

july 4, 1863

full date of the surrender of the west in the civil war

1865

lincoln assassinated/13th amendment

1868

14th amendment

1877

end of reconstruction

andrew johnson

1865-1869

ulysses s. grant

1869-1877

rutherford b. hayes

1877-1881