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Pre-European contact
Before 1490s
Columbus
1490s
Spanish and Portuguese colonies
1500s
Enlightenment
1600-1800
Settlement of Jamestown
1600s
House of Burgesses
1610s
First slaves
1610s
Mayflower Compact
1620s
Massachusetts Bay colony
1630s
1st Navigation Acts
1650s
Metacom’s (King Philip’s) War
1670s
Bacon’s Rebellion
1670s
Pueblo Revolt
1680s
1st Great Awakening
1730s, 1740s
Seven Years (French and Indian) War
1750s, 1760s
Salutary Neglect ENDS
1760s
Proclamation Line of ____
1763
Sugar/Stamp/Townshend Acts
1760s
Boston Massacre
1770s
Tea Act/Boston Tea Party
1770s
Intolerable Acts
1770s
First Continental Congress
1770s
Lexington/Concord
1770s
Second Continental Congress + Olive Branch Petition
1770s
American Revolution
1770s, 1780s
Declaration of Independence (exact year)
1776
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
1770s
Articles of Confederation
1780s
Land Ordinance of ____
1785
Shay’s Rebellion
1780s
Northwest Ordinance
1780s
Constitutional Convention (exact year)
1787
Constitution goes into effect
1789
French Revolution
1780s
Washington becomes president
1780s
Naturalization Act of ____
1790
First National Bank
1790s, 1800s, 1810s
Whiskey Rebellion
1790s
Cotton gin invented
1790s
Thomas Jefferson becomes president (exact year)
1800
2nd Great Awakening
1800s
Expansion of white male suffrage
1800s
Temperance Movement (_____ until 1919)
1800s
Napoleonic Wars
1800s, 1810s
Louisiana Purchase (exact year)
1803
Embargo Act
1800s
Prohibition of international slave trade
1800s
American System programs enacted
1810s, 1820s
Missouri Compromise (exact year)
1820
Monroe Doctrine
1820s
Lowell mills open
1820s
Democratic Party founded
1820s
Erie Canal
1820s
Market Revolution
1820s, 1830s
Andrew Jackson elected (exact year)
1828
Indian Removal Act
1830s
Whig Party founded
1830s
Texas Revolution
1830s
James K Polk elected (exact year)
1844
Brigham Young becomes leader of LDS (Mormoms)
1840s
Mexican-American War
1840s
Utopian communities (____-1900)
1840s
Seneca Falls Convention
1840s
Compromise of ____
1850
Know-Nothing Party
1850s
Free Soil Party
1840s, 1850s
Republican Party Founded
1850s
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1850s
Dred Scott decision
1850s
Lincoln elected president (exact year)
1860
South Carolina secedes (exact year)
1860
Confederacy founded
1860s
Civil War
1860s
Emancipation Proclamation
1860s
Reconstruction
1860s, 1870s
Transcontinental Railroad finished
1860s
Gilded Age (____-1900)
1870s
Social Gospel Movement (____-1920s)
1870s
Rockefeller Oil fonded
1870s
“The New South”
1870s
Boss Tweed
1870s
Carlisle School
1870s
First references to social Darwinism
1880s
Hull House founded
1880s
Andrew Carnegie/Gospel of Weath
1880s
Progressive Era (1890s-____)
1920s
Wounded Knee Massacre
1890s
Frontier closed by Census Bureau
1890s
Populist Party founded
1890s
Carnegie Steel founded
1890s
Imperial Japan (____-1945)
1890s
Plessy v. Ferguson
1890s
Spanish-American War begins (exact year)
1898
Philippine-American War
1890s, 1900s
McKinley assassinated, Teddy Roosevelt becomes president
1900s
Great Migration (____-1970s)
1910s
Woodrow Wilson becomes president (exact year)
1912
Panama Canal completed
1910s
WW1
1910s
US enters WW1 and Russian Revolution (exact year)
1917
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