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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