Anchor Dates

1492

Columbian Exchange; Spanish Encomienda System; French fur trade

16th Century

Black Legend Emerges

1607

Jamestown

1619

VA House of Burgesses

1620

Mayflower Compact

1650s

Navigation Acts- British mercantilist system

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1730s

First Great Awakening

1754-1763

French & Indian War; Treaty of Paris

1763-1776

Ends salutary neglect; Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Intolerable Acts, Quartering Acts; Committees of Correspondence, Continental Congress & Sons and Daughters of Liberty

1776

Declaration of Independence; Paine's Common Sense; Republican Motherhood

1781

weak Articles of Confederation; Shay's Rebellion

1789

Constitution

1790

Hamilton's Financial Plan; Whiskey Tax

1796

Washington's Farwell Address;

1797

Adam's Presidency

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1815

Henry Clay- "American System"

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1829 - 1837

Jackson's Presidency

1845

Manifest Destiny

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1830s

Texas Settled By Americans

1848

Mexican American War

1850

Henry Clay- Compromise of 1850

1861 - 1865

Civil War

1877

Reconstruction Ends

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson; William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan (Populist)

1898

Spanish-American War

1906

The Jungle

1909

Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy

1914

WWI

1917

US joins WWi

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1920

19th Amendment

1920s

Harlem Renaissance/“Roaring 20s”

1929

Stock Market Crash

1930s

FDR’s New Deal

1930s

Build Up to WWII

1940s

US Mobilizes for War

1941-1945

US fights WWII

1950s

Prosperity, baby boom, Cold War Hysteria

1947 & 1948

Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan

1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board