51 key dates in American history (with periods)

Period 1

1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: Divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.

Period 1: 1607

Jamestown colony founded in Virginia

Period 2: 1619

House of Burgesses - First elected legislative assembly in the New World; Virginia

Period 2

1620 Mayflower Compact - First agreement for self-government in the colonies

Period 2: 1676

Bacon's Rebellion - Revolt by frontier settlers against Virginia's elite.

Period 2: 1754

Albany Plan - Ben Franklin's failed attempt to unify colonies for defense.

Period 3: 1757-1763

7 years or French and Indian War

Period 3: 1765

Stamp Act

Period 3

1775-1783 The American Revolution

Period 3: 1776

Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, Battle of Trenton

Period 3: 1787

Constitutional Convention

Period 4

1800 Peaceful Revolution- Thomas Jefferson elected president

Period 4: 1803

Louisiana Purchase; Marbury v. Madison

Period 4: 1814

Hartford Convention- Death of the federalist party

Period 4

1820 Missouri Compromise / Established 36 30 Dividing Line for Free/Slave States

Period 4: 1824

Election of ? - John Quincy Adams elected president

Period 4

Election of 1828 - Andrew Jackson Elected President

Period 4/5: 1846-1848

Mexican - American War / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Period 5

1848 Seneca Falls Convention

Period 5: 1850

Compromise of?/ CA = free state / fugitive slave law passed

Period 5: 1860

Lincoln Elected President / South Carolina Secedes from the Union

Period 5

1861-1865 The Civil War

Period 5/6: 1865-1877

Reconstruction

Period 6

1865-1898 Gilded Age

Period 6

1887 Dawes Act Apportionment of Native land

Period 6

Boss Tweed - Corrupt NYC political Boss

Period 7: 1898

Spanish American War / Hawaii Annexed / Beginning of American Imperialism

Period 7: 1906

Upton Sinclair writes "The Jungle" / Pure Food and Drug Act Passed

Period 7

1912 Election of Woodrow Wilson Elected President

Period 7: 1916-1918

US involvement in WWI

Period 7: 1919

Treaty of Versailles / Wilson's 14 Points

Period 7: 1920

19th Amendment - Granted women the right to vote in nationwide.

Period 7: 1929

Stock Market Crash

Period 7: 1932

Election of? - Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected President

Period 7: 1933

New Deal / Repeal of Prohibition

Period 7: 1929-1941

Great Depression

Period 7/8

1941-1945 WWII

Period 8

1947 Marshall Plan / Beginning of the Cold War

Period 8: 1950-1953

The Korean War

Period 8: 1954

Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court strikes down "separate but equal."

Period 8: 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis / World Avoids Nuclear War

Period 8: 1963

March on Washington and JFK assassinated

Period 8: 1964-1974

Vietnam War

Period 8: 1968

Tet Offensive in Vietnam / MLK and RFK Assassinated / Nixon Elected President

Period 8: 1972-1974

Watergate Scandal/ Nixon Re-elected, then resigns office

Period 8

1989 Berlin Wall Falls

Period 9

1991 Soviet Union Collapses / End of the Cold War

Period 9: 1998

Bill Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives / Senate Acquits

Period 9: 2000

Contested Presidential Election - George W. Bush Becomes President

Period 9: 2001

World Trade Center Attacked / War on Terror Begins

Period 9: 2008

1st African American Elected President - Barack Obama