1492
Columbus arrives
Columbian exchange
Encomienda system
1607
Jamestown
1618
Headright system
1619
House of Burgesses
Slavery Begins in the Colonies
1620
Plymouth
1629
Massachusetts bay (John Winthrop)
Puritan Migration (ends in 1660)
1650-1750
Salutary Neglect
1670
Bacons Rebellion
1692
Salem Witch Trials
1730-1740
Great Awakening
1754
Albany Plan
1754-1763
7 years war
1763
Proclamation of (the date)
End of Salutary Neglect
1764
Sugar Act
Currency Act
1765
Stamp Act
1766
Declaratory Act
1767
Townshend Act
1770
Boston Massacre
1773
Boston Tea Party
1774
First Continental Congress
1775
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Olive Branch Petition
2nd Continental congress
1776
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
1778
Win in Saratoga
Franco-American Alliance
1783
Treaty of Paris
1787
Great Compromise
1789
Constitution is effective
Election of Washington
National Bank
Bill of Rights
1791
1797
John Adams Elected
XYZ Affair
Alien & Sedition Acts
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
1801
Jefferson Elected
Judicial Review (Marbury v. Madison)
1803
Louisiana Purchase
1807 &1809
Embargo Act & non intercourse act
1809-1817
James Madison
War of 1812
Hartford Convention
American system
1817
James Monroe
Era of Good Feelings
Adams-Onis Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise
1824
Corrupt Bargin
1829
Jackson Presidency
1830
Indian Removal Act
Veto Notional Bank
Nat Turner Rebellion
Whig Party
1841
Second Great Awakening
1845
Polk Elected
Mexican American War
1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1852
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1855
Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
1861
SC seceded
Fort Sumter (Civil War Start)
1863
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
1865
Reconstruction Begins
1869
13,14,15th Amendments
1877
End of Reconstruction
Compromise of ____
1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1898-1900
Spanish American War
Treaty of Paris
1904
Big Stick Policy
Neutrality
1915-1917
Lusitania
Zimmerman telegram
Declare War on Germany
1918
Espionage Act
Sedition Act
14 Points
1921
Gilded Age
Scandals
1929
Stock Market Crash
Start of Great Depression
1932
FDR Elected
New Deal
1933
Banking Act of ____
FDIC
AAA
PWA
SEC
1934
2nd New Deal
WPA
Social Security
Good Neighbor Policy
1941
Lend Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
1944
D-Day
1945
Truman Becomes President
End of WWII
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
1947
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
1950
McCarthyism
1950-1953
Korean War
Civil Rights Movement
Dwight Eisenhower
1954
Brown v. Board of Education
1956-1960
Suez Crisis
Space Race
U-2 Incident
Tentions Increase
1961
JFK becomes president
Bay of Pigs
Vietnam Begins
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
JKF Assassinated; LBJ becomes president
1964
Civil Rights Act ____
Gulf of Tonkin
1965
Great Society
1969-1979
Detente
1972
Watergate
1974
Gerald Ford
Nixon Pardon
1978
Jimmy Carter
3- Mile Island
Energy Crisis
1981
Reagan
Space shuttle
Star Wars
1986
Iran Contra Scandal
1989
George H.W. Bush Elected President
1991
Persian Gulf War
Desert Storm
1993
Bill Clinton elected president
NAFTA
2001
George W. Bush Elected President
Terrorist attacks
Patriot act