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"1491" | refers to the years before Columbus' arrival, advanced civilizations among indigenous peoples (e.g. Cahokia, Pueblo) |
1492 | Columbus's arrival in North America |
1607 | Jamestown established, first permanent English settlement |
1619 | House of Burgesses established, first representative assembly |
1619 | first slave ship arrives in British colonies (a dutch ship) |
1620 | Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower and form Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts |
1630 | Puritans arrive in Massachusetts Bay Colony (John Winthrop City Upon A Hill) |
1680 | Pueblo Revolt (Pope's Rebellion), Pueblo Indians oust Spanish from present day NM (temporarily) |
1754-1763 | Seven Years War/French Indian War/Great War for Empire |
1776 | colonies declare independence from Britain |
1775-1783 | American Revolution |
1777-1789 | Articles of Confederation |
1787 | Constitutional Convention |
1789 | George Washington inaugurated as first president of the US |
1800 | Jefferson elected, marks first peaceful transfer of power in the new nation from one political party to another (Federalists to Republicans) |
1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
1807 | importation of slavery ends (as set by the Constitution), internal slave trade intensifies, abolition movement grows |
1820 | Missouri Compromise |
1828 | Andrew Jackson elected: nomination conventions, expansion of elected to all white men (not just land owning) |
1833 | Foundation of Whig Party in US (second party system: Democrats and Whigs) |
1844 | Polk elected |
1845 | Manifest Destiny term used to describe expansion to the West |
1846-1848 | War with Mexico, results in Mexican Cession |
1848 | Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments |
1850 | Compromise of 1850 |
1857 | Dred Scott vs. Sanford decision |
1860 | Lincoln elected president, member of new Republican Party, followed by secession of deep southern states |
1861-1865 | Civil War |
1869 | Transcontinential Railroad completed at Promontory Point |
1877 | Compromise of 1877 settled election of 1876 and removed federal troops from South, ending Reconstruction |
1860s-1900 | Industralization, immigration increases greatly, particularly from eastern and southern Europe |
1890 | Battle of Wounded Knee, end of armed Indian resistance |
1892 | Populist Party formed |
1896 | Plessy vs. Ferguson decision |
1898 | Spanish-American War/War of 1898 |
c.1900 | Progressive reform movement rises to counter ills of industrialization, Teddy Roosevelt president |
1912 | Woodrow Wilson elected president |
1914-1918 | World War I, US enters in 1917, Great Migration begins |
1920 | women's suffrage (19th amendment) passed |
1929 | Stock market crash, depression begins |
1932 | FDR elected, New Deal legislation begins in first hundred days after inauguration |
1939-1945 | World War II, US enters after Dec 7, 1941: attack on Pearl Harbor, June 6, 1944: D-Day, August 6, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
1945 | Allies triumphant, US and USSR become contrasting world powers, Cold War begins |
1950-1953 | Korean War |
1954 | Brown vs. Board of Education decision |
1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
1963 | MLK's March on Washington |
1963 | Kennedy assasinated, Johnson becomes president |
1964 | Civil Rights Act passed |
1965 | Voting Rights Act passed |
1964-1973 | US involvement in Vietnam War: US troops were in Vietnam prior to this, but the Gulf of Tonkin incident and Resolution were in 1964 |
1980 | Ronald Reagan elected, conservative ascendance |
1989 | Cold War ends with fall of the Berlin Wall, USSR dissolves in 1991 |
1991 | First Gulf War |
2001 | Al Qaeda attacks US on September 11, War on Terror |
2003 | Troops to Iraq, demonstrates GW Bush's doctrine of "pre-emptive war" |
2008 | Obama elected president, first African American to hold office |
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