Period 1 Dates

1492 – Columbus’ first voyage

Period 2 Dates – Colonial America

1607 – Jamestown

1649 – Toleration Act

1688 – Glorious Revolution

1692 – Salem Witch Trials

Period 3 Dates – The American Revolution

1754–1763 – Seven Years’ War

1763 – Proclamation of 1763

1765 – Stamp Act

1770 – Boston Massacre

1773 – Boston Tea Party

1775 – Lexington & Concord

1776 – Dec. of Independence

1777 – Battle of Saratoga

1781 – Battle of Yorktown

1783 – Treaty of Paris

1787 – Constitutional Convention

1788 – Washington’s Election

1798 – XYZ Affair

1798 – Alien & Sedition Acts

Period 4 Dates – Expansion & Democracy

1800 – Jefferson’s Election

1803 – Louisiana Purchase

1812–1815 – War of 1812

1814 – Battle of New Orleans

1816–1824 – Era of Good Feelings

1820 – Missouri Compromise

1823 – Monroe Doctrine

1820s – Sectionalism

1828 – Jackson’s Election

1830 – Indian Removal Act

1832 – Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1830–1850 – Manifest Destiny

1836 – Battle of the Alamo

Period 5 Dates – The Civil War

1845 – Annexation of Texas

1845–1848 – Mexican-American War

1848 – Seneca Falls Convention

1850 – Fugitive Slave Law

1852 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1854 – Bleeding Kansas

1857 – Dred Scott Case

1860 – Lincoln’s Election

1861–1865 – Civil War

1862 – Homestead Act

1863 – Gettysburg

1867 – Reconstruction Acts

1867 – Purchase of Alaska

1877 – Compromise of 1877

Period 6 Dates – The Gilded Age

1876 – Little Bighorn

1886 – Haymarket Square Riot

1887 – Dawes Act

1887 – Interstate Commerce

1890 – Wounded Knee

1890 – Sherman Antitrust Act

1894 – Pullman Strike

1896 – “Cross of Gold” speech

1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson

Period 7 Dates – Progressivism & Global Conflict

1898 – Annexation of Hawaii

1898 – Spanish American War

1903 – Wright Brothers

1917 – US enters WWI

1920 – Women’s Suffrage

1920s – Red Scare

1920s – Prohibition

1929 – Stock Market Crash

1932 – Bonus Army

1935 – Social Security Act

1939 – WWII starts in Europe

1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor

1944 – D-Day

1945 – Atomic Bomb dropped

Period 8 Dates – The Cold War

1945–1991 – Cold War

1947 – Truman Doctrine

1950–1953 – Korean War

1950s – McCarthyism

1954 – Brown v. Board of Ed.

1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 – Sputnik

1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 – March on Washington

1963 – JFK assassinated

1964 – Civil Rights Act

1968 – MLK killed, RFK killed

1968 – Tet Offensive

1968 – Chicago Convention

1969 – moon landing

1972 – Watergate break-in

1973 – Roe v. Wade

1979 – Iranian hostage crisis

Period 9 Dates – The Modern Era

1980 – Reagan elected

1989 – Cold War ends

1991 – Persian Gulf War

1994 – Contract with America

1995 – Oklahoma City Bombing

2000 – Bush v. Gore

2001 – 9/11 Attacks

2008 – Great Recession

2008 – Obama elected

2011 – Affordable Care Act