Every Term

  • 1607 - Jamestown

  • 1610 - 1st Powhatan War

  • 1619 - First Slaves in Jamestown

  • 1619 - House of Burgesses 

  • 1620 - Mayflower Compact

  • 1630s - Great Migration

  • 1647 - Old Deluder Law

  • 1649 - Toleration Act

  • 1660 Navigation Act

  • 1662 - Halfway Covenant 

  • 1676 - Bacon’s Rebellion 

  • 1692 - Salem Witch Trials 

  • 1730-1740 - 1st Great Awakening

  • 1754 - Albany Congress

  • 1754-1763 - French and Indian War

  • 1763 - Treaty of Paris 

  • 1764 - Sugar Act

  • 1765 - Stamp Act

  • 1767 - Townshend Acts

  • 1768 - Massachusetts Circular Letter

  • 1770 - Boston Massacre 

  • 1773 - Boston Tea Party

  • 1774 - First Continental Congress 

  • 1774 - Intolerable Acts

  • 1775 - Lexington and Concord 

  • 1775 - Second Continental Congress

  • 1775-1783 - Revolutionary War 

  • 1776 - Declaration of Independence

  • 1781 - Articles of Confederation

  • 1783 - 2nd Treaty of Paris 

  • 1786 - Shay’s Rebellion 

  • 1788 - Constitution

  • 1790s - Cotton Gin

  • 1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts

  • 1803 - Louisiana Purchase

  • 1803 - Marbury v. Madison

  • 1807 - Embargo Act  

  • 1812 - War of 1812

  • 1815 - Hartford Convention

  • 1815 - Treaty of Ghent 

  • 1816 - American System 

  • 1817-1825 - Era of Good Feelings 

  • 1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty 

  • 1819 - McCulloch v. Maryland

  • 1820 - Missouri Compromise

  • 1823 - Monroe Doctrine

  • 1824 - Corrupt Bargain

  • 1828 - South Carolina Exposition and Protest 

  • 1828 - Tariff of Abominations

  • 1830 - Indian Removal Act 

  • 1837 - Panic of 1837 (pet banks)

  • 1842 - Tariff of 1842

  • 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty 

  • 1845 - Annex of Texas

  • 1846-1848 - Mexican War 

  • 1848 - Seneca Falls Convention

  • 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 

  • 1849 - California Gold Rush 

  • 1850 - Compromise of 1850 

  • 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act 

  • 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • 1854-1861 - Bleeding Kansas 

  • 1857 - Dred Scott Case 

  • 1858 - Freeport Debate (Douglas-Lincoln Debate)

  • 1859 - Harpers Ferry 

  • 1860 - Lincoln Election 

  • 1860 - South Carolina Secedes

  • 1861-1865 - Civil War

  • 1862 - Homestead Act 

  • 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg

  • 1863 - Battle of Vicksburg

  • 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation

  • 1865 - Appomattox Courthouse 

  • 1865-1877 - Reconstruction

  • 1865 - 13th Amendment

  • 1868 - 14th Amendment 

  • 1870 - 15th Amendment 

  • 1873 - Colfax Massacre 

  • 1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875

  • 1877 - Compromise of 1877

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