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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