Date memorization:

1492- Columbus comes to the Americas
1500’s: Spanish exploration of the Americans
1607- Jamestown Settlement
1619- First Slaves arrive at Jamestown
1620- Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth
1600-1700’s Mercantilism economic policy in place
LAte 1600’s- mid 1700’s- Enlightenment
1730’-1740’s- The Great Awakening 
1754-1763 French and Indian War
1764- Sugar Act passed
1765- Stamp Act Passed
1770- Boston Massacre
1773- Boston Tea Party
1774- Intolerable Acts Passed
1775- Battle of lexington and Concord/2nd Continental Congress meets
1776- Tomas Paine publishes Common Sense
1776- Declaration of Independence
1775-1781- Revolutionary War
1781-1788-Articles of Confederation in effect
1789- Constitutional Government begins
1789-1797-Washington Presidency
1797-1801- Adams Presidency
1800- Jefferson Elected
1803- Louisiana Purchase
1812- War of 1812 begins
1815- American System Passed
1820- Missouri Compromise
1823- Monroe Doctrine
1824- Corrupt Bargain
1828- Jackson elected- Voting rights expanded to all white men
1829-1837- Jackson Presidency
1830s’- Reform movements begin to take shape
1820 through 1830’s Market Revolution
1845- Texas Annexed
1846-1848- Mexican American War
1848- Seneca Falls Convention
1852- Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
1855- Bleeding Kansas
1860- Lincoln Elected
1861-1865 Civil War
1865- Lincoln Dies
1877- Compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction
1887- Interstate Commerce Act Passed
1890- Sherman Anti trust act
1898- Spanish American War
1901- Theoore Roosevelt become president
1901-1920- Progressive Era
1912: Woodrow Wilson Elected
1914-1918- World War I
1917-1918- US involved in World War I
1929- Stock Market Crash, Depression begins
1929-1940- The Great Depression
1932- FDR elected
1933-1940- New Deal Era
1941- Pearl Harbor Bombed
1939-1945 WW2
1941-1945 US fights in World War II
1945- FDR dies, Truman President, The War ends, atomic bomb dropped, 
1945-1989- The Cold War
1950-1952- The Korean War
1952-1960- Eisenhower Presidency
1960-1963- Kennedy Presidency
1962- Cuban Missile Crisis
1963-1968- LBJ President, The Great Society
1963-1973 Vietnam War