A | B |
Jamestown | May 1607 |
1st Slaves in Williamsburg | 1619 |
VA House of Burgesses | 1624 |
Mayflower Compact | 1620 |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | 1630 |
Act of Religious Toleration | 1649 |
Rhode Island (Roger Williams) | 1635 |
Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 |
Pueblo Conflict (Pope's Revolt) | 1680 |
Glorious Revolution | 1689 |
Dominion of New England | 1686-89 |
Salem Witch Trials | 1692 |
Albany Plan | 1754 |
French and Indian War | 1756-63 |
Treaty of Paris (French and Indian War) | 1763 |
Line of Proclamation | 1763 |
Boston Tea Party | December 1773 |
Coercive/Intolerable Acts | 1774 |
1st Continental Congress | September 1774 |
Declaration of Independence | July 4, 1776 |
American Revolution | 1775-83 |
Treaty of Paris (Revolutionary War) | September 1783 |
Constitution ratified | 1788 |
Bill of Rights | 1791 |
Slave Trade Ends | 1808 |
War of 1812 | 1812-14 |
Treaty of Ghent | December 1814 |
Missouri Compromise | 1820 |
War of Texas Independence | 1835-36 |
Mexican-American War | 1846-48 |
Bleeding Kansas | 1856 |
Dred Scott Ruling | 1857 |
Civil War | 1861-65 |
Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 |
Wounded Knee Massacre | 1890 |
Plessy v Ferguson | 1896 |
USS Maine explodes, Spanish-American War | 1898 |
19th Amendment | (proposed June 1919, ratified August 1920) |
WWI: US enters | April 1917-19 (Treaty of Versailles) |
The Great Crash, Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 |
Great Depression | 1930s-WWII (33-34 worst) |
1st New Deal | 1933 |
2nd New Deal | 1935-36 |
Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
US enters WWII | 1941-45 |
Atomic Bomb | 1945 (Hiroshima Aug. 6, Nagasaki Aug. 9) |
Korean War | 1950-53 |
Brown v Board of Education | 1954 |
Bay of Pigs | 1961 |
Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
JFK Assassinated | 1963 |
Civil Rights Act | 1964 |
Voters Rights Act | 1965 |
MLK & RFK Assassinated | 1968 |
Berlin Wall Falls | 1989 |
USSR collapses | 1991 (Cold War over) |