| A | B |
| 1492 | Columbus discovers America |
| 1494 | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada |
| 1607 | Jamestown established |
| 1620 | Mayflower- Pilgrims |
| 1630 | Puritans go to Massachusetts: “city upon a hill” |
| 1676 | Bacon’s Rebellion |
| 1689-1763 | The French & Indian Wars |
| 1730s-1740s | The Great Awakening |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris |
| 1765 | Stamp and Quartering Acts |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | Intolerable Acts |
| 1775-1783 | American Revolution |
| 1775 | Lexington and Concord |
| 1776 | Common Sense |
| 1777 | Saratoga |
| 1781 | Yorktown |
| 1781-1787 | Articles of Confederation |
| 1786 | Shays’s Rebellion |
| 1787 | Northwest Ordinance |
| 1797 | Washington’s Farewell |
| 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts? Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
| 1800 | “We are all Federalists…” |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase and Marbury v. Madison |
| 1807 | Chesapeake Affair ? Embargo Act |
| 1809 | Non-Intercourse Act |
| 1812-1815 | War of 1812 |
| 1814 | Hartford Convention |
| 1816-1824 | Era of Good Feelings |
| Early 1800s | The Second Great Awakening Begins |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
| 1824 | Corrupt Bargain |
| 1829-1837 | Jackson’s presidency |
| 1846-1848 | Mexican War |
| 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 |
| 1852 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| 1857 | Dred Scott Case |
| 1858 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| 1859 | Raid on Harper’s Ferry |
| 1860 | Election/South Carolina secedes |
| 1861-1865 | Civil War |
| 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation/ Gettysburg |
| 1865-1877 | Reconstruction |
| 1877 | Compromise of 1877 |