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 |