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| 1607 | settlement of Jamestown; English plant colonies in North America; related events: Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Va. House of Burgesses, Northern, Middle and Southern coloies, Mayflower Compact, Puritan Dilemma, Town Hall meetings, tobacco, slavery |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris (End of French and Indian War) causes colonies to set new vision of their ultimate destiny; related events: Proclamation of 1763 (prohibited colonist expansion), Pontiac uprising (Indians v. colonists), Washington as hero, Stamp and Sugar Acts Intolerable Acts |
| 1776 | Declaration of American Independence and Revolutionary War marks the first assertion of independence by colonies against the mother nation; related events: Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, Patriots v. Loyalists, Founding Fathers, Continetntal Congress, Articles of Confederation |
| 1789 | Ratification of the Constitution ends the Articles of Confederation and creates a stronger central government; related events: Judiciary Act of 1789 (balance of powers), French Revolution, funding at par, Alien And Sedition Acts |
| 1800 | Jefferson's election marks a peaceful transition of power and shows that democracy is working; related events: midnight judges, end of Federalism, more agrarian interests, bank of US |
| 1803 | Lousiana Purchance and Marbury v. Madison both show a major extension of presidential power, while the former doubled the size of the US; related events: Marbury v. Madison (judicial review), Lewis and Clark |
| 1812 | War of 1812 allows America to fight for respect and ushers in a n era of nationalism and westward expansion; related events: Hartford convention, war hawks, eastern establishment v. western farmers |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise is one of the first of a series of copromises over the issue of slavery; related events: Sectionalism, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, "Bleeding Kansas" |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson is elected President, marking the rise of politics of the common man; related events: National conventions, Universal manhood suffrage, Maysville Road veto, Eaton affair, Tariff of Abominations (1828), Tariff of 1832, Force Bill, Biddle and the National Bank, Specie Circular |
| 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War; related events: gold rush, Gadsden Purchase, Manifest Destiny, free soil party, social reform movements, transcendentalism, temperance, Declaration of Sentiments, sectionalism over slavery |
| 1861 | Outbreak of the Civil War means that America goes to war with itself over sleavery and the meaning of federalism; related events: Formation of the Confederate States of America, Uncle Tom's Cabin, failure of Crittenden Compromise, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln reprovisions Fort Sumter |
| 1865 | End of the Civil War and beginning of Reconstruction affirms the national government's power over states; related events: Assassination of Lincoln, Amendments 13-15, Johnson's Impeachment, Radical Republicans (Sumner and Stevens) Military Reconstruction Act |
| 1877 | End of Reconstruction because of the Hayes-Tilden Compromise wounds the healing of the civil war; related events: immoral presidents, compromise of 1877 that allowed Hayes to be president |
| 1896 | McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan, marking the end of the Popular Party, the take over of Big Business over politics, and the end of western domination of politics; related events: Trusts and Pools, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Marcus Hanna, The Grange, Farmer's Alliances, Cross of Gold Speech, Slums, Tenements, the plight of the urban worker, The Jungle, How The Other Half Lives |
| 1917 | US enters the World War I, while trying to stay neutral with the Neutrality Acts; related events: Wilsonian Idealism, Unrestricted sub warfare, Lusitania and Sussex, Arms manufacturers, Treaty of Versailles |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash and Great Depression mark the most significant economic downturn in the history of the nation; related events: Hawley Smoot Tariff, Rugged Individualism, Hoovervilles, Bonus Army March, Rise of totalitarianism in Europe, Election of 1932 |
| 1941 | Bombing of Pearl Harbor forces America to enter Wrold War II; related events: Neutrality acts 36-69, Lend Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, "Europe First," Island hopping, D-Day |
| 1945 | Use of atomic weapons by the US ends World War II and establishes America as the sole superpower; related events: Potsdam and Yalta Conferences, Death of Roosevelt, Cold War, Truman Doctrine, NATO and Warsaw Pact created |
| 1954 | US enters Vietnam when the French are trapped at Dien Bien Phu, prolonging military commitment in Southeast Asia; related events: Containment, Ike's policy of Masive Retaliation, Korea ('50-'53), Kennedy's flexible Response and New Frontier Programs, Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Din Diem |
| 1964 | Johnson's Great Society Programs and the Civil Rights Act continue the New Deal philosophy and welfare state politics; related events: Rosa Parks, Brown v. Board of Ed., MLK and integrationists, Malcolm X and Black Panthers (separatists), growth of the suburbs, white flight, Medicare, Food stamps |
| 1968 | Tet Offensive, assasinations of JFK and MLK, Election of Nixon as President mark erosion of support for Vietnam and containment; related events: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, rise fo the counterculture and anti-war movement, Vietnamization, Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| 1974 | Watergate scandal forces a president to resign office for the first time and causes Americans to become disillusioned with politics; related events: War Powers Act, high inflation and unemployment (stagflation), New Federalism, watergate, energy crisis, resignation of Agnew |
| 1989 | Eastern Europe throws off the communist regimes, making America once again the sole superpower; related events: affirmative action reduced, less abortion rights, Chinese government supresses pro-democracy demonstrators, Berlin Wall torn down |
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