Events
Columbus arrived in the New World
Oct. 12, 1492English defeat Spanish Armada
July 21, 1588Sir Walter Raleigh sponsors Roanoke
Aug. 1585Jamestown is founded
May 14, 1607Virginia company introduces the headright system
1618Virginia establishes the House of Burgesses
1619French colonize Quebec city
1608Edict of Nantes
April, 1598Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth
Nov. 11, 1620Massachusetts Bay colony is established
Mar. 4, 1629Maryland Toleration Act
April 21, 1649Introduction of slavery to the English colonies
1619The Pueblo Revolt
1680Bacon's Rebellion
July 1676Stono Rebellion
1739The Albany Plan of Union
Jul. 10, 1754Treaty of Paris 1763
Feb. 10, 1763The Townshend Acts
June, 29, 1767The Boston Massacre
Mar. 5, 1770The Committee of Correspondence is formed
March 1773The First Continental Congress
Sept. 5, 1774Battle of Concord
April 1775Common Sense is published
Jan. 10, 1776Declaration of Independence is signed
July 4, 1776The Battle of Saratoga
October 17, 1777The Battle of Yorktown
Oct. 1781Treaty of Paris is signed
Sept. 3, 1783The Articles of Confederation are passed
Nov. 15, 1777Shays's Rebellion
Aug. 29, 1786The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Jul. 13, 1787The XYZ affair
Mar. 20, 1798The Alien and Sedition Acts are passed
Jul. 6, 1798Panic of 1819Indian Removal Act
May 18, 1830Nat Turner's Rebellion
Aug. 21, 1831The Cotton Gin is invented
1793The Lowell System
1800sCompletion of the Erie Canal
1825Battle of the Alamo
Feb. 23, 1836California gold rush
Jan. 24, 1848Season 1 of Bridgerton takes placeStart of the Cult of Domesticity
1830sThe Oregon Treaty is signed
Jun. 15, 1846Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed
Feb. 2, 1848The Compromise of 1850
Jan. 29, 1850Kansas-Nebraska Act is signed
May 30, 1854The Dred Scott decision
Mar. 6, 1857Start of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Aug. 21, 1858The Election of 1860
Nov. 6, 1860South Carolina secedes from the Union
Dec. 20, 18601st Confiscation Acts is passed
Aug. 6, 1861The Emancipation Proclamation is signed
Jan. 1, 1863End of the Civil War
April 9,1865NYC draft riots
Jul. 11, 1863Failure of Reconstruction
1870sEdison invents the light bulb
Oct. 21, 1879Industrialization in the 1800sBeginnings of Corporate Consolidation
1895The Sherman Antitrust Act is passed
July 2, 1890The Social Gospel Movement Begins
1870Gospel of Wealth is published
June 1889"Boss" Tweed is convicted
1877Knights of Labor is founded
Nov. 25, 1869Haymarket Square Riot
May 4, 1886The Pullman Strike
May 11, 1894American Federation of Labor is founded
Dec. 8, 1886Hull House is founded
Sept. 18, 1889Yellow journalism starts
early 1897Sharecropping in the SouthJim Crow Laws
1877Plessy v. Ferguson
1896The Effect of Railroads in the West
1800sTurner/Frontier Thesis
1893The Homestead Act
May 20, 1862Morrill Land-Grant Act
July 2, 1862US Fish Commission is founded
Feb. 9, 1871Sierra Club is founded
May 28, 1892Dawes Severalty Act
Feb. 8, 1887Ghost Dance Movement
1889Wounded Knee Massacre
Dec. 29, 1890Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Jan. 16, 1883Wabash decision
1886Interstate Commerce Act
April 7, 1887The Grange Movement
1867Farmers Alliance
1880sPeople's Party convention
1892Socialists
1894Tariffs of the 1800sTreaty of Paris
Dec. 10, 1898The Platt Amendment
May 22, 1903Sedition Act of 1918
May 16, 1918Espionage Act of 1917
Jun. 15, 1917Russian Revolution
1917Palmer Raids
Oct. 7, 1919Periods
Starving time
Winter of 1609-1610PERIOD 1
1491-1607PERIOD 2
1607-1754French and Indian War
1754-1763Powhatan Wars
1610-1677The Pequot War
1636-1638The Beaver Wars
1628-1701The age of salutary neglect
1650-1763Navigation Acts are passed
1651-1673The Enlightenment
approx. 1685-1773The Great Awakening
approx. 1730-1740PERIOD 3:
1754-1800Pontiac's Rebellion
1763-1766The Second Continental Congress
May 1775-Mar. 1781Constitutional Convention
May 25, 1787 – Sept. 17, 1787The Washington Administration
April 30, 1789-Mar. 4, 1797PERIOD 4
1800-1848The Jeffersonian Republic
1800-1823The Jefferson Administration
Mar. 4, 1801–Mar. 4, 1809The War of 1812
June 18, 1812–Feb. 18, 1815The Monroe Administration
Mar. 4, 1817–Mar. 4, 1825John Q. Adams Administration
Mar. 4, 1825–Mar. 3, 1829Andrew Jackson Administration
Mar. 4, 1829–Mar. 4, 1837Martin Van Buren Administration
Mar. 4, 1837–Mar. 4, 1841The Temperance Movement
approx. 1808-1852PERIOD 5
1844-1877The Polk Administration
Mar.4, 1845–Mar. 3, 1849The Mexican-American War
April 25, 1846–Feb. 2, 1848The Buchanan Administration
Mar. 4, 1857–Mar. 4, 1861The Civil War
April 12, 1861–April 9, 1865Reconstruction Era
1865-1877PERIOD 6
1865-1898Spanish-American war
Apr 21, 1898 – Dec 10, 1898PERIOD 7
1890-1945The Progressive Era
1900-1920T. Roosevelt Administration
Sept. 14, 1901 – Mar. 4, 1909World War I
Jul. 8, 1914 – Nov. 11, 1918PERIOD 9
1980-2022The Reagan Administration
Jan. 20, 1981 – Jan. 20, 1989Grouping
British Parliament Overstepping their authority
(Beginnings of Colonial Opposition)
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