1607
Jamestown
Joint-Stock Company
Colonial Charter
Powhatans
John Smith
Starving Time
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Tobacco
1619
House of Burgesses
Slaves
1754
French and Indian War
Seven Years War
“Anglo-French Rivalry”
Fort Duquesne
General Braddock
General Wolfe
George Washington
1763
Treaty of Paris
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation Line
1776
Declaration of Independence
Second Continental Congress
Thomas Jefferson
“All Men Are Created Equal”
Natural Rights; John Locke
Slavery Clause
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
King George III
1783
Treaty of Paris
American Revolution (1775-1783)
(Emmanuel Luetz – Washington
Crossing the Delaware)
Articles of Confederation (1781)
Iroquois / Joseph Brandt
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
George Washington
Marquis de Lafayette
Battle of Saratoga
Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
1789
Constitutional Convention
United States Constitution
James Madison
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Bill of Rights 1791
George Washington
Great Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Commerce Compromise
Electoral College
Elastic Clause
1800
First Two Party System
“modern” smear campaigning
12th Amendment, 1804
Alien and Sedition Acts
Central vs State Power
Elitist vs Agrarian
Quasi-War
Whiskey Tax
3/5 Compromise’s impact
Midnight Judges
Peaceful exchange of power
1803
Louisiana Purchase
Marbury v Madison
Lewis and Clark
Sacajawea
1812
War of 1812
James Madison
Impressment
Ohio Valley
American Indians
Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
William Henry Harrison
Warhawks
Embargo Act, Non-Intercourse
Act, Macon’s Bill No. 2
(attempts to secure neutrality)
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
1824
Corrupt Bargain
John Quincy Adams
Era of Good Feelings
Andrew Jackson
Second Two Party System
Era of the Common Man
1828
Andrew Jackson
Tariff of Abomination
Nullification Crisis
(1828-1833)
John C. Calhoun
South Carolina
Exposition and Protest
Force Bill
Compromise Tariff
Webster-Hayne Debate
1846
Mexican-American War
1846-1848
James K. Polk
Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
Slavery
Spot Resolutions
1850
Compromise of 1850
Slavery
Popular Sovereignty
California
Washington D.C.
Fugitive Slave Law
1861
Abraham Lincoln enters office
Civil War Begins
Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
1865
Surrender at Appomattox
13th Amendment
Assassination of Lincoln
1877
Compromise of 1877
End of Reconstruction
Beginning of New South
Jim Crow
Election of 1876
Rutherford Hays
1893
Chicago; Columbian Exposition
(World’s Fair)
Panic of 1893
1898
Spanish-American War
William McKinley
Yellow Journalism
USS Maine
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Teller Amendment
Treaty of Paris
Puerto Rico
Guam
Philippines
Filipino Insurrection
Imperialism
1917
WWI
Zimmerman Note
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
End of War 1918
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
1929
Stock Market Crash
Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
1941
WWII (1939-1945
Franklin Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Lend-Lease
1945
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
General MacArthur
Harry Truman
Manhattan Project
Atomic Age
1963
Letter From a Birmingham Jail
JFK assassinated
MLK’s March on Washington
I Have a Dream
1968
RFK assassinated
MLK’s assassinated
Tet Offensive
Democratic National Convention
Summer Olympics
1973
End of Vietnam War
Richard Nixon
Armistice
1989
End of Cold War
Berlin Wall Comes Down