The story of the United States...
1607 - Jamestown
1619 - House of Burgesses (first meeting)
1620 - Mayflower Compact
1754-->1763 - French and Indian War
1763 - Proclamation Line of 1763
1764 - Sugar Act
1765 - Quartering Act
1765 - Stamp Act
1767 - Townsend Acts
1770 - Boston Massacre
1773 - Tea Act, Boston Tea Party
1774 - Intolerable Acts
1775-->1783 - American Revolution
1776 - Declaration of Independence
June 1775 --> The Battle of Bunker Hill
1776 --> Battle of Trenton
September 1777 --> Battle of Saratoga
1781 --> Battle of Yorktown
1781 --> Ratification of the Articles of Confederation(The first government set up after British Rule)
1783 --> Treaty of Paris
1786 --> Shay's Rebellion
1787 --> Constitutional Convention
-Great Compromise
-3/5 Compromise
-Commerce Agreement
- Slave Trade
The Constitution:
-Federalism
-The Legislative Branch
-The Executive Branch and the Electoral College
-The Judicial Branch
-Amendment Process
-Unwritten Constitution
1789 --> Washington in inaugurated
1790 --> The Constitution is ratified
1791 --> The Bill of Rights are ratified
1791 --> Whiskey Rebellion
1791 --> First National Bank created
1793 --> Proclamation of Neutrality
1794 --> Jay's Treaty
1796 --> Washington's Farewell Address
1797 --> John Adams becomes president
1798 --> XYZ Affair & the Alien and Sedition Acts
1800 --> Revolution of 1800 (peaceful changing of political parties in presidential election)
1800 --> Fletcher v Peck
1801 --> Thomas Jefferson becomes president
1801 --> John Marshall becomes Chief Justice
1801 --> Jefferson sends the Navy in response to the Barbary Pirates
1801 --> Marbury v Madison
1803 --> Louisiana Purchase
1807 --> Embargo Act
1807 --> First steamboat voyage up the Hudson River
1809 --> James Madison becomes president
1811 --> The Cumberland Road
1812 --> War of 1812
1816 --> McCulloch v Maryland
1817 --> James Monroe becomes president
1820 --> Compromise of 1820
1823 --> Monroe Doctrine
1824 --> Gibbons v Ogden
1825 --> John Quincy Adams becomes president
1825 --> Erie Canal completed
1828 --> The Baltimore and Ohio RR; the first RR to be chartered in the US
1829 --> Andrew Jackson becomes president
1830 --> Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears
1831 --> William Llyod Garrison launches The Liberator
1832 --> Georgia v Worcester
--> Trail of Tears
1832 --> South Carolina Nullification Ordinance
1840's --> Reform Movements
Public Schools
Temperance
Utopian Societies
Prison and Insane Asylum
Transcendentalism
1845 --> Term "Manifest Destiny" is coined
Annexation of Texas
1846 --> Treaty for the Oregon Territory
1847 --> Frederick Douglas launched The North Star
1848 --> Seneca Falls Convention
1848 --> Gold Rush -- California
Mexican Cession
1850 --> Harriet Tubman makes her first trip on the Underground Railroad to save her family
--> Compromise of 1850
1852 --> Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
1853 --> Gadsden Purchase
1854 --> Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857 --> Dred Scott v Sanford
1858 (-1872) --> Tammany Hall: Boss Tweed
1859 --> Harper's Ferry
1860 --> Election of 1860 (Lincoln)
--> South Carolina Secedes
1861 -1865 --> Civil War
1863 --> Emancipation Proclamation
1862 --> Beginning of the Transcontinental RR
Homestead Act
1863 --> Rockefeller opens Standard Oil Company
1865 - 1867 --> Reconstruction
1865 --> Amendment 13
Freedmen's Bureau created
1868 --> Amendment 14
1870 --> Amendment 15
1867 --> Purchase of Alaska
**New Immigration begins after the Civil War**
1866 --> Granger Movement
1871 --> JP Morgan formed JP Morgan and Company
1870's --> Carnegie and steel
1881 --> Booker T Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute
1882 --> Chinese Exclusion Act
1887 --> Dawes Act
Munn v Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
1889 --> Gospel of Wealth
How the Other Half Lives
1892 --> Populist Party
Carnegie Steel Company is formed
Homestead Steel Strike
1895 --> The birth of cinema
1896 --> Plessy v Ferguson
1898 -- Spanish-American War
1899 --> Open Door Policy
1901 --> US Steel Corporation
Teddy Roosevelt becomes president
1902 --> Anthracite Coal Strike
1903 --> Elkins Act
1904 --> Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal
History of the Standard Oil Company
1906 --> The Jungle
1907 --> Gentlemen's Agreement
1908 (-1912) --> Lewis Hine Child Labor Photography
Henry Ford's Model-T Produced
1909 --> NAACP
Dollar Diplomacy
1912 --> Election of 1912 (Bull Moose Party)
1913 --> Wilson is president
16th & 17th Amendments are ratified
Federal Reserve Act
1914 --> Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
WWI begins - Wilson proclaims neutrality
1915 --> Sinking of the Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
1917 --> Literacy Tests (immigrants)
Zimmerman Note
U.S. enters into WWI
1918 --> WW Ends
Wilson proposes 14 point plan for peace
1919 --> Treaty of Versailles signed
Amendment 18 ratified
1920 --> Warren Harding, A Return to Normalcy
19th amendment ratified
1921 --> Sacco & Vanzetti Convicted
1923 --> Coolidge becomes president (August)
1924 --> Natural Origins Act
1927 --> Charles Lindbergh flight across the Atlantic
1928 --> Amelia Earhart attempts to circumnavigate the earth
1929--> Hoover President (March)
Stock Market Crash (October)
1931 --> Hoover Dam Construction started
Frankenstein
Brother Can you Spare a Dime
1932 --> Bonus Army March
1933 --> FDR President (March)
21st Amendment (December)
Bank Holiday
Emergency Banking Act
FDIC
CCC created
CWA created
HOLC created
TVA created
PWA created
NRA created
1934 --> SEC created
1935 --> WPA created
Social Security Act
Schecter Poultry v US
WWII Begins
Neutrality Act 1935
1936 --> Monopoly is a craze!
1937 -> Court Packing Scheme
Snow White
Neutrality Act 1937
1939 --> Grapes of Wrath (J. Steinbeck)
Gone With the Wind
Neutrality Act 1939 (Cash and Carry)
1941 --> Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1944 --> Korematsu v United States
1945 -->
February - Yalta Conference
April- FDR dies, Truman President
August 6 - first atomic bomb dropped
August 9 - second dropped
August 15 - Japan surrenders
October - UN Created
1947 --> Truman Doctrine
1948 --> Marshall Plan
1949 --> NATO
China falls to communism
1950 --> Korean War begins
Senator Joseph McCarthy claims there are 205 communists in the State Department
1951 --> Rosenberg Trial
Catcher in the Rye
1952 --> first homeowners move into Levittown
1953 --> Eisenhower becomes president
Korean War cease fire
Warren becomes Supreme Court Justice
1954 --> Guatemala coup
McCarthy takes his accusations to the US Army, causing his downfall
Brown v Board of Education
1955 --> Warsaw Pact
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat -- Montgomery Bus Boycott
McDonalds is founded
1957 --> Eisenhower Doctrine
Soviets launch Sputnik
1958 --> US launches their first satellite in space
1959 --> Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
1960 --> U2 Incident
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
JFK Speech: New Frontier
1961 --> JFK becomes President
Bay of Pigs Incident
1962 --> Cuban Missile Crisis
Engel v Vitale
U.S. first combat mission in Vietnam
1963 --> March on Washington
JFK assassination
Gideon v Wainwright
Feminine Mystique
1964 --> Civil Rights Act of 1964
LBJ's Great Society
1966 --> Miranda v Arizona
1967 --> Vietnam War protest at the Pentagon
1968 --> Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
1969 --> Nixon becomes president
Announcement of Vietnamization
1970 --> Kent State shootings
1971 --> 26th Amendment
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
1972 --> Equal Rights Amendment sent to the states for ratification (never passed)
Nixon visits China (February) & Moscow (May)
Watergate Scandal
1973 --> Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam
Roe v Wade
1974 --> Ford becomes president
Ford pardons Nixon
1975 --> Vietnam falls to Communism
1977 --> Carter becomes president
1979 --> Energy Crisis
Iranian Hostage Crisis
1980 --> Reagan announces plan for economy during campaign ( Reaganomics )
1981 --> Reagan becomes president
Hostages released
1983 --> SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
1987 --> "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
1989 --> George H.W. Bush (41) becomes president
Invasion of Panama
1990 --> Persian Gulf War
Americans With Disabilities Act
Berlin Wall Falls
1991 --> Bush repeals South African sanctions
1993 --> Clinton becomes president
Somalia
1994 --> Rwanda Genocide
NAFTA created
1998 --> Clinton is impeached
1999 -->Yugoslavia bombings
2000 --> Election of 2000
2001 --> George W. Bush (43) becomes president
9/11 Attacks
Invasion of Afghanistan
Patriot Act
NCLB
2003 --> Invasion of Iraq
2009 --> Obama becomes president
Recovery Act
2010 --> Affordable Healthcare Act
1619 - House of Burgesses (first meeting)
1620 - Mayflower Compact
1754-->1763 - French and Indian War
1763 - Proclamation Line of 1763
1764 - Sugar Act
1765 - Quartering Act
1765 - Stamp Act
1767 - Townsend Acts
1770 - Boston Massacre
1773 - Tea Act, Boston Tea Party
1774 - Intolerable Acts
1775-->1783 - American Revolution
1776 - Declaration of Independence
June 1775 --> The Battle of Bunker Hill
1776 --> Battle of Trenton
September 1777 --> Battle of Saratoga
1781 --> Battle of Yorktown
1781 --> Ratification of the Articles of Confederation(The first government set up after British Rule)
1783 --> Treaty of Paris
1786 --> Shay's Rebellion
1787 --> Constitutional Convention
-Great Compromise
-3/5 Compromise
-Commerce Agreement
- Slave Trade
The Constitution:
-Federalism
-The Legislative Branch
-The Executive Branch and the Electoral College
-The Judicial Branch
-Amendment Process
-Unwritten Constitution
1789 --> Washington in inaugurated
1790 --> The Constitution is ratified
1791 --> The Bill of Rights are ratified
1791 --> Whiskey Rebellion
1791 --> First National Bank created
1793 --> Proclamation of Neutrality
1794 --> Jay's Treaty
1796 --> Washington's Farewell Address
1797 --> John Adams becomes president
1798 --> XYZ Affair & the Alien and Sedition Acts
1800 --> Revolution of 1800 (peaceful changing of political parties in presidential election)
1800 --> Fletcher v Peck
1801 --> Thomas Jefferson becomes president
1801 --> John Marshall becomes Chief Justice
1801 --> Jefferson sends the Navy in response to the Barbary Pirates
1801 --> Marbury v Madison
1803 --> Louisiana Purchase
1807 --> Embargo Act
1807 --> First steamboat voyage up the Hudson River
1809 --> James Madison becomes president
1811 --> The Cumberland Road
1812 --> War of 1812
1816 --> McCulloch v Maryland
1817 --> James Monroe becomes president
1820 --> Compromise of 1820
1823 --> Monroe Doctrine
1824 --> Gibbons v Ogden
1825 --> John Quincy Adams becomes president
1825 --> Erie Canal completed
1828 --> The Baltimore and Ohio RR; the first RR to be chartered in the US
1829 --> Andrew Jackson becomes president
1830 --> Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears
1831 --> William Llyod Garrison launches The Liberator
1832 --> Georgia v Worcester
--> Trail of Tears
1832 --> South Carolina Nullification Ordinance
1840's --> Reform Movements
Public Schools
Temperance
Utopian Societies
Prison and Insane Asylum
Transcendentalism
1845 --> Term "Manifest Destiny" is coined
Annexation of Texas
1846 --> Treaty for the Oregon Territory
1847 --> Frederick Douglas launched The North Star
1848 --> Seneca Falls Convention
1848 --> Gold Rush -- California
Mexican Cession
1850 --> Harriet Tubman makes her first trip on the Underground Railroad to save her family
--> Compromise of 1850
1852 --> Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
1853 --> Gadsden Purchase
1854 --> Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857 --> Dred Scott v Sanford
1858 (-1872) --> Tammany Hall: Boss Tweed
1859 --> Harper's Ferry
1860 --> Election of 1860 (Lincoln)
--> South Carolina Secedes
1861 -1865 --> Civil War
1863 --> Emancipation Proclamation
1862 --> Beginning of the Transcontinental RR
Homestead Act
1863 --> Rockefeller opens Standard Oil Company
1865 - 1867 --> Reconstruction
1865 --> Amendment 13
Freedmen's Bureau created
1868 --> Amendment 14
1870 --> Amendment 15
1867 --> Purchase of Alaska
**New Immigration begins after the Civil War**
1866 --> Granger Movement
1871 --> JP Morgan formed JP Morgan and Company
1870's --> Carnegie and steel
1881 --> Booker T Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute
1882 --> Chinese Exclusion Act
1887 --> Dawes Act
Munn v Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
1889 --> Gospel of Wealth
How the Other Half Lives
1892 --> Populist Party
Carnegie Steel Company is formed
Homestead Steel Strike
1895 --> The birth of cinema
1896 --> Plessy v Ferguson
1898 -- Spanish-American War
1899 --> Open Door Policy
1901 --> US Steel Corporation
Teddy Roosevelt becomes president
1902 --> Anthracite Coal Strike
1903 --> Elkins Act
1904 --> Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal
History of the Standard Oil Company
1906 --> The Jungle
1907 --> Gentlemen's Agreement
1908 (-1912) --> Lewis Hine Child Labor Photography
Henry Ford's Model-T Produced
1909 --> NAACP
Dollar Diplomacy
1912 --> Election of 1912 (Bull Moose Party)
1913 --> Wilson is president
16th & 17th Amendments are ratified
Federal Reserve Act
1914 --> Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
WWI begins - Wilson proclaims neutrality
1915 --> Sinking of the Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
1917 --> Literacy Tests (immigrants)
Zimmerman Note
U.S. enters into WWI
1918 --> WW Ends
Wilson proposes 14 point plan for peace
1919 --> Treaty of Versailles signed
Amendment 18 ratified
1920 --> Warren Harding, A Return to Normalcy
19th amendment ratified
1921 --> Sacco & Vanzetti Convicted
1923 --> Coolidge becomes president (August)
1924 --> Natural Origins Act
1927 --> Charles Lindbergh flight across the Atlantic
1928 --> Amelia Earhart attempts to circumnavigate the earth
1929--> Hoover President (March)
Stock Market Crash (October)
1931 --> Hoover Dam Construction started
Frankenstein
Brother Can you Spare a Dime
1932 --> Bonus Army March
1933 --> FDR President (March)
21st Amendment (December)
Bank Holiday
Emergency Banking Act
FDIC
CCC created
CWA created
HOLC created
TVA created
PWA created
NRA created
1934 --> SEC created
1935 --> WPA created
Social Security Act
Schecter Poultry v US
WWII Begins
Neutrality Act 1935
1936 --> Monopoly is a craze!
1937 -> Court Packing Scheme
Snow White
Neutrality Act 1937
1939 --> Grapes of Wrath (J. Steinbeck)
Gone With the Wind
Neutrality Act 1939 (Cash and Carry)
1941 --> Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1944 --> Korematsu v United States
1945 -->
February - Yalta Conference
April- FDR dies, Truman President
August 6 - first atomic bomb dropped
August 9 - second dropped
August 15 - Japan surrenders
October - UN Created
1947 --> Truman Doctrine
1948 --> Marshall Plan
1949 --> NATO
China falls to communism
1950 --> Korean War begins
Senator Joseph McCarthy claims there are 205 communists in the State Department
1951 --> Rosenberg Trial
Catcher in the Rye
1952 --> first homeowners move into Levittown
1953 --> Eisenhower becomes president
Korean War cease fire
Warren becomes Supreme Court Justice
1954 --> Guatemala coup
McCarthy takes his accusations to the US Army, causing his downfall
Brown v Board of Education
1955 --> Warsaw Pact
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat -- Montgomery Bus Boycott
McDonalds is founded
1957 --> Eisenhower Doctrine
Soviets launch Sputnik
1958 --> US launches their first satellite in space
1959 --> Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
1960 --> U2 Incident
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
JFK Speech: New Frontier
1961 --> JFK becomes President
Bay of Pigs Incident
1962 --> Cuban Missile Crisis
Engel v Vitale
U.S. first combat mission in Vietnam
1963 --> March on Washington
JFK assassination
Gideon v Wainwright
Feminine Mystique
1964 --> Civil Rights Act of 1964
LBJ's Great Society
1966 --> Miranda v Arizona
1967 --> Vietnam War protest at the Pentagon
1968 --> Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
1969 --> Nixon becomes president
Announcement of Vietnamization
1970 --> Kent State shootings
1971 --> 26th Amendment
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
1972 --> Equal Rights Amendment sent to the states for ratification (never passed)
Nixon visits China (February) & Moscow (May)
Watergate Scandal
1973 --> Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam
Roe v Wade
1974 --> Ford becomes president
Ford pardons Nixon
1975 --> Vietnam falls to Communism
1977 --> Carter becomes president
1979 --> Energy Crisis
Iranian Hostage Crisis
1980 --> Reagan announces plan for economy during campaign ( Reaganomics )
1981 --> Reagan becomes president
Hostages released
1983 --> SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
1987 --> "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
1989 --> George H.W. Bush (41) becomes president
Invasion of Panama
1990 --> Persian Gulf War
Americans With Disabilities Act
Berlin Wall Falls
1991 --> Bush repeals South African sanctions
1993 --> Clinton becomes president
Somalia
1994 --> Rwanda Genocide
NAFTA created
1998 --> Clinton is impeached
1999 -->Yugoslavia bombings
2000 --> Election of 2000
2001 --> George W. Bush (43) becomes president
9/11 Attacks
Invasion of Afghanistan
Patriot Act
NCLB
2003 --> Invasion of Iraq
2009 --> Obama becomes president
Recovery Act
2010 --> Affordable Healthcare Act