American and National Identity

By mirellemahmoud
  • 1558

    English Colonization Begings

  • Jamestown colony Founded

  • French colonization Begins

  • Dutch Colonization Begins

  • Spanish colonization Begins

  • John Rolfe's Tobacco Boom

  • Mayflower Compact written

  • Maryland Colony founded

  • Pequot War

  • King Phillip's War

  • William Penn's Holy Experiment

  • Great Awakening

  • French and Indian War

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Committees of Correspondence

  • Sons of Liberty

  • Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • American revolutionary War

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense published

  • Declaration of Independence written

  • Articles of Confederation ratified

  • Shay's Rebellion

  • U.S. Constitution is ratified

  • Bill of Rights is ratified

  • Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania

  • U.S. annexed Texas

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Dred Scott case decision

  • South Carolina leaves the Union

  • Civil War Begins

  • Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment is ratified

  • Civil War Ends

  • 14th Amendment is ratified

  • 15th amendment is ratified

  • Frances Willard forms the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • The Great Railroad Strike

  • Haymarket Square Riot

  • American Federation of Labor is formed

  • Carnegie writes the Gospel of Wealth

  • Panic of 1893

  • Plessy v. Ferguson Case

  • Spanish American War occurs

  • World War 2 ends

  • NATO is created

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Civil Rights Act is passed

  • Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam