American History 1 By anandaD 1492 Christopher Columbus date sailed- 1492 1519 Hernando Cortez date sailed- 1519 1532 Francisco Pizarro date sailed- 1532 1539 Hernan de Sotodate sailed- 1539 1580 English settlement in the Americas 1585-1587 1608 French settlement in the Americas 1617 King Phillips War 1617-1678 1618 Thirty Years war 1624 Dutch settlement in the Americas 1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony 1642 English civil war 1682 William Penn found Pennsylvania 1723 the great disaster 1730 1st great awakening 1774 Quakers, 1st anti-slavery society 1776 declaration of independence 1783 New Hampshire constitution 1787 Constitutional convention 1789 Judiciary Act 1793 Cotton Gin 1794 Jay's Treaty 1795 Pickney's Treaty 1807 Steam Boat 1807 Embargo Act 1812 James Madison reeclected in 1812 1820 Extension of slavery into new territories 1824 Gibbson v. Ogden 1834 Mechanical Reaper 1836 Texas Independence 1837 Steel Plow 1844 Election of Polk 1848 Mexican Cession 1849 Gold Rush 1853 Gadsden Purchase 1900 U.S population exceeds 1912 New mexico became a state 1920 19th amendment 1929 immigration act
