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AP US History

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  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

  • Jan 1, 1536

    John Calvin of Geneva publishes Instituties of the Christian Religion

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    Edict of Nantes

  • Champlain colonizes Québec for France

  • First Africans arrive in Virginia

  • Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay

  • Dutch found New Netherland

  • Virginia becomes a royal colony

  • Population of English colonies in America about 2,000

  • Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans

  • Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Jonathan Edwards begins Great Awakening

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    Roger Williams convicted of heresy and founds Rhode Island

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    Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded

  • Harvard College founded

  • Pequot War

  • Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts colony

  • Connecticut's Fundamental Orders drafted

  • Civil war begins in England between the king and Parliament

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    English Civil War

  • New England Confederation formed

  • Louis XIV becomes king of France

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    Puritan rule of England under Oliver Cromwell

  • William Bradford completes "Of Plymouth Plantation"

  • First Navigation Laws to control colonial commerce

  • New Netherland conquers New Sweden

  • Restoration of the monarchy in England Navigation Act

  • Half-Way Covenant for Congregational Church membership established

  • England seizes New Netherland from Dutch

  • East and West Jersey colonies founded

  • Virginia assembly disfranchises landless freemen

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    King Philip's War

  • Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia

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    Mass expansion of slavery in colonies

  • William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony

  • La Salle explores MIssissippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

  • Royal authority creates Dominion of New England

  • Period: to

    Glorious Revolution overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England

  • Period: to

    Leisler's Rebellion in New York

  • Period: to

    King William's War (War of the League of Augsburg)

  • Salem witch trials in Massachusetts

  • College of William and Mary founded

  • College of William and Mary founded

  • Board of Trade assumes governance of colonies

  • Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ended

  • Population of English colonies in America about 250,000

  • Yale College founded

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    Queen Anne's War (War of Spanish Succession)

  • New York City slave revolt

  • French found New Orleans

  • Smallpox inoculation introduced

  • First edition of Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack"

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    Zenger free-press trial in New York

  • George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening

  • South Carolina slave revolt

  • War of Jenkins's Ear

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    King George's War (War of Austrian Succession)

  • Princeton College founded

  • Shaker movement founded in Manchester, England

  • Industrial Revolution begins in Britain

  • Washington battles French on frontier

  • Albany Congress

  • Braddock's defeat

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    Seven Year's War (French and Indian War)

  • Pitt emerges as leader of British government

  • Battle of Québec

  • Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures

  • Peace of Paris

  • Pontiac's uprising

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) ends

  • Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia

  • Brown College founded

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act Congress

  • Quartering Act

  • Stamp Act

  • Rutgers College founded

  • Declartory Acts

  • Townshend Acts

  • New York legislature suspended by Parliament

  • British troops occupy Boston

  • Period: to

    Regulator protests

  • Dartmouth College founded

  • Boston Massacre

  • All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed

  • Period: to

    First Shaker communities established in New York

  • Committees of correspondence formed

  • Governor Hutchinson's actions provoke Boston Tea Party

  • British East India Company granted tea monopoly

  • "Intolerable Acts"

  • Québec Act

  • First Continental Congress

  • The Association boycotts British goods

  • First Continental Congress calls for abolition of slave trade

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Americans capture British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • King George III formally proclaims colonies in rebellion

  • Failed invasions of Canada

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Philadelphia Quakers found world's first antislavery movement

  • Paine's Common Sense

  • Battle of Trenton

  • New Jersey constitution temporarily gives women the vote

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Brandywine

  • Battle of Germantown

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Articles of Confederation adopted by Second Continental Congress

  • Formation of French-American alliance

  • Battle of Monmouth

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    Clark's victories in the West

  • Massachusetts adops first constitution drafted in convention and ratified by popular vote

  • Battle of King's Mountain

  • Greene leads Carolina campaign

  • French and American force Conwallis to surrender at Yorktown

  • Articles of Confederation put into effect

  • Battle of Cowpens

  • North's ministry collapses in Britain

  • Treaty of Paris

  • MIlitary officers form Society for the Cincinnati

  • Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • Land Ordinance of 1785

  • Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

  • Shay's Rebellion

  • Meeting of five states to discuss revision of the Articles of Confederation

  • Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

  • Northwest Ordinance

  • Ratification by nine states guarantees a new government under the Constitution

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • Washington elected president

  • Constitution formally put into effect

  • French Revolution begins

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man in France

  • First official census

  • Bill of Rights adopted

  • Vermont becomes fourteenth state

  • Bank of the United States created

  • Excise tax passed

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture launches Haitian Revolution

  • Samuel Slater buils first US textile factory

  • Washington reelected president

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    Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties formed

  • France declares war on Britain and Spain

  • Washington's Neutrality Proclamation

  • Citizen Genêt affair

  • Louis XVI beheaded; radical phase of French Revolution

  • Eli Whitney invents cotton gin

  • Whitney's cotton gin transforms southern economy

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Battle of Fallen Timbers

  • Jay's Treaty with Britain

  • Thomas Paine publishes The Age of Reason

  • Pinckney's Treaty with Spain

  • Treaty of Greenville: Indians cede Ohio

  • University of North Carolina founded

  • Washington's Farewell Address

  • Adams becomes president

  • XYZ Affair

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

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    Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

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    Undeclared war with France

  • Whitney develops interchangeable parts for muskets

  • Jefferson defeats Adams for presidency

  • Convention of 1800: peace with France

  • Second Great Awakening begins

  • Gabriel slave rebellion in Virginia

  • Judiciary Act of 1801

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    Naval war with Tripoli

  • Revised naturalization law

  • Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Jefferson reelected president

  • Impeachment of Justice Chase

  • Haiti emerges as first independent black republic

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    Lewis and Clark expedition

  • Batle of Trafalgar

  • Battle of Austerltz

  • Peace treatywith Tripoli

  • Period: to

    Pike's explorations

  • Burr treason trial

  • Chesapeake affair

  • Embargo Act

  • Robert Fulton's first steamboat

  • Embargo spurs American manufacturing

  • Britain abolishes slave trade

  • Congress outlaws slave trade

  • Royal Navy forms West Africa Squadron

  • Madison elected preident

  • Macon's Bill No 2

  • Napoleo announces (falsely) repeal of blockade decrees

  • Maddison reestablishes nonimporation against Britain

  • Fletcher v Peck ruling asserts right of Supreme Court to invalidate state laws deemed unconstitutional

  • Venezuela declares independence from Spain

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Cumberland Road construction begins

  • United States declares war on Britain

  • United States declares war on Britain

  • Madison reelected president

  • Period: to

    American invasions of Canada fail

  • Battle of Lake Erie

  • Battle of the Thames

  • Battle of Horseshoe Bend

  • Battle of Plattsburgh

  • Treaty of Ghent signed ending War of 1812

  • Napoleon exiled to Elba

  • British burn Washington, D.C.

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    Congress of Vienna

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    Hartford Convention

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • Napoleon's army defeated at Waterloo

  • Second Bank of the United States founded

  • Argentina declares independence from Spain

  • Monroe elected president

  • Protectionist Tariff of 1816

  • Rush-Bagot agreement limits naval armament on Great Lakes

  • Erie Canal construction begins

  • Madison vetoes Calhoun's Bonus Bill

  • American Colonization Society formed

  • Jackson invades Florida

  • Anglo-American Convention

  • Chile, in rebellion since 1810, declares independence from Spain

  • Panic of 1819

  • Spain cedes Florida to United Statse in Adams-Onís Treaty

  • McCulloch v Maryland

  • Dartmouth College v Woodward

  • Jefferson founds University of Virginia

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe reelected

  • Land Act of 1820

  • Missouri and Maine admitted to Union

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Cohens v Virginia

  • Cooper publishes The Spy, his first successful novel

  • Austria intervenes to crush popular uprising in Italy

  • Emma Willard establishes Troy (New York) Female Seminary

  • Vesey slave conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina

  • Republic of LIberia established in Africa

  • Vesey slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina

  • France intervenes to suppress liberal government in Spain

  • Mexico opens Texas to American settlers

  • Secretary Adams proposes Monroe Doctrine

  • Russo-American Treaty

  • Lack of electoral majority for presidency throws election into House of Representatives

  • Gibbens v Ogden

  • Erie Canal completed

  • New Harmony commune established

  • House elects John Quincy Adams president

  • Erie Canal completed

  • American Temperance Society founded

  • Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations)

  • American Peace Society founded

  • Noah Webster publishes dictionary

  • Jackson elected president

  • The South Carolina Exposition published

  • First railroad in United States

  • Walker publishes "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"

  • Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church

  • Godey's Lady's Book first published

  • Indian Removal Act

  • July Revolution in France

  • Period: to

    Finney conducts revivals in eastern cities

  • Period: to

    Alexis de Tocqueville tours United States

  • Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia

  • Garrison begins publishing "THe Liberator"

  • Period: to

    Virginia legislature debates slavery and emancipation

  • "Bank War" - Jackson vetoes bill to recharter Bank of the United States

  • Reform Bill in Britain expands electorate

  • Tariff of 1832

  • Black Hawk War

  • Jackson defeats Clay for presidency

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    South Carolina nullification crisis

  • Compromise Tariff of 1833

  • Jackson removes federal deposits from Bank of the United States

  • British abolish slavery in West Indies

  • American Anti-Slavery Society fouded

  • Anti-Catholic riot in Boston

  • Cyrus McCormick invents mechanical mower-reaper

  • Abolitionist students expelled from Lane Theological Seminary

  • Lyceum movement flourishes

  • US Post Office orders destruction of abolitionist mail

  • "Broadcloth Mob" attacks Garrison

  • Specie Circular issued

  • Bank of the United States expires

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs established

  • Battle of the Alamo

  • Battle of San Jacinto

  • Texas wins independence from Mexico

  • Van Buren elected president

  • House of Representatives passes "Gag Resolution"

  • Oberlin College admits female students

  • Mary Lyon establishes Mouth Holyoke Seminary

  • Seminole Indians defeated and eventually removed from Florida

  • United States recognizes Texas republic but refuses annexation

  • Panic of 1837

  • John Deere develops steel plow

  • Emerson delivers "The American Scholar" address

  • Mob kills abolitionist Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois

  • Canadian rebellion and Caroline incident

  • Period: to

    Cherokee Indians removed on "Trail of Tears"

  • Weld publishes "American Slavery as It is"

  • Slave revolt aboard Amistad

  • Aroostook War breaks out over Maine boundary

  • London antislavery convention refuses to recognize female delegates

  • Independent treasury established

  • Harrison defeats Van Buren for presidency

  • President Van Buren establishes ten-hour day for federal employees

  • Antislavery Liberty party organized

  • Brook Farm commune established

  • Harrison dies after four weeks in office

  • Tyler assumes presidency

  • Massachusetts declares labor unions legal in Commonwealth v Hunt

  • Webster-Ashburton treaty

  • Dorothea Dix petitions Massachusetts legislature on behalf of the insane

  • Period: to

    Era of clipper ships

  • Samuel Morse invents telegraph

  • Anti-Catholic riot in Philadelphia

  • Polk defeats Clay in "Manifest Destiny" election

  • Caleb Cushing signs Treaty of Wanghia with China

  • Period: to

    Potato famine in Ireland

  • Douglass publishes "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"

  • United States annexes Texas

  • Elias Howe invents sewing machine

  • Period: to

    Mormon migration to Utah

  • Walker Tariff

  • Independent treasury restored

  • United States settles Oregon dispute with Britain

  • United States and Mexico clash over Texas boundary

  • Kearny takes Santa Fe

  • Frémont conquers California

  • Wilmot Proviso passes House of Representatives

  • Period: to

    Mexican War

  • Battle of Buena Vista

  • Scott takes Mexico City

  • Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention held

  • Oneida Community established

  • First general incorporation laws in New York

  • Democratic revolutions collapse in Germany

  • Free Soil party organized

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • British seize port of San Juan del Norte in Nicaragua

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War

  • Taylor defeats Cass and Van Buren for presidency

  • American, or Know-Nothing, party formed

  • California Gold Rush

  • Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter

  • Filmore assumes presidency after Taylor's death

  • Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Law

  • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain

  • London World's Fair

  • Melville publishes Moby Dick

  • Maine passes first law prohibiting liquor

  • Australian gold rush

  • Cumberland Road completed

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

  • Pierce defeats Scott for presidency

  • Gadsden Purchase from Mexico

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    Crimean War in Russia

  • Commodore Perry opens Japan

  • Ostend Manifesto proposes seizure of Cuba

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise of 1820

  • Republican party organized

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Republican party forms

  • Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass

  • William Waler becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery

  • Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamger

  • Browns Pottawatomie Massacre

  • Buchanan defeats Frémont and Fillmore for presidency

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    Civil War in "bleeding Kansas"

  • Dred Scott decision

  • Lecompton Constitution rejected

  • Tariff of 1857

  • Panic of 1857

  • Hinton R. Helper publishes "The Impending Crisis of the South"

  • Cyrus Field lays first transatlantic cable

  • Lincoln-Douglas debates

  • Brown raids Harpers Ferry

  • Pony Express established

  • Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency

  • South Carolina secedes from Union

  • Crittenden Compromise fails

  • Lincoln takes office (date accurate)

  • Fort Sumter fired on (date accurate)

  • First transcontinental telegraph

  • Confederate government formed

  • Four upper South states secede

  • Morrill Tariff Act passed

  • Trent affair

  • Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus

  • Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Homestead Act

  • McClellan's Peninsula Campaign

  • Seven Days' Battles

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Fredricksburg

  • Northern army seizes New Orleans

  • Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

  • Naval battle of Merrimack (Virginia) and Monitor

  • Confederacy enacts conscription

  • Period: to

    Alabama raids Northern shipping

  • Union enacts conscription

  • New York City draft riots

  • National Banking System established

  • Final Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Fall of Vicksburg

  • Fall of Port Hudson

  • Lincoln announces "10 percent" Reconstruction plan

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    Napoleon III installs Archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico

  • Sherman's march through Georgia

  • Grant's Wilderness Campaign

  • Battle of Cold Harbor

  • Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency

  • Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

  • Alabama sunk by Union warship

  • Hampton Roads Conference

  • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox

  • Lincoln assassinated

  • Thirteenth Amendment ratified

  • Lincoln assassinated

  • Johnson issues Reconstruction proclamation

  • Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen

  • Freedmen's Bureau established

  • Southern states pass Black Codes

  • Permanent transatlantic cable established

  • Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson's veto

  • Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment

  • Johnson-backed candidates lose congressional election

  • Ex parte Milligan case

  • Ku Klux Klan founded

  • Reconstruction Act

  • Tenure of Office Act

  • Reform Bill expands British electorate

  • United States purchases Alaska from Russia

  • Meiji Restoration in Japam

  • Johnson pardons Confederate leaders

  • Johnson impeached and acquitted

  • Fifteenth Amendment ratified

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    Force Acts

  • Freedmen's Bureau ended

  • Reconstruction ends