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By caelyn.eliz
  • 1492

    Columbus lands in the Bahamas

  • 1519

    Hernando Cortes conquers the Aztecs

  • 1533

    Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas

  • Period: 1558 to

    Reign of Queen Elizabeth I

  • Roanoke Colony Established

  • England Defeats Spanish Armada

  • Roanoke Colony Disappears

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Jamestown Founded

  • Period: to

    Jamestown Starving Time

  • Period: to

    Powhatan Wars

  • Virginia Company Introduces Headright System

  • House of Burgesses Created in Jamestown

  • First Africans Arrived in English Colonies

  • Tobacco Boom Begins

  • Mayflower Compact

    Promised future self-governance.

  • Plymouth Founded

  • Period: to

    Great Puritan Migration

  • Pequot War

  • 1/3 of Jamestown Settlers Killed in Indian Attack

  • New York Founded

  • Period: to

    Beaver Wars

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded

  • Maryland Founded by Lord Baltimore

    As a haven for Catholics.
  • Period: to

    Decline of Huron Confederacy

  • Fundamental Orders

    Connecticut. Considered the first written constitution in British North America.

  • Roger Williams Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Connecticut Founded

  • Rhode Island Founded

  • Anne Hutchinson Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Massachusetts First Colony to Put Slavery into Law

  • Act of Toleration Passed in Maryland

    Provides religious toleration for most Christians.

  • Navigation Acts

    1650s onward. Repealed 1849.

  • Children Inherit Slave Status of Mother

  • Halfway Covenant

  • Carolinas Founded

  • New Jersey Founded

  • Baptism as Christians Does Not Impact Slave Status

  • Death of Slave During Punishment Not a Felony

  • Blacks Could Not Own Guns or Buy White Indentured Servants

  • King Phillip's War (Metacom)

    Ended 1678.

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • New Hampshire Founded

  • Pope's Rebellion (Pueblo Revolt)

  • Blacks Outnumber Whites in New Arrivals

  • Pennsylvania Founded

    William Penn. Refuge for Quakers.

  • Dominion of New England

    Combined Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey. Ended 1689.

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Salem Witch Trials

    Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • Delaware Founded

  • Virginia Decides Difference Between Servant and Slave

  • Period: to

    Chickasaw Wars

  • Carolinas Split

  • Period: to

    First Great Awakening

  • Georgia Founded

    James Oglethorpe

  • Molasses Act

  • Zenger Trial

  • Stono Rebellion

  • Ben Franklin Proposes Albany Plan of Union

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • End of Salutary Neglect

  • Treaty of Paris

    Ended French and Indian War.

  • Pontiac's Revolt

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

  • Currency Act

  • Sugar Act

    Replaced Molasses Act of 1733.

  • Stamp Act

  • Quartering Act

  • Stamp Act Congress

  • Sons of Liberty Founded

  • Daughters of Liberty Founded

  • Declaratory Act

    Repealed Stamp Act.

  • Townshend Acts

  • Restraining Act

  • Townshend Acts Repealed

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Massacre

  • Committees of Correspondence Founded

  • Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Coercive/Intolerable Acts

  • Quebec Act

  • First Continental Congress

  • Invasion of Quebec

  • British Offer Slaves Freedom for Military Service

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Period: to

    Revolutionary War

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Olive Branch Petition

  • Thomas Paine Published "Common Sense"

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Winter at Valley Forge

  • Articles of Confederation Passed

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris

    Ends the Revolutionary War.

  • Shays' Rebellion

  • Philadelphia Convention

  • Federalist Papers

  • Constitution Ratified

  • Alien, Naturalization, and Sedition Acts

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

    Gave the Supreme Court the power to order federal appointees to deliver appointments.
  • Period: to

    Washington Presidency

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

  • Creation of National Bank

  • Proclamation of Neutrality

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Jay's Treaty

  • Pinckney Treaty

  • Period: to

    Adams Presidency

  • XYZ Affair

  • Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

  • Quasi Wars

  • Convention of 1800

  • Convention of 1800

  • Revolution of 1800

  • Period: to

    Jefferson's Presidency

  • Period: to

    Napoleonic Wars

  • Lousiana Purchase

  • Louis and Clark Explore Louisiana Territory

  • Twelfth Amendment

    Allowed electors to vote for a party ticket (so no vice presidents of opposite parties).

  • Embargo Act of 1807

  • Congress Ends International Slave Trade

  • Non-Intercourse Act of 1809

  • Period: to

    Madison's Presidency

  • Macon's Bill No. 2

  • War of 1812

    Ends 1815.

  • British Burn Washington DC

  • Hartford Convention

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • Battle of New Orleans

    Andrew Jackson!
    Please refer below:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWkOeK5AmI8

  • National Bank Rechartered

  • American System

  • Period: to

    Monroe's Presidency

  • McCulloch v. Maryland

  • Panic of 1819

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Period: to

    Adam's Presidency

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Panic of 1837