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Jamestown
day and month unknown -
Cpt. James Smith takes charge of Jamestown
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Period: to
First Anglo-Powhatan War
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House of Burgesses
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Dutch bring over first slaves
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First Pilgrims in Plymouth
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New Netherlands
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VA becomes royal colony under James I
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Massachusetts Bay Company recieves charter
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Greatest Migration (Puritans)
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Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore
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Harvard founded
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The Fundamental Orders (of Conneticut)
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New England Confederation
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
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Act of Toleration
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Barbados Slave Codes created
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VA slave codes make slaves and their children master's property for life
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Half-Way Covenant
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Carolinas created
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King Phillip's War
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Culpepper's Rebellion
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William Penn recieves charter for Pennsylvania
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Dominion of New England
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Glorious Revolution
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Leisler's Rebellion
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Boston Revolt to dispose of Andros
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Protestants' Rebellion in Maryland
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Period: to
King William's War
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William and Mary founded
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Barbados Slave Codes brought to SC
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Royal African Company loses charter
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Period: to
Queen Mary's War
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Tuscarora War
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Treaty of Utrecht
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Yemassee War
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New Orleans is founded
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Georgia is founded
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Molasses Act
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John Peter Zenger Case
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Stono Rebellion
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Period: to
The Great Awakening
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Albany Congress
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Period: to
French and Indian War
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Plains of Abraham
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Battle of Quebec
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Treaty of Paris 1763
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Pontiac's Rebellion
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Proclamation of 1763
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Sugar Act
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Quartering Act
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Stamp Act Congress
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Declatory Act
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Townshend Acts
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Boston Tea Party
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First Continental Congress
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Intolerable Act
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Quebec Act
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Boston Port Act
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The Association is created by Congress
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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First Bunker Hill
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Second Continental Congress
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Olive Branch Petition
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Lord Dunmore of VA declares blacks who fight for Britain will be free
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Common Sense
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Declaration of Independence
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Battles of Trenton and Princeton
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Battle of Saratoga
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Treaty of Alliance
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Articles of Confederation
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Battle of Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris 1783
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Jay's Treaty
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Shay's Rebellion
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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Tariff of 1789
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U.S. Patent Office created
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Excise Tax
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Period: to
First Bank of the U.S.
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Tariff of 1792
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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Proclamation of Neutrality
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Whiskey Rebellion
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Battle of Fallen Timbers
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Lancaster Turnpike
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Pinckney's Treaty
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Treaty of Greenvile
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Land Law of 1796
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Alien Laws
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Kentucky Resolution
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Virginia Resolution
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Convention of 1800
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Revolution of 1800
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Gabriel Prosser Revolt in Richmond, VA fails
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Judiciary Act of 1801
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West Point
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Marbury vs. Madison
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Embargo Act of 1807
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Robert Fulton--steamboat
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Fletcher vs. Peck
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National (Cumberland) Road is built
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Period: to
Era of Good Feelings
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Period: to
War of 1812
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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Treaty of Ghent
ends War of 1812 -
Commercial Treaty of 1815
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Commerical Treaty of 1815
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Martin vs. Hunter Lessee
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Tariffof 1816 (1st substantial protective tariff)
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Period: to
Second Bank of the U.S.
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Rush-Bagot Treaty
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Bonus Bill
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Erie Canal is built
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American Colonization Society
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Convention of 1818
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Treaty of 1818
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Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
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McCulloch vs. Maryland
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Cohens vs. Virginia
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Adams-Onis Treaty
AKA Transcontinental Treaty AKA Florida Purchase Treaty -
Panic of 1819
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Tallmadge Amendment
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Land Act of 1820
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Missouri Compromise
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Denmark Vesey Rebellion
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Monroe Doctrine
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Gibbons vs. Ogden
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Convention of 1824
Where the Treaty of 1824 is written AKA Russo-American Treaty -
John Deere produces the steel plow
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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Tariff of Abomination
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Indian Removal Act
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Cherokee vs. Georgia
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Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper
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"The Liberator" published by William Lloyed Garrison
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Nat Turner Revolt
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Worcester vs. Georgia
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Tariff of 1832
leads to Nullification Crisis -
Bank War
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Compromise of 1833
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Gag Resolution
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Charles River Bridge vs. Warren Bridge
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Elijah Lovejoy is killed
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Commonwealth vs. Hunt
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"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"
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Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
Later perfected by Isaac Singer -
Seneca Falls Convention
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Know-Nothing Party begins
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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John C. Calhoun dies
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Compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Gadsden Purchase
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Treaty of Kanagawa
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Ostend Manifesto
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Dred Scott Case Decision
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Cyrus Field runs cable under Atlantic connecting America to Europe
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John Brown's Raid (Harper's Ferry)
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Morse Code (Samuel)
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The Trent Affair
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Morrill Tariff Act
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Charleston fires at Fort Sumter
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Confederacy begins draft
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Confiscation Act of 1862
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Seven Days' Battles
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Second Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Union starts draft
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National Banking System
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Gettysburg
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Vicksburg
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Sherman takes Atlanta
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse, VA
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Lincoln is assasinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater