• 1492

    Columbus's Voyage

  • 1517

    Martin Luther Starts Reformation

  • Period: 1547 to 1558

    King Henry VIII Allied with Catholic Church

  • 1558

    Spanish Armada Attacks England

  • Period: to

    Sir Walter Raleigh Gets Grant to Explore North America

  • Dutch Settlement of Quebec

  • Period: to

    Slave Trade

  • Massachusetts Bay Company Founded

  • New Hampshire and Maine Founded

  • Hartford Founded

  • Fundamental Order of Connecticut Founded

  • New Hampshire and Maine Settled

  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • Rhode Island Founded

  • Charles II Returns from Exile

  • First Navigation Act

  • Carolina Founded

  • Second Navigation Act

  • New York Founded

  • New Jersey Founded

  • Period: to

    New Jersey Divided into East and West Jersey

  • Fundamental Constitution for Carolina Set Up

  • Third Navigation Act

  • Period: to

    King Philip's War

  • New Hampshire Becomes Independent

  • Pennsylvania Founded

  • Louisiana Claimed by French

  • Glorious Revolution

  • New Jersey Reunited

  • North and South Carolina Split

  • Georgia Founded

  • Albany Plan

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Period: to

    Seven Years War

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Stamp Act

  • Townshend Duties

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

  • Coercive and Intolerable Acts

  • Period: to

    First Continental Congress

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Period: to

    First Phase of Revolutionary War- New England

  • Period: to

    Second Continental Congress

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Period: to

    Second Phase of Revolutionary War- Mid-Atlantic

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Trenton and Princeton

  • Campaign of 1777

  • Period: to

    Third Phase of Revolutionary War- The South

  • General Arnold Switches Sides

  • Period: to

    Articles of Confederation

  • Period: to

    Battle of Yorktown

  • Period: to

    Shays' Rebellion

  • Northwest Ordinance

  • Great Compromise

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • Period: to

    Second Great Awakening

  • Period: to

    Whiskey Rebellion

  • Bill of Rights Drafted

  • Cotton Gin Invented

  • Jay's Treaty

  • Turnpikes Start to Get Built

  • Pickney's Treaty

  • Election of 1796- Jefferson vs Adams

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Period: to

    XYZ Affair

  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

  • Election of 1800- Jefferson vs Adams

  • Harrison Land Law

  • Judiciary Act of 1801

  • Period: to

    John Marshall as Chief Justice of SUpreme Court

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Period: to

    Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • The Clermont Sails Up Hudson River

  • Embargo Act

  • National Road Starts to be Built

  • Period: to

    Non-Intercourse Act

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Period: to

    Era of Good Feelings

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

  • Period: to

    Panic of 1819

  • Maine Becomes Independent

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Election of 1824- Crawford vs Adams vs Clay vs Jackson

  • Erie Canal Completed

  • New Harmony Established

  • Election of 1828- Jackson vs Adams

  • Tariff of Abominations

  • Period: to

    Second Party System

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Book of Mormon Published

  • McCormick Reaper

  • Nullification Crisis

  • Force Bill

  • Creation of National Trade Union

  • Distribution Act

  • Specie Circular

  • Americans Launch Rebellion Against Mexican Government in Texas

  • Period: to

    Transcendentalism Movement

  • Period: to

    Panic of 1837

  • Brook Farm Established

  • Creation of Female Labor Reform Association

  • Annexation of Texas

  • Wilimont Proviso

  • Bear Flag Revolt

  • Spot Resolutions

  • Oneida Community Established

  • Senaca Falls Convention

  • California Gold Rush

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Period: to

    Free Soil Party

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Period: to

    Bleeding Kansas

  • Dred Scott Case

  • First Confiscation Act

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Homestead and Morill Acts

  • Confederate Conscription Act

  • Second Confiscation Act

  • Pacific Railway Acts

  • Morrill Land Grant Act

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Period: to

    National Bank Acts

  • Period: to

    Siege of Vicksburg

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Election of 1864- McClellan vs Lincoln vs Johnson

  • Period: to

    Sherman's March to the Sea

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Assassination of Lincoln

  • Thirteenth Amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • KKK Founded

  • Tenure of Office Act

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Panic of 1873

  • Crime of '73

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Dawes Act

  • Railroad Strike of 1877

  • Period: to

    Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Founded

  • Haymarket Square Riot

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Oklahoma Land Rush

  • Hull House Established

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

  • Populist Party Founded

  • Homestead Strike

  • Turner's Frontier Thesis

  • Period: to

    Panic of 1893

  • Period: to

    Pullman Strike

  • Atlanta Compromise

  • National Association of Manufacturers Created

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

  • Election of 1896- McKinley vs Bryan

  • Anti-Imperialist League

  • Open Door Policy

  • USS Maine Explosion

  • Period: to

    Spanish-American War

  • Hawaii Annexation

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Period: to

    Philippine War

  • American Medical Association Created

  • Period: to

    Roosevelt's Presidency

  • Platt Amendment

  • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

  • Hepburn Act

  • Meat Inspection Act

  • Period: to

    Taft's Presidency

  • United States Chamber of Commerce Created

  • Federal Reserve Act

  • Period: to

    Wilson's Presidency

  • Sixteenth Amendment

  • Federal Trade Commission Act

  • Clayton Antitrust Act

  • Panama Canal Built

  • Lusitania Sunk

  • Period: to

    Great Migration

  • Jones Act

  • Selective Service Act

  • War Industries Board Formed

  • Espionage Act

  • Zimmerman Telegram Intercepted

  • US Joins WWI

  • National War Labor Board Formed

  • Sabotage Act

  • Sedition Act

  • Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • League of Nations Proposed

  • Period: to

    Strike Waves

  • Period: to

    Red Scare

  • Period: to

    Chicago Race Riot

  • Palmer Raids

  • Election of 1920- Cox vs FDR vs Harding

  • Nineteenth Amendment