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Early U.S. History Timeline
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The U.S. Slave Trade
1619 first Africans are brought over to what will be the u.s. (to Virginia), the Atlantic slave trade begins. They are brought along the "middle passage". Race at this point becomes a system of slavery which became even greater as a social construct because black people being dehumanized as a way to justify slavery. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 marked the end of the french and Indian war which was a part of the The Seven Years war. British won and then started taxing colonists and that led to boycotting, protests, and more fighting. -
U.S. Constitution
It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. It is the oldest functioning constitution. -
Civil War
The main cause of The Civil War was sectional differences. This was mainly slavery debates. The North was the Union and the South was the Confederacy. From 1861-1865 -
Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation
This was Lincolns call to end slavery. The proclamation states "that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The Gilded Age
This was a period of intense industrialization, a lot of modernization (companies, factories, businesses) leading to massive inequality in wealth. The Gilded Age was known as "shiny exterior and the rot underneath". It started in about 1870 and went to about 1900. -
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The Progressive Movement
The issues of the gilded age led to this, which also led to economic and social reforms during the progressive era.
This includes the temperance movement, the suffrage movement (women's rights to vote), and labor reforms (working conditions safer). -
WW1
From 1914 to 1919. The effects on the U.S. were labor is lost, labor is replaced by Mexican immigrants, women are entering the public sphere and helping out the war effort and using that as reasoning for the right to vote, and conserving food and farm materials. There was also a red scare. -
Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
Wilson created 14 points about lasting world peace and trade agreements, honesty, imperialism, territorial issues, calls for "League of Nations" which he proposed but did not end up signing. Henry Cabot Lodge was against the peace treaty and the League of Nations would determine too much for the U.S. and we would lose autonomy. -
The Restrictive Era
In 1924 the most restrictive immigration act was passed and race quotas became a thing. There were high employment rates, advertisement became big, and "big business" was pushed. -
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The Great Depression
This time period was centered around economic recession , massive amounts of unemployment, and the stock market crash in 1929. The distinguishing characteristics were its severity and its length. Growing income and wealth inequality, increase in consumer debt, margin loans and stock market losses, banks and monetary system, federal reserve was being super stingy, Smoot-Hawley act (Germany paying its dues), are all considered theoretical causes. -
New Deal
Series of government programs created in an attempt to combat the great depression, which revolved around the three r's "reform, recovery, relief". Government programs between 1933-1938 (the new deal) is referred to in two different parts, The first was restructuring the economy and giving banks economic relief (recovery reform). Second helped with resources, work programs, and farmers (relief for people)