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By apush5/5

  • Jamestown Founded

    Underwent "Starving Time" while looking for gold

  • First African Slaves; House of Burgesses

    The first African slaves arrived at Jamestown, and Jamestown's House of Burgesses was established as a form of self government.

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Showed animosity between backcountry and coastal settlers

  • Slave Importations Increase

    The use of slaves in North America didn't actually pick up until this time.
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    First Great Awakening Begins

    The great awakening was a result of Enlightenment ideas challenging the church.

  • Beginning of the French and Indian War

    Between the colonies, the French and the Indians while a war between England and France occurred in Europe.

  • End of the French and Indian War; Proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation stopped colonists from settling West of the Appalachians even though the war allotted all land east of the Mississippi, including Canada, to England.

  • American Revolution Begins

    1764- Sugar Act. 1765- Stamp Act. 1766- Stamp Act repealed; Declaratory Act. 1767- Townsend Duties. 1770- Boston Massacre; Townsend Duties repealed. 1772- Commitees of Correspondance in Boston. 1773- Tea Act; Boston Tea Party. 1774- Intolerable Acts; First Continental Congress.
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    Revolutionary War

  • Paine's Common Sense; Declaration of Independance Drafted

    Influenced by Enlightenment ideas and John Locke

  • Articles of Confederation are Adopted

    Adopted in 1777, ratified in 1781. Did not allow the federal government to levy taxes, draft troops, or regulate trade.

  • Revolutionary War Ends

  • Shay's Rebellion

    Showed the weakness of the new government.

  • Northwest Ordinance

    First time the federal government did something right. Also set aside money for public education.

  • The Constitution of the United States is Adopted

    Adopted at the constitutional congress in 1787, ratified by the states in 1788. Arguments between Federalists and Anti-Federalists caused ratification to take a while. Federalist papers.

  • Washington Elected; Bill of Rights

  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

    Because of the alien and sedition acts the states adopted the idea of nullification. They thought the states should be the authority on the constitutionality of laws.

  • Cotton Gin Created

    Spurred growth in Slave trade

  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Showed the strength of the new federal government

  • Jefferson Revolution

    Jefferson was the first Democratic-Republican president, his election was called a revolution.

  • Second Great Awakening

    Effect of the spread of Deism- God created the earth and is not a standby watcher.

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Led to debates on whether or not the decision was constitutional.

  • Jefferson's Embargo

    Jefferson was trying to be isolationist, but ended up causing a depression.

  • The War of 1812 Against Great Britain

    Started because of Impressment by the British

  • The war of 1812 Ends

  • Missouri Compromise

    Rising tensions between abolitionists and slave holders.

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Andrew Jackson Elected

    Era of the common man.
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    Industrialization and Rise of Immigration

  • The Liberator Begins Publication

    Rise of abolitionism

  • Nullification Crisis

    Beginning of threats from states to secede. 1832-1833
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    Depression (Specie Circular)

    Jackson messed up the economy by forcing people to buy public land with only gold and silver.

  • Brook Farm Founded (Utopia)

    Rise of romanticism and reform movements.

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Beginning of women's rights movement

  • Compromise of 1850

    Admission of California as a free state, abolished slave trade in the District of Columbia, enacted a more effective fugitive slave law.

  • Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Abolitionist movement

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Allowed the slavery question in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to be decided by popular sovereignty

  • Bleeding Kansas

    1855-1856

  • John Brown Raid

  • Lincoln Elected

    Some southern states immediately seceded after his eleciton
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    Civil War

  • The Civil War Starts

    The Confederate States of America are also founded

  • Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Gettysburg

    Freed all of the slaves in the Confederate states

  • 13th Amendment Passed; Civil War Ends

    The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in all territories of the U.S.

  • 14th Amendment Ratified

    Nobody can be denied the rights to life, liberty, and property based on race.

  • 15th Amendment Ratified

    A citizen's right to vote cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

  • Rockefeller Founds Standard Oil

    Beginning of big corporations

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Compromise of 1877 Ends Reconstruction

    Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to withdraw troops from the South in order to win the presidency.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

  • People's Party Formed

    Started reform movements in cities

  • War With Spain Begins and Ends

    The U.S. gains Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

  • Galveston Texas Establishes Commission Government

    The mayor and council were replaced with an elected, nonpartisan commission.

  • Meat Inspection Act Passed

    Sign of Reforms. Passed after the release of The Jungle.

  • Progressive Party Formed

    Furthered the reform movements of cities.

  • 16th and 17th Amendments Passed

    Congress can collect taxes without the states permission, and Senators are to be elected by popular vote.

  • World War I Begins

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    WW I

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    The Great Migration of Blacks to the North

    Migration to Eastern Cities

  • U.S. Enters WW I

  • WW I Ends, Wilson Proposes his 14 Points

    He didn't want harsh punishments on Germany

  • The Senate Rejects the Treaty of Versailles

    Because the U.S. did not want to enter the League of Nations.

  • 18th Amendment

    Prohibition Act

  • 19th Amendment

    Woman's Suffrage Act

  • Red Scare

    Because of Russia turning Communist.

  • Ku Klux Klan Membership Peaks

  • Dawes Plan

    Plan after WW I to help European countries pay off their debts, led to the Great Depression.

  • Great Depression Begins

    Stock market crash

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Led to Roosevelt's quarantine speech about Japan

  • First New Deal Legislation

    This was under Roosevelt

  • Roosevelt's Quarentine Speech

  • WW II Begins

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    WW II

  • Pearl Harbor; U.S. Entered WW II

  • U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs, Germany and Japan Surrender

    Germany surrenders months before Japan.

  • Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

    Formation of the U.N., Russia agrees to give Poland popular elections.

  • Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan

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    Cold War

  • Korean War Begins

  • Second Red Scare

    McCarthyism, led people to believe that there were communists in the American Government.
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    Korean War

  • Korean War Ends

  • Brown V.S. Board of Education

    Made segregation unconstitutional. Forced states to segregate.

  • Little Rock Desegregation Crisis

  • Construction of the Berlin Wall

    West Germany- Democratic; East Germany- Communist

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Civil Rights Act

  • U.S. Troops Enter Vietnam

  • Woodstock Concert

    Counterculture

  • Reagan Meets Gorbachev

    Beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union.

  • Berlin Wall Falls; Communist Regimes Collapse

    End of the Cold War