US History Timeline Thailer and Haley

By haleykayers
  • May 3, 1565

    Spain establishes St. Augustine, Florida

  • Acoma rebeliion in New Mexico

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    James I, King of England

  • English settlers Jamestown, Virginia

  • Samuel de Champlain found Quebec

  • fur trading post, Manhattan Island by Dutch

  • Pilgrims found Plymouth colony

  • Dutch West India Company Chartered

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    Charles I, King of ENgland

  • Puritans found Massachusetts Bay colony

  • Maryland settled

  • First Navigation Act

  • Period: to

    Bacon's Rebellion

  • Pope's Rebellion in New Mexico

  • William Penn founds Pennsylvania

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    England, France, and Spain at war

  • Salem witchcraft trials

  • Virginia enacts slavery legislation

  • Parlliament charters Georgia

  • Molasses Aact

  • Iron Act

  • Currency Act

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    French and Indian War

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Townshend duties on colonial imports

  • Committees of Correspondence formed

  • Tea Act/ Boston Tea Party

  • Quebec Act

  • General Thomas Gage marches to Lexington and Concord

  • Bunker Hill

  • Valley Forge

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Shay's Rebellion

  • Northwest Ordinance

  • George Washington as first president

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

  • Whiskey Rebeliion, Pennsylvania

  • Battle of Fallen Timbers

  • XYZ Affair

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Embargo Act

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

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    War of 1912

  • Erie Canal began

  • Adams Onis Treaty (Texas Border)

  • Mexico independant from Spain

  • Tariff of Abominations

  • Forve Bill

  • Steel Plow, John Deere

  • Trail of Tears

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Gold Rush

  • Railraods starting to expand

  • Fugitive Slave Act

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Dred Scott

  • Abraham Lincoln

  • Homestead Act

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th amendment

  • Reconstruction Act

  • peak of KKK power

  • Jay Gould begins Missouri Pacific railway system

  • Chicago fire

  • Whiskey Ring

  • Alexander Graham Bell, telephone

  • Thomas Edison, incandescent light bulb

  • Andrew Carnegie offers to build libraries

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Dawes Act

  • The American Commonwealth by James Bryce

  • Indian Massacre. Wounded knee

  • McKinley Tariff

  • Peoples Populist Party started

  • "City Beautiful" Movement

  • McKinley's free silver campaign

  • Hawaii annexed

  • Cuban Civil War

  • New York Tenement House Law

  • Eugene V. Debs founded Socialist Party

  • McKinley assassinated

  • Nqtionql Womens Trade Union League started

  • Supreme Court dissolves Northern Security Company

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

  • NAACP started

  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

  • WoolWorths Building opens in New York City

  • Panama Canal opens

  • US declares neutrality

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    World War I

  • Lisitania hit by Germans

  • Selective Service Act

  • Espionage Act9

  • Red Scare and Palmer Raids

  • 19th amendment, women voting

  • Sheppard Towner Act

  • Time Magazine founded

  • The Great Gatsby be F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Ford's Model A car

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Scottsboro Case

  • Emergeancy Banking Act, Hundred Days

  • Alphabet Soup

    Cilvilian Conservation Corps
    Agricultural Adjustment Act
    National Industrial Recovery Act
    Tennessee Valley Authority

  • Hitler is Chancellor of Germany

  • Wagner Act

  • Social Security Act

  • Genral Motors sit down strikes

  • Japan invades China

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    Rooselvelt Recesssion

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    World War II

  • Lend Lease Act

  • Japan attack on Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • Yalta Conference

  • Atomic Bombs, Hiroshikma and Nagasaki

  • Jackie Robinson

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Soviet Union detonates atomic bomb

  • Montegomery Bus Boycott

  • Sputnik

  • NASA started

  • Berlin Wall

  • Peace Corps

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Free Speech Movement, Berkeley

  • JFK assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Medicare and Medicaid started

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    Watergate

  • Endangered Species Act

  • Roe v. Wade

  • Fall of Saigon

  • Love Canal Crisis

  • Hostages in Tehran, Iran

  • MTV

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Los Angeles riots

  • troops sent to Bosnia

  • Terrorist attack USS Cole

  • 9/11