US History Timeline 1492 - 2011 Kelsey O'connell

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  • Oct 13, 1492

    Columbus ''Discovers'' America

  • Jan 1, 1497

    John Cabot claims North America for England

  • May 10, 1534

    Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the St.Lawrence River

  • Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

  • Captain John Smith axplorer and founder of Jamestone

  • Slaves in Jamestown

    Twenty slaves in virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britain's North American colonies. Like indentured servants, they were probably freed after a fixed period of service.

  • Mayflower Compact

  • First Public School (Boston Latin School)

  • Slave Trade

    Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in massachusetts.

  • First College Harvard College

    the first institute for higher education in a north American colony, established at Cambridge in Massachusetts.

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Ben Franklin-lighting Rod

  • French Indian war 1754- 1763

  • Proclamation of 1763 by King Grorge 111

  • stamp Act

  • Santa Claus-Colonai America

  • Revolution 1775-1784

  • Declaration of Independeration

  • Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves

  • Artices of Confederation

  • Constitution

  • Delaware

  • Pennsylvania-

  • New Jersey

  • Connectict

  • Georgia

  • Massachusetts

  • Maryland

  • South Carolina

  • South Carolina

  • New Hampshire

  • Virginia

  • New York

  • George Washington 1789 1797

  • North Carolina

  • Census Population-4 million

  • Rhode Island

  • Vermont

  • Bill of Rights

  • Kentucky

  • Eli Whitney- cotten Gin

  • 11th Amendment

  • Tennessee

  • John Adams 1797 1801

  • Census Population-5.3 million

  • Thomas Jefferson 1801 1809

  • Ohio

  • 12th Amendment

  • James Madison 1809 1817

  • Census Population-7.2 million

  • War of 1812 to 1815

  • Louisiana

  • Indiana

  • U of M- 1817-Founded in Detroit, Moved to Ann Arbor in 1837

  • James Monroe 1817 1825

  • Mississippi

  • Lllionois

  • Alabama

  • Census Population-9.6 million

  • Maine

  • Missouri

  • John Quincy Adams 1825 1829

  • Graham Cracker

  • Andrew Jackson 1829 1837

  • Census Population-12.8 million

  • Indian Removal Act 1838 Trail of Tears

  • Oberlin College First College to accept Women

  • Oberlin College- First College to accept Women

  • Texas Revolution 1835 to 1836

  • Oberlin College-First School to accept Blacks

  • Arkansas

  • Michigan

  • Martin Van Buren 1837 1841

  • Vulcanized rubber- Charles goodyear

  • Census Population-17 million

  • William Henery Harrison 1841

  • John Tyler 1841 1845

  • Baseball- Alexander Cartwright

  • Florida

  • James Knox Polk 1845-1849

  • Texas

  • Mexivan Amarican War 1846 to 1848

  • Lowa

  • Doughnut

  • Wisconsin

  • Zachery Taylor, 1849-1950

  • Census Population-23 million

  • Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853

  • California

  • Franklin Pierce , 1853-1857

  • Michigan State

  • James Buchanan, 1857-1861

  • Pencil Eraser- Hymen Lipman

  • Minnesota

  • Oregon

  • Census Population-31.4 million

  • Repeating Rifle- benjamin Tyler Henery

  • Jelly Bean-William Schrafft

  • Machine Gum- Richard Gating

  • American Civil War 1861 to 1865

  • Kansas

  • Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865

  • Breakfast Cereal- James Caleb Jackson

  • West Virginia

  • Nevada

  • 13th Amendment Abolition of Slavery

  • Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869

  • Nebraska

  • 14th Amendment

  • American Football- Walter Camp

  • Soccer- Princeton Vs.Rutgers (6-4 Rutgers)

  • Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877

  • Census Population-38.6 million

  • African Americans' Right to Vote

  • 15th Amendment

  • Jeans- Levi Strauss

  • Colorado

  • Toilet Paper-Seth WHeeler

  • Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881

  • Light Bulb- Thomas Alva Edision

  • Census Population-50.1 million

  • James Abram Garfield, 1881

  • Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885

  • Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889

  • Coca Cola- John S.Pemberton

  • Solfball- George hancock

  • Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893

  • north Dakota

  • South Dakota

  • Montana

  • Washington

  • Census Population-62.9 million

  • Stop Sing- William Phelps Eno

  • Idaho

  • Wyoming

  • CMU

  • Grover

  • Radio- Nikola Tesla

  • Corn Flakes- Will Keith Kellogg

  • Volleyball

  • Utah

  • William McKinly 1897-1901

  • Census Population-76.2 million

  • Car- Oldsmobile- Ransom E.Olds

  • Theodore Roosevelt 1901 1909

  • Assembly Line- Henry Ford

  • Teddy Bear- Morris Michtom

  • Banana Split- David Strickler

  • Oklahoma

  • William Howard Taft 1909-1913

  • Census Population-92.2 million

  • New Mexico

  • Arizona

  • 16th Amendment (Income Tax)

  • Woodrow Wilson 1913- 1921

  • 17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote

  • World War 1 1914 to 1918

  • 18th Amendment (prohibits alcohol

  • Census Population-106 million

  • 19th Amendment-Women's Right to Vote

  • Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923

  • Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929

  • KoolAid- Edwin Perkins

  • Television- Philo T. Farnsworth

  • Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney-

  • Bubble Gum- Walter Diemer '' Dubble Bubble''

  • Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933

  • Census Population-123 million

  • Electric Guitar- George Beachamp and Adolph Rickenbacker

  • 20th Amendment -Jan.20 inauguration

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

  • 21thAmendment -Repeal 18th amendment

  • Solf Serve IceCream= JFand Alix McCullough

  • World War 2 1939 to 1945

  • Census Population-132 million

  • Herry S. Truman

  • Cable TV

  • Video Game

  • Census Population-151 million

  • Korean War 1950 to 1953

  • Korean War 1950 to 1953

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • 22nd Amendment 2term Limit for President

  • Barcode- Woodland and Silver

  • Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961

  • Video Tape

  • Alaska

  • Hawaii

  • Census Population-179.3 million

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • John Fitzgerald Kennedt 1961 1963

  • 23rd Amendment WashDC representantion

  • Computer Mouse

  • Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963 1969

  • Buffalo Wings

  • 24th Amendment -polltaxes illegal

  • Minicomputer 18000

  • CD

  • Email

  • 25th Amendment- presidentail succession

  • Richard Milhous Nixon 1969 1974

  • Census Population-203 million

  • 26thAmendment- Congress salaey changes take place in next term

  • Cell Phone

  • Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974 1977

  • James Earl Carter Jr 1977 1981

  • Census Population-226.5 million

  • Laptop

  • Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981 1989

  • Nintendo Enterainment System NES

  • George Herbert Walker Bush 1989 1993

  • Census Population-248.7 million

  • Period: to

    Persian Gulf War

  • William Jefferson Clinton 1993 2001

  • Census Population-281.4 million

  • US Invasion of Afghanistan

  • George Walker Bush 2001 2009

  • iPod

  • Invasion of Iraq

  • Barack Hussein Obama 2009

  • Census Population-308.7 million