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| 6718290951 | 1215 | The Magna Carta document is adopted in England : First instance of representative shared government. Limited power of the king, created a class of nobles and a council in England. | 0 | |
| 6718290952 | 1517 | Martin Luther launches the Protestant Reformation in Europe: Beginning of religious sects, and the idea of freedom of religious expression. | 1 | |
| 6718290953 | 1585 | Roanoke Island settled by Sir Walter Raleigh | 2 | |
| 6718290954 | 1606 | The London Company sponsors a colonizing expedition to Virginia : Jamestown founded next year. Sets up Americas as colonies for mercantile exploitation. | 3 | |
| 6718290955 | 1616 | Tobacco becomes an export staple for Virginia • A smallpox epidemic among New England Native Americans | 4 | |
| 6718290956 | 1619 | Virginia House of Burgesses convenes in Jamestown: First legislative body in America, run by landowning rich gentry. • Slavery begins in Colonial America | 5 | |
| 6718290957 | 1620 | November 9 -- Mayflower lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts • November 11 -- Mayflower Compact is signed | 6 | |
| 6718290958 | 1638 | Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts | 7 | |
| 6718290959 | 1663 | Carolina established • Navigation Act of --- : England exerting control over American colonies. | 8 | |
| 6718290960 | 1675 | King Philip's War : A Native: First big resistance by native people's • Bacon's rebellion | 9 | |
| 6718290961 | 1692 | May - Salem witch trials : Leads to slow breakdown of Puritan dominance. | 10 | |
| 6718290962 | 1700-1775 | By 1700 colonists had established their presence in America. In this time period early American cities begin to develop and the immigrants began to acquire an American identity. By 1775 colonials banded together to fight what they saw as English tyranny.* | 11 | |
| 6718290963 | 1733 | Molasses Act: First example of unnecessary taxes meant to restrict the trading freedoms of American merchants and limit their interactions with other nations. | 12 | |
| 6718290964 | 1734 | December -- Great Awakening religious revival movement: Move away from text / intellectual based religious thought and more feeing based. A inherently "American" thing. | 13 | |
| 6718290965 | 1754-1763 | French and Indian War: Predecessor for excessive British taxation on the colonies which resulted in the anger over "no taxation without representation" and ultimately the American Revolution. Key note, the taxes were arguably necessary because the war was expensive and did secure the colonies and merchants in them against outside attack. | 14 | |
| 6718290966 | 1765 | March - Stamp Act March - Quartering Act | 15 | |
| 6718290967 | 1766 | March - King George III repeals the Stamp Act • Declaratory Act : Gives the crown absolutely control over the American Colonies. | 16 | |
| 6718290968 | 1767 | June - Townshend Revenue Acts | 17 | |
| 6718290969 | 1770 | March 5 - Boston Massacre: Unified people against the british through propaganda. * Note, John Adams defended the british soldiers in court, sort of demonstrating his respect for the rule of law and establishing him as as voice of reason. | 18 | |
| 6718290970 | 1774 | March - Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans) • May 20 - Second set of Coercive Acts • June - a new version of the 1765 Quartering Act enacted | 19 | |
| 6718290971 | 1775-1800 | During this time period an army mostly made up of the common man, accomplished the miraculous feat of expelling a professional army from America's borders. America then lived through the beginnings of two forms of government.* | 20 | |
| 6718290972 | 1776 | Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" : Linked Enlightenment ideas to justify American Colonies breaking away from English yolk. • Declaration of Independence Adopted | 21 | |
| 6718290973 | 1781 | Articles of Confederation created | 22 | |
| 6718290974 | 1783 | Treaty of Paris between Britain and Colonies Ends Revolution | 23 | |
| 6718290975 | 1786 | Shays' Rebellion: Farmers rebellion for farmers rights. Significant because Washington sends army to put it down. Americans vs. Americans. | 24 | |
| 6718290976 | 1788 | Ratification of Constitution | 25 | |
| 6718290977 | 1791 | Bill of Rights ratified | 26 | |
| 6718290978 | 1800-1824 | * In this time period a raging debate between the federalists and anti- federalists over how the constitution should be interpreted dominated national politics as America began to establish its place in the world.* | 27 | |
| 6718290979 | 1800 | • Second Great Awakening begins • Thomas Jefferson elected | 28 | |
| 6718290980 | 1801 | Judiciary Act: 1) Sets up so Supreme Court stationary, i.e., they didn't have to ride around the country. So, it sets the path for them to become the ultimate judge authority over the nation. | 29 | |
| 6718290981 | 1801-1805 | Naval War with Tripoli: Resulted in INCREASE in navy even though Jeffferson was opposed: And set up American naval power as a force to be reckoned with in world trade and that they wouldn't pay tribute and go along with such demands. | 30 | |
| 6718290982 | 1803 | Marbury v. Madison : Established Judicial review • Louisiana Purchase : Extended American territory and brought up the discussion of strict vs loose interpretation of the constitution. | 31 | |
| 6718290983 | 1807 | Embargo Act: Spectacular failure for Jefferson and his administration, trying to keep up republican neutral ideas and forced direct conflict with English. | 32 | |
| 6718290984 | 1812 | War of 1812 : War between England and America, brought on by America's siding with French over the last couple decades at the same time that England was in almost constant war with France. Also blamed England for advancing tension with Native in westward lands. • James Madison re- elected | 33 | |
| 6718290985 | 1816 | Second Bank of he United States founded: nationals banks were a point of contention both polically and economically throughout the 19th century. Republicans feared a central bank and paper money, while federalists wanted the increased control by the federal government. • Protectionist Tariff • James Monroe elected | 34 | |
| 6718290986 | 1814 | Era of Good Feelings begins : The time when democratic republicans were the dominant party and federalists waned. | 35 | |
| 6718290987 | 1819 | Panic off 1819: Illustrates the problem with banking as a national concept. Central bank pushes state banks to issue paper currency and engager in speculation (Ie, betting) on land expansion, farming, etc. All backed by paper money that eventually couldn't be replaced by metal coin which led to runs on state banks which led to foreclosures and mass unemployment and bankruptcy by local farmers. Causing resentment towards central banking. | 36 | |
| 6718290988 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise: Established the Slave-State line; Admits Missouri as slave and Maine as free to balance it out. Setting up contention over going west and how far the line extends. | 37 | |
| 6718290989 | 1823 | Secretary Adams proposes Monroe Doctrine: Justifies American intervention in its own hemisphere. Setting up long term American involvements south of its border. | 38 | |
| 6718290990 | 1825 | Erie Canal completed: Arguably ushering in the first great wave of industrialization with all the mills that open up and down the river and canal. | 39 | |
| 6718290991 | 1824 | * After nearly 35 years of government • Bureau of Indian Affairs controls run by the upper crust of society trade with tribes America was ready for a government for • Florida Seminoles revolt against the common man. If nothing else, the removal to the West time period occupied Jacksonian • Cherokee give up Georgia for democracy was a time by and for the Oklahoma common man.* | 40 | |
| 6718290992 | 1830 | Homestead Act, $1.25 per acre for 160 acres, 12 months to improve land: Incentivising a great migration westward. | 41 | |
| 6718290993 | 1830 | Indian Removal Act: Moves indians from their ancestral territories and puts them on reservation. Leads to trail of tears. | 42 | |
| 6718290994 | 1835 | Texas War for Independence | 43 | |
| 6718290995 | 1830's | The time of clearing the west of Indians, Mexicans all the people in the way of American Expansion. | 44 | |
| 6718290996 | 1841-1854 | * Between 1841 and 1854 Americans spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific displacing hundreds of native peoples in their wake. They felt that as the people who had inherited a firm belief in God and the means to conquer a continent, they had the right to the new lands they had acquired.* | 45 | |
| 6718290997 | 1842 | 10 hour work day for children 12 and under in Massachusetts: This is necessary because america is smack in the middle of massive industrialization and navigating how to regulate it. | 46 | |
| 6718290998 | 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: . It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the US ownership of California and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights. Over 90% chose to become US citizens. | 47 | |
| 6718290999 | 1848 | Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention | 48 | |
| 6718291000 | 1854-1865 | * Since the first colonial days the differences between the north and the south had been evident. As time passed the differences began to cause conflicts that by 1854 had split the nation in half. A bloody war of idealism ensued leaving nearly 600,000 Americans dead.* | 49 | |
| 6718291001 | 1854 | Republican Party forms | 50 | |
| 6718291002 | 1857 | Panic of ---: Yet another example of American over expansion to quickly and set up a depression which set up political turmoil and led to Civil War. | 51 | |
| 6718291003 | 1857 | March 6 -Dred Scott decision: It negates the Missouri Compromise: A southern judge rules that Scott was not a citizen, so sets up political division. The western territories were now opened to the possibility that slavery might expand into them, and it was quickly evident that this would have drastic financial and political effects. | 52 | |
| 6718291004 | 1861-1865 | • Civil War | 53 | |
| 6718291005 | 1862 | Homestead Act: Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. There was also a residency requirement. ** SLAVES, Revolt and be rewarded. | 54 | |
| 6718291006 | 1862 | - Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation | 55 | |
| 6718291007 | 1865 | 13th amendment adopted: Outlaws Slavery. | 56 | |
| 6718291008 | 1865-1877 | * The Reconstruction era was a time for the North and South to reunite and find peace. The South needed to be rebuilt and the emancipated slaves faced decades of racism.* | 57 | |
| 6718291009 | 1866 | Congress passes 14th Amendment:Blacks have equal protection under the law. | 58 | |
| 6718291010 | 1870 | Congress passes 15th Amendment: Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. | 59 | |
| 6718291011 | 1869-1900 | * This post-Civil War era was a time when everything looked coated in chocolate and gold, but underneath it was just a piece of rotten banana. It was also the beginning of more radical political groups.* | 60 | |
| 6718291012 | 1869 | First Transcontinental Railroad is completed. | 61 | |
| 6718291013 | 1871 | William "Boss" Tweed is exposed • Race riots erupt in Los Angeles against the Chinese: This shows tensions beginning to emerge among racial divides in American west, which will lead to acts such as exclusion act. | 62 | |
| 6718291014 | 1873 | Panic of ---: Culmination of super fast speculation and over expansion in the years following civil war. Also triggers by Coinage Act, which restricted America to a gold standard, and depressed the price of silver driving people into depression and bankruptcy. | 63 | |
| 6718291015 | 1882 | John D. Rockefeller organizes the Standard Oil Trust Chinese Exclusion Act | 64 | |
| 6718291016 | 1888 | Congress establishes a Department of Labor: Beginning of labor rights. | 65 | |
| 6718291017 | 1890 | Sherman Anti-trust Act | 66 | |
| 6718291018 | 1893 | Panic of 1893 | 67 | |
| 6718291019 | 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson: Established the idea of separate but equal | 68 | |
| 6718291020 | 1901 | United States Steel Company • President McKinley is shot by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz • Theodore Roosevelt is president. | 69 | |
| 6718291021 | 1908 | Henry Ford introduces his famous Model T • William H. Taft elected | 70 | |
| 6718291022 | 1890-1900 | This era was a time of growing military power and influence.* | 71 | |
| 6718291023 | 1890 | Census Bureau announces that the West has been settled and the frontier is closed | 72 | |
| 6718291024 | 1898 | Spanish-American War: With two obsolete Spanish squadrons sunk in Santiago de Cuba and Manila Bay and a third, more modern fleet recalled home to protect the Spanish coasts, Madrid sued for peace.[11] The result was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, negotiated on terms favorable to the US, which allowed it temporary control of Cuba, and ceded indefinite colonial authority over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine islands[d] from Spain.[13] America became an Empire | 73 | |
| 6718291025 | 1900-1913 | The progressives were mainly middle- class men and women who wanted to wage war on the evils of the world: monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice. The muckrakers played an active role in exposing corruption and scandal.* | 74 | |
| 6718291026 | 1900 | Gold Standard Act : Gold declared official backing of paper money. Will lead to major Panic. | 75 | |
| 6718291027 | 1901 | Platt Amendment:It defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations to essentially be an unequal one of U.S. dominance over Cuba. Cuba amended its constitution to contain the text of the Platt Amendment. *** Will lead to Cuban Revolution | 76 | |
| 6718291028 | 1902 | incoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposes: Ida attacked Rockefeller, leads to public fervor towards raining in big business gives Teddy Roosevelt his platform. | 77 | |
| 6718291029 | 1904 | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: he corollary states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly. "If you have an issue in YOUR territories in the Americas, We'll handle it for you." | 78 | |
| 6718291030 | 1906 | Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle • Meat Inspection Act • Pure Food and Drug Act | 79 | |
| 6718291031 | 1910 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded • Ballinger-Pinchot affair | 80 | |
| 6718291032 | 1911 | • Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire • Standard oil antitrust case • U.S. Steel Corporation antitrust suit | 81 | |
| 6718291033 | 1912-1920 | The European war broke out in 1914. Initially the USA claimed neutrality but found them selves involved in the war in 1917.The war provided job opportunities for women and a large migration of Southern blacks to Northern big cities where wartime manufacturing was creating jobs. The war ended in 1919. Weary of war, America was receding into a period of isolationism.* | 82 | |
| 6718291034 | 1913 | 16th Amendment: Income TAX! Why? 1, government needs revenue. 2, Reign in the robber barons. End of the Gilded age officially. | 83 | |
| 6718291035 | 1913 | Federal Reserve Act | 84 | |
| 6718291036 | 1909 | The Panic of 1909.. leads directly to creation of Federal Reserve Act. | 85 | |
| 6718291037 | 1915 | Luisitania torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat: America goes to war in 1917 | 86 | |
| 6718291038 | 1919 | Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles • Wilson's pro-League ; Pre-UN German reparations are so terrible that they will directly lead to Hitler and WWII | 87 | |
| 6718291039 | 1919 | 18th Amendment: Volstead Act: Prohibition | 88 | |
| 6718291040 | 1919 | Start of "Red Scare": Why is this a big deal? Because America is a capitalist nation and they don't want it going the way of Russia (1919, russian revolution) | 89 | |
| 6718291041 | 1920 | 19th Amendment: Women's Sufferage | 90 | |
| 6718291042 | 1924 | Immigration act | 91 | |
| 6718291043 | 1925 | Scopes Monkey Trial | 92 | |
| 6718291044 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 93 | |
| 6718291045 | 1930 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff: Enormous tariff on goods | 94 | |
| 6718291046 | 1932 | FDR is elected into office Dust Bowl: Caused a huge migration westward due to failed crops. Resulted in people demanding the government step in and help. Leads directly to giving Roosevelt the power to do the New Deal. 20th and 21st Amendments: repeals Prohibition. | 95 | |
| 6718291047 | 1935 | US Neutrality Act: Going to be a problem because the US will want to avoid war in europe. but arguably led to the allowance of Hitler to seize power the way he did and thus may have made WWII a bigger deal than it had to be. | 96 | |
| 6718291048 | 1939 | World War II begins | 97 | |
| 6718291049 | 1933 | Good Neighbor Policy | 98 | |
| 6718291050 | 1938 | Munich conference | 99 | |
| 6718291051 | 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor US joins war against Germany and Japan | 100 | |
| 6718291052 | 1945 | WWII ends Cold War starts Yalta Conference - big three Bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima | 101 | |
| 6718291053 | 1947 | Marshall Plan : The US reconstruction plan for Europe as well as a means of beginning the "cold war" because it's Capitalism vs Communism. CIA created | 102 | |
| 6718291054 | 1949 | NATO created | 103 | |
| 6718291055 | 1955 | Warsaw Pact: Retailiation to Nato by the soviet Union. | 104 | |
| 6718291056 | 1950 | 2nd Red Scare: Era of Joseph McCarthy. Paranoia about communists. Consequences for US citizens include deportation, black-listing, and other arguably anti-american actions. | 105 | |
| 6718291057 | 1954 | Brown vs. Board of Education | 106 | |
| 6718291058 | 1960-1964 | Kennedy elected | 107 | |
| 6718291059 | 1961 | Bay of Pigs | 108 | |
| 6718291060 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 109 | |
| 6718291061 | 1964 | 23rd Amendment Gulf of Tonkin resolution | 110 | |
| 6718291062 | 1965 | Great Society begins Voting rights act | 111 | |
| 6718291063 | 1965-1968 | Vietnam war | 112 | |
| 6718291064 | 1971 | 26th Amendment adopted Equal Rights Amendment approved by Congress | 113 | |
| 6718291065 | 1973 | Roe vs. Wade Watergate | 114 | |
| 6718291066 | 1976 | Jimmy Carter elected Energy crisis begins | 115 | |
| 6718291067 | 1979-1981 | Iranian hostage crisis | 116 | |
| 6718291068 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan elected | 117 | |
| 6718291069 | 1986 | Iran-Contra scandal revealed | 118 | |
| 6718291070 | 1988 | George H. Bush elected | 119 | |
| 6718291071 | 1989 | Fall of Berlin wall: End of Cold war | 120 | |
| 6718291072 | 1992: | Clinton Elected | 121 | |
| 6718291073 | 90's | 1st dot-com boom era. Beginning of foundation of modern internet world. Will end in a dot-com burst near the end of the decade, slight recession. | 122 | |
| 6718291074 | 2000: | George W Bush elected | 123 | |
| 6718291075 | 2001: | Sept 11th: Starts the "war on terror," and leads to unprecedented expansion of US military and anti-terror forces throughout the world. | 124 | |
| 6718291076 | 2008: | The Great Recession / Election of Barack Obama. | 125 |
