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| Jamestown | ||
| Pilgrims arrive | ||
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | ||
| Glorious Revolution | ||
| French and Indian War | ||
| Salem Witch Trials | ||
| Great Awakening with Jonathan Edwards (1st) | ||
| Treaty of Paris ending French and Indian War | ||
| Second Continental Congress | ||
| Declaration of Independence | ||
| Saratoga (turning point of Revolutionary War) | ||
| Surrender at Yorktown | ||
| Treaty of Paris ending Revolutionary War | ||
| Revolutionary War | ||
| Boston Massacre | ||
| Intolerable Acts | ||
| Common Sense by Thomas Paine | ||
| Articles of Confederation | ||
| Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia | ||
| Election of George Washington | ||
| Washington's Farewell Address | ||
| Bill of Rights | ||
| Election of Jefferson | ||
| Louisiana Purchase | ||
| War of .... | ||
| Treaty of Ghent ending War of 1812 | ||
| Missouri Compromise | ||
| Corrupt Bargain involving Adams, Jackson, and Clay | ||
| Election of Jackson | ||
| Polk and Manifest Destiny | ||
| Oregon Trail Era | ||
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (ended Mexican War) | ||
| Nullification Crisis (Calhoun of SC vs. Jackson) | ||
| National Bank Crisis (Jackson wanting to shut it down) | ||
| Expansion and Manifest Destiny | ||
| Gold Rush in California | ||
| Texas War for Independence | ||
| Mexican War | ||
| Bleeding Kansas | ||
| Dred Scott case | ||
| First draft (Conscription) in U.S. history | ||
| Emancipation Proclamation | ||
| End of Civil War | ||
| Radical Reconstruction phase begins | ||
| Civil Rights Act (the first one) | ||
| Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | ||
| Civil Rights Act (the second one) | ||
| Election of Hayes | ||
| Compromise involving Election of Hayes vs. Tilden | ||
| Civil War | ||
| Plains' Wars (includes battles such as Little Big Horn) | ||
| Dawes-Severalty Act | ||
| John Adams | ||
| Madison | ||
| Monroe | ||
| John Quincy Adams | ||
| Van Buren | ||
| Harrison | ||
| Tyler | ||
| Polk | ||
| Zachary Taylor | ||
| Fillmore | ||
| Pierce | ||
| Buchanan | ||
| Lincoln | ||
| Johnson | ||
| Grant | ||
| freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition | ||
| Right to keep and bear arms | ||
| No forced quartering of soldiers in private homes | ||
| Protection from illegal searches & seizures | ||
| Right to a fair trail, can't be tried twice for the same crime, and you don't have to testify against yourself. | ||
| Right to a speedy and public trial | ||
| Trial by Jury in civil cases | ||
| no excesive bail, fine, or cruel/unusual punishment | ||
| People's rights are not limited to those in the Constitution. | ||
| Powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people | ||
| States cannot be sued in federal court | ||
| separate ballots for President and Vice-President | ||
| abolition of slavery (the amendment) | ||
| Citizenship, due process, equal protection | ||
| No denial of vote because of race, color, previous condition of servitude |
