AP US History Timeline - Twinsburg

[Pages:33]AP US History Timeline

Created by 2004/2005 Fifth period AP US History Class

Sophie Barron ? Editor Matt Bird ? Editor

Andrew Carter - Chronology Morgan Dunley - Chronology

Addison Floyd ? Editor Michael Ibarra - ? Carol Koch - Links

Micah Mack - Chronology Alicia Michael ? Dream Team Pictures Natalie Orrell ? Dream Team Pictures

Meredith Robinson - Motivator Rick "Little Richard" Snell - Links

Hannah Virnig - Chronology

Creative Consulting and annoyance ? Kory Kalahar

Thanks for all your hard work and patience!

Contact and Settlement

(1000-1700) With Columbus' "discovery" of America in 1492 came the beginning of an era filled with exploration and settlement. Many groups came to the Americas seeking God, gold and glory but ended up finding only harsh environments and even death*

1000 ? Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America

1215 ? The Magna Carta document is adopted in England

1492 ? October 12 ? Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World

1497 ? John Cabot of England explores the Atlantic coast of Canada

1513 ? Ponce de Leon of Spain lands in Florida

1517 ? Martin Luther launches the Protestant Reformation in Europe

1519 ? Hernando Cortes conquers the Aztec empire

1519-1522 ? Ferdinand Magellan and his crew are the first people to sail around the world

1524 ? Giovanni da Varrazano explores the Carolina area, Hudson River, Narragansett Bay, and Nova Scotia

1541 ? Hernando de Soto of Spain discovers the Mississippi River

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St. Augustine, the first permanent colony in Florida by the Spanish

Roanoke Island settled by Sir Walter Raleigh

Roanoke colony vanishes, leaving only "Croaton" carved on a tree

The London Company sponsors a colonizing expedition to Virginia

Jamestown is founded in Virginia by the colonists of the London Company

January ? Jamestown founded

Henry Hudson explores North America from Hudson River to Albany Tobacco planted in Virginia

Tobacco becomes an export staple for Virginia A smallpox epidemic among New England Native Americans

Virginia House of Burgesses convenes in Jamestown Slavery begins in Colonial America

November 9 -- Mayflower lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts November 11 -- Mayflower Compact is signed

March -- John Winthrop and Puritans move to Massachusetts Bay September ? Boston is established

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Maryland established

June -- Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island Harvard College founded

Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts

Rhode Island enacts the first law in the colonies declaring slavery illegal

The Half-way covenant enacted

Carolina established Navigation Act of 1663

The Dutch New Netherland colony becomes English New York Maryland passes a law making lifelong servitude for black slaves mandatory

Dutch military forces retake New York from the British British Navigation Act

The Treaty of Westminster

King Philip's War Bacon's rebellion

Pennsylvania founded by William Penn, a Quaker

French explorer La Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley region

King James II takes over Britain Edict of Nantes revoked

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April -- New England Governor Andros jailed by rebellious colonists in Boston July -- the English government orders Andros to be returned to England to stand trial

King William's War begins

May ? Salem witch trials

April ? Navigation Act

September ? Treaty of Ryswick ends King William's War

Colonial Time

(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.*

Revolutionary re-enactment ? LOC

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July - French establish a settlement at Detroit October -- Yale College is founded in Connecticut

Queen Anne's War in the colonies In Maryland, the Anglican Church is established as the official church

Virginia Black Code New York assigns the death penalty for runaway slaves caught over 40 miles north of Albany Massachusetts declares marriage between African Americans and whites to be illegal

Post Office Act

Tuscarora Indian War

1712 ? May -- Carolina colony is divided into North Carolina and South Carolina ? June -- Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves into that colony

1713 ? Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht

1718 ? New Orleans is founded by the French

1730 ? Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony

1732 ? June -- Georgia, the 13th English colony, is founded

1733 ? Molasses Act

1734 ? November -- John Peter Zenger is arrested ? December -- Great Awakening religious revival movement

1750 ? Iron Act

1751 ? Currency Act

1754-1763 ? French and Indian War

1763 ? Treaty of Paris ? Proclamation Line of 1763

1764 ? Sugar Act ? Currency Act ? May ? James Otis raises the issue of taxation without representation ? August ? Boston merchants begin a boycott of British luxury goods

1765 ? March ? Stamp Act

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March ? Quartering Act May ? Patrick Henry presents seven Virginia Resolutions to the House of Burgesses July ? Sons of Liberty is formed August 26 ? mob in Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson October ? Stamp Act Congress December ? American boycott of English imports spreads

March ? King George III repeals the Stamp Act Declaratory Act

June ? Townshend Revenue Acts October ? Bostonians reinstate a boycott of English luxury items

February ? Samuel Adams of Massachusetts writes a Circular Letter

October ? Boycott of English goods spreads to New Jersey, Rhode Island, and North Carolina

March 5 ? Boston Massacre April ? Townshend Acts are repealed by the British

November ? Committee of Correspondence formed

May 10 ? Tea Act December 16 ? Boston Tea Party

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

? September ? Massachusetts Governor Gage seizes that colony's arsenal of weapons at Charlestown

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? October 14 ? Declaration and Resolves is adopted

? October 20 - Congress adopts the Continental Association

The Revolution and Early

Government

(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.*

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Paul Revere's Ride Revolutionary War begins

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" Declaration of Independence Adopted

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Articles of Confederation created

Treaty of Paris between Britain and Colonies

Land Ordinance Act

Land Ordinance Act

Shays' Rebellion

Northwest Ordinance Continental Convention

Ratification of Constitution

1789-1792 -- George Washington elected Judiciary Act

Bill of Rights ratified

Pinckney Treaty with Spain

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Whiskey Rebellion

1796-1800 -- John Adams elected

French XYZ affair Alien and Sedition Acts

1800-1804 -- Thomas Jefferson elected

Jeffersonian Democracy

1800-1824 * In this time period a raging debate between the federalists and antifederalists over how the constitution should be interpreted dominated national politics as America began to establish its place in the world.*

1800 ? Convention of 1800: Peace with France ? Second Great Awakening begins ? 1800-1804 ? Thomas Jefferson elected

1801 ? Judiciary Act

1801-1805 ? Naval War with Tripoli

1802 ? Revised naturalization law ? Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed

1803 ? Marbury v. Madison ? Louisiana Purchase

1804 ? Impeachment of Justice Chase ? 1804-1808 ? Thomas Jefferson re-elected

1804-1806 ? Lewis and Clark expedition

1805 ? Peace Treaty with Tripoli

1805-1807 ? Pike's explorations

1806 ? Burr treason trial

1807 ? Chesapeake affair ? Embargo Act ? Robert Fulton's first steamboat

1808 ? 1808-1812 ? James Madison elected

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? Non-Intercourse Act replaces Embargo Act

1810 ? Macon's Bill No. 2 ? Napoleon announces (falsely) repeal of blockade decrees ? Madison reestablishes nonimportation against Britain ? Fletcher v. Peck

1811 ? Battle of Tippecanoe ? Cumberland Road construction begins

1812 ? 1812-1814 ? War of 1812 ? 1812-1816 ? James Madison reelected

1812-1813 ? American invasions of Canada fail

1813 ? Battle of the Thames ? Battle of Lake Erie

1814 ? Battle of Plattsburgh ? British burn Washington ? Battle of Horseshoe Bend ? Treaty of Ghent signed ? Era of Good Feelings begins

1814-1815 ? Hartford Convention

1815 ? Battle of New Orleans

1816 ? Second Bank of he United States founded ? Protectionist Tariff ? 1816-1820 ? James Monroe elected

1817 ? Madison vetoes Calhoun's Bonus Bill ? Rush-Bagot agreement limits naval armament on Great Lakes

1818 ? Treaty of 1818 with Britain

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Jackson invades Florida

Panic off 1819 Spain cedes Florida to United States McCulloch v. Maryland Dartmouth College v. Woodward Jefferson founds University of Virginia

Missouri Compromise Missouri and Maine admitted to Union Land Act 1820-1824 ? James Monroe reelected

Cohens v. Virginia

Vesey slave conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina

Secretary Adams proposes Monroe Doctrine Mexico opens Texas to American settlers

Russo-American Treaty Lack of electoral majority for presidency throws election into the House of Representatives 1824-1828 ? John Quincy Adams elected

Erie Canal completed House elects John Quincy Adams president

Madison - LOC

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