AP US History Timeline
[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
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Micah Mack - Chronology Alicia Michael ? Dream Team Pictures Natalie Orrell ? Dream Team Pictures
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Hannah Virnig - Chronology
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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
(Continued War)
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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
1809
? 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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