1700 |
"Greenland Whale Fishery" (1700s) |
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1705 |
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1710 |
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1711-15 Tuscarora Indian War
1712 Carolina divided into two colonies |
1715 |
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1717 It takes one month for a letter to travel from Boston to Williamsburg, two months in the winter
1717 Remaining Tuscarora Indians placed on Reservation
1718 New Orleans founded |
1720 |
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1725 |
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1729-1757 Jonathan Edwards' ministry |
1730 |
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Great Awakening begins
1732 Georgia settled |
1735 |
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Zenger Trial establishes freedom of press |
1740 |
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George Whitfield's preaching tours
English settlers and traders move into Ohio River Valley |
1745 |
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1750 |
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1752 Britain and the British colonies switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar
1752 Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment
1753 Benjamin Franklin named deputy postmaster general of colonies
1754 Fort Duquesne built
1754 French & Indian War begins |
1755 |
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1759 British take Quebec |
1760 |
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1763 Pontiac's War
1763 Treaty of Paris
1764 Sugar Act |
1765 |
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The Stamp Act
Quartering Act
1766 Pontiac's War Treaty
1766 Congress repeals Stamp Act
1767 John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
1767 Townshend Acts |
1770 |
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Boston Massacre
1773 Tea Act
1773 Boston Tea Party
1774 The Intolerable Acts
1774 Quebec Act
1774 First Continental Congress |
1775 |
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Revolutionary War Begins
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Paul Revere's ride
2nd Continental Congress
Battle of Bunker Hill
1776 Declaration of Independence
1776 Battle of Trenton
1776 Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
1777 Battles of Princeton and Saratoga
1777 Alliance with France
1777 Battle of Brandywine
1777 Articles of Confederation written |
1779 |
"Amazing Grace" |
General Benedict Arnold begins bargaining with the British
John Paul Jones' victory |
1780 |
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1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
1781 Battle of Cowpens
1781 Articles of Confederation ratified
1783 Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire have outlawed slavery
1783 Treaty of Paris |
1785 |
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1786 Shay's Rebellion
1787 Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia
1787 Northwest Ordinance
1787 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution; New Jersey and Pennsylvania soon follow
1788 Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, & Virginia become states (1788)
New government begins: April 30, 1789 Washington inaugurated in NYC
1789 Judiciary Act (1789)
1789 The first Congress passes a series of amendments (1789)
1789 North Carolina statehood |
1790 |
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Rhode Island statehood
1791 Bill of Rights ratification complete
1791 Vermont statehood
1791 Bank of United States
1792 Lancaster Turnpike built
1792 Kentucky statehood
1793 cotton gin invented
1793 Neutrality Proclamation
1794 Whiskey Rebellion |
1795 |
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Treaty of Greenville
Jay's Treaty ratified
1796 Tennessee statehood
1797 U.S.S. Constitution
1797 XYZ Affair
1797 John Adams becomes President of the United States
1798 Alien & Sedition Acts
1798 Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
1797 John Adams becomes President of the United States |
1800 |
"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
"Shenandoah" |
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1803 Marbury v. Madison
1804 Louis & Clark set out
1804 12th amendment ratified |
1805 |
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War with Tripoli ends
1806 Congress approves funding for National Road
1807 Robert Fulton's first steamboat
1807 Embargo Act
1807 Clermont launched
1809 James Madison becomes President of the United States
1809 Nonintercourse Act |
1810 |
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1811 Battle of Tippecanoe
1812 War declared on Britain
1812 Louisiana statehood
1813 Battle for Lake Erie |
1814 |
"Star Spangled Banner" |
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
British burn Washington DC
Battle of New Orleans
Tariff of 1816
1816 Era of Good Feelings begins
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1815 |
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1816 Indiana statehood
1817 James Monroe becomes President of the United States
1817 Mississippi statehood
Building of the Erie Canal
1818 National Road complete
1818 Illinois statehood
Panic of 1819
1819 Adams-Onis treaty
1819 Alabama statehood
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1820 |
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Maine statehood
Missouri Compromise
Slavery ends in the North
1821 Mexican independence
1821 Missouri statehood
1821First public high school |
1822 |
"The Hunters of Kentucky" |
Liberia established
1823 Monroe Doctrine
1824 Henry Clay's American System |
1825 |
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1828 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad chartered
1829 First steam engine locomotive used in America
1829 Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States |
1830 |
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1830 Indian Removal Act
1831 William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator
1831 Nat Turner's revolt |
1832 |
"America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" |
Jackson vetoes Bank Bill Nullification Act
Seminole War begins |
1835 |
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Trail of Tears (1835-36)
1836 Republic of Texas
1836 Battle of the Alamo
1836 Battle of San Jacinto
1836 First women's college
1836 Arkansas statehood
1837 Martin van Buren becomes President of the United States
1837 Michigan statehood
Panic of 1837
Panic of 1839 |
1840 |
"Trail of Tears" (1840s) |
Samuel Morse receives telegraph patent |
1841 |
"I'm Afloat on the Erie Canal" |
John Tyler becomes President of the United States |
1843 |
"The Song of the Shirt" |
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1844 |
"Get Off the Track"
"Blue Juniata" |
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1845 |
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Texas & Florida statehood
James Polk becomes President of the United States
1845-50 Irish potato famine
1846 Iowa Statehood
1846 Oregon becomes a U.S. territory |
c. 1848 |
"Simple Gifts" |
Wisconsin statehood
Mexican Cession
Seneca Falls Convention
1849 California Gold Rush |
1850 |
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Compromise of 1850
California statehood
Fugitive Slave Law
1851 Moby Dick published
1851 Fort Laramie Treaty
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin published
1852 Elisha Otis invents the passenger elevator
1853 Gadsden Purchase
1853 Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States
1854 Walden published
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act |
1855 |
"Hard Times Come Again No More" |
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1856 |
"Darling Nelly Gray" |
1857 Dred Scott Decision
1857 James Buchanan becomes President of the United States |
1858 |
"Sweet Betsy from Pike" |
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Minnesota statehood
1859 Oregon statehood
1859 Drake's Oil Well, PA
1859 John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid |
1860 |
"The Glendy Burk" |
Slaves make up 1/3 of the population in the South
South Carolina secedes |
1861 |
"Go Down Moses" |
Kansas statehood
Confederacy founded
Fall of Ft. Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Congress passes first income tax law
Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States |