1711-15 Tuscarora Indian War

1712 Carolina divided into two colonies

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

Great Awakening begins

1732 Georgia settled

George Whitfield's preaching tours

English settlers and traders move into Ohio River Valley

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

1763 Pontiac's War

1763 Treaty of Paris

1764 Sugar Act

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

Boston Massacre

1773 Tea Act

1773 Boston Tea Party

1774 The Intolerable Acts

1774 Quebec Act

1774 First Continental Congress

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

General Benedict Arnold begins bargaining with the British

John Paul Jones' victory

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

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

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

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

"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"

"Shenandoah"

1803 Louisiana Purchase

1803 Marbury v. Madison

1804 Louis & Clark set out

1804 12th amendment ratified

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

1811 Battle of Tippecanoe

1812 War declared on Britain

1812 Louisiana statehood

1813 Battle for Lake Erie

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

British burn Washington DC

Battle of New Orleans

Tariff of 1816

1816 Era of Good Feelings begins

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

Maine statehood

Missouri Compromise

Slavery ends in the North

1821 Mexican independence

1821 Missouri statehood

1821First public high school

Liberia established

1823 Monroe Doctrine

1824 Henry Clay's American System

1828 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad chartered

1829 First steam engine locomotive used in America

1829 Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States

1830 Indian Removal Act

1831 William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator

1831 Nat Turner's revolt

Jackson vetoes Bank Bill Nullification Act

Seminole War begins

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

Samuel Morse receives telegraph patent

"Get Off the Track"

"Blue Juniata"

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

Wisconsin statehood

Mexican Cession

Seneca Falls Convention

1849 California Gold Rush

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

1857 Dred Scott Decision

1857 James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Minnesota statehood

1859 Oregon statehood

1859 Drake's Oil Well, PA

1859 John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid

Slaves make up 1/3 of the population in the South

South Carolina secedes

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