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WEEK 1
5500 BC Anasazi lived in Southwest
1001 Leif Ericson explores North America
1492 Christopher Columbus discovers America
1497 John Cabot claims North America for England
1501 Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South America
1519 Magellan sailed around the world
1520 Coronodo entered the Southwest
1534 Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explores south-western North America
1542 Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast
1576 Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait
1577 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world
1585 Walter Raleigh explores and settles in North America
1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada
WEEK 2
1607 Jamestown founded by John Smith
1623 Conant started Salem Colony
1624 Fort Orange colony in New York
1626 Dutch purchase Manhattan for 24 dollars
1655 New Amsterdam expands and takes over New Sweden
1682 Quakers (William Penn) came to Pennsylvania and Deleware
1692 Salem Witch Trials
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763)
1764 "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" James Otis
1765 The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament.
1766 Stamp Act repealed
1768 Merchants in Boston and New York boycott British goods
1769 Spanish missions founded up West Coast
1770 "The Boston Massacre" - Four workers shot by British troops in Boston
1773 Boston Tea Party
1774 The Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans)
1775 "The shot heard 'round the world"
1776 The American revolution gains support from King Louis XVI of France
1777 November 15: Articles of Confederation - Congress is made sole authority of the new national government.
1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette)
1779 John Paul Jones "I have not yet begun to fight.
1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British
1781 American victory at Yorktown terms discussed for the British surrender.
1782 English Parliament votes against further war in America.
1783 1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution
1784 January 14: The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress and the American Revolutionary War officially ends
1787 1787 Constitutional Convention
1789 President of the US is George Washington 1789-1797
1791 Bill of Rights ratified
WEEK 3
1793 Fugitive Slave Act passed
1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin
1794 Whiskey Rebellion
1795 Vermont and Kentucky were admitted to the US
1797 President of the US is John Adams 1797-1801
1801 President of the US is Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty
1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Territory
1805 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition
1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
1808 U.S. slave trade with Africa ends
1808 1808 Slave importation prohibited
1809 President of the US is James Madison 1809-1817
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe
1812 War of 1812 begins
1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson ends Creek War
1817 President of the US is James Monroe 1817-1825
1818 War Hawks war on Britain ends
1819 Adams-Onis Treaty, including acquisition of Florida
1820 Missouri Compromise
1822 Missouri admission to the US
1825 President of the US is John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
1829 President of the US is Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
1830 Indian Removal Act
1831 Nat Turner's revolt
1832 Black Hawk War
1835 Texas War for Independence begins
1837 Battle of the Alamo
1838 The Trail of Tears
1841 President of the US is William Henry Harrison 1841, John Tyler 1841-1845
1844 Samuel Morse invents telegraph
1845 President of the US is James Knox Polk 1845-1849
1846 Mexican-American War
1847 Mormon pioneers reach Great Salt Lake
1848 Gold discovered in California
1849 President of the US is Zachary Taylor 1849-1850
1850 President of the US is Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
1851 California admission to the US
1853 President of the US is Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
1856 Sack of Lawrence, Kansas
1857 President of the US is James Buchanan 1857-1861
1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
1860 Pony Express begins
1861 President of the US is Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
1862 Emancipation Proclamation
1863 Gettysburg Address
1864 Sand Creek Massacre
1864 Sherman's March to the Sea and Lincoln is reelected
1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated, Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomatox
1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866
1867 Nebraska admission to the US
1869 President of the US is Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877
1869 Transcontinental Railroad (the golden spike)
1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator
1871 Great Chicago Fire
1872 Yellowstone National Park established
1874 Red River Wars
1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn
1877 President is Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881
1879 Edison invents the light bulb
1881 President of the US is James Abram Garfield 1881, Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and European Restriction Act
1885 Twenty-Second President of the US is Grover Cleveland 1885-1889
1889 President of the US is Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
1892 Homestead Strike
1893 President of the US is Grover Cleveland 1893-1897
1897 President of the US is William Mckinley 1897-1901
1898 Spanish-American War
1901 President Mckinley assassinated; President of the US is Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
1902 President Roosevelt helps settle a coal miner strike
1903 Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
1904 Panama Canal Zone acquired
1905 Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo Japanese War （Treaty of Portsmouth)
1908 Oklahoma admission to the US
1908 1908 Ford Company introduces the Model T cost 850
1909 Twenty - Seventh President of the US is William Howard Taft 1909-1913
1911 Sherman Antitrust Act breaks up monopolies
1912 Arizona, Alaska and New Mexico admission to the US
1913 President of the US is Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
1914 WW 1 started 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
1915 The Birth of a Nation movie directed by D. W. Griffith opens
1917 US enters World War I
1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote); The Treaty of Versailles ends the War
1920 The 18th Amendment Prohibition takes effect
1921 President of the US is Warren G. Harding 1921-1923; Washington Naval Conference
1923 President of the US is Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929; President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal
1924 Indian Reorganization Act
1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial
1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run
1929 President of the US is Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933; stock market collapses; Great Depression
1931 Empire State Building opens; Al Capone is sentenced to prison
1932 Amelia Earhart flies across Atlantic Ocean
1933 Thirty - Second President of the US is Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945
1935 Social Security Act
1936 London Conference on disarmament
1937 Hindenburg disaster; Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre)
1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
1944 D-Day
1945 President of the US is Harry S. Truman 1945-1953; V-E day, V-J day
1946 The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union
1948 Marshall Plan
1949 NATO formed
1950 Senator Joseph Mccarthy gains power and start Communist witch hunts (1950-1954)
1953 President of the US is Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
1954 SEATO alliance
1955 Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks)
1956 US installs Diem as leader of South Vietnam
1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite)
1958 NASA formed
1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I
1959 Cuban Revolution
1960 Greensboro sit-in
1961 President of the US is John F. Kennedy 1961-1963; Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 President Kennedy assassinated
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965 Detroit race riot
1965 1965 Malcolm X assassinated
1968 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
1969 President of the US is Richard Nixon 1969-1974
1970 Kent State shootings
1972 Watergate burglary
1973 Vietnam War ends with US pulling out in 1973
1974 Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate
1976 1976 Bicentennial celebrations
1977 President of the US is Jimmy Carter 1977-1981; President Carter pardons draft evaders
1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David
1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1980 Iraq invades Iran
1981 President of the US is Ronald Reagan 1981-1989; AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented
1982 US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade Grenada
1986 Iran-Contra scandal breaks
1990 Forty - First President of the US is George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993
1991 1991 Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War
1992 Los Angeles riots
1993 President of the US is Clinton 1993-2001
1995 Oklahoma City bombing
1999 President Clinton is acquitted in impeachment trial by U.S. Senate
2000 Bush Election
2004 Iraq War begins
2005 Hurricane Katrina
2008 Obama Election
2011 Osama Bin Laden death
2012 Hurricane Sandy