WEEK 1

WEEK 2 1607 Jamestown founded by John Smith

WEEK 3

5500 BC Anasazi lived in Southwest

1534 Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River

1577 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world 1585 Walter Raleigh explores and settles in North America

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without Representation is Tyranny" James Otis 1765 The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. 1766 Stamp Act repealed 1768 Merchants in Boston and New York boycott British goods 1769 Spanish missions founded up West Coast  1770 "The Boston Massacre" - Four workers shot by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)

1776 The American revolution gains support from King Louis XVI of France

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.

1789 President of the US is George Washington 1789-1797

1797 President of the US is John Adams 1797-1801 1801 President of the US is Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809

1809 President of the US is James Madison 1809-1817

1817 President of the US is James Monroe 1817-1825 1818 War Hawks war on Britain ends 

1820 Missouri Compromise 

1825 President of the US is John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 1829 President of the US is Andrew Jackson 1829-1837

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 

1849 President of the US is Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 1850 President of the US is Millard Fillmore 1850-1853

1853 President of the US is Franklin Pierce 1853-1857

1857 President of the US is James Buchanan 1857-1861 1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry 

1861 President of the US is Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 1862 Emancipation Proclamation  1863 Gettysburg Address 

1864 Sherman's March to the Sea and Lincoln is reelected  1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated, Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomatox 

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 

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

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

1901 President Mckinley assassinated; President of the US is Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

1913 President of the US is Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921

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 

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 

1937 Hindenburg disaster; Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre) 

1944 D-Day 1945 President of the US is Harry S. Truman 1945-1953; V-E day, V-J day

1953 President of the US is Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961

1961 President of the US is John F. Kennedy 1961-1963; Bay of Pigs invasion fails

1969 President of the US is Richard Nixon 1969-1974

1977 President of the US is Jimmy Carter 1977-1981; President Carter pardons draft evaders 

1981 President of the US is Ronald Reagan 1981-1989; AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented 

1993 President of the US is Clinton 1993-2001

2000 Bush Election 2004 Iraq War begins

2008 Obama Election 2011 Osama Bin Laden death 2012 Hurricane Sandy

TOPIC SUGGESTIONS!

5500 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 the the 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 - December 13 1577 to September 26 1580 1585 March 25: Walter Raleigh receives the patent to explore and settle in North America 1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada 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  1688 The Glorious Revolution in England leads to a constitutional monarchy and passing of the Bill of Rights 1692 1692 Salem Witch Trials  1763 February 10: Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763). Canada east of the Mississippi River added to the British empire. 1764 James Otis urges a united response to the recent acts imposed by England. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to James Otis 1765 March 22: The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. March 24: The Quartering Act required American colonists to house British troops and supply them with food. 1766 1766 March 18. Stamp Act repealed 1768 July: Merchants in Boston and New York boycott British goods 1769 1769 Spanish missions founded up West Coast  1770 March: "The Boston Massacre" - Four workers shot by British troops in Boston 1773 December 16: The Boston Tea Party - Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians protest against the British Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor. 1774 March: The Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans) 1775 February 9: English Parliament declares Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion 1775 "The shot heard 'round the world"  1776 May 2: 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 September 27: John Adams is appointed to negotiate peace with England. 1779 John Paul Jones "I have not yet begun to fight.  1780 September 23: Plans discovered indicating Benedict Arnold intends to turn traitor and surrender West Point. Benedict Arnold joins the British 1781 October 17: American victory at Yorktown terms discussed for the British surrender. 1782 February 27: 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 First President of the US is George Washington 1789-1797 1791 Bill of Rights ratified 1793 Fugitive Slave Act passed 1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin  1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1795 Vermont and Kentucky were admitted to the US 1797 Second President of the US is John Adams 1797-1801 1801 Third 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 Fourth 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 Fifth President of the US is James Monroe 1817-1825 1818 1818 Five more states were admitted to the US - Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, and Mississippi 1818 1818 War Hawks war on Britain ends  1819 Adams-Onis Treaty, including acquisition of Florida 1820 Alabama and Maine admission to the US 1820 1820 Missouri Compromise  1822 Missouri admission to the US 1825 Sixth President of the US is John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 1829 Seventh 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 1838-1839: The Trail of Tears 1841 Ninth President of the US is William Henry Harrison 1841 1841 Tenth President of the US is John Tyler 1841-1845 1844 Samuel Morse telegraph   1845 Eleventh President of the US is James Knox Polk 1845-1849 1846 Mexican-American War begins and ends in 1848 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga ends Mexican-American War 1847 1847 Mormon pioneers reach Great Salt Lake  1848 Gold discovered in California 1849 Twelfth President of the US is Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 1850 Thirteenth President of the US is Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 1851 California admission to the US 1853 Fourteenth President of the US is Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 1856 Sack of Lawrence, Kansas 1857 Fifteenth President of the US is James Buchanan 1857-1861 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford  1858 Minnesota admission to the US 1859 Oregon admission to the US 1859 1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry  1860 Pony Express begins 1861 Sixteenth President of the US is Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 1861 Fort Sumter and First Bull Run  1862 Antietam and Fredricksburg and the Emancipation Proclamation  1863 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Gettysburg Address  1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1864 1864 Sherman's March to the Sea and Lincoln is reelected  1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated 1865 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomatox  1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 1867 Nebraska admission to the US 1869 Eighteenth President of the US is Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877 1869 1869 Transcontinental Railroad　(the golden spike)  1870 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 1875 1875 Black Hills' gold rush in Dakota Territory  1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn 1877 Nineteenth Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881 1879 1879 Edison invents the light bulb  1881 Twentieth President of the US is James Abram Garfield 1881 1881 Twenty - First President of the US is 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 Twenty - Third President of the US is Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 1889 The Oklahoma land rush  1890 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Idaho admission to the US 1891 Wyoming admission to the US 1892 1892 Homestead Strike  1893 Twenty - Fourth President of the US is Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 1896 Utah admission to the US 1897 Twenty - Fifth President of the US is William Mckinley 1897-1901 1898 Spanish-American War 1901 Twenty - Sixth President of the US is Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 1901 JP Morgans US Steel Corp is first billion dollar industry  1901 President Mckinley is assassinated  1902 President Roosevelt helps settle a coal miner strike  1903 Ford Motor Company formed 1903 First World Series 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 Twenty - Eighth 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)  1919 1919 The Treaty of Versailles ends the War  1920 First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1920 1920 The 18th Amendment Prohibition takes effect  1921 Twenty- Ninth President of the US is Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923 1923 Thirtieth President of the US is Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal  1924 Indian Reorganization Act 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial 1927 Indian Reorganization Act 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run  1929 Thirty- First President of the US is Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933 1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression  1931 Empire State Building opens 1931 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 1937 1937 Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre)  1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor 1944 D-Day 1945 Thirty - Third President of the US is Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 1946 The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union 1946 1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care" 1948 Nuremberg trials 1948 Marshall Plan 1949 NATO formed 1950 Senator Joseph Mccarthy gains power and start Communist witch hunts (1950-1954) 1953 Thirty - Fourth President of the US is Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking  1954 SEATO alliance 1955 Warsaw Pact 1955 Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks)  1956 US installs Diem as leader of South Vietnam 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite) 1958 NASA formed 1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I  1959 Cuban Revolution 1960 Greensboro sit-in 1961 Thirty - Fifth President of the US is John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963 1961 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 Thirty - Seventh President of the US is Richard Milhous 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 Thirty - Ninth President of the US is Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 1977 President Carter pardons draft evaders  1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David  1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident 1979 US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran  1980 Iraq invades Iran 1981 Fortieth President of the US is Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989 1981 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 Forty - Second President of the US is William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001 1995 Oklahoma City bombing 1999 President Clinton is acquitted in impeachment trial by U.S. Senate 2001 Forty - Third President of the US is George Walker Bush 2004 Occupation of Iraq, 2003-2004 2005 Hurricane Katrina