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without Representation is Tyranny" James Otis 1765 The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. 1766 Stamp Act repealed 1768 Merchants in Boston and New York boycott British goods 1769 Spanish missions founded up West Coast  1770 "The Boston Massacre" - Four workers shot by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