HISTORY TIMELINE

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3. If you lose the timeline you must make it up
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4. This is your study guide for your final exam
5. You must keep up with the timeline, it will be
   graded every other week (just like warm-up
   were) from the beginning.
11000   Paleo Indians
        Arrive
                        The first people, Paleo
                        Indians arrive in
BC                      America. They cross
                        the land bridge
                        Berengia from Siberia
                        to Alaska.

1000    Leif Erickson
        Discovers
                        Viking sea captain that
                        finds America. He
AD      America         names it Vinland or
                        Newfoundland.


Oct.    Christopher
        Columbus
                        Financed by King
                        Ferdinand and Queen
12,     discovers       Isabella. Columbus sails
        America         to find India but he
1492                    lands at San Salvador
1513   Ponce De Leon   Juan Ponce De Leon
       and Vasco Nunez discovers Florida &
       de Balboa       Vasco Nunez de Balboa
                       discovers the Pacific
                       Ocean

1565   St. Augustine    The Spanish attack
                       the French in Florida
                       and settle St.
                       Augustine


1607   Jamestown
       settlement
                       Jamestown, the first
                       permanent settlement in
                       America established by
                       London Company in
                       Virginia and Captain
                       John Smith.
1619   House of
       Burgesses
                    The first representative
                    assembly in America meets for
                    the first time in Virginia. First
                    African Americans slaves in U.S.



1620   Plymouth
       Colony
                    The Plymouth colony is
                    established in Massachusetts the
                    Mayflower brought over colonist




1660   Slave Code
       and
                    were various laws called Slave
                    code that put restrictions on
       Triangular   slavery. Triangular Trade
       Trade        connected America to Africa for
                    slaves to be brought to America.
1676    Bacon’s Rebellion Takes place in Virginia




1692    Salem Witch
        Trials
                          Held in Salem
                          Massachusetts over 200
                          people were accused of
                          witchcraft. 20 people
                          mostly women were
                          executed.

1754-   French and
        Indian War
                          Final Conflict between
                          England and France in
1763                      America. England win.
                          The treaty of Paris
                          ends the war
1763   Proclamation of
       1763 & Mason
                         Issued to protect
                         Indians and west of the
       Dixon Line        Appalachians from the
                         British settlements


1770   Boston Massacre Crowd of people protest
                       against the acts
                       imposed by England.
                       British troops fire on
                       Boston killing crowds of
                       people.

1773   Boston Tea
       Party
                         The sons of Liberty
                         dress as Indians and
                         dump tea into the
                         harbor in retaliation of
                         the taxes imposed
1774   First Continental
       Congress meets
                           Four laws aimed at
                           punishing Massachusetts
       in Philadelphia-    are passed by British
       intolerable acts    parliament


1775   Battle of
       Lexington and
                           The start of the
                           American Revolution; 13
       Concord             colonies fought Great
                           Britain for
                           independence

1776   Declaration of
       Independence
                           The continental
                           Congress adopted the
                           Declaration of
                           Independence in
                           Philadelphia on the
                           fourth of July.
1776     Thomas Paine    He writes the
                         influential pamphlet
                         Common Sense against
                         England’s monarchy and
                         control over the U.S.

Winter   Valley Forge    Washington and his
                         army endure brutal
1777                     winter at Valley Forge,
                         Pennsylvania


1781     Articles of
         Confederation
                         Created and adopted by
                         Congress
1783   Peace treaty
       ends
                       Signed by John Adams,
                       John Jay and Benjamin
       Revolutionary   Franklin
       War


1789   Constitution    Written and adopted




1789   Washington
       becomes
                       He is unanimously
                       elected president by
       president       state electors.
                       Washington is
                       inaugurated as
                       president in federal
                       Hall N.Y.C.
1791   Bill of Rights   The first ten
                        amendments to the
                        constitution known as
                        Bill of Rights and
                        ratified.

1793   Washington re-
       elected
                        Washington's second
                        inauguration is held in
                        Philadelphia, Eli
                        Whitney invents the
                        cotton gin

1796   Treaty of Tripoli 1796 peace treaty
                         between the U.S. and
                         Tripoli, before this
                         treaty the
                         Mediterranean Sea was
                         controlled by North
                         African Muslim Ships
1797   XYZ Affair      The U.S. finds itself in
                       naval war with force




1798   Alien and
       Sedition Acts




1803   Marbury vs.
       Madison
                       Landmark supreme court
                       case that greatly
                       expanded the power of
                       the court by allowing it
                       to declare acts of
                       congress
                       unconstitutional
Dec    Louisiana
       Purchase
                         U.S pays 15 million for
                         territory which expands
1803   (830,000 miles)   from Mississippi river to
                         Rocky Mountains


May    Lewis and Clark   Set out from St. Louis
                         on an expedition to
1804                     explore west and find a
                         route to the pacific
                         ocean

June   War of 1812       U.S. declares war on
                         Britain over British
1812                     interference with
                         American shipping and
                         westward expansion
1813   British seize   They burn down the
       Washington D.C. Whitehouse and the
                       Capital.



1814   Treaty of Ghent   Signed to end the war
                         of 1812




1814   Star Spangled
       Banner
                         Francis Scott Key
                         writes the song as he
                         watches the British
                         attack Fort Henry.
1820   Missouri
       Compromise
                         Effort to keep balance
                         of slave and free
                         states slavery is
                         prohibited north of
                         latitude

1823   Monroe Doctrine   President Monroe
                         declares that the
                         American Continent is
                         off limits for further
                         colonization by European
                         Powers

1830   Indian Removal
       Act
                         Signed, ordering 5 Indian
                         tribes of the South East to
                         relocate west of the
                         Mississippi by late 1830’s.
                         Andrew Jackson relocated
                         over 50,000 natives.
1831-   Underground
        Railroad
                         Approximately 75,000
                         slaves escape from the
1861                     South



1836    Alamo            Texan defenders of the
                         Alamo are all killed
                         during a siege by
                         Mexicans. Texans
                         defeat Mexicans at San
                         Juanita

1838    Trial of Tears   Native Americans were
                         forced to move west
                         again
                         .
1848   California Gold
       Rush
                         Gold is discovered at
                         Sutter’s Mill in
                         California. The gold
                         rush reaches its height
                         in the following year.

1854   Kansas-
       Nebraska Act
                         This legislation repeals,
                         or cancels the Missouri
                         Compromise and creates
                         tension between anti
                         and pro slavery states.

1857   Dred Scott        Supreme Court case
                         which rules that a slave
                         is not a citizen
1861-   Civil War       Conflict between the
                        North (Union) and
1865                    South(Confederate)
                        over the expansion of
                        slavery.

1862    Homestead Act   Allows settlers to claim
                        land, after they have
                        lived on it for five
                        years.


1863    Emancipation
        Proclamation
                        Issued by Abe Lincoln,
                        freeing slaves of the
                        confederate states.
1865    13th Amendment   Abolishes slavery
                         throughout the nation.




April   Lincoln is
        assassinated
                         John Wilkes Booth
                         assassinated President
14,                      Lincoln at Ford Theatre
                         and Andrew Jackson
1865                     becomes president

1866    Ku Klux Klan     Meeting of what
                         became the largest
                         terrorist organization
1866   The Civil Rights   Passed by Congress on
                          April 9th over the veto
                          of Andrew Jackson



1867   Alfred Nobel       Patents dynamite
                          Nobel peace prize




1869   15th Amendment     Extends the rights to
                          African Americans to
                          vote
1876   Sioux and
       Cheyenne
                        Lt. George Custers
                        regiment is wiped out
       Indians defeat   by Sioux Indians under
       Custer           sitting Bull at Little Big
                        Horn

1876   Telephone
       Invented
                         Hello motto!




1879   Women’s rights   Women lawyers were
                        permitted to argue
                        cases before the
                        Supreme Court
1892   Henry Ford        Builds the first
                         automobile




1898   Treaty of Paris   U.S. declares war on
                         Spain April 25th. The
                         treaty of Paris was
                         signed ending the
                         Spanish American War

1901   William McKinley President William
                        McKinley is shot in
                        Buffalo, N.Y. by
                        anarchist
1903   Wright Brothers   The Wright Brothers
                         make the first
                         controlled, sustained
                         plane in flight,
                         happened in Kitty
                         Hawk, N.C.

1904   Panama Canal
       Zone
                         U.S. acquires Panama
                         Canal Zone




1906   San Francisco
       Earthquake
                         Leaves 500 dead or
                         missing destroying 4
                         square miles of the city
1909   NAACP     National Association for
                 the Advancement of
                 Colored People founded



1909   Model T   Henry Ford introduces
                 the Model T
                 automobile. Starts at
                 $850 by 1924 drops to
                 $240 in price

1912   Titanic   Titanic sinks, more than
                 500 lives are lost.
1914   World War I       Start of WWI due to
                         the assassination of
                         Archduke Franz
                         Ferdinand


1915   Great Migration   Blacks move from rural
                         south to urban north




1917   3- day race
       riots
                         An estimated 100
                         blacks die in 3 day race
                         riot in east St. Louis,
                         Illinois
1917   Woodrow Wilson’s
       War Message
                          In a special session of
                          Congress Wilson delivered
                          a war message announcing
                          that Germany severed
                          diplomatic relations.
                          Congress voted to fight.

1919   Red Summer         25 race riots break out
                          in U.S. cities killing and
                          wounding hundreds of
                          people


1920   Red Scare          Attorney General A
                          Mitchell Palmer orders
                          a series of aids to
                          individual suspected of
                          harboring socialist,
                          communist, anarchist.
1925   Scopes Trial     Lawyer Clerence Darrow,
                        defends John Scopes a
                        Tennessee teacher
                        accused of teaching
                        evolution rather than
                        creationism.


1929   Stock Market
       Crash
                        New York Stock Market
                        crashes on black Tuesday
                        and the crash starts the
                        Great Depression


1929   St. Valentines
       Day Massacre
                        Gangster Al Capone, has
                        7 members of a rival
                        gang murdered. He went
                        to jail in 1931 for not
                        murder but tax envision
1933   New Deal         Franklin D. Roosevelt
                        becomes 32nd president
                        and creates the “new
                        deal” recovery measure


1939   U.S. stays
       neutral with
                        Conflict occurring
                        overseas in Europe. The
       WWII             U.S. keeps policy of
                        neutrality


1941   Dec. 7th Pearl
       Harbor Attack
                        Japan surprise attacks
                        Pearl Harbor. The
                        Japanese take out an
                        entire naval base in the
                        attack
1942   United Nations
       formed




1942   Batoon Death
       March
                         75,000 Philipo and U.S.
                         soldiers were held
                         captive and forced to
                         relocate to camps. Wide
                         range abuse and high
                         fatalities occurred.

1942   Battle of Midway Naval Battle U.S.
                        destroyed 4 Japanese
                        aircraft carriers and a
                        heavy cruiser while
                        lasting a carrier and
                        destroyer