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Columbus arrival; Start of European Colonization

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1492

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Cortes Conquers Aztecs, Spanish empire expands

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1519-1521

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Defeat of Spanish Armada, English rise in the Atllantic

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1588

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Founding of Jamestown(First permanent English settlement)

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1607

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First Africans arrive in Virginia

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1619

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Mayflower compact(early self-government, Pilgrims)

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1620

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Puritans found Massachusetts Bay

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1630

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Bacon’s Rebellion(tensions between poor settlers and elites)

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1676

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Salem Witch Trials

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1692

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First Great Awakening(religious revival, new denominations)

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1730s–40s

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Start of French and Indian War

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1754

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Treaty of Paris(end of the war); Proclamation line

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1763

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Stamp Act=No Taxation without Representation

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1765

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Boston massacre

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1770

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Boston Tea Party

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1773

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First Continental Congress

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1774

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Battles of Lexington & Concord=Revolutionary war begins

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1775

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Declaration of Independence

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1776

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Battle of Yorktown=British surrender

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1781

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Constitutional Convention

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1787

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George Washington inaugurated

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1789

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Bill of Rights ratified

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1791

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Whiskey Rebellion(Protested a federal excise tax on whiskey

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1794

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Alien and Sedition act(Power to deport immigrants, made it illegal to criticize the federal government

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1798

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Election of Thomas Jefferson
1800
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Louisiana Purchase
1803
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Embargo act(Banned all American exports to foreign nations)
1807
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War of 1812(U.S. v Great Britain
1812-1815
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Missouri Compromise
1820
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Monroe Doctrine
1823
31
Andrew Jackson(Era of Common Man)
1828
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Indian Removal Act
1830
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
1831
34
Nullification crisis
1832
35
Texas annexed
1845
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Mexican-American War
1846-1848
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Seneca Falls convention = Start of women's rights movement
1848
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Compromise of 1850
1850
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
40
Dred Scott Decision
1857
41
Election of Abraham Lincoln
1860
42
Civil War
1861-1865
43
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
44
13th Amendment ends slavery
1865
45
Reconstruction Era
1863-1877
46
14th Amendment(Citizenship & Equal protection)
1868
47
15th Amendment
1870
48
Compromise of 1877(Dem. agreed to accept Hayes as President, Republicans withdrew troops)
1877
49
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869
50
Battle of Bighorn(U.S. v Native American)
1876
51
Chinese Exclusion Act(Banned Chinese laborers from migrating for 10 years)
1882
52
Dawes Act(Assimilation of Native Americans)
1887
53
Sherman Antitrust Act(Regulation of monopolies)
1890
54
Wounded Knee Massacre(U.S. v Lakota Sioux)
1890
55
Plessy v Ferguson(Seperate but equal)
1896
56
Spanish-American War=Begins U.S. imperialism
1898
57
Roosevelt becomes president
1901
58
The Jungle; Meat Inspection
1906
59
U.S. Involvement in WWI
1917-1918
60
Treaty of Versailles & 18th Amendment(Prohibition)
1919
61
19th Amendment(Women's suffrage)
1920
62
Stock Market Crashes = Great Depression
1929
63
FDR's New Deal
1933
64
Pearl Harbor = U.S. enters WWII
1941
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D-Day
1944
66
U.S. dropped atomic bomb on Japan = WWII ends
1945
67
United Nations founded
1945
68
Truman Doctrine = Containment policy
1947
69
Korean War
1950-1953
70
Board v Board of education = End of Segregation
1954
71
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
72
Civil Rights act of 1964
1964
73
U.S involvement in the vietnam war
1965-1973
74
Voting Right Act
1965
75
Tet Offensive(North Viet. suprise attack)
1968
76
MLK & RFK assassination
1968
77
Watergate Scandal begins
1972
78
Roe v Wade legalized
1973
79
Nixon Resigns
1974
80
Iran Hostage Crisis begins
1979
81
Ronald Reagon elected = Conservation resurges
1980
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Cold War ends(Fall of the soviet union)
1991

AP US History Timeline (1 decks)

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