Colonial Period Columbus (1492) Spanish Armada (1588) Edict of Nantes (1598) Jamestown (1607) Rolfe tobacco (1612)

Rolfe tobacco (1612) House of Burgesses (1619) First Africans (1619) Plymouth (1620) Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630) Pequot War (1637) Connecticut Fundamental Orders (1639) English Civil War (1642-1648) New England Confederation (1643) Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) Half-Way Covenant (1662) King Phillips War (1675-76) Bacons Rebellion (1676) Salem Witch Trials (1692) Population 250,000 (1700) Jonathan Edward/George Whitefield Great Awakening (1734,38) Zenger Trial (1734-35) Road to Revolution First Navigation Laws (1650) Dominion of New England (1686) Glorious Revolution (1688-89) Board of Trade (1692) French and Indian War, Peace of Paris (1754-1763) Pontiacs Uprising (1763) Proclamation of 1763 Paxton Boys (1764) Sugar Act (1764) Regulators Protest (1768-1771) Quartering Act (1765) Stamp Act (1765) Stamp Act Congress (1765) Declaratory Act (1766) Townshend Acts (1767) Boston Massacre (1770) Townshend repealed except tea (1770) Committees of Correspondence (1772) Dutch East India Company tea monopoly (1773) Boston Tea Party (1773) Intolerable Acts (1774) Quebec Act (1774) First Continental Congress (1774) The Association (1774) Revolution Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

Second Continental Congress (1775) Common Sense (1776) Saratoga (1777) Articles of Confederation adopted (1777) Yorktown (1781) Treaty of Paris (1783) Land Ordinance 1785 Shays Rebellion (1786) Northwest Ordinance (1787) Constitution Convention (1787) Constitution ratified (1788) French Revolution started (1789 George Washington 1789-1787

Elected to first term with a unanimous electoral vote (1789) French Revolution (1789) Bill of Rights ratified (1791) First Bank of United States (1791) Excise Tax (1791) Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin (1793) Proclamation of Neutrality (1793) Whiskey Rebellion (1794) Jay's Treaty (1795) Pinckney's Treaty (1796) Farewell Address (1796) John Adams 1787-1801

XYZ Affair (1797) Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798) Navy Department and Marine Corps Created (1798) Second Great Awakening Begins (1800) Midnight Appointments (1801) Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809

Naval War with Tripoli (1801-1805) Revised Naturalization Law (1802) Marbury v Madison (1803) Louisiana Purchase (1803) Lewis and Clark Expedition (18041806) Robert Fultons Steamboat (1807) Abolition of Slave Trade (1807) Chesapeake Affair (1807) Embargo (1807-1809) James Madison 1809-1817

Non-Intercourse Act (1809-1810) Macons Bill No 2 (1810) Fletcher v. Peck (1810) Battle of Tippecanoe (1811) War of 1812 Treaty of Ghent (1814) Battle of New Orleans (1814) Hartford Convention (1814-1815) Second Bank of the United States Chartered (1816) Protectionist Tariff of 1816 James Monroe 1817-1825

Ten-Hour Day For Federal Employees (1840) William Henry Harrison 1841

Died after only 1 month of pneumonia most likely contracted while giving his inaugural speech. John Tyler 1841-1845

Calhouns Bonus Bill vetoed (1817) Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817) Convention of 1818 (1818) Florida purchased from Spain - AdamsOns Treaty(1819) Panic of 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) Missouri Compromise (1820) Cohens v. Virginia (1821) Vesey slave conspiracy (1822) Monroe Doctrine (1823) Russo-American Treaty (1824) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) John Quincy Adams 1825-1829

Set precedent for Presidential succession (1841) Entire Cabinet except for Daniel Webster resigned in protest (1841) Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) Aroostook War (1842) Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) Dorothea Dix Petitions For Insane (1843) Annexation of Texas (1845) James K. Polk 1845-1849

Oregon Treaty (1846) Wilmot Proviso Passes House (1846) Mormon Migration to Utah (1846-1847) Mexican War (1846-1848) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) Seneca Falls Convention (1848) Zachary Taylor 1849-1850

Erie Canal Opens (1825) Tariff of Abominations (1828) Andrew Jackson 1829-1837

California Gold Rush (1849) Millard Fillmore 1850-1853

South Carolina Exposition (1828) Indian Removal Act of 1830 Nat Turner Slave Rebellion (1831) Veto of Recharter of Second Bank of the United States (1832) South Carolina Nullification Crisis (1832-1833) Compromise Tariff of 1833 Texas Independence (1836) Gag resolution (1836) Martin Van Buren 1837-1841

Compromise of 1850 (1850) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Commodore Perry's Mission to Japan (1852-54) Uncle Toms Cabin (1852) Franklin Pierce 1853-1857

Gadsden Purchase (1853) Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) Ostend Manifesto (1854) James Buchanan 1857-1861

Panic of 1837 Caroline Affair (1837) Trail of Tears (1838-1839) Independent Treasury (1840)

Bleeding Kansas (1856-60)

Panic of 1857 Tariff of 1857 Brown raids Harpers Ferry (1859) Southern States begin secession (1860) Confederate States of America created (1861) Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

James Garfield 1881 Was shot on July 1, 1881 by Charles Guiteau and later died in office from this wound. Chester Arthur 1881-1885 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Civil Rights Cases (1883) Pendleton Act (1883) Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 Haymarket Square Bombing (1886) Wabash Case (1886) Interstate Commerce Act (1887) Dawes Severalty Act (1887) Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 Billion-Dollar Congress (1890) McKinley Tariff (1890) Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890) Mahans Influence of the Sea on History (1890) Homestead Steal Strike (1892) Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 Panic of 1893 Fredrick Jackson Turner (1893) Refuses to Annex Hawaii (1893) Pullman's Strike (1894) Coxeys Army (1894) J.P. Morgan Syndicate Loans (1895) Cubans Revolt Against Spain (1895) Venezuela Boundary Crisis (1895-96) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Dingley Tariff Act (1897) William McKinley 1897-1901 Maine Explosion (1898) Spanish-American War (1898) Annexation of Hawaii (1898) Teller Amendment (1898) Philippines Acquired (1899) Open Door Policy/Boxer Rebellion (1899-1900) Foraker Act (1900) Gold Standard Act (1900)

Fort Sumter (April 1861) First Battle of Bull Run (1861) Civil War (1861-1865) Homestead Act (1862) Antietam (1862) Alabama Raids (1862-1864) Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Shermans March (1864) Wade-Davis Bill Veto (1864) Appomattox Surrender (1865) Lincoln Assassinated (1865) Freedmans Bureau (1865) Andrew Johnson 1865-1869

Reconstruction Thirteenth Amendment Ratified (1865) Civil Rights Bill Passed Over Veto (1866) Alaska Purchased (1867) Reconstruction Act (1867) Impeachment Proceedings (1868) Fourteenth Amendment Ratified (1868) Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877

Reconstruction Transcontinental Railroad Completed (1869) Black Friday Scandal involving James Fisk and Jay Gould (1869) Boss Tweed Scandal (1871) Fifteenth Amendment Ratified (1870) Credit Mobilier Scandal (1872) Panic of 1873 Whiskey Ring Scandal (1875) Resumption Act (1875) Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) Nez Perce Indian War (1877) Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881

Compromise of 1877 (End of Reconstruction)

Insular Cases (1901) Platt Amendment (1901) Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

Red scare (1919-1920) Nineteenth Amendment ratified giving women the right to vote (1920) Warren G. Harding 1921-1923

Anthracite Coal Strike (1902) Elkins Act (1903) Panama Canal Rights Acquired (1904) Northern Securities case (1904) Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904-1905) Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Lochner v. New York (1905) Hepburn Act (1906) Meat Inspection Act / Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Roosevelt Panic (1907) Muller v. Oregon (1908) Gentlemans Agreement (1907-08) William Howard Taft 1909-1913

Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Five-Power Naval Treaty (1922) ERA proposed (1923) Adkins v. Childrens Hospital (1923) Teapot Dome Scandal (1923) Dawes Plan (1924) Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929

Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909) Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy (1909) Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) Stand Oil and U.S. Steel anti-trust cases (1911) Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921

Immigration Act of 1924, Indians granted citizenship Scopes Trial (1925) Revenue Acts of 1924 and 1926 Charles Lindbergh make his historic transatlantic flight (1927) Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

Stock Market Crash (1929) Start of the Great Depression (1929) Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930) Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932) Bonus Army March (1932) Franklin D Roosevelt 1933-1945

Sixteenth Amendment (1913) Seventeenth Amendment (1913) Federal Reserve Act (1913) Underwood-Simmons Tariff (1913) Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) Federal Trade Commission (1914) World War I (1914-1918) La Follettes Seamens Act (1915) Lusitania Sunk (1915) Sussex ultimatum and pledge (1916) Workingmens Compensation Act, Federal Farm Loan Act, Warehouse Act, Adamson Act (1916) Germany Resumes Unrestricted Warfare (1917) Zimmerman Notes (1917) United States entered World War I by declaring war on Germany (1917) Espionage Act of 1917 Sedition Act of 1918 Wilsons Fourteen Points (1918) Treaty of Versailles (1919) Eighteenth Amendment ratified prohibiting alcoholic beverages (1919)

Twentieth Amendment (1933) Twenty-First Amendment - Repeal of Prohibition (1933) Bank Holiday/ Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933) New Deal policies including the creation of the CCC, AAA, PWA, NRA, and TVA (1933) Glass-Steagall Act (1933) Good Neighbor Policy (1933) Indian Reorganization Act (1934) Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 Social Security Act, Wagner Act, WPA, NIRA (1935) CIO established (1935) Court Packing Plan (1937) Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) Munich Conference (1938) Neutrality Acts (1935, 36, 37, 39)

World War II (1939-1945) Peacetime Draft (1940) Bases-for-Destroyers (1940) Lend-Lease (1941) Atlantic Charter (1941) Pearl Harbor attacked; US enters World War II (1941) Fair Employment Practices Commission (1941) Battle of Midway (1941) Casablanca Conference (1943) Zoot-suit riots, Race riots (1943) Teheran Conference (1943) Korematsu v. US (1944) GI Bill (1944) Yalta Conference (1945) Harry S Truman 1945-1953

Eisenhower ordered Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce integration, Civil Rights Act, SCLC (1957) Eisenhower Doctrine (1957) Sputnik (1957) Castros Revolt (1959) Sit-in movement (1960) U-2 Incident (1960) John F. Kennedy 1961-1963

Germany Surrenders (1945) Potsdam Conference (1945) Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) End of World War II (1945) United Nations Created (1945) Nuremburg Trials (1945-1946) Kennans Containment Doctrine (1946) Truman Doctrine (1947) Taft-Hartley Act (1947) Israel Created (1948) Alger Hiss Case (1948) Marshall Plan (1948-1952) Berlin Crisis (1948-1949) Communist China (1949) NATO Treaty (1949) McCarthy Red Hunt (1950-54) Rosenbergs convicted of treason (1951) MacArthus fired (1951) Korean Conflict (1950-1953) Twenty-Second Amendment Ratified (1951) Hydrogen Bomb Detonated (1952) Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961

Peace Corps created (1961) Bay of Pigs (1961) Berlin Wall built (1961) Alan Shepard, Jr. became the first American in space (1961) Twenty-Third Amendment was ratified giving the residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections (1961) Trade Expansion Act (1962) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Rachel Carsons Silent Spring (1962) March on Washington (1963) Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969

Vietnam Conflict Continues (1963 1969) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) Civil Rights Act (1964) Twenty-Fourth Amendment ratified outlawing the poll tax (1964) Medicare and Medicaid (1965) Voting Rights Act (1965) Vietnam Escalation (1965-68) Six-Day War (1967) Twenty-Fifth Amendment ratified concerning the order of succession for the presidency (1967) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy assassinated (1968) Richard Nixon 1969-1974

End of the Korean War (1953) Shah of Iran installed (1953) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) Geneva Accords (1955) Warsaw Pact (1955) Hungarian Revolt Crushed (1956) Suez Crisis (1956) Interstate Highway System Created (1956)

Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon (1969) Stonewall riot (1969) Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act (1970) Kent and Jackson State incidents (1970) Twenty-Sixth Amendment (1971) Pentagon Papers (1971) Break-in at Watergate occurs (1972)

ABM SALT Agreement (1972) Nixon visits China (1972) Title IX (1972) End of the Vietnam War (1973) Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns (1973) War Powers Act (1973) OPEC Oil Crisis (1973) Roe v. Wade (1973) Nixon resign (1974) Gerald Ford 1974-1977

Oklahoma City federal building Terrorist bombing (1995) Welfare Reform Bill (1996) Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal (1998) Kosovo/War in former Yugoslavia (1999) WTO Protest (1999) Million Moms March (200) George W. Bush 2001-2008

Ford grants Nixon an unconditional pardon (1974) Communist victory in Vietnam (197576) Helsinki Agreement (1975) Jimmy Carter 1977-1981

Contested Election (2000) Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City (September 11, 2001) War in Afghanistan (2001) Patriot Act (2001) Enron Scandal (2001) WorldCom Bankrupt (2002) No Child Left Behind (2002) War in Iraq (2003)

Vietnam War era draft evaders pardoned (1977) Camp David Accords (1978) SALT II (1979) Three Mile Island incident (1979) Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-81) Ronald Reagan 1981-1989

Reagonomics (1981) SDI/ Star Wars (1983) Granada invasion (1983) Iran-Contra Scandal (1986) Glasnost with the Soviet Union (19851991) Stark incident in Gulf War (1987) Stock Market Plunge (1987) INF Teary (1987) George H.W. Bush 1989-1993

Berlin Wall Taken Down (1989) Savings and Loan bail out (1989) Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska (1989) Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) Break up of the Soviet Union (1991) Persian Gulf War (1990-91) Twenty-seventh amendment (1992) Bill Clinton 1993-2001

NAFTA (1993)