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History
Start of Events in U.S. History
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1607 | Jamestown founded |
| 1610 | cSante Fe founded; theme Spanish have Florida and West, French have St. Lawrence and Quebec and eventual interior Mississippi down to New Orleans, Enlgish and Dutch have rest of East Coast |
| 1619 | Virginia House of Burgesses Established; theme growth of Home rule (the beeging of demorecy) |
| 1636 | Roger Williams banished … starts Providence (RI) |
| 1638 | Anne Hutchinson banished to Providence |
| 1640 | Barbados finds its cash crop; Sugar (Virginia will have its Tobacco); triangle trade expands rapidly, slavery takes deep root in Carribean |
| 1642 | English Civil War starts |
| 1651 | First Navigation Act (restricts colonial trade on "innumerated goods"); theme tightening English control on Colonies |
| 1664 | New York founded (taken from Dutch) |
| 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia (Jamestown destroyed), King Phillip's War (10% die) New England; theme fight over scarce land |
| 1760 | George III becomes King |
| 1764 | Sugar Act, Currency Act; England taxing Colonies without representation |
| 1765 | Stamp Act and Sons of Liberty |
| 1767 | Townshend Act imposes duties even if you buy from England, new vice admiralty courts |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | Coercive (Intolerable) Acts closed the Boston port, 1st Continental Congress |
| 1775 | Lexington and Concord (shot heard round the world) |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence (second continental congress directs states to draft consstitutions) |
| 1778 | French aliance with United States |
| 1781 | Article of Confederation ratified |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris (England acknowledges US is independent) |
| 1786 | Annapolis conventions discuss government reform and Shays's Rebellion (Springfield tax rebellion) |
| 1787 | Nothwest Ordinance (organizes north of Ohio river, east of Miss., bill of rights, no slavery), Constitutional Convention |
| 1789 | French Revolution, Judiary Act of 1789 |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights ratified |
| 1800 | Revolution of 1800 (Jefferson's antifederalists come in power) |
| 1801 | John Marshall becomes chief justice (just before Adams leaves office) |
| 1803 | Louisianna purchase |
| 1812 | War of 1812 starts (Mr. Madison's war), |
| 1814 | Hartford Convention considers secession and nullification |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise (engineered by Henry Clay) Missouri and Maine, futher states noth of 36:30 closed to slavery |
| 1828 | JQ Adams signs Tarriff of Abominations |
| 1831 | Trail of Tears |
| 1832 | South Carolina nullifies tarriff of Abominations |
| 1845 | Texas admitted to union |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 (no slave trade in DC, California free, fugitive slave act, ambiguous popular soverighty) |
| 1852 | Uncle Tom's Cabin published |
| 1854 | Kansas Nebraska Act |
| 1856 | Bleeding Kansas |
| 1857 | Dred Scott (congress can't prohibit slavery in territories) |
| 1859 | John Brown raids Harpers Ferry |
| 1860 | Fort Sumter is attacked by south… states secede, Confederacy formed Jefferson Davis president, Robert E. Lee is general |
| 1861 | Battle of bull run (first major battle) |
| 1862 | Homstead Act… land if you live and clear… theme: Frederick Jackson Turner's view that open west gave consciousness of opportunity |
| 1863 | Emancipation proclamation takes effect, food and draft riots, July 4th victories at gettysburg and vicksburg |
| 1864 | Sherman captures Atlanta |
| 1865 | Lincoln assasinated, Sherman's March to Sea, Lee surenders, death toll 620,000 |
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