Class Timeline

Important Dates

1607 – Jamestown Settlement

1776 – Declaration of Independence

1787 – U.S. Constitution

1803 – Louisiana Purchase

1861-1865 – Civil War

Timeline

Era of European Exploration

1215 – Magna Carta

1265 – English Parliament

1492 – Columbus sails to New World

Era of Colonial Settlement

1607 – Jamestown Settlement

1619 – Virginia House of Burgesses

1619 – First Africans arrive in America

1620 – Mayflower Compact

1639 – Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

1689 – English Bill of Rights

1720 – First Great Awakening

1754 – Albany Plan of Union

1754 – French and Indian War

1763 – Treaty of Paris

1763 – Proclamation of 1763

American Revolutionary Era

1764 – Causes for American Revolution

1774 – First Continental Congress

1775 – Lexington and Concord

1775 – Second Continental Congress

1776 – Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

1776 – Declaration of Independence

1777 – Articles of Confederation

1777 – Saratoga

1778 – Valley Forge

1781 – Yorktown

1783 – Treaty of Paris

New Republic Era

1787 – Northwest Ordinance

1787 – Philadelphia Convention

1787 – Three-fifths Compromise

1787 – U.S. Constitution

1789 – First U.S. President (George Washington)

1789 – Origin of Political Parties

1791 – Bill of Rights

1796 – Washington’s Farewell Address

1798 – Alien and Sedition Act

1798 – XYZ Affair

1800 – Industrial Revolution and Free Enterprise

1803 – Marbury v. Madison

1803 – Second Great Awakening

Era of Westward Expansion

1803 – Louisiana Purchase

1809 – James Madison

1812 – War of 1812

1815 – Battle of New Orleans

1816 – Second Bank of U.S.

1817 – Reform Movement: Disabilities

1818 – Manifest Destiny

1819 – McCulloch v. Maryland

1820 – Missouri Compromise

1823 – Monroe Doctrine

1824 – Gibbons v. Ogden

1826 – Reform Movement: Temperance

1828 – Election of Andrew Jackson

1828 – Rise of Modern Democrats

1830 – Indian Removal Act

1832 – Nullification Crisis

1832 – Jackson challenges Second Bank of U.S.

1832 – Worcester v. Georgia

1837 – Reform Movement: Education

1838 – Trail of Tears

1840 – Oregon Country

1841 – Reform Movement: Prisons

1845 – Texas is annexed as the 28^th state

1846 – Mexican-American War

1848 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848 – California Gold Rush

1848 – Mormons in Utah

1848 – Seneca Falls Convention

Civil War/Reconstruction Era

1850 – Compromise of 1850

1850 – Fugitive Slave Act

1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857 – Dred Scott v. Sandford

1861 – Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, SC

1863 – Emancipation Proclamation

1863 – Battle of Gettysburg

1863 – Battle of Vicksburg

1863 – Gettysburg Address

1865 – 13^th Amendment

1865 – Lee surrenders at Appomattox

1865 – President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

1867 – 14^th Amendment

1870 – 15^th Amendment