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22 Cards in this Set
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1600’s
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1607: Jamestown, Virginia is founded
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1610’s
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1619: Virginia House of Burgesses is formed
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1620’s
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1620: Pilgrims found Plymouth, Massachusetts
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1630’s
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1630: Puritan migration to Massachusetts
1634: Calverts found Maryland 1639: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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1640’s
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1642-48: English Civil War
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1650’s
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1650: First Navigation Act (mercantilism)
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1670’s
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1675-76: King Philip's (Metacom) War (Massachusetts)
1676: Bacon's Rebellion (Virginia) |
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1680’s
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1682: Pennsylvania is settled
1688-89: English Glorious Revolution and English Bill of Rights |
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1690’s
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1691: Massachusetts becomes a royal colony
1692: Salem Witch hunts |
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1700’s
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1707: England, Wales, and Scotland unit into the United Kingdom (Great Britain)
1702-13: Queen Anne's War |
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1730’s
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1733: Georgia is founded
1734-41: First Great Awakening 1735: John Peter Zenger Trial |
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1740’s
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1744-48: King George's War
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1750’s
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1754: Albany Congress
1754-63: French and Indian War |
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1760’s
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1760: King George III accedes to the throne
1763: Prolamation of 1763 1765: Stamp Act and protest |
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1770’s
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1770: Boston Massacre
1773: Tea Act and Boston Tea Party 1774: Intolerable Acts; First Continental Congress 1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord; Washington appointed commander and chief 1776: Paine's Common Sense, Declaration of Independence 1777: Articles of Confederation; Battle of Saratoga 1778: French alliance 1776: Declaration of Independence ; states adopt new constitution 1777: Articles of Confederation drafted and ratified |
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1780’s
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1781: Articles of Confederation ratified; Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
1783: Treaty of Paris 1783: Treaty of Paris; Newburgh Conspiracy 1784: Ordinance of 1784 1785: Land Ordinance of 1785 1786: Shay's Rebellion; Indian Ordinance of 1786; Annapolis Convention 1787: Constitutional Convention; Northwest Ordinance, the Federalist Papers 1788: Constitution is ratified by all states except Rhode Island and North Carolina 1789: New government forms; Washington elected president; Congress meets; French Revolution begins |
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1790’s
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1790: Hamilton issues the Report on Public Credit
1791: First Bank of the United States 1793: Washington begins second term; Proclamation of Neutrality; cotton gin is patented 1794: Whiskey Rebellion; Battle of Fallen Timbers 1795: Jay's Treaty; Pinckney's Treaty 1796: Washington's Farewell Address; John Adams elected president 1798: XYZ Affair; Quasi War with France; Alien and Sedition Acts; Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
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1800’s
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1800: Washington D.C. becomes the nation's capital
1801: Congress narrowly selects Jefferson as president; Adams appoints John Marshall and the "midnight judges" 1802: Congress recalls most "midnight judges" 1803: Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804: Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton; Jefferson is re-elected 1805: British seize American ships 1807: Embargo Act; Burr acquitted for treason 1808: African slave trade ends; James Madison is elected president 1809: Congress boycotts British and French trade |
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1810’s
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1810: Fletcher v. Peck
1811: Battle of Tippencanoe, BUS charter expires; first steamboats on Ohio and Mississippi rivers 1812: War of 1812; Madison re-elected 1813: Battle of Lake Eerie and Thames 1814: British burn Washington D.C.; Battle of Lake Champlain; Hartford Convention; Treaty of Ghent 1815: Battle of New Orleans, Treaty of Ghent 1816: James Monroe is elected president 1818: Andrew Jackson seizes Florida from Spain and the Seminoles 1819: McCulloch v. Maryland 1819-22: Missouri Compromises1815 Treaty of Ghent ends war of 1812 1816: James Monroe is elected president 1818: Andrew Jackson seizes Florida from Spain and Seminoles 1819: Adams-Onis Treaty |
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1820’s
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1823: Monroe Doctrine
1824: John Quincy Adams defeats Andrew Jackson in a controversial election 1828: Tariff of Abominations; Jackson defeats Adams 1823: Monroe Doctrine 1824: John Quincy Adams defeats Jackson in controversial election 1828: Tariff of Abominations; Jackson defeats Adams |
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1830’s
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1831: William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Liberator
1832: Nullification Crisis; Worcester v. Georgia 1836: Texas independence; Martin Van Buren elected president 1837: Panic of 1837 1830: Indian Removal Act becomes law 1831: William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Liberator 1832: nullification crisis; Worcester v. Georgia; bank re-recharter and veto 1836: Martin Van Buren elected president; Alamo overrun by Santa Anna; Battle of San Jacinto makes Texas and independent Republic; Specie Circular 1837: Panic of 1837 1838-1839: Trail of Tears |
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1840’s
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1841: William Henry Harrison elected president
1844: James Polk pledges to annex Texas and Oregon Territory 1845: Texas annexation 1846-1848: Mexican American War; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; annexation of Oregon Territory and Southwest (California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah); Zachary Taylor elected president 1849: Gold discovered in California |