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Date Posted: 10:17:02 04/21/02 Sun
Author: lynette
Subject: lots of history [thank u amanda]


1607-1649
Jamestown founded - 1607
House of Burgesses
1st slaves to Jamestown
Harvard founded – 1636
Mayflower Compact – 1607
Parliament dispersed
Charles II beheaded
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay & Plymouth Bay combined
Rhode Island founded
Puritans flee to Holland
Puritans flee to America
1st Thanksgiving
Anne Hutchinson banished
Roger Williams banished
Rolfe becomes Father of Tobacco
John Smith helps Virginia
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
1st Baptist Church
New Sweden founded
Maryland founded
Chesapeake Bay Colony
Plantations formed in South
Delaware founded
Act of Toleration
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Connecticut founded
Pequot War

1650-1699
William & Mary College founded
Leisler’s Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion
Charles II restored to throne
William & Mary set up as monarchs
Andros head of Dominion
James I kicked off throne
More black slaves than indentured servants
Half-Way Covenant
Navigation Acts enforced
Tariffs into colonies
Tariffs between colonies
All trade on British ships
Enumerated goods only w/ Britain
Trade go through Britain
New York founded
New Hampshire joins Massachusetts Bay
New Hampshire splits from Massachusetts Bay
Post bond on trade
Salem Witch Trials (1692)
Dominion of New England collapsed
New Jersey founded
North Carolina
South Carolina
King Philip’s War
Pennsylvania founded
Glorious Revolution
French & Indian War begins

1700-1763
Lord Cornbury governor of NJ
Stamp Act
James I King of England
Great Awakening (1730s & 1740s)
Rutgers University established
Dartmouth founded
France loses Canada
Spain regains Florida
French & Indian War ends
Britain gains Canada
Admiralty Courts
Proclamation Line of 1763
Queen Anne’s War
Treaty of Utrecht
Yale founded
Triangular Trade
War of Jenkins’ Ear
Old Lights
New Lights
War of Austrian Succession
Mason-Dixon Line
Princeton founded
Molasses Act
N & S Carolina founded
Try to invade Canada

1764-1788
Declaration of Independence
Revolutionary War begins (and ends)
Treaty of Paris
Articles of Confederation
1st Continental Congress
2nd Continental Congress
US gains freedom
Constitution signed
Battle of Bunker Hill
France aids colonies in Revolutionary War
Stamp Act repealed
Sugar Act
Boston Tea Party
Currency Act
Declaratory Act
Committee of Correspondence
Administration of Justice Acts
Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts
Massachusetts Gov’t Act
Boston Port Act
Quebec Act
Townshed Acts
Parliament repeals Townshed Act except tea tax
Battle of Lexington
Battle of Concord
Boston Massacre
Stamp Act Congress
Brown College founded
East Indian Tea Company Act
Battle of Saratoga (major turning point for colonies)
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Shay’s Rebellion
Suffolk Resolves
Olive Branch Treaty

George Washington (1789-1797)
Bill of Rights written (James Madison very impt)
Deal with debt
Hilton v. US
Set up Cabinet
Judiciary Act of 1789
Hamilton – Sec. Of Treasury
Hamilton leaves Treasury
1st National Bank chartered
Pinckney’s Treaty (w/ Spain)
Reign of Terror in France
Jay’s Treat (w/ England)
Louis XVI beheaded
Farewell Adress
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Neutrality Proclamation
Treaty of Greenville
Political parties emerge
French Revolution
Vermont becomes state
Excise tax on whiskey – 7cents/gallon
Whiskey Rebellion
Gov’t established tariffs
Slater - 1st efficient American machine – spinning cotton thread
Whitney’s cotton gin
Lancaster Turnpike

John Adams (1797-1801)
VP – Thomas Jefferson
Judiciary Act of 1801 – midnight judges
Alien & Sedition Acts
R.I. & N.H. Resolutions
VA & KY Resolutions
French Revolution
Undeclared war w/ France
XYZ affair
Land Act of 1800
Convention of 1800
Barely beat TJ in electoral college
Whitney – interchangeable parts
2nd Great Awakening

Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
VP – Aaron Burr
Hamilton & Burr duel
Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed
Napoleon became dictator in France
British impressments of American soldiers
Tripoli War
Non-Intercourse Act
Napoleon attacks Russia
French seizure of ships
Embargo Act
Write of Mandamus – unconstitutional
Try to lower taxes – build small ships
Napoleonic Wars
Marbury v. Madison
Orders of Council – Britain
Burlin/Milan Decree
Tie for president – HofR decides
Small army & navy
Lewis & Clark expedition
Louisiana Purchase
France & Spain allies
Land Act of 1800 amended
Federalist Party dying out
Chesapeake attacked
Land Act of 1804

James Madison (1809-1817)
Fletcher v. Peck
Attack Canada
End 1st National Bank
Battle of the Thames
Battle of Tippecanoe
Battle over Lake Champlain
National Bank rechartered
Washington D.C. burned
Lousiana, Illinois, Ohio became states
Francis Scott Key – Star Spangled Banner
Smuggling w/ British & French
War of 1812
Macon’s Bill #2
Treaty of Ghent
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Battle of Lake Erie
Battle of Platsburgh
Battle of Horshoe Bend
Battle of New Orleans
Hartford Convention
Erie Canal
American System
Tariff of 1816
Bonus Bill vetoed
War Hawks
Annex West Florida

James Monroe (1817-1825)
Land Act of 1820
Missouri Comproise
McCulloch v. Maryland
Panic of 1819
Cohens v. Virginia
Tariff of 1824
Tallmadge Amendment defeated
Gibbons v. Ogden
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Maine became state
Monroe Doctrine
Revolutions in South America
America gains Florida
America cedes Texas to Spain
Oregon Country shared w/ Britain
Slave rebellion in Charleston
Jackson invades Florida
Treaties of 1818 & 1819
Adams-Clay corrupt Bargain (1824)
Crawford has stroke
University of Virginia
Ben Franklin’s autobiography

John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
VP – Calhoun
Tariff of 1828
South Carolina Expedition
Republican party split
1st railroad
Noah Webster – dictionary
American Peace Society formed
Boston-American Temperance Society
Rise of sectionalism
Robert Owen
American System
Transcendentalism grows
Finish Erie Canal

Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
VP – Calhoun until 1832, Van Buren until 1837
Biddle the head of the BUS
Veto bill to recharter bank
Spoils system grows
Peggy Eaton scandal
Webster-Hayne debate
Anti-Masonic party formed
Trail of Tears
1st national convention for nominating president
Tariffs of 1832 & 1833
Force Act
Black Hawk War
Specie Circular
Texas won independence
National debt liquidated
Texas appeals for annexation
Whig party formed
Battle at Alamo
Mexico frees slaves
America recognizes Texas as independent
Maysville Road
Indian Removal Act
Campaigns for Van Buren for president
Bureau of Indian Affairs established
Mormon religion established
William Lloyd Garrison
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
B.C. Nullification Act

Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
Democratic party formed
Panic of 1837
Divorce Bill
Independent Treasury Bill
John Deere – steel plows
Oberlin College opened doors to women
Mount Holyoke Seminary established
Emerson’s “The American Scholar”
Caroline affair
Liberty Party
Personal Liberty Laws
Oregon Trail
Independent treasury

William H. Harrison (1841-1845)
VP – Tyler
Died 1841
Tyler becomes president
Philadelphia anti-immigration – 2 churches burned
Commonwealth v. Hunt
1st Whig president
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Dorothea Dix
Frederick Douglass
Texas annexed
Pre-emption Act
Treaty of Wanghia

James K. Polk (1845-1849)
Elias Howe – sewing machine
Perfected by Isaac Singer
Laws of “free corporation” passed in NY
Discovery of gold in CA
Henry David Thoreau
Oregon dispute
Mexican War
Wilmot Proviso
Walker Tariff
Utah
Seneca Falls Convention
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Independent Treasury Act

Zachary Taylor (1849-1853)
VP Fillmore
Died 1850
Fillmore became president
“Know Nothing” Party formed (Order of the Star Spangled Banner)
Maine Law of 1851 – prohibited manufacture & sale of liquor
Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
California drafted constitution, applied for statehood w/o slavery
Compromise of 1850
Whigs split – North v. South
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Tubman
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
Sumner attacked by Brooks
T.S. Arthur – Ten Nights in a Barroom & What I Saw There
Treaty w/ Japan – Treaty of Kanagawa
Secretary of War – Jefferson Davis
Black Warrior seized by Spain
Gadsden Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party formed
John Brown hacked 5 people to death
Ostend Manifesto
William Walker (Nicaragua)
Bleeding Kansas

James Buchanan (1857-1861)
Depression of 1857
Dred Scott decision
Lecomptom Constitution
Pullman sleeping palace introduced
Cyrus Field – stretched cable underwater from Newfoundland to Ireland
Pony Express established
Pony Express folded
Hinton Helper – The Impending Crisis of the South
South Carolina secedes
Tariff of 1857
Lincoln-Douglass debate
Harper’s Ferry
Comstock Lode
Crittendon Proposal

Abraham Lincoln (1861-1869)
Died 1865
President Johnson
Civil War
Battle of Bull Run
2nd Battle of Bull Run
Jefferson Davis – President of the Confeeracy
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction
Battle of Gettysburg
Seven’s Day’s Battles
Sherman march through Georgia
Monitor v. Morrimack (?)
Morrill Tariff
Attack of Fort Sumter
Trent Affair
National Banking Act
Homestead Act
Pacific Railroad Act
Battle of Antietam
10% plan
Lincoln died
Wade Davis Bill
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Freedmen’s Bureau
Black Codes
Johnson Reconstruction Act
Civil Rights Bill
Ku Klux Klan
Military Reconstruction Act
Radical Reconstruction
Tenure of Office Act
Purchase of Alaska
Johhnson impeachment

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Fisk & Gould
Knights of Labor
Transcontinental Railroad
Texas v. White
Standard Oil Company
Force Acts
Boss Tweed
Credit Mobilier
Joseph Glidden
Slaughterhouse Cases
Panic of 1873
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Whiskey Ring
Custer’s last stand
Greenback Labor Party
Compromise of 1877
Farmer’s Alliances
Hayes-Tilden standoff
End of military Reconstruction

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
Railroad strikes
Mass disorders in major cities
Bill passes restricting Chinese immigration

James Garfield (1881-1885)
Died in office in 1881
Arthur takes over
Chinese Immigration Restriction Act
Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service Commission

Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
1st Democratic president since Buchanan
Defeated Blaine
Fought for lower tariff
Beaten by Harrison in 1888 election
Dawes Act
Interstate Commerce Act

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[> No thank you -- Indivra, 18:16:01 11/04/03 Tue

I hate it it's so stupid you.....what---eva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Like i hate you you know that.

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