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An Overview of American History
1607-1763
1611-1624: Virginia colony established
1732-1750: Georgia colonized
1606-1610: Jamestown established
1764-1776
1764: Sugar Act
1765: Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Virginian Resolution, Stamp Act Congress
1763: Treaty of Paris signed, Proclamation of 1763
1766: Declaratory Act
1767: Townshend Acts
1768: British Troops arrive in Boston
1770: Boston Massacre, Repeal Townshend Acts
1773: Tea Act, Boston Tea Party
1774: Intolerable Acts, 1st Continental Congress
1775: Battles of Concord and Lexington, George Washinton as commander, Battle of Bunker Hill, Olive Branch Petition
1776: Winter Invasion of Canada by Benedict Arnold
1777-1846
1777: Battle of Princeton (NY), Battle of Saratoga
1778: France recognizes US Independence
1780: Defeat at Battle of Camden
1781: Ratification of Articles of Confederation, Battle of the Capes, British surrender at Battle of Yorktown
1782: British Government agrees to peace negotiations
1783: Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War
1786-1787: Shay's Rebellion
1787: Constitutional Convention
1789: George Washinton 1st President
1791: Bill of Rights guarantees citizen Freedoms
1803: Louisiana Purchase
1808: Atlantic Slave Trade abolished
1796: John Adams elected
1800: Thomas Jefferson elected President
1812-1815: English War
1847-1865
1846-1848: USA aquires Mexican Territories (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico)
1860: Abraham Lincoln Elected President
1860-1861: 11 Southern States secede to Confederate States of America (Grey, Rebels, Confederates)
1863: Emancipation Proclamation Issued
1861: Jefferson Davis elected as Confederate President
1861: Battle of the Sumter, First Battle of the Bull Run,
1862: Homestead Acts, Robert E Lee in charge of Confederate troops,
1862: Second Battle of the Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, Dakota War begins
1863: Battle of Gettysburg, Siege of Vicksburg ends, West Virginia joins the Union
1864: Ulysses S Grant in charge of Union Forces, Sand Creek Massacre, Nevada Joins the Union, Lincoln reelected
1864: Sherman's March to the Sea,
1865: President Lincoln assasinated, Andrew Johnson President, end of the Confederacy, Freedman's Bureau
1865: 13th Amendment Passed
1866-1895
1866: Civil Rights Act, Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Founded, Tennessee rejoins the Union
1867: Alaska Purchased, Midway Islands in Pacific Annexed, Nebraska joins the Union, Reconstruction begins
1868: Impeachment of the President failed by 1 Senate vote, 14th Amendment ratified, Ulysses S Grant elected President
1868: Arkansas, Lousiana, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama readmitted into the Union
1869: Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads joined at Promontory, Utah
1870: Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia readmitted into the Union
1871: Great Chicago Fire, Treaty of Washington with British Empire regarding Canada
1872: Ulysses S Grant reelected President
1875: Resumption Act passed, Civil Rights Act passed
1876: Colorado becomes a state, Battle of Little Bighorn, Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia
1877: Rutherford B Hayes elected President, Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Reconstruction ends
1878: Morgan Silver Dollars first minted
1879: Thomas Edision patents the Light Bulb, Knights of Labor go public
1881: James A Garfield elected and assasinated, Chester Alan Arthur becomes President
1882: Chinese Exclusion Act passed
1883: Segregation legalized
1885: Grover Cleveland Elected President
1886: Haymarket Square Riot, Statue of Liberty dedicated
1888: Benjamin Harrison elected President
1889: Oklahoma Land Rush, Centennial of the Constitution
1889: North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington State, and Montana joins the Union
1890: Sherman Antitrust Act approved, Idaho and Wyoming becomes states, Wounded Knee Massacre
1892: Homestead Steel Works Strikes, Grover Cleveland elected President
1894: Pullman Strike
1896-1917
1896: Gold discovered in Yukon's Klondike, Utah joins the Union, Henry Ford builds his assembly line
1896: William McKingley elected President
1898: USS Maine explodes in Havanna Harbor, Cuba, Treaty of Paris ends Spanish-American War
1898: Hawaii annexed
1899: Newsboys' Strike of 1899, American Samoa oppupied, Open Door Notes suggested by Secretary of State John Hay
1901: William McKingley assasinated, United States Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan, Theodore Roosevelt President
1902: Newlands Reclamation Act
1903: Department of Commerce and Labor established
1904: Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Panama Canal Zone aquired, President Roosevelt reelected
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his Theory of Relativity
1906: Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act passed, San Francisco earthquake
1907: Oklahoma joins the Union
1908: William Howard Taft elected President
1912: RMS Titanic Sinks, New Mexico and Arizona become states, Woodrow Wilson elected President
1913: Income Tax legalized through the 16th Amendment
1914: Clayton Antitrust Act signed, WWI begins
1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by Germans
1917: Zimmermann Telegram, US Enters WWI, Espionage and Sedition Acts passed, First Red Scare
1918-1945
1918: Spanish Flu Outbreak, WWI ends
1919: Treaty of Versailles signed, 18th Amendment
1920: 19th Amendment grants wonder the right to vote
1929: Stock Market crash, Immigration Act, Great Depression begins
1922: Lincoln Memorial Dedicated
1923: Teapot Dome Scandal
1925: Scopes Trial
1927: Sacco and Vanzetti executed
1928: Ameila Earhart flies across the Atlantic, Herbert Hoover elected President
1931: Empire State Building opens, The Star Spangled Banner becomes American Anthem
1932: Bonus Army marches on Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President
1933: FDR begins his 100 Days, 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition, US recognizes Soviet Union
1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt reelected
1937: Hindenburg Disaster (NJ)
1939: Germany invades Poland
1940: FDR reelected
1941: FDR's Lend Lease program passed by Congress, Atlantic Charter written
1942: Japanese-American internment begins, sugar and gasoline rationed, Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway Battle
1942: Operation Torch in action, US Commonwealth of the Phillipines conquered by Japan
1943: Allied Invasion of Sicily (Italy)
1944: D-Day (Operation Overlord), Battle of the Leyte, Battle of the Bulge, FDR elected for the 4th time
1945: Yalta Conference, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa, Nationwide Labor Strikes
1945: Franklin Roosevelt dies, leaving Harry S Truman as next President, Potsdam Conference, Germany Surrenders
1945: Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki under President Truman, United Nations Charter signed
1946-1991
1946: Nuremburg Trials begin, Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
1947: Marshall Plan initiated, Truman Doctorine
1948: Berlin Bloackade, President Truman reelected
1949: NATO Founded, China begins Communism, Germany divided, Truman fails to recontinue New Deal
1950: McCarthyism begins, Korean War begins
1951: General Douglas MacArthur dismimssed
1952: Immigration Act, Dwight David Eisenhower elected to Presidency
1954: McCarthy discredited, President Eisenhower proposes Domino Theory
1955: Warsaw Pact initiated
1956: President Eisenhower reelected, "In God We Trust" adopted as national motto
1957: Truman Doctrine, Civil Rights Act, Sputnik 1 launched, partial desgregegation
1958: National Defense Education Act
1959: Cuban Revolution
1960: U-2 Incident, Greensboro Sitins
1961: Eisenhower delivers "Military-Industrial Complex" farewell adress, US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1961: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Elected President, Peace Corps established, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Berlin Crisis
1961: Vietnam War begins, OPEC formed
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: March on Washington DC, Martin Luther King Jr delivers is "I Have a Dream" speech
1963: President Kennedy assasinated, Lyndon Baines Johnson recieves Presidency
1964: President Johnson reelected
1965: Malcolm X assasinated
1968: Martin Luther King Jr assasinated, Richard Nixon elected President
1969: Stonewall Gay Rights Riots, Peacce Talks with Vietnam begins
1972: President Richard Nixon reelcted and visists China
1976: James "Jimmy" E Carter elected President
1979: Iranian Hostage Crisis begins
1980: Ronald Reagan elected President
1986: Challeger Space Shuttle explodes, Irangate Scandal exposed
1988: George Herbert Walker Bush elected President
1991: US goes to war against Iraq to support Kuwait from Saddam Hussein (Persian Gulf War), USSR dissolved
1991: Cold War ended
1992-2021
1992: Willaim "Bill" Clinton elected President
1993: Truck bomb explodes in World Trade Center, Branch Davidians Standoff at Waco TX
1995: Oklahoma City Bombing
1996: President Clinton reelected
1999: Columbine High School Murders
2000: George Walker Bush elected President
2001: September (9/11) Attacks, US attacks the Taliban and Afghanistan, Patriot Act enacted
2003: Columbia Shuttle disintegrates, Iraqi dictator Hussein executed
2004: Massachusetts becomes first state to legalize same-sex marriages, Former President Ronald Reagan dies
2005: Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, and Hurricane Wilma devastes coastline states
2008: US Oil prices rises, Financial Crisis occurs, Barack Obama wins Presidential Election
2009: Tea Party Protests take place
2010: Deepwater Horizons explodes
2011: Osama Bin Laden killed, Space Shuttle Atlantis ends the Space Shuttles
2012: Newtown Murders, Hurricane Sandy strikes
2013: President Obama begins second term, Terrorist Attacks during Boston Marathon
2013: The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, legalizing same-sex marriages
2015: Same-Sex marriages legalized in all 50 US states
2016: Donald John Trump elected President
2018: President Trump meets Kim Jong-un in Singapore, Former President George Herbert Walker Bush dies
2019: First Black Hole image taken, Former President James "Jimmy" Earl Carter dies at 94 years old
2019: Speaker of the House of Representatives impeaches President Trump
2020: Trump aquitted due to Trump-Uktraine Scandal, Joseph Biden elected President
2021: Trump imeached a second time and aquitted by the Senate