1763
Event: Proclamation Line
Significance: End of Salutary Neglect
Related Event: Intolerable Acts
1776
Event: Declaration of Independence
Significance: Start of Revolutionary War
Related Event: Battle at Saratoga (1777)
1789
Event: Ratification of the Constitution
Significance: Beginning of Federal Republic
Related Event: Shays Rebellion (1787)
1800
Event: Revolution of 1800
Significance: Jefferson & Democratic Republicans
Related Event: Embargo Act (1807)
1803 (#1)
Event: Louisiana Purchase
Significance: Doubles size of US
Related Event: Missouri Compromise
1803 (#2)
Event: Marbury v. Madison
Significance: Judicial Review
Related Event: Dartmouth v. Woodward
McCulloch v. Maryland
1814
Event: Treaty of Ghent
Significance: End of War of 1812
Related Event: Hartford Convention
1820
Event: Missouri compromise
Significance: Sectional tension
Related Event: Monroe Doctrine
1828
Event: Jackson's election
Significance: Era of the common man
Related Event: Nullification
1848
Event: Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Significance: Mexican Cession
Related Event: Compromise of 1850
1860
Event: Lincoln elected
Significance: 7 states secede, 6 slave remain
Related Event: Fort sumter
1865
Event: Lincoln’s assassination
Significance: Begin reconstruction Related Event: 13/14/15 amendments
1877
Event: Compromise of 1877
Significance: End of reconstruction
Related Event: Black codes
1898
event: the main
significance: spanish american war
Related event: roosevelts corollory
1919
Event: rejected treaty of Versailles
Sig: end WW1/ isolationism
RE: scopes trial
1929
Event: stock market crash
Sig: begin great depression
RE: FDR’s new deal
1941
Event: Pearl harbor
Sig: US entry into WW2
RE: lend-lease act
1945
Event: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sig: End WW2 begin cold war
RE: Truman doctrine (containment policy to contain communism)
1954 #1
Event: Brown v. board of education
Sig: de-segregation of schools
RE: Montgomery bus boy commitee
1964 #1
Event: civil rights act
Sig: peak of civil rights movement
RE: voting rights act
1968 #1
Event: assass MLK
Sig: splinter’s civil rights movement
RE: newark riots
1968 #2
Tet Offensive in Vietnam
beguning of end of war
fall of saigon
1964 #2
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
U. S. Escalation in Vietnam
LBJ's Great socitey
1954 #2
Geneva Acords
Us involvment in Vietnam
Dien Bien phu