- Amanda Roraback
American History Topics and Timelines
ANTEBELLUM YEARS (BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR)
PRE-COLUMBIAN HISTORY (North America, Aztecs, Incas etc.)
Aztecs (Mexico)
Incas (Peru)
North American Indians
EARLY COLONIZATION OF AMERICAS (1491-1607)
Columbus and New Spain (1492)
Cortes in Mexico
New France
British colonies (see below)
13 COLONIES TO FRENCH-INDIAN WAR (1607-1754)
Jamestown 1607
Plymouth Rock (Pilgrims/Puritans) 1620
Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630
Bacon's Rebellion 1767 (VA)
William Penn/Pennsylvania - Quakers
New Amsterdam/New York
French and Indian War (1954-1763)
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Leading to the Revolution (1754-1776)
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
"No taxation without representation"
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
Thomas Jefferson
American Revolution/War of Independence (1765-1783)
Loyalists and British v. Patriots
Battle of Saratoga
French joined
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (1776-1789)
Treaty of Friendship
Ended with Shays's Rebellion
CONSTITUTION (1787)
Connecticut Compromise (Senate and House of Representatives)
3/5ths clause
Federalist papers
Bill of Rights
GEORGE WASHINGTON/JOHN ADAMS (1789-1801)
1789 French Revolution
Jays Treaty
Marbury v. Madison (Judicial Review)
ERA OF THOMAS JEFFERSON (1801-1808)
Revolution of 1800 (Federalists to Democratic-Republicans)
Louisiana Purchase 1803
WAR OF 1812 (1812-1815)
Impressment
Embargo Act 1807
Star-Spangled Banner
Hartford Convention
ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS (1816-1825)
Patriotism
Only one party (Democratic-Republicans)
Market Revolution
MARKET REVOLUTION (1783-1909)
Cotton Gin 1793
JACKSONIAN ERA (1828-1854)
King Andrew
Indian Relocation 1830
TEXAN REVOLUTION (1835-1836)
Alamo
Santa Anna
Battle of San Jacinto
Lone Star Republic
MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR (1846-48)
Oregon
Mexican Cession
California Gold Rush (1849)
LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR (1850-1860)
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 (and Bleeding Kansas)
Creation of Republican Party
Dred Scott Decision
CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)
Lincoln elected 1860
South Carolina seceded
Confederacy v. Union
Emancipation Proclamation
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)
Freedmen's Bureau
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
GILDED AGE (1870S TO 1900)
Robber Barons/Captains of Industry
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898)
Yellow Journalism
Imperialism - Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico
Cuba (Platt and Teller Amendment)
PROGRESSIVE ERA (1901-1917)
Muckrakers
Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)
US entered 1917 (Zimmerman Telegram)
Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire) v. Allied Powers (France, Britain, Russia)
ROARING 20s
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
New Woman (flapper girls, 19th Amendment)
Prohibition (1920-1933)
Speakeasies, Al Capone
Lost Generation
GREAT DEPRESSION (1929-1941)
Causes: Overproduction/Underconsumption, Stock market crash
FDRs New Deal
WORLD WAR II (1939-1945)
US enters 1941 - Pearl Harbor
Rosie the Riveter
1950s
Prosperity
Suburbanization
COLD WAR (1945-1991)
US v. USSR
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
NATO v. Warsaw Pact
Korean War (1950-1953)
Vietnam War
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (1950s to 1960s)
Brown v. Board of Education 1954
Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" speech 1963
LBJs Great Society (Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965)
NIXON ERA (1969-1974)
Silent Majority
Visit to China
End of Vietnam War
Watergate
1980S CONSERVATISM
Ronald Reagan
Trickle-down, Iran-Contra Affair
Phyllis Schlafly v. ERA
US AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Gulf War 1991 (George H.W. Bush)
Sept. 11, 2001
Osama Bin Laden
George W. Bush
Patriot Act
War in Afghanistan (2001-)
War in Iraq (2003)
BROAD TOPICS
AMERICAN INDIANS
SLAVERY
WOMEN
POLITICAL PARTIES
NORTH AND SOUTH BEFORE CIVIL WAR
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Crash Course - United States History (Amazon)
AMSCO United States History (Amazon)