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| Asians begin several migraions over Bering Strait |
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| Maize cultivation begins in Southern Mexico |
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| Olmec people flourish along Gulf of Mexico |
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| Hopewell culture sets up massive trading network |
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| Mayan city of Tikal features 20,000 residents an many temples |
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| Teotihuacan's population reaches 100,000 at peak of culture |
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| Hohokam civilization develops in present Arizona and New Mexico |
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| Collapse of many Mayan cities |
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| Anasazi build cliff villages in American southwest |
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| Leif Ericson and Noresmen settle vinland in current Newfoundland |
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| City of Cahokia (near present-day St. Luis) has 15,000 residents and 100 temple mounds |
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| Aztecs build Tenochitilan on site of current Mexico City |
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| Incas begin conquest of Andean region of South America |
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| Comumpus lands at San Salvador in Bahamas |
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| Martin Luther challenges Roman Catholic authority, beginning Protestant Reformation in Europe |
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| Cortes conquers Aztecs in Mexico Magellan circumnavigates the globe |
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| Pizarro catures Inca capital in Peru |
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| De Soto explores southeastern U.S. |
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| Coronado explores southwestern U.S. |
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| Roanoke Island colony established off Virginia coast, then disappears |
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| First Viginia tobacco crop harvested |
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| First Africans arrive in Virginia |
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Plymouth Colony founded
house of Burgesses established in Virginia |
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| Powhatan Confederacy attacks Virginia settlers |
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| Massachusetts Bay Colony founded |
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| Roger Williams establishes Rhode Island colony |
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| Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| Massachusetts law requires a pubic school in every town |
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| Halfway Covenant established in New England |
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| Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia |
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| Pennsylvania established by William Penn |
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Glorious Revolution in England
William an dMary succeed Jame 2 |
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| Witchcraft trials begin in Salem |
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| George 1 takes throne, beginning Hanover dynasty |
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Stono Rebellion in North Carolina
George Whitefield begins preaching in America |
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| Benjamin Franklin sets up the American Philosophical Society |
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French and Indian War begins
Albany Plan of Union |
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Regulator movement in the Carolinas
Pontiac's Revolt
Treaty of Paris |
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| Proclamation Line of 1763 |
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Stamp Act
Sons of Liberty formed |
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Townshend Duties
Dickinson's "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer" |
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Boston Massacre
Lord North becomes Britsih prime minister |
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| H.M.S. Gaspee birned off coast of Rhode Island |
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Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress |
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Lexington and Concord
Battle of Bunker Hill |
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Common Sense published by Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Battle of New York City
Battle of Trenton |
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British surrender 5,800 men at Saratoga
American army at Valley Forge |
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French-American alliance established
British begin Southern strategy and capture Savannah |
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British caputre Charleston
French army lands in Connecticut |
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Articles of Confederation approved
Gen. Cornallis surrenders at Yorktown |
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Treaty of Paris ends war, grants American independence
Newburgh Constpiracy of American army officers |
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Land Ordinance provides for orderly development of territories
Spain closes the Mississippi River to American shipping |
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Annapolis Convention
Virginia adopts Jefferson's "statue of Religious Freedom"
Shays' Rebellion |
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Northwest Ordinance prohibits slavery in new territories
Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia |
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Federalist Papers published
New Hampshire is ninth state to ratify constitution, making it the law of the land |
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Washington elected and inaugurated as president
French Revolution begins as Bastille is stormed
French National Assembly issues "Declaration of Rights of Man" |
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| Judiciary Act sets up federal court system |
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Bill of Rights approved
First Bank of united States chartered |
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Washington issues Proclamation of Neutrality
Louis XVI executed in France
Cotton gin patented by Eli Whitney |
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Jay Treaty
Pinckney Treaty
Treaty of Greenville |
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| Adams defeats Jefferson for presidency |
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XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
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Jefferson defeats Adams for presidency
Prosser's Rebellion |
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John Marshall becomes Chief Justice
Midnight judges appointed by Adams |
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Marbury v. Madison decision
Luisiana Purchase |
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| Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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Chesapeake-Leopard incident
Embargo Act
Robert Fulton builds Clermont, first steamboat |
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| Congress declares war on Britain |
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British burn Washington, D.C.
Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812
Hartford Convention |
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| Jackson defeats British at New Orleans |
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First section of Erie Canal is opened
Panic of 1819
McCullough v. Maryland decision |
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Congress sets protective tariffs
Gibbons v. Ogden decision promotes interstate trade |
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| John Quincy Adams wins Corrupt Bargain presidential election |
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Tariff of Aboninations
Jackson wins presidency |
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jackson vetoes Maysville Road extension
Baltimore and Ohio becomes first railroad company
Joseph Smith publishes Book of Mormon |
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia denies Indian claim of nationhood
Nat Turner's Rebellion |
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Jackson vetoes U.S. Bank re-charter
Nullification crisis in South Carolina |
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| Women workers at Lowell, Massachusetts, stage first strike |
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Texas independence fight
Gag rule prevents discussion of slavery in Congress |
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| Commonwealth v. Hunt legalizes unions |
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U.S. declares was on Mexico
Oregon Treaty |
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| Winfield Scott captures Mexico City |
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Gold discovered in northern California
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Seneca Falls statement of women's rights |
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Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law passed |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin published |
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Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party formed |
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Dred Scott decision
Lecompton Constitution in Kansas |
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| Lincoln elected president |
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Crittenden Compromise proposed
south Carolina secedes |
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Confederacy formed
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First Battle of Bull Run |
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Shiloh
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Homestead Act
Emancipation Proclamation announced |
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Vicksburg
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New York City draft riots |
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Grant takes command of all Union armies
Sherman captures Atlanta |
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Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Lincoln assassinated
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Freedmen's Bureau established |
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Alaska purchased from Russia
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President Johnson impeached
14th Amendment passed
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| Transcontinental rialroad completed |
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Panic of 1873 |
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| Dwight L. Moody begins urban revivalism movement |
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| Custer defeated by Sious at Little Big Horn |
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Compromis of 1877
Reconstruction ends |
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