Apush nor cal chronology (Chapters 1-36)
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1000A.D. : Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in northeastern North America Corn cultivation reaches Midwest and southeastern Atlantic seaboard
1295: Marco Polo Returns to Europe late 1400s: Spain becomes united 1488: Díaz rounds southern tip of Africa 1492: Columbus lands in the Bahamas 1494: Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal 1498: De Gama reaches India Cabot explores northeastern coast of North America for England 1513: Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain 1513, 1521: Ponce de León explores Florida 1517: Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation 1519-1521: Cortés conquers Mexico for Spain 1522: Magellan’s vessel completes circumnavigation of the world 1524: Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France 1532: Pizarro crushes Incas 1534: Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence River 1536: John Calvin of Geneva publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion 1539-1542: De Soto explores the Southeast and discovers the Mississippi River 1540-1542: Coronado explores present-day Southwest 1542: Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain 1558: Elizabeth I becomes queen of England 1565: Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine C. 1565-1590: English crush Irish uprising 1577: Drake circumnavigates the globe 1585: Raleigh founds “lost colony” at Roanoke 1588: England defeats Spanish Armada late 1500s: Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to Iroquois legend 1598: Edict of Nantes C. 1598-1609: Spanish under Oñate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande valley 1603: James I becomes king of England 1604: Spain and England sign peace treaty 1607: Virginia colony founded at Jamestown 1608: Champlain colonizes Quebec for France 1609: Spanish found New Mexico Henry Hudson explores the area that will become New York 1609-1610: “Starving time” in Virginia 1612: Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia 1614: First Anglo-Powhatan War ends 1619: First Africans arrive in Virginia First Africans arrive in Jamestown Virginia House of Burgesses established 1620: Mayflower Compact signed Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay 1622: Attack on Jamestown by local Algonquian Indians 1624: Virginia becomes royal colony Dutch found New Netherland 1625: Population of English colonies in America around 2,000 1629: Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans 1630-1640: “Great Migration” of Puritans from England to Massachusetts 1630: Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony 1632: Founding of the Georgia Colony 1634: Maryland colony founded 1635-1636: Roger Williams convicted of heresy and founds Rhode Island colony 1635-1638: Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded 1636: Harvard College founded 1637: Pequot War 1638: Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts colony 1639: Connecticut’s Fundamental Orders drafted 1640s: Large-scale slave-labor system established in English West Indies 1642-1648: English Civil War 1643: New England Confederation formed Louis XIV becomes king of France 1644: Second Anglo-Powhatan War 1649: Act of Religious Toleration in Maryland Charles I beheaded; Cromwell rules England 1650: William Bradford completes Of Plymouth Plantation First Navigation Laws to control colonial commerce 1655: New Netherland conquers New Sweden 1660: Charles II restored to English throne 1661: Barbados slave code adopted 1662: Half-Way Covenant for Congregational Church membership established 1664: England seizes New Netherland from Dutch East and West Jersey colonies founded 1670: Carolina colony created Virginia assembly disfranchises landless freemen 1675-1676: King Philip’s War 1676: Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia 1680: Popé’s Rebellion in New Mexico 1680s: French expedition down Mississippi River under La Salle Mass expansion of slavery in colonies 1681: William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony 1682: La Salle explores Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico 1686: Royal authority creates Dominion of New England 1688-1689: Glorious Revolution overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England 1689-1691: Leisler’s Rebellion in New York 1689-1697: King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg) 1692: Salem witch trials in Massachusetts 1693: College of William and Mary founded 1696: Board of Trade assumes governance of colonies 1698: Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ended 1700s: First Shaker communities formed c. 1700-1800: New Indian peoples move onto Great Plains 1700: Population of English colonies in America 250,000 1701: Yale College founded 1702-1713: Queen Anne’s War (War of Spanish Succession) 1711-1713: Tuscarora War in North Carolina 1712: North Carolina formerly separates from South Carolina New York City slave revolt 1715-1716: Yamasee War in South Carolina 1718: French found New Orleans 1721: Smallpox inoculation introduced 1732: First edition of Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack 1733: Georgia colony founded South Carolina slave revolt 1734: Jonathan Edwards begins Great Awakening 1734-1735: Zenger free-press trial in New York 1738: George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening 1739: War of Jenkins’s Ear 1744-1748: King George’s War (War of Austrian Succession) 1746: Princeton College founded c. 1750: Industrial Revolution begins in Britain 1754: Washington battles French on frontier Albany Congress 1754-1763: Seven Years War (French and Indian War) 1755: Braddock’s defeat 1757: Pitt emerges as leader of British government 1759: Battle of Quebec 1760: Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures 1763: Peace of Paris Pontiac’s uprising Proclamation of 1763 Seven Years War (French and Indian War) ends 1764: Paston Boys march on Philadelphia Brown College founded Sugar Act 1765: Quartering Act Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress 1766: Rutgers College founded Declaratory Act 1767: Townshend Act New York legislature suspended by Parliament 1768: British troops occupy Boston 1768-1771: Regulator protests 1769: Serra founds first California mission, at San Diego Dartmouth College founded 1770: Boston Massacre All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed 1772: Committees of correspondence formed 1773: British East India Company granted tea monopoly Governor Hutchinson’s actions provoke Boston Tea Party 1774: “Intolerable Acts” Quebec Act First Continental Congress calls for abolition of slave trade The Association boycotts British goods 1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord Second Continental Congress Americans capture British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point Battle of Bunker Hill King George III formally proclaims colonies in rebellion Failed invasion of Canada Philadelphia Quakers found world’s first antislavery society 1776: Paine’s Common Sense Declaration of Independence Battle of Trenton New Jersey constitution temporarily gives women the vote 1777: Battle of Brandywine Battle of Germantown Battle of Saratoga Articles of Confederation adopted by Second Continental Congress 1778: Formation of French-American alliance Battle of Monmouth 1778-1779: Clark’s victories in the West 1780: Massachusetts adopts first constitution drafted in convention and ratified by popular vote 1781: Battle of King’s Mountain Battle of Cowpens Greene leads Carolina campaign French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown Articles of Confederation put into effect 1782: North’s ministry collapses in Britain 1783: Treaty of Paris Military officers form Society of the Cincinnati 1784: Treaty of Fort Stanwix 1785: Land Ordinance of 1785 1786: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom Shay’s Rebellion Meeting of five states to discuss revision of the Articles of Confederation 1787: Northwest Ordinance Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 1788: Ratification by nine states guarantees a new government under the Constitution 1789: Constitution formally put into effect Judiciary Act of 1789 Washington elected president French Revolution begins 1790: First official census 1791: Bill of Rights adopted Vermont becomes fourteenth state Bank of the United States created Excise tax passed Samuel Slater builds first U.S. textile factory 1792: Washington reelected president 1792-1793: Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties formed 1793: Louis XVI beheaded; radical phase of French Revolution France declares war on Britain and Spain Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation Citizen Genêt affair Eli Whitney invents cotton gin Whitney’s cotton gin transforms southern economy 1794: Whiskey Rebellion Battle of Fallen Timbers Jay’s Treaty with Britain Thomas Paine publishes The Age of Reason 1795: Treaty of Greenville: Indians cede Ohio Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain University of North Carolina founded 1796: Washington’s Farewell Address 1797: Adams becomes president XYZ Affair 1798: Alien Sedition Acts Whitney develops interchangeable parts for muskets 1798-1799: Virginia and Kentucky resolutions 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France 1800: Convention of 1800: peace with France Jefferson defeats Adams for presidency Second Great Awakening begins Gabriel slave rebellion in Virginia 1801: Judiciary Act of 1801 1801-1805: Naval war with Tripoli 1802: Revised naturalization law Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed 1803: Marbury v. Madison Louisiana Purchase 1804: Jefferson reelected president Impeachment of Justice Chase 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark expedition 1805: Peace treaty with Tripoli 1805-1807: Pike’s explorations 1806: Burr treason trial 1807: Chesapeake affair Embargo Act Robert Fulton’s first steamboat Embargo spurs American manufacturing 1808: Madison elected president Congress outlaws slave trade 1809: Non-Intercourse Act replaces Embargo Act 1810: Macon’s Bill No. 2 Napoleon announces (falsely) repeal of blockade decrees Madison reestablishes nonimportation against Britain
1811: Battle of Tippecanoe Cumberland Road construction begins 1812: United States declares war on Britain Madison reelected president 1812-1813: American invasions of Canada fail 1813: Battle of the Thames Battle of Lake Erie 1814: Battle of Plattsburgh British burn Washington Battle of Horseshoe Bend Treaty of Ghent signed ending War of 1812 1814-1815: Hartford Convention 1815: Battle of New Orleans 1816: Second Bank of the United States founded Protectionist Tariff of 1816 Monroe elected president 1817: Madison vetoes Calhoun’s Bonus Bill Rush-Bagot agreement limits naval armament of Great Lakes Erie Canal construction begins American colonization formed 1818: Treaty of 1818 with Britain Jackson invades Florida 1819: Panic of 1819 Spain cedes Florida to United States
Jefferson founds University of Virginia 1820: Missouri Compromise Missouri and Maine admitted to Union Land Act of 1820 Monroe elected New England missionaries arrive in Hawaii 1821: Cohens v. Virginia Cooper publishes The Spy, his first successful novel Emma Willard establishes Troy (New York) Female Seminary 1822: Vesey slave conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina Republic of Liberia established in Africa 1823: Secretary Adams proposes Monroe Doctrine Mexico opens Texas to American settlers 1824: Russo-American Treaty of 1824
Lack of electoral majority for presidency throws election into the House of Representatives 1825: Erie Canal completed House elects John Quincy Adams president New Harmony commune established 1826: American Temperance Society founded 1828: Tariff of 1828 (“Tariff of Abominations”) Jackson elected president The South Carolina Exposition published First railroad in United States Noah Webster publishes dictionary American Peace Society 1829: Walker publishes Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World 1830s: Cyrus McCormick invents mechanical mower-reaper 1830: Indian Removal Act Joseph Smith founds the LDS Church Godey’s Lady Book first published 1830-1831: Finney conducts revivals in eastern cities 1831: Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia Garrison begins publishing The Liberator 1831-1832: Virginia legislature debates slavery and emancipation 1832: “Bank War”—Jackson vetoes bill to recharter Bank of the United States Tariff of 1832 Black Hawk War Jackson defeats Clay for presidency 1832-1833: South Carolina nullification crisis 1833: Compromise Tariff of 1833 Jackson removes federal deposits from Bank of the United States British abolish slavery in West Indies American Anti-Slavery Society founded 1834: Anti-Catholic riot is Boston Abolitionist students expelled from Lane Theological Seminary 1835: Lyceum movement flourishes U.S. Post Office orders destruction of abolitionist mail “Broadcloth Mob” attacks Garrison 1836: Bank of the United States expires Specie Circular issued Bureau of Indian Affairs established Battle of the Alamo Battle of San Jacinto Texas wins independence from Mexico Van Buren elected president House of Representatives passes “Gag Resolution” 1837: Seminole Indians defeated and eventually removed from Florida United States recognizes Texas republic but refuses annexation Panic of 1837 John Deere develops steel plow Oberlin College admits female students Mary Lynn establishes Mount Holyoke Seminary Emerson delivers “The American Scholar” address Mob kills abolitionist Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois Canadian rebellions and Caroline incident 1838-1839: Cherokee Indians removed on “Trail of Tears” 1839: Weld publishes American Slavery as It Is 1840: Independent treasury established Harrison defeats Van Buren for presidency President Van Buren establishes ten-hour day for federal employees Antislavery Liberty party organized 1841: Brook Farm commune established Harrison dies after four weeks in office Tyler assumes presidency 1842: Massachusetts declares labor unions legal in Commonwealth v. Hunt Aroostook War over Maine boundary Webster-Ashburton treaty 1843: Dorothea Dix petitions Massachusetts legislature on behalf of the insane c. 1843-1868: Era of clipper ships 1844: Samuel Morse invents telegraph Anti-Catholic riot in Philadelphia Polk defeats Clay in “Manifest Destiny” election Caleb Cushing signs Treaty of Wanghia with China 1845: Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass United States annexes Texas 1845-1849: Potato famine in Ireland Elias Howe invents sewing machine 1846: Walker Tariff Independent treasury restored United States settles Oregon dispute with Britain United States and Mexico clash over Texas boundary Kearny takes Sante Fe Frémont conquers California Wilmot Proviso passes House of Representatives 1846-1847: Mormon Migration to Utah 1846-1848: Mexican War 1847: Battle of Buena Vista Scott takes Mexico City 1848: First general incorporation laws in New York Democratic revolutions collapse in Germany Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention held Oneida Community established Free Soil party organized Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War Taylor defeats Cass and Van Buren for presidency 1849: American, or Know-Nothing, party formed California gold rush 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter Fillmore assumes presidency after Taylor’s death Compromise of 1850, including Fugitive Slave Law Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain 1851: Melville publishes Moby Dick 1852: Cumberland Road completed Pierce defeats Scott for presidency Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1853: Gadsden Purchase from Mexico 1854: Commodore Perry opens Japan Ostend Manifesto proposes seizure of Cuba Kansas-Nebraska Act Republican party organized 1855: Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass 1856: William Walker becomes president of Nicaragua and legalizes slavery Buchanan defeats Frémont and Fillmore for presidency Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber Brown’s Pottawatomie Massacre 1856-1860: Civil War in “bleeding Kansas” 1857: Dred Scott decision Lecompton Constitution rejected Panic of 1857 Tariff of 1857 Hinton R. Helper publishes The Impending Crisis of the South 1858: Cyrus Fields lays first transatlantic cable Lincoln-Douglas debates Pikes Peak gold rush 1859: Brown raids Harpers Ferry Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species Nevada Comstock Lode discovered 1860: Pony Express established Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency South Carolina secedes from the Union Crittenden Compromise fails 1861: First transcontinental telegraph Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America Confederate government formed Lincoln takes office (March 4) Fort Sumter fired upon (April 12) Four upper South states secede (April-June) Morrill Tariff Act passed Trent affair Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus First Battle of Bull Run 1862: Confederacy enacts conscription Homestead Act Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson Battle of Shiloh McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign Seven Days’ Battles Second Battle of Bull Run Naval battle of the Merrimack (the Virginia) and the Monitor Battle of Antietam Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Fredericksburg Northern army seizes New Orleans Congress authorizes transcontinental railroad Morrill Act provides public land for higher education 1862-1864: Alabama raids Northern shipping 1863: Union enacts conscription New York City draft riots National Banking system established Final Emancipation Proclamation Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg Fall of Vicksburg Fall of Port Hudson Lincoln announces “10 percent” Reconstruction plan 1863-1864: Napoleon III installs Archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico 1864: Alabama sunk by Union warship Sherman’s march through Georgia Grant’s Wilderness Campaign Battle of Cold Harbor Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill Sand Creek massacre Nevada admitted to Union 1865: Hampton Roads Conference Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Lincoln assassinated Thirteenth Amendment ratified Johnson issues Reconstruction proclamation Congress refuses to seat Southern congressman Freedmen’s Bureau established Southern states pass Black Codes 1866: Permanent transatlantic cable established Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson’s veto Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment Johnson-backed candidates lose congressional election Ex parte Milligan case Ku Klux Klan founded National Labor Union organized American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) created 1867: Reconstruction Act Tenure of Office Act United States purchases Alaska from Russia National Grange organized 1868: Johnson impeached acquitted Johnson pardons Confederate leaders Grant defeats Seymour for the presidency 1869: Fisk and Gould corner the gold market Transcontinental railroad joined near Ogden, Utah Wyoming Territory grants women the right to vote 1870: Fifteenth Amendment ratified Standard Oil Company organized 1870-1871: Force Acts 1871: Tweed scandal in New York Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly published 1872: Freedmen’s Bureau ended Crédit Mobilier scandal exposed Liberal Republicans break with Grant Grant defeats Greeley for presidency Metaphysical Club meets in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1873: Panic of 1873 Cornstock Law 1874: Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) organized Chautauqua education movement launched 1875: Whiskey Ring scandal Civil Rights Act of 1875 Resumption Act 1876: Hayes-Tilden election standoff and crisis Bell invents telephone John Hopkins University graduate school established Battle of the Little Bighorn Colorado admitted to the Union 1877: Reconstruction ends Compromise of 1877 Railroad strikes paralyze nation Nez Percé Indian War 1879: Edison invents electric light Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty Dumbbell tenement introduced Mary Baker Eddy establishes Christian Science Salvation Army begins work in America 1880: Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency 1881: Garfield assassinated; Arthur assumes presidency Booker T. Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Institute American Red Cross founded Barnum and Bailey first join to stage the “Greatest Show on Earth” Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act First immigration restriction laws passed 1883: Civil Right Cases Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service Commision Brooklyn Bridge completed Metropolitan Opera House built in New York 1884: Cleveland defeats Blaine for presidency Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Federal government outlaws Indian Sun Dance 1885: Louis Sullivan builds the first skyscraper, in Chicago Linotype invented 1885-1890: Local chapters of Farmers’ Alliance formed 1886: Haymarket Square Bombing Wabash case American Federation of Labor formed Statue of Liberty erected in New York harbor 1887: Interstate Commerce Act American Protective Association (APA) formed Hatch Act Supplements Morrill Act Dawes Severalty Act 1888: Harrison defeats Cleveland for presidency Edward Bellamy publishes Looking Backward American all-star baseball team tours world 1889: Thomas B. “Czar” Reed becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago Oklahoma opened to settlement Samoa crisis with Germany Pan-American Conference 1889-1890: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming admitted to Union 1890: “Billion-Dollar” Congress McKinley Tariff Act Sherman Silver Purchase Act (repealed 1893) Sherman Anti-Trust Act National American Woman Suffrage Association formed Census Bureau declares frontier line ended Emergence of People’s party (Populists) Battle of Wounded Knee Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1891: Basketball invented New Orleans crisis with Italy 1892: Homestead steel strike Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) silver miners’ strike People’s party candidate James B. Weaver wins twenty-two electoral votes Cleveland defeats Harrison and Weaver to regain presidency Populist party candidate James B. Weaver polls more than 1 million votes in presidential election Valparaiso crisis with Chile 1893: Depression of 1893 begins Lillian wald opens Henry Street Settlement in New York Anti-Saloon League formed Columbian Exposition held in Chicago Frederick Jackson Turner publishes “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” Pribilof Islands dispute with Canada White planter revolt in Hawaii Cleveland refuses Hawaii annexation 1894: Wilson-Gorman tariff (contains income-tax provision; declared unconstitutional 1895) Republicans regain House of Representatives “Coey’s Army” marches on Washington Pullman strike 1895: J. P. Morgan’s banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal government Cubans revolt with Spain 1895-1896: Venezuelan boundary crisis with Britain 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson legitimizes “separate but equal” doctrine Utah admitted to Union McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency 1897: Library of Congress opens Dingley Tariff Act 1898: Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Woman and Economics Maine explosion in Havana harbor Spanish American War Teller Amendment Dewey’s victory at Manila Bay Hawaii annexed 1899: Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening Senate ratifies treaty acquiring Philippines Aquinaldo launches rebellion against United States in Philippines First American Open Door note 1900: Theodore Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie Gold Standard Act Hawaii receives full territorial status Foraker Act for Puerto Rico Boxer Rebellion and U.S. military expedition to China Second Open Door note McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency 1901: United States Steel Corporation formed Supreme Court Insular Cases Platt Amendment McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes president Filipino rebellion suppressed Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britain gives United States exclusive right to build Panama Canal Commision system established in Galveston, Texas Progressive Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin 1902: U.S. troops leave Cuba Colombian senate rejects U.S. proposal for canal across Panama Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposes Newlands Act 1903: Panamanian revolution against Colombia Hay–Bunan-Varilla Treaty gives United States control of Canal Zone in newly independent Panama Department of Commerce and Labor established Elkins Act Wright Brothers fly the first airplane First story-sequence motion picture 1904: Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine Northern Securities case Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker for presidency 1904-1914: Construction of Panama Canal 1905: United States takes over Dominican Republic customs service Roosevelt mediates Russo-Japanese peace treaty Lochner v. New York 1906: San Francisco Japanese education crisis Roosevelt arranges Algeciras Conference Hepburn Act Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act 1906-1909: U.S. Marines occupy Cuba 1907: Henry Adams privately publishes The Education of Henry Adams Oklahoma admitted to Union Great White Fleet makes world voyage “Roosevelt panic” 1907-1908: “Gentlemen’s Agreement” with Japan 1908: Root-Takahira agreement Muller v. Oregon Taft defeats Bryan for presidency Aldrich-Vreeland Act 1909: Payne-Aldrich Tariff 1910: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded Ballinger-Pinchot affair 1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire Standard Oil antitrust case U.S. Steel Corporation antitrust suit 1912: Taft wins Republican nomination over Roosevelt Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency 1913: Seventeenth Amendment passed (direct election of U.S. senators) Federal Reserve Act Underwood Tariff Act Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) Huerta takes power in Mexico 1914: Clayton Anti-Trust Act Federal Trade Commission established U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico World War I begins in Europe 1915: La Follette Seamen’s Act Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U.S. Marines sent to Haiti Council of National Defense established 1916: Sussex ultimatum and pledge Workingmen’s Compensation Act Federal Farm Loan Act Warehouse Act Adamson Act Pancho Villa raids New Mexico Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court Jones Act U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic Wilson defeats Hughes for presidency 1917: Puerto Ricans granted U.S. citizenship United States buys Virgin Islands from Denmark Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare Zimmerman note United States enters World War I Espionage Act of 1917 1918: Wilson proposes Fourteen Points Sedition Act of 1918 Battle of Chateau-Thierry Second Battle of the Marne Meuse-Argonne offensive Armistice ends World War I 1919: Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles Wilson’s pro-League tour and collapse Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition of alcohol passed) Volstead Act Seattle general strike Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio American Legion founded Chicago race riot 1919- 1920: “Red Scare” 1920: Final Senate defeat of Versailles Treaty Nineteenth Amendment (women's suffrage) passed Harding defeats Cox for presidency Radio broadcasting begins Fitzgerald publishes This Side of Paradise Lewis publishes Main Street Esch-Cummins Transportation Act Merchant Marine Act 1921: Sacco-Vanzetti trial Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Bureau of the Budget created Veterans Bureau created Capper-Volstead Act 1922: Lewis publishes Babbitt Eliot publishes “The Waste Land” Five-Power Naval Treaty Four-Power and Nine-Power Treaties on the Far East Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law 1923: Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed Adkins v. Children’s Hospital Teapot Dome Scandal Harding dies; Coolidge assumes presidency 1924: Indians granted U.S. citizenship Immigration Act of 1924 Adjusted Compensation Act for veterans Dawes Plan for international finance U.S. troops leave Dominican Republic Coolidge wins three-way presidential election 1925: Scopes trial Florida real estate boom Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby Dreiser publishes An American Tragedy 1926: Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises U.S. troops occupy Nicaragua 1927: Lindbergh flies the Atlantic solo First talking motion pictures Sacco and Vanzetti executed 1928: Kellog-Briand Pact Hoover defeats Smith for presidency Hoover takes goodwill tour of Latin America 1929: Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms Agriculture Marketing Act sets up Federal Farm Board Stock-market crash 1930: Hawly-Smoot Tariff 1931: Japanese invade Manchuria 1932: Reconstuction Finance Corporation (RFC) extablished Norris-La Gaurdia Anti-Injuction Act “Bonus Army” dispersed from Washington D.C. Roosevelt defeats Hoover for presidency 1933: Bank holiday Emergency Banking Relief Act Beer and Wine Revenue Act The Hundred Days Congress enacts AAA, TVA, HOLC, NRA, and PWA Federal Securities Act Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act CWA established Twentieth Amendment (changed calender of congressional sessions and date of presidential inauguration) Twenty-first Amendment (prohibition repealed) FDR torpodoes London Economic Conference United States recognizes Soviet Union FDR declares Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America 1934: Indian Reorganization Act Gold Reserve Act Securities and Exchange Commission authorized FHA established Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act Tydings-McDuffle Act provides for Philippine independence on July 4, 1946 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act 1935: WPA established Wagner Act Resettlement Administration Social Security Act Publis Utility Holding Company Act Schechter “sick chicken” case CIO organized Mussolini invades Ethiopi 1936: Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Roosevelt defeats Landon for presidency U.S. Neutrality Act of 1936 1936-1939: Spanish Civil War 1937: USHA established Roosevelt announces “Court-packing” plan U.S. Neutrality Act of 1937 Panay incident Japan invades China 1938: Second AAA Fair Labor Standards Act Hitler seizes Austria Munich Conference 1939: Reorganization Act Hatch Act Hitler seizes all of Czechoslovakia Nazi-Soviet pact World War II begins in Europe with Hitler’s invasion of Poland U.S.Neutrality Act of 1939 Battle of Britain Bases-for-destroyers deal with Britain FDR defeats Willkie for presidency 1941: Lend-Lease Act Hitler attacks Soviet Union Atlantic Charter Japan attacks Pearl Harbor United States declares War on Japan Germany declares war on the United States Randolph plans black march on Washington Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) established 1942: Japanese Americans sent to internment camps Japan conquers the Philippines Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of Midway United States invades North Africa Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded 1943: Allies hold Casablance conference Allies invade Italy Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act “Zoot-suit” riots in Los Angeles Race riot in Detroit Japanese driven from Guadalcanal Teheran conference 1944: Korematsu v. U.S. D-Day invasion of France Battle of Marianas Roosevelt defeats Dewey for presidency Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill) Bretton Woods economic conference 1944-1945: Battle of the Bulge 1945: Roosevelt dies; Truman assumes presidency Germany surrenders Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan surrenders Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care Yalta conference United States ends lend-lease to USSR United Nations established 1945-1946: Nuremburg war crimes trials in Germany 1946: Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers Iran crisis Kennan’s “Long Telegram” lays out “Containment Doctrine” 1946-1948: Tokyo war crimes trials 1947: Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Taft-Hartley Act National Security Act creates Department of Defense, National Security Council (NSC), and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1948: United States officially recognizes Israel “Voice of America” begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain Hiss case begins Truman defeats Dewey for presidency 1948-1949: Berlin crisis 1949: NATO established Communists defeat Nationalist is China 1950: American economy begins postwar growth McCarthy red hunt begins McCarran Internal Security Bill passed by Congress over Truman veto 1950-1953: Korean War 1951: Truman fires MacArthur Rosenburgs convicted for treason 1952: United States explodes first hydrogen bomb Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency Ellison publishes Invisible Man 1953: CIA-engineered coup installs shah of Iran 1954: French defeated in Vietnam Army-McCarthy hearings Brown v. Board of Education SEATO formed First McDonald’s hamburger stand opens CIA-sponsored coup in Guatemala 1955: Montgomery bus boycott by blacks begins; emergency of Martin Luther King, Jr. Geneva summit meeting Warsaw Pact signed AF of L merges with CIO Tennessee William’s Cat ona a Hot Tin Roof first performed 1956: Soviets crush Hungarian revolt Suez crisis Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency Mills publishes The Power Elite 1957: Postwar peak of U.S. birthrate Little Rock School desegregation crisis Civil Rights Act passed Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed Eisenhower Doctrine Soviet Union launches Sputnik satellites 1958: U.S. troops sent ot Lebanon NDEA authorizes loans and grants for science and language education Galbrath publishes The Affluent Society 1958-1959: Berlin crisis 1559: Castro leads Cuban revolution Landrum-Griffin Act Alaska and Hawaii attain statehood 1560: Sit-in movement for civil rights begins U-2 incident sabotages Paris summit OPEC formed Kennedy defeats Nixon for presidency 1961: Berlin crisis and construction of Berlin Wall Alliance for Progress Bay of Pigs Kennedy sends “military advisers” to South Vietnam 1962: Pressure from Kennedy results in rollback of steel prices Trade Expansion Act Laos neutralized Cuban missile crisis 1963: Anti-Diem coup in South Vietnam Civil rights march in Washington, D.C. Kennedy assassination; Johnson assumes presidency 1964: Twenty-fourth Amendment (abolishing poll tax in federal elections) ratified “Freedom Summer” voter registration in South Tonkin Gulf Resolution Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency War on Poverty begins Civil Rights Act 1965: Great Society Legislation Voting Rights Act U.S. troops occupy Dominican Republic 1965-1968: Race riots in U.S. cities Escalation of Vietnam War 1967: Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt 1968: Tet offensive in Vietnam Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy assassinated Nixon defeats Humphrey and Wallace for presidency 1969: Stonewall Inn riot in New York City Astronauts land on moon 1970: Nixon orders invasion of Cambodia Kent State and Jackson States Incidents Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created Clean Air Act 1971: Pentagon Papers published 1972: Twenty-sixth Amendment (lowering voting age to eighteen) passed Nixon visits China and the Soviet Union Shanghai Communique begins “normalization” of U.S.-Chinese relations ABM ans Salt I treaties ratified Nixon defeats McGovern for president Equal Rights Amendment passes Congress (not ratified by states) Title IX of Education Amendments passed 1973: U.S. birthrate falls below replacement level Vietnam cease-fire and the U.S. withdrawal Agnew resigns; Ford appointed vice president War Powers Act Arab-Israeli war and Arab oil embargo Endangered Species Act Frontiero v. Richardson Roe v. Wade 1973-1974: Watergate hearings and investigations 1974: Nixon resigns; Ford assumes presidency First OPEC oil price increase International Energy Agency formed Milliken v. Bradley 1975: Helsinki accords South Vietnam falls to communists 1976: Carter defeats Ford for presidency 1978: Egyptian-Israeli Camp David agreement United States v. Wheeler 1979: Iranian revolution oil crisis SALT II agreements signed (never ratified by Senate) Soviet Union invades Afganistan 1979-1981: Iranian hostage crisis 1980: Reagan defeats Carte for presidency 1981: Iran releases American hostages “Reaganomics” spending and tax cuts passed Solidarity movement in Poland O’Connor appointed to Supreme Court (first woamn justice) 1981-1991: United States aids antileftist forces in Central America 1982: Recession hits U.S. economy 1983: Reagan announces SDI plan (Star Wars) U.S. marines killed in Lebanon U.S. invasion of Grenada 1984: Reagan defeats Mondale for presidency 1985: Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union First Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva 1986: Reagan administration backs Aquino in Philippines Iran-contra scandal revealed Second Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting, in Reykjavik, Iceland 1987: Senate rejects Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork U.S. naval escorts begin in Persian Gulf Stock market plunges 508 points Third Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting, in Washington, D.C.; INF signed 1988: Fourth Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting, in Moscow Bush defeats Dukakis for presidency 1989: Chinese government suppresses prodemocracy demonstrators Webster v. Reproductive Health Services Eastern Europe throws off communist regimes Berlin Wall torn down 1990: Irag invades Kuwait East and West Germany reunite Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1991: Persian Gulf War Thomas appointed to Supreme Court Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president Soviet Union dissolves; republics form Commenwealth of Independent States 1992: Twenty-seventh Amendment (prohibiting congressional pay raises from taking effect until an election seats a new session of Congress) ratified Planned Parenthood v. Casey Clinton defeats Bush and Perot for presidency 1993: NAFTA signed 1994: Republicans win majorities in both houses of Congress 1996: Welfare Refom Bill becomes law Clinton defeats Dole for presidency 1998: Clinton-Lewinsky scandal U.S. and Britain launch military strikes against Iraq House of Representatives impeaches Clinton 1999: Senate acquits Clinton on impeachment charges Kosovo crisis; NATO warfare with Serbia Protest in Seattle against World Trade Organization 2000: “Million Mom March” against guns in Washington, D.C. U.S. normalizes trade relations with China George W. Bush wins presidency in Eletoral College, although Albert Gore takes popular vote 2001: Terrorists attack New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11 U.S. invades Afghanistan Congress passes USA Patriot Act Energy trader Enron Collapses amid accounting scandals 2002: Congress passes “No Child Left Behind” Act Bush labels Irag, Iran,a dn North Korea and “axis of evil” Telecommunications giant WorldCom declares bankruptcy Congress authorizes use of force against Iraq U.N. Security Council demands that Irag comply with weapons inspections Republicans regain Senate 2003: North Korea withdraws from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty U.S invades Iraq Bush signs drug prescription bill for seniors Saddam Hussein is captured in Iraq Supreme Court narrowly approves affirmative action Arnold Schwarzeneggar becomes California governor 2004: Gay marriage controversy erupts Iraqi interim government is installed George W. 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