US History Timeline by Lydia Quesnel

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

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War between the French and the British because the colonists speed into French territory. As a result Parliament taxed the colonies.

Stamp Act (1765)

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One of the first direct taxes on the colonies. Tax on royal notarization. Caused boycotts, sons of liberty, and the stamp act congress. Was eventually repealed.

Lexington and Concord (1775)

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Beginning of the Revolutionary War. Shot heard round the world. British v. Colonists. No taxation without representation.

Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)

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Articles of Confederation (1777)

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Yorktown (1781)

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Last battle of the Revolutionary War. British surrendered.

Treaty of Paris (1783)

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Ended the revolutionary war.

Constitutional Convention (1787)

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George Washington Elected (1789)

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Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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Established Judicial Review. (the power of the court to declare laws unconstitutional)

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

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Doubles the size of the US. Jefferson wanted to get trading rights along the Mississippi to New Orleans. Napoleon sells for $15 million.

Jefferson Elected (1800)

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Jackson Elected (1823)

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Trail of Tears begins (1831)

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The Cherokee were 'displaced' or kicked off their land. 16,000 moved at gunpoint from Georgia to Oklahoma. 1/3 die. Jackson went against the constitution

Henry Clay's American System Proposed (1824)

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Political alliance between the North and the West were they both vote for the tariff. Henry Clay aka 'The Great Compromiser'.

North = protect businesses

West = infrastructure

South = nothing

Nullification Crisis (1832)

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Nullification = when a state treats a law as if it doesn't exist. SC says it's a 'state right' (they won't collect tariffs). Leads to civil war.

Market Revolution (1820s)

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Focus on industries and factories rather than farming

Missouri Compromise (1820)

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3 point plan. Missouri is a slave state. Maine is free soil. No slaves pass the 36 30 line.

Wilmot Proviso (1848)

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Proposed that slavery should not exit in any state

Compromise of 1850

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California is a free-soil state, slave trade abolished in DC

Mexican territory is popular sovereignty

Strict fugitive slave laws

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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Allowed free soil/ slave status of KS and N to be voted on by popular sovereignty.

Bleeding Kansas (1854)

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Settlers came to KS to vote on free soil/slave state status. Violence breaks out. John Brown killed 5 pro-slavery settlers. Liberty party forms the Republican Party to represent free-soil standing.

Gold Rush (1849)

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Rapid migration in California in search of gold. Helped to boost the settling of California

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

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Ruled that AAs are not US citizens and do not have federal protection by the Supreme Court

Harpers Ferry (1859)

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Lead by John Brown. Gave Slaves weapons and encouraged an uprising.

Beginning of the Civil War (1860)

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Conflict between N and S. Fort Sumter is the start of a 4 year war.

Election of 1860

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Abraham Lincoln won. His anti-slavery beliefs made the South angry.

Ft. Sumter (1860)

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civil war begins. Confederates attacked Charleston harbor with lead to surrender

Emancipation Proclamation (Jan 1, 1863)

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Abraham Lincoln uses it to try and get back the confederate states from treating to succeed. did NOT free all slaves.

Gettysburg & Vicksburg (July 4, 1863)

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Major Union victories. Helped the Anaconda plan

March to the Sea (1864)

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Lead by William Sherman in attempt to end the War and the confederacy. They destroyed civilians property.

Appomattox Courthouse (1865)

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Surrender of Robert E. Lee. Marks the end of the civil war.

End of Civil War (1895)

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Appomattox Courthouse. Union victory and eventually leads to the abolition of slavery

13th Amendment (1865)

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abolished slavery

Reconstruction Begins (1865)

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Rebuilding of Southern states and dealing with AAs newfound freedom

Reconstruction Act of 1867

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Set conditions for joining the union and gave AA men the right to vote.

14th Amendment (1868)

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Gave anyone born in the US citizenship and ensures equal protection under the law.

15th Amendment (1870)

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Grants all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race and previous enslavement

Compromise of 1877

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In the election of 1867 South says they would let Rutherford B. Hayes can be president if he removes confederate troops form Southern States.

Reconstruction Ends (1877)

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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Ruled that Jim Crow laws ere legal as long as facilities were "separate but equal"