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Period 1 Start Date

1491

Period 1 Start Why

Last year before European contact

Period 1 End Date

1607

Period 1 End Why

Founding of Jamestown

Voyage of Columbus

1492

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

Encomienda Begins

1512

Period 2 Start Date

1607

Period 2 Start Why

Founding of Jamestown

Period 2 End Date

1754

Period 2 End Why

Beginning of Seven Years War

Founding of Jamestown

1607

Founding of Quebec

1608

First Slave Sold in Virginia

1619

Founding of Plymouth Colony

1620

Metacom's War

1675

Bacon's Rebellion

1676

Pueblo Revolt

1680

First Great Awakening

1730s

Period 3 Start Date

1754

Period 3 Start Why

Beginning of Seven Years War

Period 3 End Date

1800

Period 3 End Why

Jefferson "Revolution of 1800"

Seven Years War

1754

Pontiac's Rebellion

1763

Proclamation of 1763

1763

Stamp Act

1765

Boston Tea Party

1773

Battles of Lexington & Concord

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Alliance with France

1778

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Treaty of Paris

1783

Shays Rebellion

1786

Constitutional Convention

1787

Washington's First Term Begins

1789

Bill of Rights Ratified

1791

Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Washington's Farewell Address

1796

Alien and Sedition Acts

1798

Ben Franklin

Created the Albany Plan of the Union during the French and Indian War to align the colonies

Thomas Paine

Wrote common sense encouraging independence in simple language for common people

George Washington

First President. Among many other acts, he established the informal two-term limit for presidents by declining to run for reelection in 1796. Also know his farewell address: no political parties, no foregin alliences.

Alexander Hamiltion

led the Federalist favoring a strong central government and pushed for ratification of the constitution

James Madison

Father of the Constitution and a Federalist

John Adams

2nd president. Wife was a supporter of women's rights

Thomas Jefferson

Founded the Democratic Republicans, supporters of States Rights in opposition to the Federalist

Period 4 Start Date

1800

Period 4 Start Why

Jefferson "Revolution of 1800"

Period 4 End Date

1848

Period 4 End Why

Seneca Falls (reform), Mexican American War Ends

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Embargo Act

1807

International Slave Trade Ends

1808

War of 1812

1812

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Election of Andrew Jackson

1828

Nat Turner's Rebellion

1831

Nullification Crisis

1832

Indian Removal Act

1832

Second Great Awakening

1830s

Texas wins Independence

1836

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Andrew Jackson

Indian Removal Act, Nullification Crisis, White male suffrage

Henry Clay

Great Comprimiser, The American System

Period 5 Start + End

1848

Period 5 Start Why

Seneca Falls (reform) Mexican American War Ends

Period 5 End Date

1877

Period 5 End Why

Comprimise of 1877

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848

Compromise of 1850

1850

Bleeding Kansas

1855

Dred Scott Decision

1857

John Brown's Raid

1859

Election of Abraham Lincoln

1860

South Carolina Secedes

1860

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Lee's Surrender

1865

Assassination of Lincoln

1865

Reconstruction Acts Passed

1867

Impeachment of Johnson

1868

14th Amendment Ratified

1868

Panic of 1873

1873

Compromise of 1877

1877

Abraham Lincoln

Emancipation Proclamation

Unit 6 Start Date

1865

Unit 6 Start Why

End of Civil War

Period 6 End Date

1898

Period 6 End Why

Spanish American War Begins

First Transcontinental RR Completed

1869

Knights of Labor Founded

1869

Sioux Wars / Little Bighorn

1876

Great Railroad Strike

1877

Haymarket Square Riot

1886

Dawes Act

1887

Hull House Opened

1889

Sherman Antitrust Act Passed

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech

1896