Dates 33,000 B.c.e. To 1877

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33,000 B.C.E.

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First Native Americans crossed Bering land Bridge into North America.

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1000 AD

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Norsemen visit Newfoundland, find Vinland but do not voyage again

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1492

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Columbus visits San Salvador, Cuba, Hispaniola. Begins permanent interaction between Americas and Europe.

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1585

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Roanoke first colony but mysteriously disappears

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1607

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Jamestown, first permanent English settlement

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1619

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House of Burgesses, First Africans serve as indentured servants

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1620

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Plymouth First New England Colony

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1636

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Harvard, first college founded to educate ministers

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1643

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First Colonial attempt at unity, New England Confederation is founded

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1649

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Religious Toleration for all Christians granted by Maryland Act of Toleration

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1676

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Bacon's Rebellion turns many against indentured servitude; slavery increases

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1754-1763

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French and Indian War Fought

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1765

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First direct Tax Stamp act placed levied on colonists

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1770

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Boston Massacre Kills five colonists

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1773

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Boston Tea Party results in Intolerable Acts

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1775

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Begins American Revolution with battles of Lexington and Concord

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1775-1781

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American Revolution fought

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1776

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Common Sense and Declaration of Independence

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1781

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American Revolution Ends with Yorktown

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1786

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Shay's Rebellion shows need for strong central government

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1787

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Northwest Ordinance and US Constitution written

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1793

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Cotton Gin invented by Eli Whitney increasing need for slaves

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1800

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Peaceful transfer of government from federalist to Republicans

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1803

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Louisiana Territory Purchased from France, Luis and Clark Begin exploration of West

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1807

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First successful steamboat, the Clermont, built by Robert Fulton

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1812-1815

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War 1812 fought, Washington D.C. burned. Treaty of Ghent ends war in 1814 but battle of New Orleans fought in 1815 before news of treaty is received.

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1820

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Missouri Compromise admits Missouri as slave state, Maine as free state

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1823

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Monroe Doctrine announced

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1825

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Erie Canal completed. Era of canal building begins

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1828-1833

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Nullification Crisis over Tariff of 1828

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1830

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Mechanical reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick

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1831

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Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia

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1836

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First railroad (Baltimore and Ohio) built in US

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1839

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Trail of Tears-forceful removal of Indians from Southeast to future Oklahoma

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1842

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Commonwealth vs Hunt Labor Unions declared legal in Massachusetts

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1844

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Telegraph invented by Morse

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1848

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo: Mexico cedes southwest North America to US following Mexican War

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1848

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Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments

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1849

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California Gold Rush

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1852

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin published

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1854

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Kansas-Nebraska Act leads to Bloody Kansas and heightened sectionalism

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1857

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Dred Scott case repeals Missouri Compromise and declares African-Americans are not citizens

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1859

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John Brown captures Harpers Ferry but fails to start slave rebellion

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1860

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Lincoln elected: South Carolina secedes from Union

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1861

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Ft. Sumter fired upon; Civil war begins

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1861-1865

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Civil War faught

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1862

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Battle of Antietam. Bloodiest day in US military history

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1863

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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation announces end of slavery in Confederate States but not Border States; Turning point of Civil War, Battle of Gettysburg

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1863-1877

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Reconstruction. Re-admission of Confederate States into the Union. Effort made to give equl rights to African-Americans with the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments

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1865

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Civil War ends at Appomattox Courthouse with Lee's surrender;Lincoln assasinated

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1867

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Seward purchases Alaska from Russians

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1868

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President Andrew Johnson impeached in House of REpresentatives but acquitted in Senate Trial by one vote

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1869

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Transcontinental railroad completed in Utah when Union and Central Pacific meet

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1876

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Disputed Hayes-Tilden Presidential election

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1877

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Compromise of 1877 gives election to Hayes. Last Union troops are removed from the South and Reconstruction ends.