HISTORY TIMELINE Rules• Write this on the BACK BLANK page of your

Timeline. 1. Put your name on your timeline2. Your timeline MUST be brought to class each

day3. If you lose the timeline you must make it up

from the beginning4. This is your study guide for your final exam5. You must keep up with the timeline, it will be

graded every other week (just like warm-up were) from the beginning.

11000 BC

Paleo Indians Arrive

The first people, Paleo Indians arrive in America. They cross the land bridge Berengia from Siberia to Alaska.

1000 AD

Leif Erickson Discovers America

Viking sea captain that finds America. He names it Vinland or Newfoundland.

Oct. 12, 1492

Christopher Columbus discovers America

Financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Columbus sails to find India but he lands at San Salvador

1513 Ponce De Leon and Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Juan Ponce De Leon discovers Florida & Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean

1565 St. Augustine The Spanish attack the French in Florida and settle St. Augustine

1607 Jamestown settlement

Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in America established by London Company in Virginia and Captain John Smith.

1619 House of Burgesses

The first representative assembly in America meets for the first time in Virginia. First African Americans slaves in U.S.

1620 Plymouth Colony

The Plymouth colony is established in Massachusetts the Mayflower brought over colonist

1660 Slave Code and Triangular Trade

were various laws called Slave code that put restrictions on slavery. Triangular Trade connected America to Africa for slaves to be brought to America.

1676 Bacon’s Rebellion

Takes place in Virginia

1692 Salem Witch Trials

Held in Salem Massachusetts over 200 people were accused of witchcraft. 20 people mostly women were executed.

1754-1763

French and Indian War

Final Conflict between England and France in America. England win. The treaty of Paris ends the war

1763 Proclamation of 1763 & Mason Dixon Line

Issued to protect Indians and west of the Appalachians from the British settlements

1770 Boston Massacre

Crowd of people protest against the acts imposed by England. British troops fire on Boston killing crowds of people.

1773 Boston Tea Party

The sons of Liberty dress as Indians and dump tea into the harbor in retaliation of the taxes imposed

1774 First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia- intolerable acts

Four laws aimed at punishing Massachusetts are passed by British parliament

1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord

The start of the American Revolution; 13 colonies fought Great Britain for independence

1776 Declaration of Independence

The continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on the fourth of July.

1776 Thomas Paine He writes the influential pamphlet Common Sense against England’s monarchy and control over the U.S.

Winter 1777

Valley Forge Washington and his army endure brutal winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

1781 Articles of Confederation

Created and adopted by Congress

1783 Peace treaty ends Revolutionary War

Signed by John Adams, John Jay and Benjamin Franklin

1789 Constitution Written and adopted

1789 Washington becomes president

He is unanimously elected president by state electors. Washington is inaugurated as president in federal Hall N.Y.C.

1791 Bill of Rights The first ten amendments to the constitution known as Bill of Rights and ratified.

1793 Washington re-elected

Washington's second inauguration is held in Philadelphia, Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

1796 Treaty of Tripoli

1796 peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli, before this treaty the Mediterranean Sea was controlled by North African Muslim Ships

1797 XYZ Affair The U.S. finds itself in naval war with force

1798 Alien and Sedition Acts

1803 Marbury vs. Madison

Landmark supreme court case that greatly expanded the power of the court by allowing it to declare acts of congress unconstitutional

Dec 1803

Louisiana Purchase(830,000 miles)

U.S pays 15 million for territory which expands from Mississippi river to Rocky Mountains

May 1804

Lewis and Clark

Set out from St. Louis on an expedition to explore west and find a route to the pacific ocean

June 1812

War of 1812 U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American shipping and westward expansion

1813 British seize Washington D.C.

They burn down the Whitehouse and the Capital.

1814 Treaty of Ghent

Signed to end the war of 1812

1814 Star Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key writes the song as he watches the British attack Fort Henry.

1820 Missouri Compromise

Effort to keep balance of slave and free states slavery is prohibited north of latitude

1823 Monroe Doctrine

President Monroe declares that the American Continent is off limits for further colonization by European Powers

1830 Indian Removal Act

Signed, ordering 5 Indian tribes of the South East to relocate west of the Mississippi by late 1830’s. Andrew Jackson relocated over 50,000 natives.

1831-1861

Underground Railroad

Approximately 75,000 slaves escape from the South

1836 Alamo Texan defenders of the Alamo are all killed during a siege by Mexicans. Texans defeat Mexicans at San Juanita

1838 Trial of Tears Native Americans were forced to move west again.

1848 California Gold Rush

Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. The gold rush reaches its height in the following year.

1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act

This legislation repeals, or cancels the Missouri Compromise and creates tension between anti and pro slavery states.

1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court case which rules that a slave is not a citizen

1861-1865

Civil War Conflict between the North (Union) and South(Confederate) over the expansion of slavery.

1862 Homestead Act

Allows settlers to claim land, after they have lived on it for five years.

1863 Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by Abe Lincoln, freeing slaves of the confederate states.

1865 13th Amendment

Abolishes slavery throughout the nation.

April 14,1865

Lincoln is assassinated

John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln at Ford Theatre and Andrew Jackson becomes president

1866 Ku Klux Klan Meeting of what became the largest terrorist organization

1866 The Civil Rights

Passed by Congress on April 9th over the veto of Andrew Jackson

1867 Alfred Nobel Patents dynamite Nobel peace prize

1869 15th Amendment

Extends the rights to African Americans to vote

1876 Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defeat Custer

Lt. George Custers regiment is wiped out by Sioux Indians under sitting Bull at Little Big Horn

1876 Telephone Invented

Hello motto!

1879 Women’s rights

Women lawyers were permitted to argue cases before the Supreme Court

1892 Henry Ford Builds the first automobile

1898 Treaty of Paris U.S. declares war on Spain April 25th. The treaty of Paris was signed ending the Spanish American War

1901 William McKinley

President William McKinley is shot in Buffalo, N.Y. by anarchist

1903 Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers make the first controlled, sustained plane in flight, happened in Kitty Hawk, N.C.

1904 Panama Canal Zone

U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone

1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Leaves 500 dead or missing destroying 4 square miles of the city

1909 NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded

1909 Model T Henry Ford introduces the Model T automobile. Starts at $850 by 1924 drops to $240 in price

1912 Titanic Titanic sinks, more than 500 lives are lost.

1914 World War I Start of WWI due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

1915 Great Migration

Blacks move from rural south to urban north

1917 3- day race riots

An estimated 100 blacks die in 3 day race riot in east St. Louis, Illinois

1917 Woodrow Wilson’s War Message

In a special session of Congress Wilson delivered a war message announcing that Germany severed diplomatic relations. Congress voted to fight.

1919 Red Summer 25 race riots break out in U.S. cities killing and wounding hundreds of people

1920 Red Scare Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer orders a series of aids to individual suspected of harboring socialist, communist, anarchist.

1925 Scopes Trial Lawyer Clerence Darrow, defends John Scopes a Tennessee teacher accused of teaching evolution rather than creationism.

1929 Stock Market Crash

New York Stock Market crashes on black Tuesday and the crash starts the Great Depression

1929 St. Valentines Day Massacre

Gangster Al Capone, has 7 members of a rival gang murdered. He went to jail in 1931 for not murder but tax envision

1933 New Deal Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 32nd president and creates the “new deal” recovery measure

1939 U.S. stays neutral with WWII

Conflict occurring overseas in Europe. The U.S. keeps policy of neutrality

1941 Dec. 7th Pearl Harbor Attack

Japan surprise attacks Pearl Harbor. The Japanese take out an entire naval base in the attack

1942 United Nations formed

1942 Batoon Death March

75,000 Philipo and U.S. soldiers were held captive and forced to relocate to camps. Wide range abuse and high fatalities occurred.

1942 Battle of Midway

Naval Battle U.S. destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser while lasting a carrier and destroyer

1944 D-day invasion AN Armando crossed a narrow strip of sea from England to Normandy France and took control

1945 Surrender Germans surrender to the Allies

1945 A- bomb U.S drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan

1947 C.I.A. The Central Intelligence Agency is created

1947 Marshall Plan Secretary of state purposes a plan, a massive program for aid to the devastated nations of Europe.

1948-1960’s

Communism Red Scare in the U.S. America is afraid of Communism

1950 Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism

Communism on the rise. Senator Joe McCarthy accuses Americans of being modern day communist. A modern day witch hunt looking for communist.

1950-1964

Civil Rights Movement

Included Montgomery Bus, sit-ins, freedom rides, Birmingham march on Washington & protests

1950 Korean War U.S. becomes involved in War. Trying to keep out of South Korea

1954 Brown v. Board of EducationTopeka, Kansas

Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional

1956 Elvis Presley Becomes Americas most popular cultural icon known as “king of rock and roll”

1956-1975

Vietnam War America and South Vietnam is taken over by the Communist North Vietnam and its capital is taken over

1957 School Integration

President Eisenhower sends Federal troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce integration

1960 Election of 1960

Closest presidential election to date between John F. Kennedy and Nixon. Gore and Bush 2000 becomes closest ever

1961 Bay of Pigs Unsuccessful U.S. planned invasion of Cuba. Attempt to overthrow Castro’s government

1962 John Glenn U.S. marine lieutenant Colbert John Glenn becomes the 1st American to orbit the Earth

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

President J.F.K denounces Soviet Union for society installing missile bases on Cuba initiates a naval blockade of the islands

1963 Martin Luther King Speech

Famous “ I have a dream speech before a crowd of 200,000 during civil rights march on Washington D.C.

1963 President J.F.K. is assassinated

Lee Harvey Oswald killed J.F.K. during parade. Conspiracy theories exist on the truth

1965 Malcolm X Preached of black nationalism and Muslim pride. Assassinated in NYC

1968 Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated

Occurs in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots in more than 100 cities

1968 Tet Offensive Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launch a surprise attack on South Vietnam and U.S. forces

1969 Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong becomes 1st man to walk on the moon during Apollo II mission

1970 Kent State Tragedy

American college students protest war. 4 students killed on Kansas State University in Ohio

1972 Watergate Scandal

Democratic headquarters at Watergates is broken into.

1973 Paris Peace Accords

Remaining U.S. troops are withdrawn both Vietnam. War is over.

1979 3 mile island Nuclear power plant accident in Pennsylvania release radiation

1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

52 U.S. diplomats were held hostage 444 days after Iranian group of militants take over.

1981 First Female Justice

Sandra day O’Connor and MRS. EMERSON IS BORN!

1983 Sally Ride Astronaut Sally Ride becomes first woman to go into space.

1986 Challenger Explodes

Space shuttle explodes after taking off killing about 7 aboard and a teacher.

1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Worst nuclear accident in history in the USSR. Long term affects believed to cause over 4,000 cancer accidents

1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill

One of the most devastating man made disasters. 10.8 million gallons of unrefined oils spill into Alaskan waters

1990 Persian Gulf War

Bush Sr. sends U.S troops and war planes to defend Saudi Arabia and Kuwait against Iraq

1993 Waco Massacre

51 days stand off at Branch Davidia ends with fire killing 76 people including David Koresn

1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

Timothy McVeigh charged with bombing federal office buildings and killing 168 including children.

1995 O.J. Simpson Found not guilty in the murder of ex wife. 1997 found guilty

1998 Clinton Impeachment

2nd president to face impeachment, charged with perjury, house votes to impeach senate acquits him the following year

1999 Columbine High School Tragedy

Erik Harris and Dylan Klebble embark on a rampage killing 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide

2000 Election Controversy

Presidential election between Bush and Gore. Gore won the popular vote but lost due to the electoral college system

2001 September 11 attack

Series of coordinating suicide attacks by Al Queda resulting in 3000 deaths from the Pentagon and World Trade Centers

2006 Deadliest School Shooting- Virginia Tech Tragedy

School shooting comprising of 2 separate attack. Seung Ituicho killed 32 before committing suicide