AP US History Timeline

1 AP US History TimelineCreated by 2004/2005 Fifth period AP US History ClassSophie Barron EditorMatt Bird EditorAndrew Carter - ChronologyMorgan Dunley - ChronologyAddison Floyd EditorMichael Ibarra - ?Carol Koch - LinksMicah Mack - ChronologyAlicia Michael Dream Team PicturesNatalie Orrell Dream Team PicturesMeredith Robinson - MotivatorRick Little Richard Snell - LinksHannah Virnig - ChronologyCreative Consulting and annoyance Kory KalaharThanks for all your hard work and patience!Contact and Settlement(1000-1700)With Columbus discovery of Americain 1492 came the beginning of an erafilled with exploration and groups came to the Americasseeking God.

2 Gold and glory but endedup finding only harsh environments andeven death*1000 Leif Ericson explores the eastcoast of North America1215 The Magna Carta document isadopted in England1492 October 12 ChristopherColumbus makes his first voyageto the New World1497 John Cabot of England exploresthe Atlantic coast of Canada1513 Ponce de Leon of Spain lands inFlorida1517 Martin Luther launches theProtestant Reformation in Europe1519 Hernando Cortes conquers theAztec empire1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan and his creware the first people to sail aroundthe world1524 Giovanni da Varrazano exploresthe Carolina area, Hudson River,Narragansett Bay, and NovaScotia1541 Hernando de Soto of Spaindiscovers the Mississippi River1565 St.

3 Augustine, the first permanentcolony in Florida by the Spanish1585 Roanoke Island settled by SirWalter Raleigh1590 Roanoke colony vanishes,leaving only Croaton carved ona tree1606 The London Company sponsors acolonizing expedition to Virginia1607 Jamestown is founded in Virginiaby the colonists of the LondonCompany1608 January Jamestown founded1609 Henry Hudson explores NorthAmerica from Hudson River toAlbany Tobacco planted in Virginia1616 Tobacco becomes an exportstaple for Virginia A smallpox epidemic amongNew England Native Americans1619 Virginia House of Burgessesconvenes in Jamestown Slavery begins in ColonialAmerica1620 November 9 -- Mayflower landsat Cape Cod.

4 Massachusetts November 11 -- MayflowerCompact is signed1630 March -- John Winthrop andPuritans move to MassachusettsBay September Boston isestablished1634 Maryland established1636 June -- Roger Williams foundsProvidence and Rhode Island Harvard College founded1638 Anne Hutchinson is banishedfrom Massachusetts1652 Rhode Island enacts the first lawin the colonies declaring slaveryillegal1662 The Half-way covenant enacted1663 Carolina established Navigation Act of 16631664 The Dutch New Netherlandcolony becomes English NewYork Maryland passes a law makinglifelong servitude for blackslaves mandatory1673 Dutch military forces retake NewYork from the British British Navigation Act1674 The Treaty of Westminster1675 King Philip s War Bacon s rebellion1681 Pennsylvania founded byWilliam Penn.

5 A Quaker1682 French explorer La Salleexplores the lower MississippiValley region1685 King James II takes over Britain Edict of Nantes revoked1689 April -- New England GovernorAndros jailed by rebelliouscolonists in Boston July -- the English governmentorders Andros to be returned toEngland to stand trial1690 King William s War begins1692 May Salem witch trials1696 April Navigation Act1697 September Treaty of Ryswickends King William s WarColonial Time(1700-1775)By 1700 colonists had established theirpresence in America. In this time periodearly American cities begin to developand the immigrants began to acquire anAmerican identity.

6 By 1775 colonialsbanded together to fight what they sawas English tyranny.*Revolutionary re-enactment LOC1701 July - French establish asettlement at Detroit October -- Yale College isfounded in Connecticut1702 Queen Anne s War in thecolonies In Maryland, the AnglicanChurch is established as theofficial church1705 Virginia Black Code New York assigns the deathpenalty for runaway slavescaught over 40 miles north ofAlbany Massachusetts declares marriagebetween African Americans andwhites to be illegal1710 Post Office Act1711 Tuscarora Indian War1712 May -- Carolina colony isdivided into North Carolina andSouth Carolina June -- Pennsylvania assemblybans the import of slaves intothat colony1713 Queen Anne s War ends with theTreaty of Utrecht1718 New Orleans is founded by theFrench1730

7 Baltimore is founded in theMaryland colony1732 June -- Georgia, the 13th Englishcolony, is founded1733 Molasses Act1734 November -- John Peter Zengeris arrested December -- Great Awakeningreligious revival movement1750 Iron Act1751 Currency Act1754-1763 French and Indian War1763 Treaty of Paris Proclamation Line of 17631764 Sugar Act Currency Act May James Otis raises the issueof taxation withoutrepresentation August Boston merchantsbegin a boycott of British luxurygoods1765 March Stamp Act March Quartering Act May Patrick Henry presentsseven Virginia Resolutions to theHouse of Burgesses July Sons of

8 Liberty is formed August 26 mob in Bostonattacks the home of ThomasHutchinson October Stamp Act Congress December American boycott ofEnglish imports spreads1766 March King George III repealsthe Stamp Act Declaratory Act1767 June Townshend Revenue Acts October Bostonians reinstate aboycott of English luxury items1768 February Samuel Adams ofMassachusetts writes a CircularLetter1769 October Boycott of Englishgoods spreads to New Jersey,Rhode Island, and NorthCarolina1770 March 5 Boston Massacre April Townshend Acts arerepealed by the British1772 November Committee ofCorrespondence formed1773 May 10 Tea Act December 16 Boston Tea Party1774 March Coercive Acts (calledIntolerable Acts by Americans)

9 May 20 second set of CoerciveActs June a new version of the 1765 Quartering Act enacted September MassachusettsGovernor Gage seizes thatcolony s arsenal of weapons atCharlestown September 5 October 26 - FirstContinental Congress October 14 Declaration andResolves is adopted October 20 - Congress adopts theContinental AssociationThe Revolution and EarlyGovernment(1775-1800)During this time period an army mostlymade up of the common man,accomplished the miraculous feat ofexpelling a professional army fromAmerica s borders. America then livedthrough the beginnings of two forms ofgovernment.

10 *1775 Paul Revere s Ride Revolutionary War begins1776 Thomas Paine s CommonSense Declaration of IndependenceAdopted(Continued War)1781 Articles of Confederation created1783 Treaty of Paris between Britainand Colonies1784 Land Ordinance Act1785 Land Ordinance Act1786 Shays' Rebellion1787 Northwest Ordinance Continental Convention1788 Ratification of Constitution1789 1789-1792 -- GeorgeWashington elected Judiciary Act1791 Bill of Rights ratified1794 Pinckney Treaty with Spain Whiskey Rebellion1796 1796-1800 -- John Adamselected1798 French XYZ affair Alien and Sedition Acts1800 1800-1804 -- Thomas JeffersonelectedJeffersonian Democracy1800-1824* In this time