American and National Identity By mirellemahmoud 1558 English Colonization Begings 1607 Jamestown colony Founded 1608 French colonization Begins 1609 Dutch Colonization Begins 1610 Spanish colonization Begins 1611 John Rolfe's Tobacco Boom 1620 Mayflower Compact written 1632 Maryland Colony founded 1636 Pequot War 1675 King Phillip's War 1681 William Penn's Holy Experiment 1730 Great Awakening 1754 French and Indian War 1763 Treaty of Paris 1764 Committees of Correspondence 1765 Sons of Liberty 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 First Continental Congress Apr 19, 1775 American revolutionary War 1776 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence written 1777 Articles of Confederation ratified 1787 Shay's Rebellion 1788 U.S. Constitution is ratified 1791 Bill of Rights is ratified 1794 Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania 1845 U.S. annexed Texas 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed 1850 Compromise of 1850 1857 Dred Scott case decision 1860 South Carolina leaves the Union 1861 Civil War Begins 1863 Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation 1865 13th Amendment is ratified 1865 Civil War Ends 1866 14th Amendment is ratified 1870 15th amendment is ratified 1874 Frances Willard forms the Women's Christian Temperance Union 1877 The Great Railroad Strike 1886 Haymarket Square Riot 1886 American Federation of Labor is formed 1889 Carnegie writes the Gospel of Wealth 1893 Panic of 1893 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Case 1898 Spanish American War occurs 1945 World War 2 ends 1949 NATO is created 1954 Brown v. Board of Education 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1964 Civil Rights Act is passed 1973 Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam