Exploration through the US Constitution

By nicoletrice
  • Jun 15, 1215

    The Magna Carta is written to limit the power of English rulers

  • Aug 1, 1492

    Columbus set sail to find a route to the east indies

    Columbus set sail to find a route to the east indies
  • Nov 8, 1519

    Hernando Cortes captures Tenochtitlan

    Hernando Cortes captures Tenochtitlan

  • Virginia founded

    Virginia founded

  • New Hampshire founded

    New Hampshire founded

  • New York founded

    New York founded

  • Massachusetts founded

    Massachusetts founded

  • Maryland founded

    Maryland founded

  • Connecticut founded

    Connecticut founded

  • Rhode island founded

    Rhode island founded

  • Carolinas founded

    Carolinas founded

  • Delaware

    Delaware

  • Pennsylvania founded

    Pennsylvania founded

  • The Carolinas split into North and South Carolina

    The Carolinas split into North and South Carolina

  • Georgia founded

  • French troops defeat General Braddock

  • Quebec surrenders to the British

  • British troops take Montreal, ending the French & Indian War fighting in North America

  • Treaty of Paris is signed between Britain & France, ending the French & Indian War

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

  • Townshend Acts

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts

  • First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia

  • "The shot heard round the world" is fired in Lexington

  • Second Continenetal Congress meets in Philadelphia

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • American troops seize Montreal

  • Americans troops fail to take Quebec

  • Thomas Paine writes Common Sense

  • Continental Congress accepts the Declaration of Independence

  • Articles of Confederation Written

  • British troops surrender at Saratoga

  • Benedict Arnold turns traitor to the American cause

  • American troops capture King's Mountain

  • Articles of Confederation go into Effect

  • British troops surrender at Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress, ending the Revolutionary War

  • The "Empress of China" becomes the first American ship to trade with China

  • French and Indian War begins at Battle of Fort Nesessity

  • Land Ordinance of 1785

  • Shay's Rebellion

  • Northwest Ordinance

  • Constitutional Convention opens in Philadelphia

  • Constitution approved by Constitutional Convention

  • Congress creates the first five executive departments

  • Congress passes the Judiciary Act to organize the federal court system

  • Marbury v. Madison tried before the Supreme Court, establishing judicial review

  • George Washington is inaugurated as our first president

  • Congress creates the first Bank of the United States

  • The French Revolution begins when an angry mob storms the Bastille

  • French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are beheaded

  • Britain seizes American ships trading in the French West Indies

  • Washington issues the Neutrality Proclamation

  • The Whiskey Rebellion

  • 11th Admendment-suits against states

  • George Washington publishes his Farewell Address

  • Father Junipero Serra builds first mission at San Diego

  • Alien and Sedition Acts passed

  • Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr receive the same number of electoral votes for President, causing Congress to eventually pass the 12th amendment

  • Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated the third President of the United States

  • Thomas Jefferson approves the purchase of Louisiana

  • Federalist leader, Alexander Hamilton, killed in a duel with Republican, Aaron Burr

  • Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis to explore the American west

  • Election of president and vice president

  • Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean

  • Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis

  • Zebulon Pike views a mountain peak rising above the Colorado plains, which becomes known as "Pikes Peak"

  • Thomas Jefferson persuades Congress to pass the Embargo Act

  • James Madison wins the election and becomes our fourth President

  • Congress passes the Nonintercourse Act to replace the Embargo Act

  • President Madison asks Congress to declare war on Britain

  • The American ship, the Constitution, battles the British ship, Guerriere, in the north Atlantic near the beginning of the War of 1812

  • Battle of Lake Erie

  • Battle of Horseshoe Bend

  • Britain defeats France in the war in Europe

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • British troops capture Washington, DC

  • Treaty of Ghent signed

  • US and Britain reach agreement to jointly occupy Oregon

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Stephen Austin is given a land grant and leads settlers into Texas

  • William Becknell leads group of traders from Missouri to New Mexico

  • Tariff of 1828

  • The Tariff of 1832

  • General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna comes to power in Mexico

  • Mexican troops begin a siege of the Alamo

  • Texans declare independence from Mexico

  • Battle of San Jacinto is won by Sam Houston

  • Manifest Destiny plays important role in election of James K Polk as Presidentf

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • 13th admendment-Abolition of Slavery

  • 14th admendment- rights of citizens

  • 15th amendment- voting rights

  • 16th amendment-the income tax

  • 17th amendment- direct election of senators

  • 18th amendment- prohibition of alcoholic beverages

  • 19th amendment- womans suffrage

  • 20th amendment- presidential terms; sessions of congress

  • 21st amendment- repeal of prohibition

  • 22nd amendment- limit on number of president's terms

  • 23rd amendment- presidential electors for district of columbia

  • 24th amendment- abolition of poll tax in National Elections

  • 25th amendment- presidential succession and disability

  • 26th amendment- voting age

  • 27th amendment- Congressional pay increase