Jordan Hernandez US History

Jamestown

Dec 24, 1607

First permanent English settlement (know year only)

First Africans brought to Jamestown

Dec 24, 1619

to work on tobacco plantations (know year only)

Great Awakening

Period: Dec 24, 1740 to Dec 25, 1760

religious movement that swept through Europe and the Colonies in the mid 1700s (know years only)

Proclamation of 1763

Aug 24, 1763

Prohibited colonists from setting west of Appalachian Mountains (know year only)

Revolutionary War Begins

Aug 24, 1775

Shots fired at Lexington and Concord (know year only)

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

Written by Thomas Jefferson

Constitution Ratified

Aug 29, 1787

(know year only)

Mexican War

Period: Sep 28, 1846 to Sep 29, 1848

(know year only)

Compromise of 1850

Sep 28, 1850

Entered California as free state and let other territories vote whether or not to have slaves (Know year only)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Sep 28, 1854

Repealed Missouri Compromise (know year only)

Lincoln Elected President

Sep 28, 1860

Southern states secede (know year only)

Lincoln Calls For Federal Troops

Sep 28, 1861

After Southern States Secede (know year only)

Homestead Act

Oct 6, 1862

gave free land to settlers in the west (know year only)

Reconstruction Period

Sep 28, 1876

(know year only)

Compromise of 1877

Sep 28, 1877

Ended Reconstruction (know year only)

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Oct 6, 1882

(know year only)

WW1 Begins in Europe

Oct 11, 1914

(know year only)

USA Enters WW1

Oct 11, 1917

because of ties of Britain and German submarine warfare on our ships (know year only)

Immigration Restriction Act of 1921

Oct 6, 1921

(know year only)

Black Tuesday

Oct 29, 1929

Stock Market crash

Tariff Act of 1930

Oct 18, 1930

a.k.a Hawley - Smoot Tariff (know year only)