Josh Samuels 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 1700

Proclamation of 1763

Aug 24, 1763

Prohibited colonists from settling west of Appalachin 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)

Thomas Jefferson Elected

Sep 6, 1800

Louisiana Purchase

Sep 6, 1803

doubled size of usa overnight

War of 1812

Sep 6, 1812

Missouri Compromise

Sep 6, 1820

drew east/west line through Louisiana Purchase

Monroe Doctrine

Sep 6, 1823

Tariff of 1832

Sep 6, 1832

North liked it and the South hated it

Mexican War

Period: Sep 6, 1846 to Sep 7, 1848

Compromise of 1850

Sep 6, 1850

Entered California as free state

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Sep 6, 1854

Repealed Missouri Compromise

Lincoln Elected President

Sep 28, 1860

Southern states secede

Lincoln Calls For Federal Troops

Sep 28, 1861

After States Secede

Homestead Act

Oct 6, 1862

get free land to settlers in the west

Chinese Exculsion Act of 1882

Oct 6, 1862

Reconstruction Ended

Sep 28, 1876

Reconstruction Ended

Oct 6, 1876

Compromise of 1877

Sep 28, 1877

Ended Reconstruction

WW1 Begins in Europe

Oct 11, 1914

USA enters WW1

Oct 11, 1917

Immigration Restriction Act of 1921

Oct 6, 1921