Finals Timeline By efever 1492 Columbus sails ocean blue 1606 King James I issues charters to london co and plymouth co 1608 Quebec is founded 1608 John Smith and ships show up to jamestown with more supplies Period: 1609 to 1610 Starving times 1619 First step towards slavery in the colonies Due to tobacco growth 1660 Legal codes created Created to give control to slave masters Period: 1660 to 1760 Salutary Neglect GB did not strictly enforce the Navigation acts 1680 pueblo revolt 1754 Albany Plan rejected 1754 French and indian war Begins 1764 The Sugar Act 1764 Currency act passed 1765 Stamp Act 1765 Stamp act crisis 1765 Mutiny act passed 1766 Stamp act repealed 1767 Townshend duties imposed 1770 Boston massacre 1770 Most townshend duties repealed 1772 Gaspee affair 1772 Committees of correspondence established in Boston 1773 Tea act passed 1773 Bostonians stage tea party 1774 Intolerable acts passed 1774 First continental congress meets in Philadelphia 1775 Clashes at lexington and concord begin american revolution 1777 AOC enacted 1781 AOC ratified 1783 Treaty of Paris 1784 Land Ordinance Period: 1785 to 1794 Northwest Indian War Period: 1786 to 1787 Shays Rebellion 1787 Northwest Ordinance 1787 Constitution Ratified 1787 Constitutional Convention 1789 French Revolution Sep 25, 1789 Bill of rights Ratified 1791 Whiskey Excise Passed Period: 1803 to 1806 Louis and Clark Explore the West Apr 30, 1803 Lousiana Purchase 1830 Removal Act Enacted 1831 Cherokee Nation v Georgia Period: 1831 to 1850 Trail of Tears 1832 South Carolina tries to nullify the "tariff of abominations" 1834 Indian Intercourse Act Passed Jan 24, 1848 The Great Coincidence 1850 Compromise of 1850 1856 The Crime Against Kansas 1856 Missouri Compromise broken Mar 6, 1857 The Dred Scott Decision 1859 John Brown's Raid of Harper's Ferry 1860 Election of 1860 1860 Lincoln elected Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 9, 1865 Civil War Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed 1865 Lincoln assasinated 1865 13th Amendment Passed 1868 14th Amendment Passed 1869 15th amendment passed 1877 Compromise 1877 1896 Plessy V Ferguson