Unit 1 Timeline

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    French and Indian War

    Native Americans were fighting alongside the French against the British in hopes to maintain their land and culture.
  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    A boundary between the British and Native American territory set at the Appalachian mountains. This prohibited colonist from settling on Native land.
  • Stamp Act

    Taxing created by the British where stamped items required a tax.
  • Declaratory Act

    The British government repealing the stamp act.
  • Tea Act

    An act giving all control over trade and delivery of tea to the East India Tea Company.
  • Boston Tea Party

    A political protest against the Tea Act. Protestors dressed as natives and threw tea into the harbor.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Established the US government after declaring independence from Britain.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaring independence from Britain
  • Treaty of Paris

    Recognized US independence and giving the US much western territory.
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    Created a government for the Northwest territory of US, provided a way for admitting new states into the Union.
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    Constitutional Convention

    Deciding how America would be governed.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Purchase from France of the western half of the Mississippi River Basin.
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    Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears

    Cherokee's forced to leave east of Mississippi river and migrate to Oklahoma.
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    Mexican American War

    America invading Mexico.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with both Slavery and territorial expansion. "The acts called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act." National Archives
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Repealed Missouri compromise, two new territories created, allowed popular sovereignty.
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Supreme Court stated enslaved peoples were not citizens of US, meaning no protection from government or courts.
  • Election of 1860

    Lincoln won created uproar in south for his anti-slavery beliefs.
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    Civil War

    Fight between the Union and Confederacy over slavery.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Stating all enslaved people are free.
  • 13th Amendment

    Abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.
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    Ratification of the U.S. Constitution

    Each state given 6 months to meet and vote over the proposed constitution.