US History Timeline By OrganicJuice 1763 Seven Years’ War Ends 1770 Boston Massacre Dec 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 First Continental Congress Formed 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord 1777 Articles of Confederation Is Adopted by Congress 1786 Shays’s Rebellion Jun 21, 1788 Constitution Is Ratified 1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1795 Treaty of Greenville 1798 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1812 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1823 Monroe Doctrine Is Made 1838 Trail of Tears Movement 1848 Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls Apr 12, 1861 Attack on Fort Sumter 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 “10 Percent“ Reconstruction Plan 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn 1877 Compromise of 1877 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1887 Interstate Commerce Act 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 1904 Roosevelt Corollary 1906 Meat Inspection Act 1914 Federal Trade Commission Act 1914 Tampico Incident 1919 League of Nations Is Established 1919 Red Scare 1920 Nineteenth Amendment Oct 29, 1929 Black Tuesday Sep 1, 1939 World War II Begins