"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. History is not just the past. History is the present." ~David C. McCullough
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Timeline (1770-1859)
1770--Boston Massacre
1772--Somerset case
1773--Tea Act; Boston Tea Party
1774--Intolerable Acts; Continental Congress convenes; Thomas Jefferson's "A Summary View of the Rights of British America"
1775--Lord Dunmore's Proclamation; Battles at Lexington and Concord
1776--Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"; Declaration of Independence; Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"; John Adams's "Thoughts on Government"
1777--Battle of Saratoga; Vermont state constitution bans slavery; Articles of Confederation drafted
1778--French Treaty of Amity and Commerce; Rhode Island forms a black regiment in its state militia; Molly Pitcher serves during the Battle of Monmouth
1779--Thomas Jefferson writes "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom"; Pittsburgh Proclamation
1780--Robert Morris becomes director of congressional fiscal policy
1781--Articles of Confederation ratified
1782--Deborah Sampson enlists in the Continental Army; "Letters from an American Farmer"
1786-87--Daniel Shay's Rebellion
1787--Northwest Ordinance of 1787; Constitutional Convention convenes; first Shaker community established in Upstate New York
1788--"The Federalist" papers; Constitution ratified
1789--Inauguration of George Washington; French Revolution begins
1790--Naturalization Act; first national census
1791-1804--Hatian Revolution
1791--Bill of Rights ratified; Little Turtle defeats Arthur St. Clair's forces
1792--Sarah Morton's "The African Chief"; Mary Wollstoncraft's "A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman"
1793--Washington's Neutrality Proclamation; King Louis XVI executed; British and French War begins; Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
1794--Jay's Treaty; Whiskey Rebellion; Little Turtle defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
1797--Inauguration of John Adams
1798--XYZ Affair; Alien and Sedition Acts
1799--John Fries's Rebellion
1800--Gabriel's Rebellion
1801--Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson
1803--Louisiana Purchase; Marbury v. Madison
1804--Hamilton-Burr duel
1804-1806--Lewis and Clark Expedition
1806--Congress approves funds for the Cumberland Road
1807--Embargo Act; Robert Fulton develops steamship
1808--Congress abolishes the Atlantic Slave Trade
1809--Inauguration of James Madison
1811--Battle of Tippecanoe; Bank of the United States charter expires
1812-1814--War of 1812
1814--Hartford Convention; Treaty of Ghent
1815--Battle of New Orleans
1816--Second Bank of the United States established; American Colonization Society founded
1817--inauguration of James Monroe
1819--Panic of 1819; McCulloch v. Maryland; Transcontinental Treaty with Spain; Darmouth College v. Woodward
1820--Missouri Compromise; Moses Austin receives Mexican land grant; Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-Day Saints established
1823--Monroe Doctrine
1824--Gibbons v. Ogden; Owenite community established at New Harmony
1825--Erie Canal opens; inauguration of John Q. Adams
1826--American Temperance Society founded
1827--"Freedom's JOurnal", the first black newspaper, is established in the United States
1828--Construction begins on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; "Tariff of abominations"
1829--Lydia Maria Child's "The Frugal Housewife"; David Walker's "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World"; Inauguration of Andrew Jackson
1831--Cyrus McCormick introduces the reaper; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia; William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator" debuts
1833--American Anti-Slavery Society founded; Lydia Maria Child's "An Appeal in Fovir of that Class of Americans Called Africans"
1834--Female Moral Reform Society organized
1836--The Alamo
1837--Texas declares its independence from Mexico; John Deere introduces the steel plow; Depression begins; Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Scholar"; Harriet Martineau's "Society in America"; Elijah Lovejoy killed
1839--Theodore Weld's "Salvery As It Is"
1840--Orestes Brownson's "The Laboring Class"; Second Great Awakening begins
1841--New England transcendentalists establish Brook Farm; inauguration of William Henry Harrison; Dorr War
1844--Telegraph put into commercial operation
1845--John L. O'Sullivan coins the phrase "Manifest Destiny"
1845-51--Ireland's potato famine
1846--Henry David Thoreau is jailed; Wilmot Proviso
1848--John Humphry Noyes founds Oneida community in New York; Free Soil Party organized; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; Gold discovered in foothills of Sierra, Nevada and California
1850--Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
1852--Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Frederick Douglass's speech "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?"
1853--Gadsden Purchase
1854--Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Know-Nothing Party established; Ostend Manifesto
1856--Bleeding Kansas
1857--Dred Scott decision
1858--Lincoln-Douglas debates
1859--John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
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