Timeline

Question 1

Period 1

Answer 1

1492-1607

Columbus

Roanoke

Question 2

Period 2

Answer 2

1607-1754

Jamestown

House of Burgesses

Mayflower and Plymouth

Massachusetts Bay Colony and “City on a Hill”

Acts of Toleration

Pennsylvania and William Penn

Bacon’s Rebellion
Salem Witch Trials

Great Awakening / Enlightenment
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Question 3

Period 3

Answer 3

1754-1800

Albany Plan

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

Proclamation 1763

Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress

Townshend Acts

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

Coercive Acts

First Continental Congress

Second Continental Congress

“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine

Declaration of Independence

Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris

Articles of Confederation

Constitutional Convention

Bill of Rights

Washington’s Farewell Address

XYZ Affair

Question 4

Period 5

Answer 4

1844-1877

James K. Polk

Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott Decision

Lincoln Douglas Debates

Fort Sumter

Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln Assassination

Reconstruction Begins

Compromise of 1877

Question 5

Period 4

Answer 5

1800-1848

Marbury v. Madison

Louisiana Purchase
Embargo Act 1807

War of 1812

James Monroe

Era of Good Feelings

Missouri Compromise

Indian Removal Act

2nd Great Awakening

Question 6

Period 6

Answer 6

1865-1898

Frederick Jackson Turner Frontier Thesis

J.P. Morgan

Sherman Antitrust Law

Question 7

Period 7

Answer 7

1890-1945

Spanish-American War

Platt Amendment

Panama Canal

Muckrakers

Woodrow Wilson

Lusitania

Zimmerman Telegram

Wilson’s 14 Points

First Red Scare

Harding

Coolidge

Scopes Monkey Trial

Stock Market Crash

Great Depression Begins

Hoovervilles

FDR

New Deal

Neutrality Acts

Lend-Lease Act

Pearl Harbor

D-Day

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

2nd Red Scare