1600 / Mercantilism / Colonial Period
1650
1700
1750 / Capitalism / Revolutionary War (1776-83)
Federal Period / Washington 1789-96
Adams 1796-1800
1800 / Erie Canal
1827-Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company are incorporated in Maryland
Panic of 1837
1849- California Gold Rush begins / War of 1812 (12-14)
Era of Good Feeling
Era of Mass Democracy/ Manifest Destiny
Mexican War 46-48 / Jefferson 1800-08 Madison 1808-16
Monroe 1816-24
JQ Adams 1824-28
Jackson 1828-36
Van Buren 1836-40
W Harrison 1840-41 *
Tyler 1841-44
Polk 1844-48
Taylor 1848-50*
1850 / 1859 - Oil is discovered in Pennsylvania
1869- First Transcontinental Railroad
1869- Knights of Labor founded
1882- Standard Oil Trust established
1886 AFL founded
Panic of 1893
1894 – Pullman Strike / Civil War (1861-65)
Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Sp-Am War (1898) / Fillmore 1850-52
Pierce 1852-56
Buchanan 1856-1860
Lincoln 1860-1864 *
A Johnson 1864-68 +
Grant 1868-76
Hayes 1876-80
Garfield 1880-81 *
Arthur 1881-1884
Cleveland 1884-88
B Harrison 1888-92
Cleveland 1892-96
McKinley 1896-01*
1900 / 1903- first Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line
1903- Wright Bros. fly first plane
1927 –first talking motion pictures
Great Depression (1929-1940)
Post War Economic Prosperity (45-73) and Baby boom (45-65) / Progressive Era
WWI (1917-18)
Jazz Age
Depression Era
WWII (1941-45)
Cold War / T Roosevelt 1901-08
Taft 1908-12
Wilson 1912-20
Harding 1920-23*
Coolidge 1923-28
Hoover 1928-32
F Roosevelt 1932-45*
Truman 1945-52
1950 / 1973 Oil Embargo / Korea (1950-53)
Vietnam (65-73)
Post Cold War / Eisenhower 1952-60
Kennedy 1960-63 *
L Johnson 1963-8
Nixon 1968-1974 #
Ford 1974-76
Carter 1976-80
Reagan 1980-88
GH Bush 1988-92
Clinton 1992-2000
2000 / GWOT 2001- / GW Bush 2000-08
Obama 2008-
* died in office, either through natural causes or assassination + impeached # resigned
Act – means law. The axiom “It would take an Act of Congress to….” means that Congress would have to make a law for (x) to happen.
For this assignment, events that are characterized as Economic events include: economic systems, money supply and types of specie, jobs and employment, distribution of wealth, resources, organized labor, and technological innovations, upturns and downturns in the national economy.
For this assignment, events that are characterized as Political events include: military actions and wars, changes in governmental leadership, laws, amendments to the Constitution, decisions of the Courts, and voting patterns and outcomes, foreign policy statements, rebellions, actions of political parties and organizations, and political protest actions.
Research these political events, give a succinct but precise description of the event, (a scholarly tweet) and place them in the correct chronological place on the timeline:
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Monroe Doctrine
Jamestown settlement
Cuban Missile Crisis
Plymouth settlement
Watergate
Boston Massacre
Nat Turner Rebellion
Intolerable Acts
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Declaration of Independence
Detente
Constitutional Convention
Missouri Compromise
Corrupt Bargain
Indian Removal Act
Seneca Falls Convention
Bleeding Kansas
Wounded Knee Massacre
Trail of Tears
Chinese Exclusion Act
9/11
Panama Canal opens
Salem witch trials
French and Indian War
Prohibition
19th Amendment
The New Deal
Yalta Conference
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Black Panther Party established
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Assignment:
In order to complete this assignment, students must follow these steps
Check list
___ Step one: Order the political events above by year. (due June 9 by noon)
___ Step two: Create tweets for events through 1800. (due July 1 by noon)
___ Step three: Read the excerpts below and place them on the timeline in the social and cultural column. Justify why these pieces and their authors so motivated to comment and publish and instruct, persuading American audiences? …In 140 characters or less. (due first day of school).
Final Product:
The final product may be digital or on paper and must contain the completed timeline and tweets from the assignments above. More instruction on this timeline will be provided by the instructors at AP Summer Camp, May 29, 30 from 9-3 pm each day.
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