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WARS

100

Need for beaver pelts to trade for guns with the French

Beaver Wars

200

Native American war fought to replenish the dead

Mourning Wars

300

Irish Scotts dislike how lenient the Quakers are with the Natives

Paxton Boys Rebellion

400

Farmers marched on the state's arsenal and closed court houses to prevent them from seizing farms.

Shays' Rebellion

500

Largest Indian war

Pontiac's War

BATTLES

100

George Washington's first battle. He builds Fort Necessity

Battle of Jumonville Glen

200

General Braddock's failed tactics lose fight for Britain. England declares war on France.

Battle of Monongahela

300

Bloodiest battle of the Revolution. King officially proclaims the colonies in rebellion after this.

Battle of Bunker Hill

400

George Washington crosses the Delaware River and defeats 1,000 Hessian British mercenaries.

Battle of Trenton

500

One of the most decisive battles in history. Inspired the French to aid the colonists which helped us win the Revolution

Battle of Saratoga

COLONIAL REACTION

100

Stamp Act (2)

Virginia Resolves 

Stamp Act Congress - "Declaration of Rights & Grievances" 

200

Townshend Act (2)

Letters from a farmer in PA

Mass. Circular Letter

300

Boston Massacre

Committees of Correspondence organized by Sam Adams

400

Tea Act

Boston Tea Party

500

Intolerable Acts (2)

Suffolk Resolves

1st Continental Congress

EVENTS

100

First mass turnout election in American history.  William Harrison won

Election of 1840

200

Andrew Jackson caused this with the Bank War and transferring federal funds in to state banks. Caused factories to close, unemployment to skyrocket and resulted in a 5 year depression. 

Panic of 1837

300

Forced removal of Indians and marching them West

Trail of Tears

400

Andrew Jackson gives himself the power to remove all remaining Indians, especially the 5 civilized tribes from their lands.

Indian Removal Act of 1830

500

Andrew Jackson defeats John Q. Adams and becomes the first president from the west. He is seen as a "common man"

Election of 1828 / Revolution of 1828 

PEOPLE

100

Enlightenment thinker- believed men were endowed with natural rights and that it is the governments responsibility to protect those rights.

John Locke

200

Enlightenment thinker. Wants to get rid of civilization and return to a "state of nature"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

300

Enlightenment thinker- wrote "Common Sense"

Thomas Paine

400

The Father of our Constitution

James Madison

500

One of the writers of "the Federalist Papers". Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington. Founded Federalist Party

Alexander Hamilton