APUSH

• Jamestown


  1607
• First slaves


  1619
• Salutary neglect ends:


  1763
• French Indian war


  1754-1763
• Bacon's Rebellion


  1676
• Declaration of Independence


  1776
• Homestead Act 


  1862
• Transcontinental Railroad


  1869
• Frontier closes


  1890
• Spanish American war


  1898
• Mission system ends


  1830s
• Iroquois Confederation ends during Revolutionary war.
• Pontiacs Rebellion in 1763 was in response to Britain gaining French territory after French-Indian war.
• Native Americans during the Revolutionary Era:

  Attempted to keep power through alliances with other countries, US government, and other tribes
• Native Americans after Revolution:

  Increased westward movement led to increased conflict, the Constitution failed to define relationship between tribes and government.
• Native Americans during the Jacksonian Era:

  Increasingly marginalized by Indian Removal Act of 1831 and reservation system beginning in 1851.
• Native Americans and Westward expansion:

  Movement into the Great Plain caused wars between settlers and natives: Indian Wars, Battle of Little Bighorn, Wounded Knee
• Dawes Severalty Act 1887, allowed government to break up tribal lands and tried to force assimilation.
• Wounded Knee, massacre of Lakota Indians by US government

  1890
• Indians Wars

  1860s and 1870s
• Battle of Little Bighorn, victory for the Sioux over US army

  1867
• Native Americans in Civil Rights Era:

  American Indian movement: Occupation of Alcatraz 1969, Wounded Knee 1973, Indian Self Determination act of 1975
• Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls Convention demanded rights for women.