Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War
1763
Quebec Act
1774
War of 1812
1812-1815
Emergence of 'Responsible Government' in Canada
1848
Quebec Resolutions
1864
Creation of Confederation of Canada
1867
US Delaware Treaty
1778
Boston Massacre
1770
Boston Tea Party
1773
Quebec Act
1774
Revolutionary War
(1775-1783)
Constitutional Convention
1787 meeting at which the U.S. Constitution was created.
Louisiana Purchase
1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.
Lewis and Clark Expedition
1804-1806
Johnson v. McIntosh
(1823, Marshall). Established that Indian tribes had rights to tribal lands that preceded all other American law; only the federal government could take land from the tribes.
Mexican Independence
1821
Cherokee Trail of Tears
1838-1839
Age of Santa Anna
1834-1855
Manifest Destiny
1845
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848
The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
1867
American Civil War
1861-1865
Reconstruction
1862-1877
The Revolutionary Generation (1783-1826)
1780s&90s -- before the first party system
by the turn of the century, many writings had political motives
Whig Interpretation of History (1830-1910)
understood as a linear development
Whig History -- past always moving the present
Whig Historians -- thought history was from the hand of God
Progressive Interpretation (1909-1945)
Liberal opposing the Whig Party
J. Franklin Jameson
The Imperial School (1910-1940)
Bancroft
Consensus School (1945-1965)
response to WWII
Richard Hofstader
Red Scare/McCarthyism
Neo-Whig Interpretation (1959-1992)
study of Patriot rhetoric during the Revolution
Building off work of Caroline Robbins
Republican Motherhood (1980)
groundbreaking writing in 70s & 80s on how revolution shaped role of women