ALL TIME CARDS

US Constitution Ratified

2 groups of pioneers moved from New England & Massachusetts to settle Ohio territory

George Washington President


Mission Santa Cruz established

Eli Whitney invents cotton gin

Eli Whitney invents interchangeable parts for muskets

Mission San Jose established

John Adams President

Thomas Jefferson President

Louisiana Purchase

Mission Santa Ynez established

Lewis & Clark begin expedition

Lewis & Clark return from the west

Robert Fulton invents regular steamboat service on the Hudson River

Britain outlaws slave trade

US outlaws slave trade

James Madison President

US Declares war on Britain

Mission San Rafael established

James Monroe President

Industrial Revolution begins in U.S.

Mexico becomes independent

Mexico becomes a republic

John Quincy Adams President

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad chartered

Andrew Jackson President

Indian removal Act

Boston & Providence Railroad incorporated

Cochise leads band in fight with Mexicans on Gila River

Santa Anna declares himself dictator of Mexico

2nd Seminole War begins in Florida

Texas declares independence

Samuel Morse invents telegraph

Battle of the Alamo

Cochise participates in a peace treaty at Arizpe, Sonora in Mexico

Martin Van Buren President

Cochise befriends Americans, hoping they will help fight Mexico

Cherokee Trail of Tears

William Henry Harrison President

John Tyler President

Elias How invents sewing machine

The Oregon Trail – Simmons-Bush Party leaves Missouri for Oregon Territory

Texas joins the U.S.

James Polk President

Donner Party leaves Springfield, IL headed for California – over half of their party died when they were trapped in mountains by snow and ran out of food & other supplies

British give up their claim to Oregon Territory

Mormon Battalion, the only religious-based military unit moved west from Iowa to San Diego (2000 miles)

Mexican-American War

Brigham Young leads Mormons westward to Salt Lake Valley

California Gold Rush

Oregon become US Territory

Zachary Taylor President

California becomes 31st state

Milliard Fillmore President

B&O’s westward route reaches the Ohio River – first eastern seaboard railroad to do so

Harriott Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin

James Buchanan President

Abraham Lincoln becomes 16th President

US Civil War begins