8th grade US History Classroom Timeline Beginning-Reconstruction

This is a 73 page document with a page dedicated to a major event in US History for 8th grade. Starting with migrations on the Bering Strait Land Bridge, ancient civilizations, and ends with Reconstruction Era. Documents include brief summary of event, picture, and underlined/bolded vocabulary words.

-ALSO INCLUDES GOOGLE DRIVE VERSION, easier for editing/fun fonts

Topics include:

-Land Bridge

-Ancient Civilizations

-Native American settlements

-Middle Ages and Exploration

-Christopher Columbus

-Columbian Exchange

-conquistadors

-the first pilgrims

-13 colonies

triangular trade

-French and Indian war

-proclamation of 1763

-sugar act/stamp act

-Townshend act

-Boston massacre

-Tea Act

-Boston Tea Party

-Intolerable Acts

-Battle of Lexington and Concord

-Battle of Bunker Hill

-Declaration of Independence

-Battle of Saratoga

-Valley Forge

-Battle of Yorktown

-Articles of Confederation

-Shay's Rebellion

-Constitution

-Bill of Rights

-Washington's presidency

-cotton gin

-Whiskey Rebellion

-Washington, D.C.

-John Adams Presidency

-XYZ Affair

-Alien and Sedition Acts

-Marbury v Madison

-judicial review

-Louisiana Purchase

-Lewis and Clark

-Industrial Revolution

-steam engine

-Erie Canal

-War of 1812

-Reform Era

-2nd Great Awakening

-James Monroe's Presidency

-sectionalism

-first national road

-McCullogh v Maryland

-Missouri Compromise

-Unions

-Adam-Onis Treaty

-Gibbons v Ogden

-Monroe Doctrine

-Andrew Jackson's Presidency

-Indian Removal Act

-Trail of Tears

-spoils system

-Texas annexation

-Oregon Trail

-Underground Railroad

-Manifest Destiny

-Mexican-American War

-immigrants

-Gold Rush

-49ers

-Seneca Falls Convention

-Compromise of 1850

-Uncle Tom's cabin

-Kansas-Nebraska Act

-Bleeding Kansas

-transcendentalism

-Dred Scott v Sanford

-Election of 1860

-Abraham Lincoln

-South Carolina secedes

-Civil War

-Emancipation Proclamation

-Appomattox Court House

-Reconstruction Era

-Freedmen's Bureau

-13th Amendment

-14th Amendment

-15th Amendment

-Black Codes

-Jim Crow Laws

-KKK

-Plessy v Ferguson