Thematic Timeline - MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT
Example of a thematic timeline for "Migration and Settlement"
1450
~Christopher Columbus explores the Bahamas and West Indies (1492-1504)
~Pedro Alvares Cabral makes landfall in Brazil (1500)
~Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru (1519-1535)
1550
~Castilians and Africans arrive in Spanish America in large numbers
~English colonies in Newfoundland, Maine, and Roanoke fail
1600
~First set of Anglo-Indian wars
~African servitude begins in Virginia (1619)
~Caribbean islands move from servitude to slavery
1660
~The Middle Passage shapes Africans' experiences of arrival
~Indian slave trade emerges in South Carolina
~First Mennonites arrive in Pennsylvania (1683)
1690
~Quakers emigrate to Pennsylvania and New Jersey
~Second wave of Germans arrive in Pennsylvania, Shenandoah Valley
1700
~Growing gentry immigration to Virginia
~White indentured servitude shapes Chesapeake society
~Africans defined as property rather than people in the Chesapeake
1720
~Scots-Irish begin migrating to Pennsylvania (c. 1720)
~Parliament charters Georgia (1732)
~Penns make Walking Purchase from the Delawares (1737)
1750
~40,000 Germans and Swiss emigrate to Pennsylvania (1749-1756)
~Anglo-Americans pushing onto backcountry lands
1763
~Migration into the Ohio Valley after Pontiac's Rebellion
~Quebec Act (1774) allows Catholicism
1776
~Declining immigration from Europe (1775-1820) enhances American identity
~African American slaves seek freedom through military service
1787
~State cessions, land ordinances, and Indian wars create national domain in the West
~The Alien Act makes it harder for immigrants to become citizens and allow for deporting aliens (1798)
1800
~Suffrage for white men expands; New Jersey retracts suffrage for propertied women (1807)
~Atlantic slave trade ends (1808)
1810
~American Colonization Society founded (1817)
~Congress outlaws Atlantic slave trade (1776-1809)
~Andrew Jackson forces Creeks to relinquish millions of acres during War of 1812
1820
~Slave trade moves African Americans west
~Rural women take factory work, alter gender roles
1830
~Indian Removal Act (1830) forces native peoples west
~Cherokees' "Trail of Tears" (1838)
1840
~Working-class districts emerge in cities
~German and Irish immigrants spark nativist movement
~Mormons resettle in Utah
1850
~Immigrants replace native-born women in textile mills
~White farm families settle trans-Mississippi west
1870
~Hostility toward Chinese immigrants grows
1880
~Rapid industrialization draws immigrants from around the world; American cities grow rapidly
~Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943)
1890
~Gorras Blancas confront wealthy Anglo interests in New Mexico
~Ellis Island opens (1892)
~Supreme Court upholds segregation of schools and public facilities in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
~Unemployed whites attack and drive Chinese farmworkers out of California
1900
~Rising immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe
~Height of eugenics (1900s-1920s)
~Increasing numbers of blacks move to cities; responses include "race riots" by whites
~Japanese immigrants barred from becoming U.S. citizens (1906)
1980
~Rise in Latino and Asian immigration
~Californians vote to establish English as official language (1986)
1990
~Backlash against "multiculturalism"
~California bans bilingual education in public schools (1998)
2000
~New scrutiny of airport passengers after 9/11
~California, Texas, Hawaii, and New Mexico become "majority-minority" states (where the majority of the population is composed of minorities)
2010
~Obama's 2012 electoral coalition heavily African American, Hispanic, Asian American, female, and young