Learning Resource Center (LRC)
Tutoring Services

American History

• Historical Eras To 1630 Early America |1630-1763 The Colonial Period |1763-1783 Revolutionary America |1783-1815 The Young Republic | 1815-1860 Expansion, Political Reform, and Turmoil | 1830-1876 Sectional Controversy, War, and Reconstruction | 1871-1914 Second Industrial Revolution | 1880-1920 Political Reform II | 1914-1933 War, Prosperity, and Depression | 1933-1945 The New Deal and World War II | 1945-1960 Postwar America | 1960-1980 The Vietnam Era | 1980-2000 End of the Century | 2001- The New Millenium


• American History American History Megasites, 17th Century (1600s), British Colonies, Dutch Colonies, French Colonies, Pilgrims & Puritans, Primary Documents, Salem Witch Trials, Spanish Colonies, 18th Century (1700s), 19th Century (1800s), 19th Century Megasites, American Sweatshops & Child Labor, Amistad, Conservation Movement, Expansion & the West, Railroads, California Gold Rush, Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska), Immigrants & Immigration, Immigration Megasites, Angel Island, Ellis Island, Immigrants, Citizenship, Immigration Today, Statue of Liberty, US Immigration Legislation, Imperialism, Industrial Revolution, Lewis & Clark Expedition, Oregon History, Ghost Towns, The Oregon Trail, Plantations, Trails West, Women's Suffrage Movement, 20th Century (1900s), 20th Century History Megasites, 20th Century Historic Audio Clips, The 1900s & Immigration, Harlem Renaissance, The 1910s & World War I, The 1920s, Prohibition & Flappers, Prohibition, Scopes Monkey Trial, The 1930s, The Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, The New Deal, Social Security, The 1940s, The 1950s, The 1960s, Civil Rights, Equal Rights Movement, The 1970s, Jonestown Massacre, Symbionese Liberation Army, US-Iranian Hostage Crisis, Fall of Communism, The 1990s


• History and Government


• The Statue of Liberty "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."


• American History - from the colonial period until Modern Times'From Revolution to Reconstruction' comes from An Outline of American History. This is a publication of the United States Information Agency. Counterparts have also been published on Government, Geography, Economy and Literature.
  Documents Essays Biographies Presidents Outlines


• Outlines of American History 'From Revolution to Reconstruction' comes from An Outline of American History. This is a publication of the United States Information Agency. Counterparts have also been published on Government, Geography, Economy and Literature.


• Prelude to Revolution
  1763 - The Proclamation of 1763, signed by King George III of England
  1764 - The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament
  1764 - The English Parliament passes a measure to reorganize the American customs
  1764 - The Currency Act prohibits the colonists from issuing any legal tender paper money
  1764 - In May, at a town meeting in Boston, James Otis raises the issue of taxation without representation
  1765 - In March, the Stamp Act is passed by the English Parliament imposing the first direct tax
  1765 - Also in March, the Quartering Act requires colonists to house British troops and supply them with food
  1765 - In May, in Virginia, Patrick Henry presents seven Virginia Resolutions
  1765 - In July, the Sons of Liberty, an underground organization opposed to the Stamp Act
  1765 - August 26, a mob in Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson
  1765 - In October, the Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York City
  1765 - On November 1, most daily business and legal transactions in the colonies cease
  1765 - In December, British General Thomas Gage...
  1766 - In January, the New York assembly refuses to completely comply with Gen. Gage's request
  1766 - In March, King George III signs a bill repealing the Stamp Act
  1766 - On the same day it repealed the Stamp Act, the English Parliament passes the Declaratory Act
  1766 - In April, news of the repeal of the Stamp Act...
  1768 - In February, Samuel Adams of Massachusetts writes a Circular Letter
  1768 - In April, England's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Hillsborough..
  1768 - In May, a British warship armed with 50 cannons sails into Boston harbor
  1768 - In July, the governor of Massachusetts dissolves the general court
  1769 - In March, merchants in Philadelphia join the boycott of British trade goods
  1769 - In July, in the territory of California, San Diego is founded by Franciscan Friar Juniper Serra
  1770 - The population of the American colonies reaches 2,210,000 persons.
  1770 - Violence erupts in January between members of the Sons of Liberty in New York and 40 British soldiers
  1770 - March 5, The Boston Massacre occurs
  1770 - In April, the Townshend Acts are repealed by the British
  1770 - In October, trial begins for the British soldiers arrested after the Boston Massacre
  1772 - In June, a British customs schooner, the Gaspee, runs aground off Rhode Island
  1772 - In November, a Boston town meeting assembles, called by Sam Adams
  1773 - In March, the Virginia House of Burgesses appoints an eleven member committee
  1773 - May 10, the Tea Act takes effect
  1773 - In October, colonists hold a mass meeting in Philadelphia in opposition to the tea tax
  1773 - November 29/30, two mass meetings occur in Boston
  1773 - December 16, About 8000 Bostonians gather to hear Sam Adams
  1774 - In March, an angry English Parliament passes the first of a series of Coercive Acts
  1774 - May 12, Bostonians at a town meeting call for a boycott of British imports
  1774 - May 17-23, colonists in Providence, New York and Philadelphia begin calling for an intercolonial congress
  1774 - May 20, The English Parliament enacts the next series of Coercive Acts
  1774 - In June, a new version of the 1765 Quartering Act is enacted by the English Parliament
  1774 - September 5 to October 26, the First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
  1775 - February 1, in Cambridge, Mass., a provincial congress is held
  1775 - In April, Massachusetts Governor Gage is ordered to enforce the Coercive Acts
  

Next Section - Conflict and Revolution 1775 to 1776

• The Declaration of Independence "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,..."
  "...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security..."


• The History Beat -   Many many links.