4 Band Simultaneity

Chronology Strip — 4-band 36-inch × 4-strip laminated wall display. BAND 1 (top): US national chronology 1783-1850 with 30 key events (Treaty of Paris 1783 + Articles of Confederation 1781-1789 + Northwest Ordinance 1787 + Constitutional Convention May-September 1787 + Federalist Papers 1787-1788 + Constitution ratified 1788 + Washington inauguration April 30 1789 + Bill of Rights ratified 1791 + Whiskey Rebellion 1794 + Washington's Farewell Address 1796 + XYZ Affair 1798 + Alien and Sedition Acts 1798 + Marbury v. Madison 1803 + Louisiana Purchase 1803 + Lewis and Clark 1804-1806 + Embargo Act 1807 + slave-trade abolition 1808 + War of 1812 + Treaty of Ghent 1814 + Monroe Doctrine 1823 + Missouri Compromise 1820 + Erie Canal 1825 + Indian Removal Act 1830 + Nullification Crisis 1832-33 + Worcester v. Georgia 1832 + Trail of Tears 1838-39 + Texas Independence 1836 + Seneca Falls 1848 + Mexican-American War 1846-48 + Compromise of 1850). BAND 2: presidencies (Washington 1789-97 + Adams 1797-1801 + Jefferson 1801-09 + Madison 1809-17 + Monroe 1817-25 + JQ Adams 1825-29 + Jackson 1829-37 + Van Buren 1837-41 + W.H. Harrison/Tyler 1841-45 + Polk 1845-49 + Taylor/Fillmore 1849-53). BAND 3: Indigenous-nation chronology with NMAI 5th-move present-tense reminders (1787 Northwest Ordinance treaty provision + 1794 Treaty of Greenville + 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne + 1810-13 Tecumseh's Confederacy + 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend + 1818 Florida + Seminole Wars 1817-18 + 1827 Cherokee Constitution + 1831 Cherokee Nation v. Georgia + 1832 Worcester v. Georgia + 1832 Black Hawk War + 1830 Indian Removal Act + 1835 Treaty of New Echota + 1838-39 Cherokee Trail of Tears + 1830-40 Choctaw + Muscogee + Chickasaw + Seminole removals + 1832-42 Seminole Wars). BAND 4: Black American chronology + abolition + reform-movements (1787 anti-slave-trade Northwest Ordinance + 1789 Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery + 1793 first Fugitive Slave Act + 1793 cotton gin + 1808 Atlantic slave trade abolition + 1816 American Colonization Society + 1817 Frederick Douglass born + 1820 Missouri Compromise + 1822 Denmark Vesey plot + 1829 David Walker Appeal + 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion + 1831 Garrison Liberator + 1832 Maria Stewart Franklin Hall speech + 1833 American Anti-Slavery Society + 1845 Douglass Narrative + 1847 Douglass North Star + 1848 Seneca Falls + 1849 Tubman self-emancipation + 1850 Fugitive Slave Act + 1851 Sojourner Truth 'Ain't I a Woman'). All four bands aligned vertically by year so children can read across to see what was happening simultaneously.