APUSH dates

Progressive Era

1898-1917

WW1 era

1914-1918

WW2 era

1940-1945

1898

Spanish American war

1901

McKinley was assassinated/ Theodore Roosevelt presidency

1917

U.S. enters WW1

1929

Stock market crash/ depression begins

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

1933

New Deal begins

1941

Pearl Harbor/ U.S. enters WW2

1945

Yalta conference/ end of WW2/ atomic bomb hits Japan

1945-1989

The Cold War

1947

Truman Doctrine (containment policy begins)

1950-1953

Korean War

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Martin Luther King’s March on Washington/JFK was assassinated/Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency begins

1964

Civil Rights Act/Gulf of Tonkin resolution

1968

Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated/Tet offensive in Vietnam

1974

Watergate/Nixon Resigns/Gerald R. Ford presidency begins

1975

US exits Vietnam

1979-1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall/End of the Cold War

2001

September 11th terrorist attacks

1492

Columbus arrives

1607

Jamestown settled

1619

VA House of Burgesses & First Slaves Arrive

1620

Plymouth

1754-1763

French and Indian War Era

1763

French and Indian War Ends / Pontiacs Rebellion & Proclamation of 1763

1775-1783

Revolutionary War Era

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of confederation

1787

Constitutional convention

1789

Washington presidency begins

1791

Bill of rights

1800

Thomas Jefferson Elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1814

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctorine

1825

Erie Canal Opens

1828

Andrew Jackson Elected

1838

Trail of Tears

1846-1848

Mexican War

1848

Gold in California and the Seneca Fall Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott case

1860

Lincoln elected and south secedes

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1877

Compromise of 1877 - end of reconstruction

1861-1865

Civil War Era

1863-1877

Reconstruction era

1869

Transcontinental railroad completed

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1890

Frontier declared closed

1892

Homestead strike

1893

Colombian exposition / Chicago worlds fair

1896

William McKinley Elected defeats Wm. Jennings Bryan & the Populist Movement

1865-1900

The Gilded Age

1896

Plessy V. Ferguson