APUSH Important Terms/Dates/etc.

Dates to know, Important Amendments, Cause and Effect, Presidents + Key Facts, Significant Pres. Elections. Good luck!!

1492

1492

Columbus' first voyage

1607

Jamestown

1619

First Africans arrive in Virginia

1649

Toleration Act (Maryland)

1688

Glorious Revolution

1692

Salem Witch Trials

1754-1763

French and Indian War or Seven Years War

1763

Proclamation of 1763

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1775

Lexington and Concord (first battle of the American Revolution)

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

Battle of Saratoga

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1783

Treaty of Paris

1787

Constitutional Convention

1788

Washington's Election

1798

XYZ Affair

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1800

Jefferson's Election

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1815

War of 1812

1814

Battle of New Orleans

1816-1824

Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1820s

Sectionalism

1828

Jackson's Election

1830

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nat Turner's Rebellion

1830-1850

Manifest Destiny

1836

Battle of the Alamo

1845

Annexation of Texas

1845-1848

Mexican American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850

1850

Fugitive Slave Act

1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1854

Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Case

1860

Lincoln's Election

1861-1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act

1863

Battle of Gettysburg/Gettysburg Address

1867

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1877

Compromise of 1877 - Hayes becomes president

1876

Battle of Little Bighorn

1886

Haymarket Riot

1887

Dawes Act

1887

Interstate Commerce Act

1890

Wounded Knee

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

Cross of Gold Speech

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson ("separate but equal")

1898

Annexation of Hawaii

1898

Spanish American War

1903

Wright brothers first flight

1917

US enters WWI

1919

Red Summer

1920

19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage

1920s

Red Scare

1920s

Prohibition

1929

Stock Market Crash

1932

Bonus Army

1935

Social Security Act

1939

WWII starts in Europe

1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1944

D-Day

1945

Atomic bomb drops

1945-1991

Cold War

1948

desegregation of the armed forces

1949

NSC-68

1949

Formation of NATO

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1955

Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1957

Sputnik launched

1957

Little Rock Crisis

1960

Greensboro Sit-Ins

1961

Berlin Wall built

1965

Watts Riots in LA

1963

"I have a dream" speech

1975

Fall of Saigon

1964

Civil Rights Act

1968

Assassination of MLK and Robert Kennedy

1973

Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion

1986

Immigration Reform and Control Act

2001

9/11 terrorist attacks

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall and end of Cold War

1st Amendment

Freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.

5th Amendment

No capital crime except when charges by grand jury; no double jeopardy; no witness against self

6th Amendment

Right to speedy trial, info about accusation, help from court with lawyer.

13th Amendment

Prohibits slavery

15th Amendment

No denying the vote because of race or color, or because he/she was slave

18th Amendment

Manufacture, sale, transporting of alcoholic beverages prohibited.

19th Amendment

Women have the right to vote.

21st Amendment

Repealed Amendment 18

22nd Amendment

Limits Presidents terms in office to two.