APUSH Timeline

Columbus First Voyage

1492

Jamestown

1607

Toleration Act

1649

Sevens Year War

1754-1763

Proclamation of 1763

1763

Stamp Act

1765

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Lexington and Concord

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Battle of Saratoga

1777

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Treaty of Paris

1783

Constitutional Convention

1787

Washingtons Election

1788

XYZ affair

1798

Alien and Sedition acts

1798

Jeffersons election

1800

Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of 1812

1812-1815

Battle of New Orleans

1815

Era of Good Feelings

1816-1824

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Sectionalism

1820s

Jacksons election

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nat Turners Rebellion

1832

Manifest Destiny

1830-1850

Battle of the Alamo

1836

Annexation of Texas

1845

Mexican-American War

1845-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Fugitive Slave Law

1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Bleeding Kansas

1854

Dread Scott Case

1857

Lincolns Election

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Homestead Act

1862

Gettysburg

1863

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Purchase of alaska

1867

Compromise of 1877

1877

Little Bighorn

1876

Dawes Act

1887

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Spanish American War

1898

Womens Suffrage

1920

Red Scare

1920s

Prohibition

1920s

Stock Market Crash

1929

SSA (Social Security Act)

1935

world war 1

1917

world war 2

1939

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941

Atomic Bomb dropped

1945

Cold War

1945-1991

Truman Doctrine

1947

Korean War

1950-1953

McCarthyism

1950s

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

JFK assassination

1963

Civils rights act

1964

Moon Landing

1969

Watergate

1972

Roe v. Wade

1973

Iranian hostage crisis

1979

Reagan elected

1980

Cold War ends

1989

Persian Gulf War

1991

Bush v. Gore

2000

9/11

2001

Great Recession

2008

Obama elected

2008

Affordable Care act

2011